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I've started eating vegetarian, not sure if it'll stick long-term but honestly it's been a huge relief because 99% of my food aversions are some kind of meat. There's vegetables that are not my favorite, but that isn't the same thing at all, it's "when I have a choice that's not the one I pick," not "I want to run out of the room screaming."

And I'd gotten rigid with my eating because of these aversions, because there were so few ways to prepare meat-based foods that didn't run the risk that I'd encounter a smell or texture that ruined my whole day, the list of Safe Meals was getting uncomfortably short

so it's actually greatly increasing the variety in my diet to give up on this one thing and then have so much more room to get creative with fruits and vegetables and grains (and dairy and eggs, not planning to drop those at this time)

and when I am not so creative, well, they make really good fake chicken nuggets these days


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in reply to @pervocracy's post:

It's weird to me that you see this as a, well, binary thing. You could have your meat-based Safe Meals and also the new vegetarian ones you've found. But whatever works for you, of course.

the Safe Meals were getting less safe over time and also there was a lot of wastage trying to trim every tiny bit of fat and gristle out of a cut of meat

and yeah, I could have made stock with the excess or ground my own sausage or whatever, this wasn't my only option, it's also just something I wanted to try out and so far I've been feeling pretty good and haven't really missed meat

I got to that point in high school after my last safe meat food (chicken strips) was no longer allowed by my brain. It's been over twenty years now and after an initial adjustment period, food has been so much easier. I was worried that my brain would just find more things to reject, but it mostly stopped at meat. I do have to be careful about the texture of eggs and sometimes leafy greens.