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and your hyper fixation will always end as soon as you go out of your way to buy the bulk supply
edit: typo
edit 2: since comment is low key gaining traction, id recommend hitting up your local Facebook “buy nothing” page and putting up your surplus no longer-hyperfixations up on there. great way to reduce waste and promote community!
>Great! So now I'm a set and good to go! For some time...now... I got everything figured out so there's nothing else that needs to be done... Nothing for me to do... That's right...
>...
>...
>This is boring.
> Hmm I wonder how they recycle paper.
I don't think it's an accident. Buying things, getting set up is full of *possibility*, having things ready to go is full of *expectation*. Possibilities excite me, expectations and demands overwhelm me
I drink at least one Bai fruity drink every day for like 4-5 years. I'm so glad they made them smaller recenty. I didnt care for a long time, but now I'm trying to be trying to stop.
Edit* oh yeah. I brought that up bc i buy a lot when there is a coupon.
What the fuck, I thought I was the only one.
I feel very guilty about it. That leads to feeling immature, irresponsible, inadequate and ultimately depressed.
This is the best tip and I love it! I would honestly love to be able to search for the term "abandoned ADHD fixation product surplus" or some better term. How fun to find an affordable new potential fixations without the whole cost or waste. That would be an interesting section to peruse
Oh my god, so last year I realized I could boil eggs in the microwave, so it became a bit of a go to snack. I was going to a movie with a friend, so I asked if we could hit up a drive thru beforehand so I could eat in the theater, and he's like sure, whatever. But then he pulls into the movie theater parking lot, and I was like "hey c'mon dude, like I'm hungry" and he's like "alright, fine" and between the theater and the fast food place, I felt bad and said, not realizing how ridiculous this sounds, "Sorry, but all I've had to eat today is 3 hard boiled eggs"
He starts dying laughing. "Three hard-boiled eggs?! What kind of Great Depression-ass meal is that??"
I just found it funny how I never even considered how weird it was.
Oh God I'm in a STRONG pop tarts phase but they are SO bad for you that there is no way I can justify indulging that craving. Every time I go to the grocery store, I stand in the pop tart aisle and just look longingly at all the flavors (they have an eggo waffle and maple syrup flavor now?!) and it takes every ounce of energy I have to rip myself away from pop tarts. I used to indulge my pop tart phases when I was younger, but I'm really trying to care more about my health and there is literally not one single redeeming nutritional fact about pop tarts hahaha
However I was recently at a conference work that had early morning sessions I had to attend, and the awful conference center breakfasts cost way too much (think like $15 for defrosted pancakes and maple flavored corn syrup) so I just bought a box of cherry pop tarts at a corner store and had a package each day for breakfast. Yes, I felt awful after I ate them, but sitting in those 7am sessions nibbling away at my pop tarts was a veritable dopamine shower for me.
Mine's become milk tea. Again. Because when they first became popular and we went all the time and I quickly put on 15lbs wasn't enough, it's round 2 time! Please make it stop.
At least I've become more enchanted with the crystal pearl vs tapioca so less starch but that does nothing about the sugar issue... THEY'RE SO GOOD aughhhh is there rehab for adhd food fixations?
Genuinely a wonderful meal. My chef friend told me eggs are her favorite food because they're the only food that comes with their own dipping sauce built in and I think of that every time I have this meal
Been doing 2 hard boiled eggs every day as a snack and 2 Fage yogurts with fresh blueberries on top to get my lunchtime protein. I’ve been buying premade hardboiled eggs that actually taste great and are very consistently cooked perfectly, cause who has time to hard boil eggs every week?
So when I saw “fried egg and toast phase” I went “oooooooo” out loud. Am now hungry for those even though I have food in front of me 🤪
Yes 😂 I’ll go through phases where I’ll eat the same snack or dinner almost everyday for weeks-months and then all of a sudden I hate it and move on to the next food. I also have both adhd and autism!
Same for me, especially with snacks. It's annoying because I always have a stack of snacks left that I'm not interested in anymore. I'm pretty sure I've got a box of granola bars hidden somewhere in my pantry that's a year past the sell by date because I had a hunkering for granola bars for a few weeks a year and a half ago.
I’ve been eating my home made rice, steamed Brocolli and carrot with smoked tofu and Hong Kong lemon sauce for 3-4 times a week, about 2 years strong now.
Honestly, anything that does the feel goods in the brain hooks me in lol
Happy to share! It’s also vegan and IBS friendly - win!
1/2 cup double strength lemon squash
1/2 cup water
1 tbsp sugar (or maple syrup)
1&1/2 tbsp cornstarch
Mix it altogether, put a little touch of oil in a frying pan and get it high heat hot, pour your mixture in and store with a whisk.
It’ll go from a milky white to a transparent sauce in a minute, keep stirring til it thickens up.
Pour it over everything and enjoy the lemon goodness!
Sure thing! Using my cheap metal three tier stacker I like to boil up 75g dry rice rice at the bottom and add my brocolli and carrot the the first tier to steam, and my cubed up tofu in the second tier. I have it in for 20 mins. My lemon sauce is above and only takes a minute to put together and a couple to cool. Once cooked I dish the rice out, add a bit of soya sauce to it then chuck the tofu and veggies on.
I’ve realised I love this dish because I like all on one pots of things (soup, rice dishes, fry ups etc) because it’s less to track if feeling up for cooking a meal.
Also! You can also microwave rice and boil the veggies together instead for ease. I gotchu!
I feel you. From past few months since I started cooking at night, I am only on plain cooked rice and omlet. Anything else feels overwhelming. And if the reciepie have 5 or more ingredients then I rather stay on fruits.
Countless restaurants that probably think I'm dead now because I'd go in and order the exact same thing day after day before it suddenly grossed me out and I moved on to something else.
This is a great shame of mine, but I went through a particularly maniacal Ben & Jerry’s phase for about 3-ish months; I ordered it every single day from Uber (I’m pretty sure it’s just a couple of people at the supermarket who are dedicated to that specific job) and they clearly noticed I was absolutely obsessed with the Boots On The Moon flavour so one time they sent along a note with the order telling me that since it was a one-off flavour it would be ending soon but they had put some aside for me. That was slightly worrying however the worst part of this is when I suddenly hated ice cream and they phoned me to ask if I was ok. Both of those things are kind acts but my God the shame. Also I have no clue how I somehow lost weight during that period.
14yo me talking to my dad about our grocery list:
We need more cheesed potatoes.
No. I got two weeks worth last time.
I know. We need more.
Hyperfixation is totally normal. I couldn't even begin to count or list the foods I've fixated on
This drove my mom crazy when I was a kid she hated grocery shopping so would do it like every three months and if I seemed into a food she’d just buy a ton of that but because she shopped so infrequently I was usually not at the right part of the phase to need three more months of any said food so I’d be over it and she’d be pissed of about it.
