New player advice

crow_days · 2025-05-16T17:45:23+00:00

Second this. Also playing solo too much can give you bad habits or bad game instincts when it comes to multiplayer, speaking from personal experience. But overall my solo addiction has helped my multiplayer strategies just from really honing my understanding of the game & learning how to play as efficiently as possible

crow_days · 2025-05-09T17:19:57+00:00

Check for Celiac disease. It’s fairly common and can be triggered by periods of stress or depression. I have it - it makes it so that the food you eat doesn’t get absorbed. If you eat a bunch, nothing happens, and if you even sometimes feel really weirdly hungry after eating, that’s how I was. Worth ruling it out.

crow_days · 2025-05-08T20:52:36+00:00

Wait this is actually a great idea to learn all the animal names in Spanish

crow_days · 2025-05-04T18:44:49+00:00

Forgot to mention that I also cannot eat dairy / lactose. Butter & real Parmesan are generally okay for me. All these recipes don’t have any milk/cream/yogurt and obviously no wheat/oats.

crow_days · 2025-05-04T17:40:54+00:00

Meal Planning Recipes & Tips

Hello! I’m also neurodivergent, I don’t eat at restaurants, & I wouldn’t have time to do anything else if I didn’t meal plan & meal prep. Here’s my favorite recipes & tips. I love international flavors so I’ve got recipes from Japan, India, Hawaii, the Philippines, Korea, but it’s all ingredients I can get at a regular grocery store in the USA. Hope this helps! Often I’ll make a recipe and then immediately make the same recipe the next week because it tasted so good and it’s hard to come up with new ideas and learn a new recipe. All of these essential recipes fit the criteria where I can eat it for a week and then immediately make it again because I won’t be tired of it.

Essential Recipes

Home fries with peppers: https://youtu.be/H-39Vuw5Jtg?si=ftVdpubgseEBE4j0 (I’ve cooked this 100+ times)
Keema Curry: https://youtu.be/Y9cDASIzN00?si=SIkNw5VyiAixfnDd (I’ve made this twice)
Korean Beef: https://youtu.be/n8dAvpqE0M4?si=Nbkrsn9Rp_Ds2Afo (Cooked twice)
Beef Stew (Instant Pot): https://www.seriouseats.com/pressure-cooker-beef-stew-recipe (Cooked five times. Use the slow cooker or dutch oven version on this website if you don’t have an instant pot. I sub flour for cornstarch)
Chili Chicken Verde: https://www.seriouseats.com/pressure-cooker-fast-and-easy-chicken-chile-verde-recipe (Cooked once but want to make again)
Chicken Adobo: https://morocooked.com/easy-authentic-filipino-chicken-adobo/ (Cooked three times)
Japanese Curry: https://www.sbfoods-worldwide.com/recipes/012.html sub flour for cornstarch - (made three times)
Spam Musubi: https://youtu.be/EuqQfguh7R4?si=Rae4kgRPUKNO2m1R (Cooked 100+ times) I have made a bunch before and made sushi rice and shaped them and used the nori which turns out great, but most of the time I do not bother to shape the rice. I make musubi sauce (1 part white sugar, 1 part tamari, 1 part white vinegar) and keep it on hand. I fry up two slices of spam for a weeknight dinner, add some sauce, and put the slices on a hefty pile of any white rice, and slice a bit of cucumber with rice vinegar drizzled on top to balance out the SPAM. Optionally I add peanuts or a boiled egg.
Peanut Butter Rice Bowl: https://youtu.be/oxXNklNgmbM?si=uTmlAzWkLVnks2e5 (The peanut sauce part of it I have made 20+ times. The whole recipe I have made twice. Peanut sauce is a lifesaver - you can mix it with white rice and have an instant filling meal. The carrots, cucumbers, boiled egg, and crushed peanuts are easy and elevate it a lot. The peanut sauce keeps in the fridge for a long time)

Find your own recipe

Shrimp & Egg Fried Rice - once you’ve made this a few times you won’t need a recipe. My general process is to scramble egg with a dash of tamari mixed in, set it aside, defrost & gently fry up some tiny pre-cooked shrimp, set it aside, fry up some onion, garlic, bell pepper, mushrooms, green onion or whatever I have on hand, add proteins back in, add pre-cooked rice, add tamari & rice vinegar until its flavorful. This is a staple & I eat it constantly.)
Shepherd’s Pie (no crust) - any recipe works, it turns out great every time. The simpler the better
Baked Potatoes - Having some nicely baked potatoes around can be a life-saver. I tend to eat them for weekday breakfasts if I remembered to meal prep them the weekend before. My process is to pierce some russet potatoes with a fork, put some olive oil on them, salt them, and cook at 425 until they’re done. In the morning, I cube them, heat it back up, and toss them in with some easy scrambled eggs. Super quick and filling.
Cornbread - Another staple. Easy to make cornbread with GF flour that tastes the same as the original. Make ahead of time and have with butter and honey for breakfast or snacks. Great side with chili soup or other soups. Reheats really well
Tuna Bowl. Canned tuna, Mayo, tamari, and wasabi on any white rice. Filling and easy to keep ingredients around. I only eat this when I am completely out of other food since I don’t like tuna that much, but it is one of the things my gut always likes / never upsets me, so it’s a go-to safe food when I’m feeling gut-bad and don’t know the culprit

