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food, cooking, rambly
Aug. 4th, 2009 01:25 pmIt is true that I largely eat so as to not be hungry or low blood sugar. It is true that my sense of taste is not as intense as my other senses, and I rarely crave foods of any sort. But I very much like variety in my food at meals, or I get bored (both multiple different things in a meal and preferably not the same meal in a row too many times)
Unfortunately, cooking is hard for me to do, as keeping track of as many things at once as it often requires tends to mean high stress, and high likelihood of forgetting about/to do something. Single dish meals, like chili, I'm decent at, but that has tended to mean both that there is not multiple different separate components to meals including that (this can, however, be helped by adding crunchy things, for some reason not clear to me). Baked goods, I'm pretty good at, or was the last time I did anything with that; have not done much that was complicated, though, and the problem with baked goods is that they tend to be very high in caloric content and less great for nutrition.
Also, I don't really _like_ cooking, even for single dish things, because it's still fairly high stress. It's just that single dish things I have a reasonable chance of not screwing up or getting too overwhelmed by trying to keep everything in my head at once. I suspect, in fact, that multiple dishes hits some combination of the fact that planning is complex for me, and that I am basically unable to guestimate how long things take.
But I do _like_ complicated/interesting foods. I'm rather absurdly fond of tapas, as they are very small amounts of foods, allowing for good amounts of variety without _way_ too much food, and often have interesting sauces on them.
Food is such a strange thing: I need to consume it, which annoys me frequently, especially if I'm low on resources (yes, I am fully aware of just how problematic that combination is). I do seem prone to blood sugar problems, in that I get largely nonfunctional if I don't eat often enough. I enjoy complicated stuff, and can only sanely make simple and rather boring things. I dislike many of the things that humans are supposed to biologically like (fatty foods, salty foods), although I do like sweet depending on the type of sweet.
I would like meal-in-a-pill, now, please! Then I can have tasty foods when that's the goal, and not deal with _eating_ when it's just because I need food. (an approximation that I do use sometimes is protein powder in orange juice, and meal bar like things)
Unfortunately, cooking is hard for me to do, as keeping track of as many things at once as it often requires tends to mean high stress, and high likelihood of forgetting about/to do something. Single dish meals, like chili, I'm decent at, but that has tended to mean both that there is not multiple different separate components to meals including that (this can, however, be helped by adding crunchy things, for some reason not clear to me). Baked goods, I'm pretty good at, or was the last time I did anything with that; have not done much that was complicated, though, and the problem with baked goods is that they tend to be very high in caloric content and less great for nutrition.
Also, I don't really _like_ cooking, even for single dish things, because it's still fairly high stress. It's just that single dish things I have a reasonable chance of not screwing up or getting too overwhelmed by trying to keep everything in my head at once. I suspect, in fact, that multiple dishes hits some combination of the fact that planning is complex for me, and that I am basically unable to guestimate how long things take.
But I do _like_ complicated/interesting foods. I'm rather absurdly fond of tapas, as they are very small amounts of foods, allowing for good amounts of variety without _way_ too much food, and often have interesting sauces on them.
Food is such a strange thing: I need to consume it, which annoys me frequently, especially if I'm low on resources (yes, I am fully aware of just how problematic that combination is). I do seem prone to blood sugar problems, in that I get largely nonfunctional if I don't eat often enough. I enjoy complicated stuff, and can only sanely make simple and rather boring things. I dislike many of the things that humans are supposed to biologically like (fatty foods, salty foods), although I do like sweet depending on the type of sweet.
I would like meal-in-a-pill, now, please! Then I can have tasty foods when that's the goal, and not deal with _eating_ when it's just because I need food. (an approximation that I do use sometimes is protein powder in orange juice, and meal bar like things)