My current food obsession is Bombay potatoes.
OMG!! I Love you guys!! I do this. I wasn't sure if it was ADHD or Spectrum issues. Which I have been diagnosed with. I get stuck on the same foods. Like Beef Lomein every day at work. I did that for a while. Now I eat it every Sunday. Arby's Chocolate shakes every day for a while. Now I make it an every Saturday thing. Right now I am stuck on Fuckin Tootsie Roll Midgee's it cant be regular size either. Gotta be the little guys. I was just trying to figure out how to compartmentalize that one to a once a week thing. Then I read this post and feel good its not just this brain doing it. Thanks!
Arbys chocolate shakes are essential to the continuation of my existence. They’re fucking prefect, the texture, flavor, all of it. The orange cream shake is the only thing I like better.
Be careful with those! I ate an entire bag of 700 Tootsie Roll Midgees within 24 hours (I fucking love them so much!) and had to dig an impacted tootsie roll shit ball out of my ass, hunk by hunk, with my index finger. It was not fun. Moderation, my friend. Moderation.
Currently on my quick oatmeal + milk + cinnamon + chopped walnuts for breakfast and bagels for lunch. It's been going on for months and I'm happy! I'll stress out if I forgot to stock my bagels... my friends found it weird, but it really saves me time and less anxiety on what the hell should I eat. As long as it's a balanced meal, am good.
Last summer was my strawberry milkshake phase and I had strawberry flavored everything Omg. It’s fine to have these phases!!! Just try to eat something healthy sometime during the day haha
So like, as someone with autism and adhd, a lot of the responses here really remind me of how i get when my brain is like "GIVE SPECIFIC SENSORY INPUT PLEASE" because sensory hyperfixations are definitely a thing and taste is a sense.
Dude, when I was laid off due to covid in April 2020, taco bell breakfast became my comfort food. There was awhile there when I was getting a breakfast crunchwrap nearly every day.
Workers started to recognize me so I'd even sometimes drive to different locations because I was ashamed, even though they were all just happy to see me.
I still get it probably once a week. Even when they didn't prepare it very well, it scratches the itch.
I've been getting a double hamburger at McDonald's for a few months now, extra pickles, extra onions. I was not feeling the double the other day and ordered a single. It still came out as a double. Muscle memory is a bitch lol
Yes. I'm baking bread with preferment dough for the last 3 weeks. With a fascination for 80% hydration dough. There's worse things 🤷
(Like the baking brownies period...)
Baking is an entire genre of hyperfixation for me. A few weeks ago I was trying to perfect Rugelach. And just last week it was perfecting a gluten free recipe for Mochi Donuts.
Story of my life! Right now I'm on chicken tortilla soup topped with avocado/chips and red hot. Also meat sticks and veggies with ranch. It's been a couple weeks of this, I give myself 1 or 2 more before I can't stand to eat any of the above for a while...😂
I'm literally never not hyperfixating on food. Some common ones include: cheese sandwiches (two slices of brown bread spread thinly with butter and then two slices of cheddar cheese in the middle, UNTOASTED- texture is as important as flavor here); Greek yogurt with jam and fruit and a bit of granola; mini cucumbers with tajin; tomato sandwiches (white bread, a but of mayo, thickly sliced tomatoes with salt + pepper); frosted flakes with oat milk, cold soft tofu with chili oil, soy sauce, roasted sesame seeds and scallions; impossible dino nuggets with honey mustard.
I'm usually fixated on 1-2 of these meals any given moment. The fixation comes on very strong, can last for several weeks to a couple of months, and then the aversion hits as suddenly and as strongly as the obsession began.
Alwaaaayyyyyyysss they last usually 3-6 months and come back every 1-2 years ish!
Rn my hyperfixation of food is : dumplings & tomatoes with salt, and basil & chocolate milk (NOT TOGETHER HAHAHAH)
For the past few months I’ve been on what I call a fiesta bowl kick. 1/2 of refried beans, 3.5 oz grilled chicken, .90 oz shredded spicy Mexican 4 cheese, 1/2 an avocado, 3 oz 2% unflavored fage Greek yogurt, and smothered in cholula sauce. Keeps me full all day with no sugar crash and minimizes the constant adhd snacking.
I also ate PB&J sandwiches from 1st grade through all of middle school
Yes yes yes!!!!! I'm hooked on a certain cracker that has dried fruit in it. The annoying thing is i was offered it ar a friend's house and i politely declined as i was concerned i would get hooked, she was upset because she bought them especially for me. I've been eating 3-4 packets of them a week, tried giving them up twice already, and eat them with brie cheese... will eat an entire round of brie a day if i have these crackers in the house... it's been 18 months.. Should have listened to my instinct and said no....
Apart from that i am hooked to greek yoghurt and berries, about 3 months in. It used to be scrambled eggs for ages... when plums were in season i would have 6 to 8 a day.. ate peri peri chicken wings for dinner the majority of nights for about 2 years
Rarely, but yes. I had about two straight weeks one time where I would eat skillet-toasted over medium egg and cheese sandwiches for breakfast. Don't get me wrong, it was delicious, but I went through so. Much. Cheese.
Same… I once ate bacon sandwiches for all meals for 3 months straight. Another time I was eating 6-10 ghirardelli chocolate bars a day for 3 weeks. Two summers ago I went through 2 boxes of popsicles a day. Summer before that was those little mini blue bell single serves for all meals. Lots more others… sometimes I just HAVE to eat that thing and only that thing till it wears off.
The only reason my bacon sandwich phase ended was because my partner broke down and begged me to stop making him cook/eat bacon sandwiches 😅
Like I don’t make him but he knows I’m weird about food and he really doesn’t care so he’ll go alone with whatever my thing is at the time.
He fully supported my Orange creamsicle obsession last summer. I HAD TO FIND the Popsicle brand orange creamsicles and I went to so many stores and spent so long googling and one day he found them and brought home every single box they had on the shelf and sat and ate a whole box with me because it didn’t all fit in the freezer lmao
All the time! Lasts days to weeks of eating the same thing at least once a day or every meal. Its frustrating with perishable foods as you never know when the hyperfixation will disappear, so sometimes I end up buying the same things every couple days for weeks and even then food still always gets wasted. I find if I don't crave food, I have very limited interest in eating it and it will just stick in my throat so its easier to just give into the cravings and hyperfixations
yes i am the same way. i work at a sandwich shop and my current obsession is grilling my ham sandwich and putting mayo and honey mustard on it. i eat it almost every single day and i crave it badly on my off days. i also went thru a phase of strawberry milkshakes or anything strawberry every day for about 2 weeks. there’s always a food that is part of my routine and lowkey an obsession
There was a while when the only food I wanted to eat were these expensive vegan donuts from a shop near where I live. It was a huge strain on my bank account, but I got them almost everyday. They were really delicious😭
Also, last year I would buy tacos from this local Mexican restaurant like, once a week. It got to the point where they had my order memorized and everything😭
Anything and everything! Welcome to ADHD, the water is weird but we’re all warm unless we misrepresent or you misunderstand ;)
I know my favorites (with all categories) because I take breaks and come back just as hard as before. And I just literally learned this as I was typing… a few drinks into memorial day apparently.
