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How do you try eating healthier foods when they cause me sensory-issues? (piefed.world)
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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.

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[โ€“] yris_latteyi@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Totally! Plus anything simple that can be boiled can be made in a rice cooker too! In china rice cookers are often advertised as multifunctional, and they definitely are. Sometimes I cook meat in mine, when I absolutely have no time to stand and watch it cook whatsoever. Whoever created rice cookers is a damn genius, I'm so grateful to them ๐Ÿ’—

[โ€“] sCrUM_MASTER@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Oh yeah when I was living in my uni dorm my rice cooker was a lifesaver, used it to cook everything! Rice, pasta, soup, even put a mini frozen pizza in and managed to cook the bottom and steam the top enough that it was reasonably edible. Was dealing with a lot of burnout and other stuff and just couldn't deal with the chaos and unpredictability of a communal kitchen shared with 50 other people, so the rice cooker helped prevent me from wasting all my money on eating out and ready meals

The physics behind the cheap basic ones is really clever! no sensors, timers, computer bits. just using the laws of physics to cook and automatically turn off