For people with ADHD, traditional suggestions on how to waste less food tend to backfire. Here are expert-backed strategies that may jive better with your brain.
“Hyperfixation can take hold of someone with ADHD in many ways,” Thomason said. “One is becoming attached to a specific food or snack item and buying it in bulk, only to burn out on it almost as quickly.”The all-or-nothing extremes that typically make this habit a reality can also be used to defend yourself against it, Caldwell said. For example, making it a rule not to buy in bulk.
For Fantastic, there’s something about buying groceries that makes her feel accomplished, but also fatigued the moment she leaves the grocery store. “The last thing I want to do is prepare any of the food I just bought,” she said. Before she knows it, she’s browsing Uber Eats. For some, preparing smaller amounts of multiple meals can also be helpful, allowing for the benefit of prep but also offering choice.
As a result, some people will choose to keep things super-organized as a way of helping themselves — only, they never get past the organizing to execute the cooking and eating parts of the equation.
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