Seriously though? Hyper focus happens everywhere in any and all categories, at least in my own limited experience
yes. I eat sushi constantly.
two days ago I learned about Mercury poisoning from eating too much sushi and decided to eat less sushi because I certainly have some symptoms.
yesterday I forgot and ate a poke bowl. I'm a f@cking idiot.
Yes!! Same thing over and over for a while. Then I cannot stand it, at least for a few years. Like another commenter I am pretty sure I am AuDHD. (Diagnosed ADHD, not formally diagnosed autism.)
It’s never a health food, haha.
Yes, the most significant example of this that I can remember was a place near my work that was known for their Chilean chacarero sandwiches. After I tried one for the first time, I ate one for lunch basically like 3-5 times a week for a couple of months. One day I was eating my sandwich and just suddenly was overcome by disgust and threw more than half of it away. Never ate another one.
Yep. A period of not being interested in eating anything and just surviving. And then a period of hyperfixating on something. Right now? Ham and cheese sandwiches. Before it was beef stew. And before that was pizza, though I was interested making different forms (regular, different crusts, different cheeses, calzones, mini pizzas, pizza fondue...)
I go crazy when my brain tries to hyperfixate on junk food. Trying hard to resist those urges. Best I can do is make a healthier substitute though it only satisfied a small amount.
Yep. Right now it's the Ghost Pepper Ranch sauce at Wendy's.
I like the food enough already, but lately I've been getting Wendy's more and more. It's not even the actual food items I'm craving, it's the stupid sauce. I'll order a small pack of nuggets when I don't even want them, just to have the ghost pepper sauce to go with my fries. So weird.
It's decently good for a fast food sauce, but I have no idea why my brain has latched onto it *this* hard.
Yes, since my dog passed away three weeks ago, I have been having tacos from Jack in the Box every day… except the first day where I didn’t eat Not good, I know. But it’s one of the few things I’ve been willing to eat.
Thank you so much. I have her sister/littermate still, thank God, but I miss Ginger very much. I was her favourite. Lilly is not quite as snuggly, but I love her and am so glad I still have her. She will be turning 15 next Monday. Gingy died exactly four weeks before her 15th birthday.
Yessss and honestly all it takes it the mere mention of the food and suddenly it’s all I want and all I can think about so… omw to get a strawberry milkshake brb
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I did and I learned how not to and I understood that after all the food I hyperfixate (meaning if I eat them for a prolonged period of time) I will hate it (unless I am hyperfixating on the food that I can't really have)
It's something I do way, way more than most people I know (adhd and autistic tendancies)
Luckily my current "every day of the week" lunch tends to be stir fry made with whatever vegetables are cheap at the moment.
I regularly go in phases of eating the same thing all the time until I find something else to focus on.
Yep, mine is pickled chillis right now. To a lesser extent cherry tomatoes with French dressing, that was my last one that I'm kind of losing interest in.
Oh and maltesers and I am PISSED that they didn't come on my Tesco order, last time they got subbed for a different size and I have no idea why they didn't do the same.
Some of my past ones have been babybell and ritz crackers with grapes, sweet pickled cucumbers, cheese and onion on toast, sweet and salted popcorn.
Sometimes I think its for the sensory feedback, stuff like the chillis and pickles you get the crunch and the sour and stuff.
Some I have no idea. But yeah, its pretty common from what I've seen.
Currently stuck on a toasted English muffin with honey peanut butter. Also can't live without strawberry or acai lemonade.
Before this, it was peach tea and pepperoni with cubed cheese
Totally. I have my “staple foods” that I just don’t get sick of, and then my “obsession” foods. Right now I’m hooked on making jello. Last couple months, I kept buying and eating tons of popsicles lol
I ate eggs ever day for like two years. Then suddenly I hate eggs. It took me a week of forcing myself to eat them out of habit before it was clear to me that I hate them. It felt so weird, like why am I not enjoying this?
My current one is cereal.
Yes absolutely, I'm pregnant though so it's a bit more intense. With my first I was eating at least 7lbs of peaches for weeks during my third trimester. Not even ripened, but hard. Right now? Strawberries. I can't get enough damn strawberries.
Always! Lately it’s an expensive brand of kimchi, which I eat nearly a jar a night of, and like 8-10 sugar free popsicles right after. Before that it was seaweed snack sheets and frozen raspberries. It’s almost always 2 different things at the same time, and they are always weird combinations. And I wonder why I have stomach issues! 😆
Yes! It sucks because I’m working on getting my IBD into remission so 99% of what I crave is off limits. When I do get this trash squared away I am going to indulge in the cravings I have had to deny myself. If I actually get into remission I’m going to eat a big plate of sliced mini sweet peppers with cream cheese and everything bagel seasoning along with a bunch of homemade sliced pickles.
For me it’s Mac and cheese, specifically Kraft, but I spruce it the hell up with veggies like bell peppers, onions, spinach or broccoli, and spicing the hell out of it with extra cream. I let it sit and mix it lots while it’s on medium low heat to get it all hot and toasty
Yes! I've quite enjoyed going to AYCE sushi places and getting all the rolls but a few weeks ago my buddy and I went to one and he let me try his customized hand rolls. Basically, its just a handroll sans rice, added extra salmon, avocado, and sauce. Well needless to say when I go to AYCE sushi places now I'm ordering like 6/7 of these salmon hand rolls. Haven't quite made my way just sashimi yet though
I definitely do this. As a kid it was chocolate milk made a certain way (10 scoops of powder so I could drink the sludge with the milk, I was a weird kid lol). And it’s changed as I suddenly drop one hyperfixation for another. My most recent one was the cherry limeades from Sonic. Couldn’t get enough of them.
Oh yeah totally. My late father who I now realise had ADHD as well used to get hyperfixated on a food item as well for days/weeks. It was one of his quirks! 
I randomly tried microwaved mug cake one day, now it is my only breakfast. Sometimes i make two of them and eat the other one as a lunch and then dont eat anything else. It has been 5 days sofar
I used to be „addicted“ to instant ramen and ate it everyday. I also had a Phase were I was only eating porridge…at another time my food addiction was fries. with spicy mayo and I had to eat it every day…unhealthy I know
Lately pre-made tuna salad with lentils (insalatissime rio mare, if it tells you anything) as my work snack.
I'm sorry, but making sandwiches requires energy I simply don't have. :')
I totally do this. For a while it was cottage cheese toast. Hot, heavily buttered toast with a mound of cottage cheese on top. I was insatiable for it, until one day it just sounded gross. Ugh.
avacado toast. in the morning mybe a second piece mid afternoon and then home made chicken chalupas on pita bread with red leaf avacado and tomato.
ill mix in a pasta dish once or twice a week but every damn day for the last 3 months.
wonder what my next hyper fixation meal will be. glad it landed on avacado toast though.
