For contexts, I have sensory issues with foods where I find it difficult to encourage myself eating as much of the variety. My diet isn’t exactly healthy and it tends to be processed food I eat which is often my ‘Safe Food’ as it doesn’t have a terrible taste and textures for me. Not the best but it’s okay-ish where I at least I have ate something rather than have nothing at all.
I want to try break that habit so I can try to be healthier as well as not worried about eating food with other people beside my family. Hoping it means I will reduce spending money on takeaways as it does eats my money as well.
Some tricks I’ve picked up over the years:
Frozen veggies tend to cook into a more consistent texture, which can help with dealing with them. Fresh vegetables seem to just vary weirdly in both taste and texture and that can be a lot to deal with, so going frozen means I have to deal with less variance.
Freeze dried stuff for seasoning, to me anyway, feels much easier to control the flavor levels. I hate onion when there’s too much, and hoo boy is it easy to overdo the onion. But freeze dried onion seems to be less dominant so I can still get some onion without overdoing it.
There’s no shame in having a handful of easy recipes you know are good, healthy, and easy to make (in case it’s a low energy kind of day) and for me the routine of knowing a meal I’ve prepared a thousand times in the same way every time makes it easier to tackle. Then I can feel alright about a healthy meal without it being overwhelming.
Hopefully some of this information is helpful, it’s what I’ve found that gets me through dinner time.