Food-based #AutisticLifeHacks: Meal and food shop planning
The latest in our food-themed #AutisticLifeHacks for #WeEatWell19 is all about what happens before preparing food - planning what to eat and buying it! Food shopping can be a challenge at the best of times, [...]
Food-based #AutisticLifeHacks: Getting five a day the easy way
In the second of our food-based #AutisticLifeHacks series as part of #WeEatWell19, our next one is about getting some of your five portions of fruit and vegetables per day an easier way. Gill Loomes, our [...]
Food-based #AutisticLifeHacks: Skint and can’t afford meat?
In the first of our new series of food-based #AutisticLifeHacks, the Leeds Autism AIM team came up with one around adding bulk to dishes that usually have meat in them. Meat can be expensive, but [...]
Food themed #AutisticLifeHacks: Share your cooking, prep and eating tips
This November, the hashtag #WeEatWell19 has been doing the rounds on Twitter. It is about eating well as the weather gets colder – here is more information on the campaign: https://kathevans.com/2019/10/29/weeatwell19/. As part of that, [...]
Café Autistique: Socialising, barriers and what we find comfortable
On Tuesday 27th November, we held our Café Autistique discussion group on an often talked-about topic in the autistic community: socialising. It’s something that quite a few autistic people find hard, whether with their fellow [...]
Celebrating neurodiversity: An autistic view
On reading a recent article in the Spectator where the idea of neurodiversity was labelled as “dangerous”, it really hit a nerve amongst some of our staff and volunteers. On reading it, we felt deeply [...]