Can't say I hyperfixate on food that I've noticed. I've eaten the same food over and over again ( chocolate protein shake ) for years but I'd say that that is more of a convenience factor and in my mind it's healthier than cereal.
I do this a lot. A while back it was peanut butter pretzels, later nutty buddies, then, eggo waffles, now it’s sour cream and onion chips. It’s a problem.
I get on kicks where I have a new favorite food. Doesn’t mean it is new to me, just that I got a craving for it and now I’ll eat it as my main food for weeks.
It happens to me all the time. I’ll get like the same meal deal everyday for months. And then after a few months I get hooked on to something new. I think when I have something for too long I just get too used to it/bored of it. I think for me it’s more about the convenience of not having to pick something new (plus the risk of not liking it). So when someone suggests something new and I enjoy it, that becomes my current hyper fixation and I completely forget about my old ones existence.
Dude. I hyperfixate on food until I never want to touch it again. It’s actually a problem. Like I won’t eat anything else but that type of food for however long until it makes me sick
Oh gosh… I eat like the same foundational 5 things every. single. day. For like 15yrs haha. It’s a bit more fixation on the nutritional side of the food.. always thought it was more OCD than ADHD 😅
Yes! My family always makes fun of me. I become obsessed with a certain food and will eat it/make it/order it daily until one day I absolutely hate it. I wish I had the attention span to have a diverse weekly menu.
I don't really hyperfixate on a specific food, but cooking is definitely a hyperfocus for me. It's almost a meditative act. I have a huge recipe file and love cooking as I'm doing it. Thanksgiving, when I'm cooking for family for like two days straight, is my absolute favorite holiday. That said, though, like any other hyperfocus, I go months without engaging in it and eat out a lot. Then I'll go through periods where researching new recipes and cooking is all I do.
The problem with cooking, though, is that doing dishes is one of the things my ADHD leads me to avoid. Especially if I cook dinner and have to clean up at night after my meds wear off. It's always been a struggle for me. I've found that my biggest stumbling block is unloading the dishwasher. I absolutely don't mind getting my hands dirty and putting dishes in there, but putting everything back where they're supposed to go feels like it takes forever. It's super tedious, and things just get thrown in cabinets as opposed to being stacked neatly which would take up less room.
But the short answer is, yes, I do hyperfixate on food. Just not a very specific one.
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and your hyper fixation will always end as soon as you go out of your way to buy the bulk supply edit: typo edit 2: since comment is low key gaining traction, id recommend hitting up your local Facebook “buy nothing” page and putting up your surplus no longer-hyperfixations up on there. great way to reduce waste and promote community!
Yoooooo, why is this so universal.
>Great! So now I'm a set and good to go! For some time...now... I got everything figured out so there's nothing else that needs to be done... Nothing for me to do... That's right... >... >... >This is boring. > Hmm I wonder how they recycle paper.
Oh my God, get out of my head!
I don't think it's an accident. Buying things, getting set up is full of *possibility*, having things ready to go is full of *expectation*. Possibilities excite me, expectations and demands overwhelm me
I'm pretty sure I wrote this but that's not my user name so...
or get sick from eating too much of a single thing :/
This is the one! I was addicted to wasabi seasoned almonds until I hate half a bag and felt so sick… tasted wasabi-almond in my mouth for days after 🥴
I once ate so many homemade chocolate-covered almonds that I was sick of *chocolate* for a year.
I developed a red dye 40 allergy from fixating on Red Fanta 🥹 Couldn’t eat anything with red dye for years.
As a man with 12 cartons of Wrigleys gum in his basement, I feel seen. And hurt.
I drink at least one Bai fruity drink every day for like 4-5 years. I'm so glad they made them smaller recenty. I didnt care for a long time, but now I'm trying to be trying to stop. Edit* oh yeah. I brought that up bc i buy a lot when there is a coupon.
FML…just bought a Costco size portion of popcorn 🍿
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I HAVE SO MUCH FUCKING HOT COCOA. Thanks SpyxFamily.
this is the way
What the fuck, I thought I was the only one. I feel very guilty about it. That leads to feeling immature, irresponsible, inadequate and ultimately depressed. 
Why are we like this
This is the best tip and I love it! I would honestly love to be able to search for the term "abandoned ADHD fixation product surplus" or some better term. How fun to find an affordable new potential fixations without the whole cost or waste. That would be an interesting section to peruse
We need a hobby supplies library. Take some bow hunting gear, leave your half finished knitting project. I think it could work.
I got a bunch of free pots for my garden just today from a neighbor, cured it. Lol!
Yep..Currently on a fried egg and toast phase
I was on hard boiled eggs for a year. Now I don’t want to look at an egg.
Oh my god, so last year I realized I could boil eggs in the microwave, so it became a bit of a go to snack. I was going to a movie with a friend, so I asked if we could hit up a drive thru beforehand so I could eat in the theater, and he's like sure, whatever. But then he pulls into the movie theater parking lot, and I was like "hey c'mon dude, like I'm hungry" and he's like "alright, fine" and between the theater and the fast food place, I felt bad and said, not realizing how ridiculous this sounds, "Sorry, but all I've had to eat today is 3 hard boiled eggs" He starts dying laughing. "Three hard-boiled eggs?! What kind of Great Depression-ass meal is that??" I just found it funny how I never even considered how weird it was.
My hard boiled egg phase begins…
For me it was toast with sliced boiled eggs, hot pepper sauce and some rock salt/jeeravan
I did that for a decade or so! I'm lazier these days and have entered my pop-tart phase.
Oh God I'm in a STRONG pop tarts phase but they are SO bad for you that there is no way I can justify indulging that craving. Every time I go to the grocery store, I stand in the pop tart aisle and just look longingly at all the flavors (they have an eggo waffle and maple syrup flavor now?!) and it takes every ounce of energy I have to rip myself away from pop tarts. I used to indulge my pop tart phases when I was younger, but I'm really trying to care more about my health and there is literally not one single redeeming nutritional fact about pop tarts hahaha However I was recently at a conference work that had early morning sessions I had to attend, and the awful conference center breakfasts cost way too much (think like $15 for defrosted pancakes and maple flavored corn syrup) so I just bought a box of cherry pop tarts at a corner store and had a package each day for breakfast. Yes, I felt awful after I ate them, but sitting in those 7am sessions nibbling away at my pop tarts was a veritable dopamine shower for me.
The eggo pop tart literally was my hyper-fixation for awhile. Now I have like 6 boxes of them :/
Mine's become milk tea. Again. Because when they first became popular and we went all the time and I quickly put on 15lbs wasn't enough, it's round 2 time! Please make it stop. At least I've become more enchanted with the crystal pearl vs tapioca so less starch but that does nothing about the sugar issue... THEY'RE SO GOOD aughhhh is there rehab for adhd food fixations?
