Eating Habbits

Here is a short story about one of Christy's food quirks:
Christy likes Totino’s pizza. Good thing they were cheep. One time the store was out of them so we bought her a Tony’s. We thought we could fool her because to us they looked kind of the same. We cooked it for her and said “here’s you pizza”. She came into the kitchen looked at the pizza and then up at us then pointed at the pizza and said “gr, gra, ummm, grass, grass,” looked at us again and said “pizza, grass, euuu.” There was some parsley on it. I guess she didn’t want grass on her pizza. She started eating those pizzas at about 7 years old. She still eats them in phases. She’ll eat 2 a day for a couple weeks then switch to something else. Pizzas have a strict ritual. She has to cook it all by herself. Turn the oven to 450 spray the pizza pan, we have to be there to tell her there’s enough spray, wipe the spray with a napkin to cover the pan, open the box and cut the plastic with a scissors and put the pizza on the pan, get out a spatula her special pizza plate, and the pizza cutter. It has to be a pizza cutter. When the oven beeps its preheated. She’ll run to the kitchen and put it in and set the timer for 12 minuets. When it’s done she has to take it out herself using 2 hotmits, put it on her special pizza plate using the spatula then take it to where ever she is sitting with the cutter. That’s where she will cut and eat it. You cannot cut it ahead of time or it will be ruined and she will have to start over with a new pizza. One night the phone rang at the exact same time the buzzer went off. It was Jody, I was alone with Christy. She looked at me and I told her the pizza was done. She stood up and sulked into the kitchen with her head and shoulders drooping foreword. I said what’s wrong? She said pizza ruined, took it out of the oven and dumped it into the garbage can. I told Jody you’re not going to believe this but you just ruined her pizza. I guess if the buzzer is interrupted in any way the whole pizza is ruined. We had to start over and make a new one. Three days later she was cooking another pizza. She started using the microwave’s timer instead of the oven timer for some reason. I wasn’t thinking and put something in the microwave to warm up. She heard the beeping of the time being set and thought her pizza was done. Jody looked at me and said “what have you done?” I said “what.” Christy opened the oven door and looked at me. She pointed at the pizza and then at the timer. Oh no, I just realized what I did. She took out the pizza and threw it in the garbage and glared at me. “Christy I’m really sorry” I said. Jody said “now you ruined her pizza”. I guess we’re even now. Good thing we had lots of extra ones. We started over and made sure it didn’t get ruined again. She’ll get on a pizza binge and have to have at least one a day, sometimes two, for a week or so at a time then all of a sudden quit eating them. She usually quits right after we buy a good supply of them. Then they sit in the freezer for a month or two. It has to be the “Cheesy Party Pizza” too. It can’t be the “3 Cheese Pizza” or for a time they put Spider Man on the box. She didn’t want to eat that Spider man Pizza either, even though it was the same pizza the box was different so she wouldn’t eat it. We had like 10 Spider Man pizza’s. She wouldn’t touch them.

Ingredients and behaviors?

Do you think that these habits may be impacted by the gluten and casein in the pizza?

No, This is just one example

No, This is just one example of her having to have everything just right. But its always been impossible to get her to eat anything unless it was her decision. Its all about routine.