AIBU to think some weekly shops contain far too many snacks?and this is not grocery shopping!?

It's a fantastic example of how dumb the whole "UPFs are bad" thing has become. Hideously unhealthy and objectively worse for you than more processed alternatives, but, hey, it's "natural" and therefore "good".

You do realise that by using beeswax candles, you are enslaving bees?

We only use rapeseed candles to light our underground geothermally heated ecobunker. Soy and coconut are decent alternatives, but the airmiles are horrific and obviously there's the deforestation to consider with soy.

I hate shopping. I'd hate to watch someone else's shopping!

Snacks are a massive part of people's diet, that's why we are fat. They are a quick hit, cheap to buy and addictive. Quite often it's cheaper to buy a 5 packet of donuts than a 5 packet of decent tomatoes that actually smell and taste like tomatoes.

"You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred"

I cook from scratch every single day for me and my toddler, including making them muffins or ’cakes’ (which contain vegetables and oats and raisins) I also run nearly every day.

does that mean I don’t also put a packet of biscuits or grown up cakes in my weekly shopping? Of course not! Life is about balance.

I don't really care what you think when my Tesco shop arrives later today and there are Snack a Jacks and Haribo in it. We eat very well and cook most nights (one night a week we get takeaway), and I've lost 3 stone in 2 years, so if I want to snack, I'll snack.

I can't believe the junk people watch online, such a waste of time and can't be good for their mental health.

I live in an off grid cabin, lit only by the sun and pure beeswax candles I make myself. I only eat food grown on my homestead and never touch any chemicals. /s

What is it about this that has moved you to posting here about it, beyond the opportunity to virtue signal?

Our weekly shop includes one slab of fizzy drinks and two multipacks of French Fries as basic staples.

It also includes salad ingredients, 3 sorts of fruit to snack on, veg for the week, meat for the week, fixings for lunch (baking potatoes, pasta, eggs, baked beans) and enough greek yoghurt to sink a ship, as basic staples.

I reserve the right to whinge about how expensive everything is and the need to sell a kidney if it's a week where we need both butter AND olive oil, without someone like you whinging about the French Fries and fizzy drinks.

I thought junk food was cheaper than raw ingredients.
Can't you go to Iceland and stock up on loads of frozen crap and call it 'meals'?

I don't think regular supermarket raw ingredients (meat, veg, herbs and spices) is cheaper than an Iceland haul, you need to have the time and education cook more cheaply and eat well.

Talk me through why you think coconut oil is healthier than butter?

I seem to ignore most of the supermarket these days as little of it applies to us. By the same time our shopping is not so expensive as we don’t buy all that stuff. If only people realised that but people are too short of time, too depressed and frazzled to get to grips with it all. Also people lack an education to cook from scratch. They see fast food as food not plastic junk. It’s quite sad really.

Could you share the brand please? I’ve a child with a peanut allergy and have never seen any that are readily available.

Why do you assume that the people buying snacks are the same people complaining that their shopping bill is high? 🤔

(It's me, I'm the same people - but at least I know why mine is high 😂)

YANBU, but you thinking this is not worthy of debate. We all know that as a nation we eat too much processed and junk food.

YABU for watching junk Insta, thinking it's real life and using it to inform your opinions.

DH and I buy a lot of snacks. We are both neurodiverse and struggle with cooking and eating in various ways. Snacks last a long time, taste the same every time and don't have the textural issues that fresh food has.

HTH.

People’s shopping could be distorted eg I buy my beans/ tomatoes etc from Biona on line and might get my veg separately. So saying we are becoming increasingly Puritan here so no breakfast cereals, no soda drinks, only seeded eg spelt or brown sourdough, few potatoes / rice. We prefer fresh veg, nuts especially walnuts, yoghurt, keffir, flax seeds, berries, quinoa, tofu, lots of pulses eg lentils cauliflower to make rice, fresh salmon, mackerel etc but my 22 year old ASD son likes the occasional crisp - I prefer them to en lentil.

You don't need to justify yourself

And equally you don't need to eat what's left unless you want to.

I've bought two packs of chocolate biscuits, choc caramel wafers and Time Out. I've bought them as having tradesman in tomorrow. I hope he eats quite a few so I don't have to.

Normally I don't buy any biscuit stuff, crisps, sweets or any other type of snack product.

Perfectly put 👏👏

I agree OP, there is an awful lot of processed foods and snacks out there and they do seem to be the main part of many people’s diets these days. All of sugar and additives and crap.

Coconut oil is not inherently "poison," but it is about 85% to 90% saturated fat, which raises "bad" LDL cholesterol and increases heart disease risks.

Four adults here, we do have snacks, I wouldn't have many in but DH and DDs like them. We have plain and S&V crisps and small Tesco versions of Snickers, ice lollies and Kinder Bueno. Also coke, soda water, tonic, beer as we like lime & soda or G&Ts and I have the odd can of Coke zero. We also have a ton of fresh fruit and veg (at this time in the week anyway) and fresh, dried, tinned and frozen ingredients. It looks like the Masterchef pantry with snacks on a Saturday.

Coconut oil is not good for health I am told