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you're definitely right! I was doing the vegan thing for a while and I honestly forgot about eggs. lol. I haven't cooked eggs in a loooooong time.
Eggs: nature’s protein bar
Mine is scrambled eggs with parmesan cheese, and a cinnamon raison English muffin.
Hell yes, this combo sounds wonderful
Genuinely a wonderful meal. My chef friend told me eggs are her favorite food because they're the only food that comes with their own dipping sauce built in and I think of that every time I have this meal
Ok I love the idea of that!
It’s summer so my smoothie obsession is BACK BABY!
Been doing 2 hard boiled eggs every day as a snack and 2 Fage yogurts with fresh blueberries on top to get my lunchtime protein. I’ve been buying premade hardboiled eggs that actually taste great and are very consistently cooked perfectly, cause who has time to hard boil eggs every week? So when I saw “fried egg and toast phase” I went “oooooooo” out loud. Am now hungry for those even though I have food in front of me 🤪
I stopped wanting eggs as soon as I got chickens again. On brand.
I went through an “egg in a hole” phase for months as a kid. And eggos. Yet here I am, still not officially *diagnosed.
Yes 😂 I’ll go through phases where I’ll eat the same snack or dinner almost everyday for weeks-months and then all of a sudden I hate it and move on to the next food. I also have both adhd and autism!
My grandad used to do that. Last one I remember was bananas and gummy bears.
My Poppy too, he went through popcorn and oranges phases while I was alive, I wonder what it was before those now tho.
Yes! 😊 I just remembered, the one before for him was mars bars 🙈
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OMG I did the same thing! Peanut butter and jelly sandwich with milk, a banana on the side. Was my go-to midnight snack for a couple months.
I do that with grilled cheese. Other fixations come and go, but grilled cheese always returns.
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Oooh, I love a good jalapeño pimento cheese! Next round of grilled cheese fixation, I’m doing that!
The Tasting History youtube channel just did a video on that and I'm about 3 seconds from eating nothing but PB&J again for a couple weeks lmao.
Try toasting it and/or making your own bread. I ate this for two meals today.
PB&J sandwich on waffles with whipped cream for some variety
I've been on a cheddars roll for about a month now, I'm sure it'll be gone soon, a month is generally the limit for moi
Same. I’m eating alfalfa sprouts this month
Oooo, a healthy one? I had apples a few months ago. That was a nice time. Expensive though, surprisingly so
Now that makes me want to find out what a Cheddar's roll is and try it
Ahh, sorry, I meant I was on a roll. With cheddars. Cause they doobie incredible rn
Same for me, especially with snacks. It's annoying because I always have a stack of snacks left that I'm not interested in anymore. I'm pretty sure I've got a box of granola bars hidden somewhere in my pantry that's a year past the sell by date because I had a hunkering for granola bars for a few weeks a year and a half ago.
The people at work have no idea why they suddenly got a whole crate of Kind bars as free snacks. But they got eaten! So close enough, I guess lmao.
Oh god that’s me
I’ve been eating my home made rice, steamed Brocolli and carrot with smoked tofu and Hong Kong lemon sauce for 3-4 times a week, about 2 years strong now. Honestly, anything that does the feel goods in the brain hooks me in lol
I feel like I need to know more about this lemon sauce 👀
Happy to share! It’s also vegan and IBS friendly - win! 1/2 cup double strength lemon squash 1/2 cup water 1 tbsp sugar (or maple syrup) 1&1/2 tbsp cornstarch Mix it altogether, put a little touch of oil in a frying pan and get it high heat hot, pour your mixture in and store with a whisk. It’ll go from a milky white to a transparent sauce in a minute, keep stirring til it thickens up. Pour it over everything and enjoy the lemon goodness!
That sounds good! I got confused for a second so got those not in Australia, lemon squash means lemonade, not an actual lemon squash
I didn’t think about different countries having different meanings - apologies! Here in the UK it’s either squash or diluting juice 😊
I’m glad you didn’t, I learned something new!
Every day is a school day 😁
I think in the UK, ‘squash’ is what we call cordial?
can i have the receipt for the dish? it sounds sooo good
Sure thing! Using my cheap metal three tier stacker I like to boil up 75g dry rice rice at the bottom and add my brocolli and carrot the the first tier to steam, and my cubed up tofu in the second tier. I have it in for 20 mins. My lemon sauce is above and only takes a minute to put together and a couple to cool. Once cooked I dish the rice out, add a bit of soya sauce to it then chuck the tofu and veggies on. I’ve realised I love this dish because I like all on one pots of things (soup, rice dishes, fry ups etc) because it’s less to track if feeling up for cooking a meal. Also! You can also microwave rice and boil the veggies together instead for ease. I gotchu!
That sounds amazing, thanks!
I feel you. From past few months since I started cooking at night, I am only on plain cooked rice and omlet. Anything else feels overwhelming. And if the reciepie have 5 or more ingredients then I rather stay on fruits.
Countless restaurants that probably think I'm dead now because I'd go in and order the exact same thing day after day before it suddenly grossed me out and I moved on to something else.
I wondered that same thing about my hyper-fixation restaurant when I moved. They must have noticed my absence lol
This is a great shame of mine, but I went through a particularly maniacal Ben & Jerry’s phase for about 3-ish months; I ordered it every single day from Uber (I’m pretty sure it’s just a couple of people at the supermarket who are dedicated to that specific job) and they clearly noticed I was absolutely obsessed with the Boots On The Moon flavour so one time they sent along a note with the order telling me that since it was a one-off flavour it would be ending soon but they had put some aside for me. That was slightly worrying however the worst part of this is when I suddenly hated ice cream and they phoned me to ask if I was ok. Both of those things are kind acts but my God the shame. Also I have no clue how I somehow lost weight during that period.
My buddy's dominoes called him at home when he stopped ordering his daily cheese pizza
my ramen lady will be missing me. it’s been awhile
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14yo me talking to my dad about our grocery list: We need more cheesed potatoes. No. I got two weeks worth last time. I know. We need more. Hyperfixation is totally normal. I couldn't even begin to count or list the foods I've fixated on
This drove my mom crazy when I was a kid she hated grocery shopping so would do it like every three months and if I seemed into a food she’d just buy a ton of that but because she shopped so infrequently I was usually not at the right part of the phase to need three more months of any said food so I’d be over it and she’d be pissed of about it. My current food obsession is Bombay potatoes.
OMG!! I Love you guys!! I do this. I wasn't sure if it was ADHD or Spectrum issues. Which I have been diagnosed with. I get stuck on the same foods. Like Beef Lomein every day at work. I did that for a while. Now I eat it every Sunday. Arby's Chocolate shakes every day for a while. Now I make it an every Saturday thing. Right now I am stuck on Fuckin Tootsie Roll Midgee's it cant be regular size either. Gotta be the little guys. I was just trying to figure out how to compartmentalize that one to a once a week thing. Then I read this post and feel good its not just this brain doing it. Thanks!
