Tag: ARFID
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September 12th, 2023 – kitchen sink soup

I make a lot of “kitchen sink” type dishes – I rarely follow an exact recipe and am always trying to experiment, especially if I have excess ingredients I need to use up quickly. This is a butternut squash soup I made! I roasted all my ingredients in a sheet pan for easy, hands-off work.…
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ARFID, Cultural Impacts, and Self-Directed Safe-Foods Expansion

Being a “picky eater” is a woefully inadequate description of ARFID (which stands for “Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder”). Most of the time, it didn’t even have to do with disliking certain foods. A food could look good, smell good, even taste good to me, but my body physically wouldn’t let me swallow it. It…