How do people make themselves not forget food is a thing?

so because I again forgot to eat breakfast and got scolded by mom because the first thing i'm eating is a hastily slapped together sandwhich at 4pm
Any strats to not forget to eat? and maybe also if someone has ideas, how to store food in a way that the sheer spoon drain of being overwhelmed by possibility doesn't turn me off of eating even when i remember it?
we do family dinners so i don't have a problem eating at least one meal a day, but breakfast/lunch are stupidly hard for me to remember.

 

I added daily events to my mobiles calendar to remind me to eat at certain times. You could also set yourself alarms.

 

i don't ahve my phone close by while i'm at home usually ono"
i'd constantly lose it

 

do you typically have your laptop with you? you can set up both windows 10 and chrome to give you reminders.

when i'm eating because i know i need to but i don't particularly want to i look to see if there's any leftovers. if no, it's either scrambled eggs or a pb&j.

 

oh man i didn't know that! i should try setting reminders on chrome! (I... dont do well with change so i'm still in the 'over my cold dead body you'll upgrade to 10, windows, git outta here' mode...)
the problem with left overs is my brother usually eats those because he's the kind of growing teenage boy that eats like a blackhole replaced his stomach. and we don't have peanut butter bc no one wants to hunt down something we dont particularly like and probably shouldn't eat anyway (general nut allergy predisposition in family history)
(I probably sound super whiny and annoying sorry i don't mean to shoot down suggestions like that but it's mostly a problem of having harsh cases of 'you know what i didn't wanna eat anyway' nopeing because i stand in front of the fridge/cupboard and nothing looks like food anymore because it's just too much.)

 

hm, well, there are nutfree power bars that you could keep in your room so your bro doesn't eat them on you. or you could just look at what you do have now and pick one or two things that are normally in your house and just declare them to be your go-to foods, and just not even worry about other things.

 

that might be useful yeah
if i had the spoons i'd go back to smoothies and mixing my own cereal and stuff like that but grumbles.
why healthy stuff so annoying.

 

Soylent has been a lifesaver when it comes to keeping me fed even when I can't be bothered to care about food, if you can afford it. (It actually turns out, for me, to be cheaper than buying regular groceries).

Beyond that, possibly a non-peanut-butter based sandwich? Sandwiches are nice because there's a lot of possible variety, plus pretty easy to make and very little cleanup involved afterwards.

 

soylent are like these protein based milkshake powders right?
urghs i gotta talk to my mom, like i usually eat sandwiches all the time i just have these phases where i wanna punch bread in the face whenever i see it because i've eaten too much of it over the past two weeks.

 

DM has some fairly tasty power bars, so does Edeka/Reichelt and Kaisers. The latter shops have seitenbacher ones, which are a little pricey but come in lots of varieties. Including non chocolate covered kinds if you get sick of chocolate.

 

It's a nutritionally complete beverage that you can get in either powder or already-mixed-liquid form. Preparing the powder is as simple as adding 2 parts water to 1 part powder and mixing well, then flavouring as you wish. The current powder is very bland, with a slight vanilla after-taste -- but the texture is sort of grainy. The pre-mixed bottles taste sort of like the leftover milk after you've had a bowl of cereal (something healthy, like Chex or something, not sugary) and are barely grainy at all, it's almost just like drinking regular milk.

I actually have a bunch of the powders laying around -- I switched to the bottles recently and had a stockpile saved up. I'd be willing to send you a bag to try, if you're interested, and are comfortable with giving me your address. (Anyone else is also welcome to take me up on this offer.)

Re getting tired of bread, I know what you mean. Maybe the only drawback to eating a lot of sandwiches -- honestly, I just started eating sandwich fillings at that point.

 

!!!! right DM has that entire shelf of like healthy snacks and vegan stuff i forgot!
I think i'll google around and look at my local grocery store options and ask my mom for suggestions too because she's kind of very opposed to liquid meal types because she thinks its gross and lazy so i'll have to see whether or not she'd even be willing to buy something like that for me since she and pa go grocery shopping.

 

You can argue that energy bars are basically like müsli bars with more nutritional value.

 

Honestly your stomach basically turns all food into liquid anyway. Nutritious drinks are just taking the initiative.

 

Damn. I understand how you feel.

Recently Ive taken to buying bags of baby carrots and just snacking on them constantly. Before that revelation I'd eat piles of sunflower seeds, which was not as healthy and also hurt my tongue.
Depending on nut allergies, nuts can be really good, mixed nut bags show up around christmas, but things like shelled almond, pecan, etc are usually petty around whenever/whereever.

My family used to do things where if you made a sandwich, you cut exessive amount of indgrediants, and put them in their own containers so that the next person could make one without having to cut up things. If you made a sandwich with the last pieces you cut up more to fill the box. (ex:we make sandwiches with tomato, ham, lettuce, and occasionally cucumbers. we had a container for putting the sliced ham in, and i think one for tomato+cucumbers. Lettuce got got yanked off when needed.)

when i was almost completely out of food making spoons, id throw together a sandwich of that, and grab some form of handheld fruit and a glass of milk, and then id have everything i needed. (you may be vegetarian though, im not sure. im sure you'dknow of a way to get that into a sandwich if thats the case)

the good part about that system was that everyone else in my family doesnt really ever lose food making spoons, so i could almost always rely on them to keep the container full.

 

carrot make noise in head that bluh
i have no idea how to adequately communicate my aggressive issues with food-that-makes-sounds-when-you-eat-it.
i'm not vegetarian but i have issues with lactose, which makes some pre-made stuff a bit of a problem.
My mom had cerel bars in the house which i hadn't found bc too-much-stuff
she is still absolutely 500% convinced that liquid-meal-drinks are super gross and unhealthy and i don't feel like arguing.

 

we have a thing like that i just can't operate it on my own because the screwing in part requires too much strength from me when i can't even hold things reliably for half an hour after waking up. my family used to make smoothies for me in the morning idk what happened to that :/

is that a thing that gets worse with overall low spoon levels/stress? i'd have shoved the issue into 'sensory shit from maybe-autism' since i can tolerate approximately 500% less of any eating related sound when i'm already teetering on the edge of a meltdown.

 

yeah the problem would be convincing my parents to buy a new thing when we have a thing that does the same and i have very little disposable income at the moment.
i can ask my mom to maybe get the smoothie blender thingy back out from whereever it went and i can see whether we can get an arrangement going.

 

I find that making a breakfast routine helped, though I don't know if it would for you. Like, I have established for myself the routine of Getting Up, which involves Making Coffee Making Croissants Taking Meds with the optional Getting Dressed Going Out module, which means that I do all that even when I'm mostly asleep still.

I still suck at other meals because no established routine though.

 

i don't have to make coffee because my parents are always awake before me and graciously leave me some bean juice. but i guess pouring coffee counts as much and i do take my meds with my morning coffee anyway, so i should just suck it up and make myself also get something to eat when i go to pour my coffee