There are times when you have a “safe food”. This is something that doesn’t cause distress and is consistently enjoyable for you. Great texture, great flavor, no problem, right?
Well… Sometimes your safe food becomes unsafe with no notice. A frequent one for me is having a safe food in the fridge and the fridge itself becomes unsafe for me. Someone rearranges the food without telling me and it becomes too stressful to sort through; too many people are going in and out of the fridge; something goes bad in the fridge and everything is corrupted by it as well; any number of things can happen. When this happens, everything I had been looking forward to in the fridge are no longer safe.
The biggest thing when this happens is to remember not to let it get to you. It is easy to get too frustrated when you were expecting one thing and the worst happens. But, you can’t let this prevent you from eating. Just because your safe food becomes unsafe doesn’t mean that all food is unsafe. Find something that has whimsy or joy for you and allow yourself to have that instead. Last week I mentioned that ice cream is the healthiest option sometimes, and this would be one of those moments.
The ARFID Foodie 
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