I can’t physically eat leftovers

[IsItMeOrThemBeingKnobs]

I’m not sure if it’s just me, but I physically cannot force myself to eat leftovers.

I always have the best intentions of meal prepping/cooking more for lunches and then when it gets down to actually eating that stuff it turns my stomach. I end up having to give extra to DH.

Does anyone else get this or am I completely U and weird?!

Someone literally just called it a 'luxury belief' after all the posts about asd etc thats about as abelist as you can get. Never mind people with arfid, sensory processing disorders etc

Lots of people posting rhey wont eat leftovers have made it clear that they dont actually have leftovers for that reason but they are still basically being called selfish etc

As I said before, does it suddenly not count as food waste if I eat it then throw it up? Thats somehow more acceptable?

My opinion is that regardless of sensory issues as long as you're not trampling good food into dog shit and then rubbing it in the faces of starving people it isn't anyone's business whether you like to eat leftovers or not.

How else can you eat them [or not] but "physically"?

I’ll eat anything as long as it smells ok and dosnt have green mould on it 🙂

@PlanetNormal You think people with ASD can't also be poor? Have you seen the employment stats for autistic adults?! It's extremely unfair to imply sensory issues are some kind of luxury when in fact those issues are often another burden on top of people's existing poverty but go on with your faux-naive

This is me 🤯 it's incredibly hard coz I can't always cook daily due to health issues but I would rather go without food completely

@PlanetNormal

I would love to be able to afford to turn my nose up at and waste perfectly good food just because it was cooked the day before. I’m sure millions of other people also wish they were in that position.

If you read any of the posts from autistic people who don't eat leftovers you would have seen that we don't have leftovers. I cook what we need. Someone else gives the leftovers to other people in the family. Nobody is talking about wasting food. Nobody.

I'm the same. I've tried meal prepping loads of times. Doesn't work. The only thing is leftover meat sandwiches.
I'm autistic though so I struggle with lots of food related weirdness. I need all for served piping hot and hot drinks

Aren't the majority of meat sandwiches 'leftover' in the sense that the meat isn't cooked specifically for the sandwich? Like packs of ham, sliced chicken etc?

I empathise OP. I'm not as extreme as you, in that I don't get the unbidden throwing up thoughts, but I really would struggle to eat leftover meat. Even things I've found delicious, lovely takeaways too etc. However wonderful the meal has been, I couldn't bear the thought of eating it the next day. My husband loves having leftovers though, so we have a harmonious balance. I have sensory issues too. I never considered it may be connected until now. So thank you for the interesting and insightful thread!

To follow up, yes, I'd go without eating rather than have food I have an aversion to. It's worse when my anxiety is high. I'm just coming out of a major depressive episode and I have lost weight.

I would suggest that those who do think we're weird do a little reading up on asd and food issues. Please quit the ablism.

It's interesting just how many PPs have referred to ASD. I hadn't associated my aversion to leftovers with autism until recently but it definitely seems to be a thing.

Not sure why people are banging on about waste. It's perfectly easy to cook only what you need. It's just more effort. And I'd rather make the effort than eat leftovers.

For example, I've got a small pack of beef mince in the fridge. I used half today to make spag bol and will use the other half tomorrow to make chili con carne. I'm sure most people would have cooked once with all the beef and had leftovers for the next day....I can't stomach that. I'd rather just cook again.

Indicating that perhaps this posters issues with leftovers are entwined with some kind of life/death situation!

It's interesting just how many PPs have referred to ASD.

oh ASD is mentioned on threads from “where’s best to eat in London?” To “what do you spend on a hair cut?”

It pervades mumsnet

Your point?

None whatsoever

They ate.
Of course they did.

If the op had nothing to eat for ten days and was then offered a plate of leftovers and told it's this or nothing for another ten days then I'm fairly sure she'd eat it. Survival instincts kick in and override other things.

But if you aren't in that situation, does it matter what people did when they had no food? when that isn't the case and you do have food?

I hate olives. I would never open a full fridge, choose them and eat them on the grounds that if I lived in a place/at a time when it was eat them or starve, I would eat them. If I was starving then yes, I'm sure I'd chow down on Satan's sweaty bollocks.

In the most dire of situations people have resorted to cannibalism. I'm fairly sure there's nothing more repugnant and nauseating than eating someone but when it's that or die 🤷‍♀️

Oh yes, the fucking luxurious disability

Away you go with your ableist pish

Oh and just to add to that I actually starved myself many times in my childhood before I simply could not eat certain things. Literally went hungry. I think the idea that an autistic person will eat if hungry just shows that despite all the raised awareness people are still massively ignorant.

@BrightYellowDaffodil

I'm reporting your ableism, every time.

It's not simple.

You clearly don't understand.

Sensory issues are actually real and can be horrendous.
My son is severely autistic. Severely. His "sensory issues" (as you write it) ruin his life. I'm fairly sure you wouldn't be using the quotes to imply sensory issues don't actually exist if it was you he attacked due to complete sensory overload!

Or maybe you would think you got a punch because he was just being precious. 🤷‍♀️

Feel free. My view remains unchanged whether my post is removed or not.

@BrightYellowDaffodil

Feel free. My view remains unchanged whether my post is removed or not.

I'm not sure if it's arrogance or the inability to learn, whichever it is I feel incredibly sorry for you going through life with such a bad attitude towards others. I hope it improves for you.