I’m popping this in AIBU for reach. People with ADHD often forget to eat and then when they need to eat they don’t have time to make food so often snack. Instant gratification food.
My DD jokes that we live in an “ingredients” house. When we go out and leave her at home (she’s plenty old enough to be left alone) we often plate up meals for her to make sure she eats.
She’s getting much better. Today she made herself a really pretty looking salad with chicken goujons, followed by apple and peanut butter for pudding.
I’d love to make a list of easy meals so that she can develop her skills with a view to her moving out for Uni in a couple of years.
She’ll make herself toast and baked beans. Or soup.
She’ll happily eat the same meal for days on end and then suddenly will have a sensory ick reaction to it and it will be months before she can eat it again.
The sensory ick thing can affect her making food too.
Meals should have a minimum number of steps, be easy to make and hopefully avoid ick moments. She eats little and often. Probably 5 or 6 small meals a day.
What say you Mumsnet? What meals should I include in her ADHD friendly recipe book?
Thank you.