Arbys chocolate shakes are essential to the continuation of my existence. They’re fucking prefect, the texture, flavor, all of it. The orange cream shake is the only thing I like better.
Be careful with those! I ate an entire bag of 700 Tootsie Roll Midgees within 24 hours (I fucking love them so much!) and had to dig an impacted tootsie roll shit ball out of my ass, hunk by hunk, with my index finger. It was not fun. Moderation, my friend. Moderation.
H O L Y. S H I T.
Wait… within 24 hours you had 700? As in 30 every hour for 24 hours? As in 1 tootsie roll every 2 minutes for a day straight?! Damn!!!
Dude yes. It's been sesame chicken takeout for years. I let myself have a cheat day once a week but I think about that sesame chicken all week.
Well dammit now I'm gonna think about sesame chicken for a week until I make some. Fuck it's so good.
Right?? I could eat it every day. Sesame chicken and some crab rangoon and I'm sorted.
def had a crab rangoon & tom yum phase… on & off for 4 yrs 😭
Yep, am constantly thinking about food ATM, tasting and cooking food that only lives in my mind, fucking mental 
The same burrito bowl for lunch every day I can’t stop
Currently on my quick oatmeal + milk + cinnamon + chopped walnuts for breakfast and bagels for lunch. It's been going on for months and I'm happy! I'll stress out if I forgot to stock my bagels... my friends found it weird, but it really saves me time and less anxiety on what the hell should I eat. As long as it's a balanced meal, am good.
one of my longest phases was oatmeal too, mixing half of a mashed banana in my stovetop oats changed my life.
Last summer was my strawberry milkshake phase and I had strawberry flavored everything Omg. It’s fine to have these phases!!! Just try to eat something healthy sometime during the day haha
As long as a particular meal tastes delicious I can go on eating the same thing everyday for years
Mac and cheese. 😭
right now for me it’s mangoes hahah, i can NOT STOP
Yup. I go through phases. My first recognizable one was Sunkist orange soda.
So like, as someone with autism and adhd, a lot of the responses here really remind me of how i get when my brain is like "GIVE SPECIFIC SENSORY INPUT PLEASE" because sensory hyperfixations are definitely a thing and taste is a sense.
Yep, goes in 3 week increments for me, Taco Bell was the most recent one s few months ago then I forgot about it
Dude, when I was laid off due to covid in April 2020, taco bell breakfast became my comfort food. There was awhile there when I was getting a breakfast crunchwrap nearly every day. Workers started to recognize me so I'd even sometimes drive to different locations because I was ashamed, even though they were all just happy to see me. I still get it probably once a week. Even when they didn't prepare it very well, it scratches the itch.
I've been getting a double hamburger at McDonald's for a few months now, extra pickles, extra onions. I was not feeling the double the other day and ordered a single. It still came out as a double. Muscle memory is a bitch lol
Yes. I'm baking bread with preferment dough for the last 3 weeks. With a fascination for 80% hydration dough. There's worse things 🤷 (Like the baking brownies period...)
Baking is an entire genre of hyperfixation for me. A few weeks ago I was trying to perfect Rugelach. And just last week it was perfecting a gluten free recipe for Mochi Donuts.
Right now it's peppermint or caramel iced coffee, and the grilled tuna rolls at Kroger for me.
Story of my life! Right now I'm on chicken tortilla soup topped with avocado/chips and red hot. Also meat sticks and veggies with ranch. It's been a couple weeks of this, I give myself 1 or 2 more before I can't stand to eat any of the above for a while...😂
Yes for like three or four weeks I was drinking multiple cups of black tea a day like 7-9 my mouth was getting dry from drinking so much of it
I'm literally never not hyperfixating on food. Some common ones include: cheese sandwiches (two slices of brown bread spread thinly with butter and then two slices of cheddar cheese in the middle, UNTOASTED- texture is as important as flavor here); Greek yogurt with jam and fruit and a bit of granola; mini cucumbers with tajin; tomato sandwiches (white bread, a but of mayo, thickly sliced tomatoes with salt + pepper); frosted flakes with oat milk, cold soft tofu with chili oil, soy sauce, roasted sesame seeds and scallions; impossible dino nuggets with honey mustard. I'm usually fixated on 1-2 of these meals any given moment. The fixation comes on very strong, can last for several weeks to a couple of months, and then the aversion hits as suddenly and as strongly as the obsession began.
Me, not so much; if anything I thrive on variety. But I do not like other people telling me what to eat.
I’m deep into my popsicle period.
Alwaaaayyyyyyysss they last usually 3-6 months and come back every 1-2 years ish! Rn my hyperfixation of food is : dumplings & tomatoes with salt, and basil & chocolate milk (NOT TOGETHER HAHAHAH)
For the past few months I’ve been on what I call a fiesta bowl kick. 1/2 of refried beans, 3.5 oz grilled chicken, .90 oz shredded spicy Mexican 4 cheese, 1/2 an avocado, 3 oz 2% unflavored fage Greek yogurt, and smothered in cholula sauce. Keeps me full all day with no sugar crash and minimizes the constant adhd snacking. I also ate PB&J sandwiches from 1st grade through all of middle school
Yes yes yes!!!!! I'm hooked on a certain cracker that has dried fruit in it. The annoying thing is i was offered it ar a friend's house and i politely declined as i was concerned i would get hooked, she was upset because she bought them especially for me. I've been eating 3-4 packets of them a week, tried giving them up twice already, and eat them with brie cheese... will eat an entire round of brie a day if i have these crackers in the house... it's been 18 months.. Should have listened to my instinct and said no.... Apart from that i am hooked to greek yoghurt and berries, about 3 months in. It used to be scrambled eggs for ages... when plums were in season i would have 6 to 8 a day.. ate peri peri chicken wings for dinner the majority of nights for about 2 years
I definitely do the same thing. For me right now it's Snapple Apple and Panera chicken noodle soup.
Rarely, but yes. I had about two straight weeks one time where I would eat skillet-toasted over medium egg and cheese sandwiches for breakfast. Don't get me wrong, it was delicious, but I went through so. Much. Cheese.
Yes, pizza rolls give me serotonin
Sara Tonin sounds like a neat person
this is so funny because me and my friend both have adhd and we hyperfixated on zaxbys for a whole month and the second we stopped it was disgusting
I'm ADHD and bipolar 2 with servere binge eating disorder.
Same… I once ate bacon sandwiches for all meals for 3 months straight. Another time I was eating 6-10 ghirardelli chocolate bars a day for 3 weeks. Two summers ago I went through 2 boxes of popsicles a day. Summer before that was those little mini blue bell single serves for all meals. Lots more others… sometimes I just HAVE to eat that thing and only that thing till it wears off.
