I have a young child with Asperger's Syndrome and meal times for him can be rather tricky at times. He'll only eat about a dozen different foods - which is more than most Aspie kids will eat, so I suppose I'm lucky.

 

His big favourites are pizza - he likes it with mummy's special pizza sauce (my bolognaise sauce), but refuses to eat tomato sauces, chicken nuggets and chips - frozen chips for ease of use and chicken breast cut into small cubes then coated with egg and matso meal make for a nice crunchy nugget, and sausages.

 

What you call food, I have found, can be even more important than what the food is.

That's got to be a challenge. With an AS child's fixation on repetitive functions however, they may want to follow a simple recipe step-by-step. Creative names are an interesting solution. What do you call some of the foods?

Doritos = gah

Bolognaise sauce = Mummy's special pizza sauce

Meat must be called by its name, not meat.

 

 

He's on another bean burrito phase and wants variations of that for most meals again. Flour tortilla wrapped around refried beans and a handful of doritos.

 

I've encouraged him to help or watch in the kitchen and sometimes he comes in for a few minutes, that's generally how long he can last before he gets bored and leaves.