Until recently there has been just one period of my life when I’ve lived alone, and that was from the age of 28 to 38. During that period the only person that I had to feed was myself so I could pretty much do what I wanted, and I did.

I love to cook. It’s one of my hobbies. I’ve collated around 500 or so recipes that I’ve tried over the years. But it’s boring when there is only yourself to cook for. I’m recently single again for the first time in 8 years, and I’ve started to revert back to how I ate during my only other period of singledom.

I have the same thing over and over. Repetitive eating.

For years all that I would have for my lunch would be tinned tuna fish. My kitchen cupboard could easily have 50 cans in it at any one time. There was a little bit of variation in my diet. I would either have sandwiches, or with a light salad.

My evening meals would be a little more varied. I would batch cook once a month and freeze enough meals for the coming month. However, I’d only pre-cook 3 or 4 different meals. A lamb curry, a chicken curry, bolognese and chili. Sometimes I’d have the same meal night after night.

I’d never get bored of eating the same thing day after day, but then suddenly I’d stop and move on to the next food obsession. I’m not sure whether this is an ASD thing or not, but I don’t know of anyone else that enjoys having the same meals day after day.

I’ve branched out these days on the batch cooking. As well as the 4 mentioned I also prepare a variety of pulled porks, beef bourguignon, stews, and goat curry, so there the time between repetition is greater these days.