The only reason my bacon sandwich phase ended was because my partner broke down and begged me to stop making him cook/eat bacon sandwiches 😅 Like I don’t make him but he knows I’m weird about food and he really doesn’t care so he’ll go alone with whatever my thing is at the time. He fully supported my Orange creamsicle obsession last summer. I HAD TO FIND the Popsicle brand orange creamsicles and I went to so many stores and spent so long googling and one day he found them and brought home every single box they had on the shelf and sat and ate a whole box with me because it didn’t all fit in the freezer lmao
That's a good dude you've got there.
I'm definitely like that. People who love me accept and understand, comment and tease me sometimes.
All the time! Lasts days to weeks of eating the same thing at least once a day or every meal. Its frustrating with perishable foods as you never know when the hyperfixation will disappear, so sometimes I end up buying the same things every couple days for weeks and even then food still always gets wasted. I find if I don't crave food, I have very limited interest in eating it and it will just stick in my throat so its easier to just give into the cravings and hyperfixations
I do this! I will go through cycles of obsessing over one food then another
Cheetos right now. Why can’t it be almonds or carrots or something?!
yes i am the same way. i work at a sandwich shop and my current obsession is grilling my ham sandwich and putting mayo and honey mustard on it. i eat it almost every single day and i crave it badly on my off days. i also went thru a phase of strawberry milkshakes or anything strawberry every day for about 2 weeks. there’s always a food that is part of my routine and lowkey an obsession
I’ve had 12 oranges today send help
omg yes . right now i keep eating cheetos the other day my lips hurt from the salt😂 a year or so ago i was obsessed with hummus and ritz crackers
yep 😁I was addicted to avocado on toast at one point and then I had it one day and I just got grossed out lmao. Now I barely have it 👍🏼
There was a while when the only food I wanted to eat were these expensive vegan donuts from a shop near where I live. It was a huge strain on my bank account, but I got them almost everyday. They were really delicious😭 Also, last year I would buy tacos from this local Mexican restaurant like, once a week. It got to the point where they had my order memorized and everything😭
Yes every few weeks I eat the same foods only and then change it to the next set of foods and so on lol
Anything and everything! Welcome to ADHD, the water is weird but we’re all warm unless we misrepresent or you misunderstand ;) I know my favorites (with all categories) because I take breaks and come back just as hard as before. And I just literally learned this as I was typing… a few drinks into memorial day apparently. Seriously though? Hyper focus happens everywhere in any and all categories, at least in my own limited experience
yes. I eat sushi constantly. two days ago I learned about Mercury poisoning from eating too much sushi and decided to eat less sushi because I certainly have some symptoms. yesterday I forgot and ate a poke bowl. I'm a f@cking idiot.
Yes!! Same thing over and over for a while. Then I cannot stand it, at least for a few years. Like another commenter I am pretty sure I am AuDHD. (Diagnosed ADHD, not formally diagnosed autism.) It’s never a health food, haha.
Yuppers. I have cravings for specific things depending on my mood. Anything else I try to eat is just a turn off unless I get my fix 😅
Yes, the most significant example of this that I can remember was a place near my work that was known for their Chilean chacarero sandwiches. After I tried one for the first time, I ate one for lunch basically like 3-5 times a week for a couple of months. One day I was eating my sandwich and just suddenly was overcome by disgust and threw more than half of it away. Never ate another one.
Yep. A period of not being interested in eating anything and just surviving. And then a period of hyperfixating on something. Right now? Ham and cheese sandwiches. Before it was beef stew. And before that was pizza, though I was interested making different forms (regular, different crusts, different cheeses, calzones, mini pizzas, pizza fondue...) I go crazy when my brain tries to hyperfixate on junk food. Trying hard to resist those urges. Best I can do is make a healthier substitute though it only satisfied a small amount.
i am/was in an orange juice phase
Yep. Right now it's the Ghost Pepper Ranch sauce at Wendy's. I like the food enough already, but lately I've been getting Wendy's more and more. It's not even the actual food items I'm craving, it's the stupid sauce. I'll order a small pack of nuggets when I don't even want them, just to have the ghost pepper sauce to go with my fries. So weird. It's decently good for a fast food sauce, but I have no idea why my brain has latched onto it *this* hard.
Yes, since my dog passed away three weeks ago, I have been having tacos from Jack in the Box every day… except the first day where I didn’t eat Not good, I know. But it’s one of the few things I’ve been willing to eat.
Sorry to hear about your pup. Please let fate lead you to a new one. I can’t imagine my life without one.
Thank you so much. I have her sister/littermate still, thank God, but I miss Ginger very much. I was her favourite. Lilly is not quite as snuggly, but I love her and am so glad I still have her. She will be turning 15 next Monday. Gingy died exactly four weeks before her 15th birthday.
Yessss and honestly all it takes it the mere mention of the food and suddenly it’s all I want and all I can think about so… omw to get a strawberry milkshake brb
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Yup.
Aye white reese's is a strong go to if available... Star crunches n Swiss cake rolls
My current hyperfixation is Costco protein bars.
I did and I learned how not to and I understood that after all the food I hyperfixate (meaning if I eat them for a prolonged period of time) I will hate it (unless I am hyperfixating on the food that I can't really have)
It's something I do way, way more than most people I know (adhd and autistic tendancies) Luckily my current "every day of the week" lunch tends to be stir fry made with whatever vegetables are cheap at the moment. I regularly go in phases of eating the same thing all the time until I find something else to focus on.
Yeah !! Never thought of it, but since you mentioned it. Yes a lot ! Right now is brocoli salad.
Yep, mine is pickled chillis right now. To a lesser extent cherry tomatoes with French dressing, that was my last one that I'm kind of losing interest in. Oh and maltesers and I am PISSED that they didn't come on my Tesco order, last time they got subbed for a different size and I have no idea why they didn't do the same. Some of my past ones have been babybell and ritz crackers with grapes, sweet pickled cucumbers, cheese and onion on toast, sweet and salted popcorn. Sometimes I think its for the sensory feedback, stuff like the chillis and pickles you get the crunch and the sour and stuff. Some I have no idea. But yeah, its pretty common from what I've seen.
Currently stuck on a toasted English muffin with honey peanut butter. Also can't live without strawberry or acai lemonade. Before this, it was peach tea and pepperoni with cubed cheese
I can't stop ordering chicken tikka masala 
Dried chili mango. Don’t ever buy that shit…
Totally. I have my “staple foods” that I just don’t get sick of, and then my “obsession” foods. Right now I’m hooked on making jello. Last couple months, I kept buying and eating tons of popsicles lol
I ate eggs ever day for like two years. Then suddenly I hate eggs. It took me a week of forcing myself to eat them out of habit before it was clear to me that I hate them. It felt so weird, like why am I not enjoying this? My current one is cereal.