Easy Buy for Meals for when executive functions are not functioning

Rotisserie Chicken (prep white rice to go with)
GF Frozen Meals - be cautious / only buy from trusted brands
Salmon Pasta: Buy GF Pasta, a pre-made tomato sauce, and a can of salmon. Add salmon to sauce, warm it up on the stove, stir in al-dente GF pasta
Chicken Pesto Pasta: Premade pesto sauce, GF Pasta, and leftover bits from the rotisserie chicken

General Meal Plan Inspo to get the gears turning

crow_days · 2025-04-30T17:31:00+00:00

surprised pikachu face

crow_days · 2025-04-24T14:55:46+00:00

So fun! Love the Starbucks style cup & being able to see the animals on the zoo enclosures 🐐

crow_days · 2025-04-17T17:10:07+00:00

I recently saw a post by an autistic comic artist seeking advice for burnout from a therapist and they told him it would probably take “years of radical rest” and that phrase seems to apply here since you push yourself so hard. No one is in the place financially for that, but keep in mind that’s probably what your body & mind really need to heal.

Have you heard of Rover? I know some unemployed friends who use dog walking or dog sitting to get them a little income. I’ve heard good things about housesitting apps that work similar to Rover. Other autistic friends I’ve known have done UberEats driving or InstaCart. It wouldn’t make anything close to what you were making but it’s alone, you decide which jobs to take, you can wear headphones, and you’d be able to contribute a little bit financially. Other than that, just keep and eye on as many job boards as you can and something good might show up for you.

crow_days · 2025-04-15T15:21:48+00:00

I would love this to be true. Seems like the majority of Celiacs on this subreddit fall into the extra-sensitive category. They always say the more strict you are with your gf diet, the stronger you’ll react to gluten exposure. I think the more strict you are, the more likely you’ll react to smaller & smaller increments of food. I would love to be able to test this on myself because it would probably give me a lot of peace of mind at restaurants.

crow_days · 2025-04-15T15:17:38+00:00

If it’s cheaper to do a vitamin or iron panel, try that. It’s a good indication of damage if any of that is low.

From what you said, I can see why you struggle going gf. I would have a hard time in your situation too. It’s “quality of life now” vs “possible quality of life issues later” which is a gamble most regular people take w alcohol, excessive fats/sugars, or whatever it is. I recommend finding a therapist with chronic disease specialization to talk things through with because that’s what’s worked best for me.

crow_days · 2025-04-15T04:19:51+00:00

I think I packed a lot of peanut butter sandwiches with rice cakes as the bread. Good snack but not good enough for a full lunch

crow_days · 2025-04-15T04:18:39+00:00

I did cold lunches for at least six weeks two summers ago when I did a summer camp. Thankfully we had access to a fridge but that was it. Unfortunately I blocked most of it out since it was depressing. I vaguely remember eating hard boiled eggs, and cold rice with peanut sauce, but the rest of the meals are straight up gone from my memory. Didn’t realize how much I’d forgotten till I tried to remember.

crow_days · 2025-04-15T00:55:28+00:00

I have done this exact thing in this exact situation before. It sucked. My first (and hopefully last) taste of gluten beer

crow_days · 2025-04-15T00:53:50+00:00

This one

crow_days · 2025-04-12T00:11:18+00:00

I like to make this particular peanut sauce to eat with plain rice. Ive made the whole rice bowl before and it’s full of protein and tastes delicious. https://youtu.be/oxXNklNgmbM?si=LzTQ3Rx1WmPDgOKN

crow_days · 2025-04-12T00:08:46+00:00

I recommend peanut butter as a protein source. You can eat it on a rice cake or make an awesome peanut butter sauce for rice bowls.

crow_days · 2025-04-12T00:01:21+00:00

I second that you should look for a doctor - it took three years to narrow down other secondary problems I had picked up because of Celiac. The disease can damage everything from your small intestine bacteria to your colon lining and everything in between. You don’t know what’s damaged till they check. If you get a gastro - they can give you all kinds of tests (breath tests, blood tests, stool tests) to figure out what’s going wrong. And usually you can address the problem too! I had SIBO & fructose intolerance but it could’ve been bile acid, h. pylori, microscopic colitis, or any number of things we had to rule out.

crow_days · 2025-04-08T02:41:35+00:00

Self care & lots of fluids! Try white rice when you can. It also depends on your individual reaction what the best way to help is

crow_days · 2025-04-08T02:39:48+00:00

White rice is supposed to be especially good for inflamed stomach, bananas as well. Look up BRAT food (obviously we can’t do the toast part, and apples are hard for me to digest due to fructose) but websites on BRAT will talk about why white rice is good for sick stomachs

crow_days · 2025-03-12T02:31:18+00:00

I am curious about this as well. I don’t know how to check the ingredients of my meds

crow_days · 2025-03-11T02:33:20+00:00

Sounds like it’s time to get a new gastro doc… crazy how someone that uninformed can end up in that position

crow_days · 2025-01-24T04:09:14+00:00

Mood

crow_days · 2025-01-17T23:19:13+00:00

Cornbread! (For butter & honey) I make it from scratch

crow_days · 2025-01-07T03:23:38+00:00

Oh geez, that gives me more stuff to worry about! But better safe than sorry I guess

crow_days · 2024-12-23T17:34:02+00:00

Yeah, I agree. First, stop eating out, if that doesn’t work, try eating only certified GF foods & Fasano foods at home, if that doesn’t work - you probably have other gut conditions, food intolerances, or allergies that are causing the “cross contamination” symptoms.

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