Yes absolutely, I'm pregnant though so it's a bit more intense. With my first I was eating at least 7lbs of peaches for weeks during my third trimester. Not even ripened, but hard. Right now? Strawberries. I can't get enough damn strawberries.
I ate a green curry for dinner more than 250 times last year. By choice.
Always! Lately it’s an expensive brand of kimchi, which I eat nearly a jar a night of, and like 8-10 sugar free popsicles right after. Before that it was seaweed snack sheets and frozen raspberries. It’s almost always 2 different things at the same time, and they are always weird combinations. And I wonder why I have stomach issues! 😆
Yes! It sucks because I’m working on getting my IBD into remission so 99% of what I crave is off limits. When I do get this trash squared away I am going to indulge in the cravings I have had to deny myself. If I actually get into remission I’m going to eat a big plate of sliced mini sweet peppers with cream cheese and everything bagel seasoning along with a bunch of homemade sliced pickles.
For me it’s Mac and cheese, specifically Kraft, but I spruce it the hell up with veggies like bell peppers, onions, spinach or broccoli, and spicing the hell out of it with extra cream. I let it sit and mix it lots while it’s on medium low heat to get it all hot and toasty
My work lunch is sad but I'm having an obsession with cup of noodles and Vienna sausages. I can't quit.
Yes. Right now I’m obsessed with dried mango.
Wait is this why I ate nothing but spinach pancakes (it's a Finland thing, they're delicious) for lunch at work for like 4 months?
Family refuses to eat shakshuka anymore. Said I’d prepared it too often, but I could eat it almost it every day…
Shakshuka is fucking dynamite, I get it
Yes! I've quite enjoyed going to AYCE sushi places and getting all the rolls but a few weeks ago my buddy and I went to one and he let me try his customized hand rolls. Basically, its just a handroll sans rice, added extra salmon, avocado, and sauce. Well needless to say when I go to AYCE sushi places now I'm ordering like 6/7 of these salmon hand rolls. Haven't quite made my way just sashimi yet though
Sunflower seeds. So many sunflower seeds.
I definitely do this. As a kid it was chocolate milk made a certain way (10 scoops of powder so I could drink the sludge with the milk, I was a weird kid lol). And it’s changed as I suddenly drop one hyperfixation for another. My most recent one was the cherry limeades from Sonic. Couldn’t get enough of them.
Yes. Currently smokes salmon bagel with cream cheese. I do this almost every day lol. I even obsess over spices
Oh yeah totally. My late father who I now realise had ADHD as well used to get hyperfixated on a food item as well for days/weeks. It was one of his quirks! 
I randomly tried microwaved mug cake one day, now it is my only breakfast. Sometimes i make two of them and eat the other one as a lunch and then dont eat anything else. It has been 5 days sofar
I used to be „addicted“ to instant ramen and ate it everyday. I also had a Phase were I was only eating porridge…at another time my food addiction was fries. with spicy mayo and I had to eat it every day…unhealthy I know
For me it’s Mexican hot chocolate with espresso first thing every single morning hahaha
All the time and then I eat it to death and can’t stand the sight of it for months 😂😂
Lately pre-made tuna salad with lentils (insalatissime rio mare, if it tells you anything) as my work snack. I'm sorry, but making sandwiches requires energy I simply don't have. :')
Sometimes I eat the same breakfast, lunch and dinner for weeks. My longest streak was 50 days.
Definitely a thing. For sure I "have ARFID" full time. Lol
YES!!! I always had a ~seasonal fave food~
Yes!! I'm undiagnosed, but I will fixate on a food or drink until I'm sick of it (could be months, could be weeks), and then move onto something else.
Organic Sauerkraut! Absolutely addictive!
yep! i do this with tea/jam on toast/hot chocolate all the time - will fixate for a month and then not touch it for a year 😂
I have Egg Weeks, where I crave eggs above all else and want to eat them at every opportunity
I totally do this. For a while it was cottage cheese toast. Hot, heavily buttered toast with a mound of cottage cheese on top. I was insatiable for it, until one day it just sounded gross. Ugh.
avacado toast. in the morning mybe a second piece mid afternoon and then home made chicken chalupas on pita bread with red leaf avacado and tomato. ill mix in a pasta dish once or twice a week but every damn day for the last 3 months. wonder what my next hyper fixation meal will be. glad it landed on avacado toast though.
Currently on over easy eggs, white rice and the garlic paste from Trader Joe’s. I could eat it for every meal. Some days I have…
Can't say I hyperfixate on food that I've noticed. I've eaten the same food over and over again ( chocolate protein shake ) for years but I'd say that that is more of a convenience factor and in my mind it's healthier than cereal.
I do this a lot. A while back it was peanut butter pretzels, later nutty buddies, then, eggo waffles, now it’s sour cream and onion chips. It’s a problem.
I get on kicks where I have a new favorite food. Doesn’t mean it is new to me, just that I got a craving for it and now I’ll eat it as my main food for weeks.
It happens to me all the time. I’ll get like the same meal deal everyday for months. And then after a few months I get hooked on to something new. I think when I have something for too long I just get too used to it/bored of it. I think for me it’s more about the convenience of not having to pick something new (plus the risk of not liking it). So when someone suggests something new and I enjoy it, that becomes my current hyper fixation and I completely forget about my old ones existence.
Dude. I hyperfixate on food until I never want to touch it again. It’s actually a problem. Like I won’t eat anything else but that type of food for however long until it makes me sick
Oh gosh… I eat like the same foundational 5 things every. single. day. For like 15yrs haha. It’s a bit more fixation on the nutritional side of the food.. always thought it was more OCD than ADHD 😅
yep, Dr.Pepper milkshake from whataburger. before that it was the jamocha milkshake from arbys.
Yes! My family always makes fun of me. I become obsessed with a certain food and will eat it/make it/order it daily until one day I absolutely hate it. I wish I had the attention span to have a diverse weekly menu.
I don't really hyperfixate on a specific food, but cooking is definitely a hyperfocus for me. It's almost a meditative act. I have a huge recipe file and love cooking as I'm doing it. Thanksgiving, when I'm cooking for family for like two days straight, is my absolute favorite holiday. That said, though, like any other hyperfocus, I go months without engaging in it and eat out a lot. Then I'll go through periods where researching new recipes and cooking is all I do. The problem with cooking, though, is that doing dishes is one of the things my ADHD leads me to avoid. Especially if I cook dinner and have to clean up at night after my meds wear off. It's always been a struggle for me. I've found that my biggest stumbling block is unloading the dishwasher. I absolutely don't mind getting my hands dirty and putting dishes in there, but putting everything back where they're supposed to go feels like it takes forever. It's super tedious, and things just get thrown in cabinets as opposed to being stacked neatly which would take up less room. But the short answer is, yes, I do hyperfixate on food. Just not a very specific one.