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

@CandiedPrincess , I highly doubt that "Some people smoke until they're 100 with no ill effects".

I'm all for being healthy but I believe in moderation and balance - and enjoying my life at the same time - and YES, sometimes eating a fat burger and chips IS enjoyment for me.
I've not said anything about eating unhealthy food occasionally; it's people eating very little else that's a problem.

I don't think it's up to anyone else to judge where other people get pleasure.
It depends entirely on where they get pleasure, doesn't it.

But of course they sell a lot of it, because that's what they sell...it's a bit like saying Waterstones sells a lot of books, or Costa sells a lot of coffee.

Of course not. This whole thread was started about societal level shopping.
People that work in supermarkets have concurred that they see a lot of UPF going into baskets.
They fact it’s piled high in the supermarkets, every corner shop and garage should tell you theres a lot of demand.

But just because someone's trolley is full of junk, doesn't mean it's a) all for them or b) what they buy every week or c) what they centre their diet around.

Nobody is saying don’t have treats( that said treats don’t need to be UP food).

But if people want their treats to be UPF that's their own call. And really nobody else's business.

Take a bow OP! Also why do you care enough about what other people buy to create a post about it? Maybe expand your life a little?

Nobody is saying don’t have treats( that said treats don’t need to be UP food). Today I had nitrate free bacon, eggs, sourdough, mushrooms and tomatoes for breakfast. Having roast chicken, blackberry, apple crumble and cream for tea with wine because it’s Sunday. I don’t eat like that the rest of the week but I’m still eating real food from ingredients with masses of fruit and veg.

People are saying when a trolley is full of expensive plastic wrapped snacks it is not real food. Forming almost your whole diet round UP foods is not healthy because it isn’t.

But, you know, people do. Some people smoke until their 100 with no ill effects, some people die of lung cancer from just being around people smoked. No real way of knowing what you're going to get.

Someone I worked with lived an extremely healthy life, must have cycled at least 20 miles a day, at weekends more. Two weeks after he retired, the poor guy had a heart attack while out on a ride, and died.

The thing is nobody knows what it will be that sees out of this world and into the next but those who choose to eat nothing but whole and non-UPF foods can still have as many cardiac or cholesterol issues as those who enjoy a Maccies or a tube of cant-be-called-crisps Pringles.

I'm all for being healthy but I believe in moderation and balance - and enjoying my life at the same time - and YES, sometimes eating a fat burger and chips IS enjoyment for me.

I don't think it's up to anyone else to judge where other people get pleasure.

I meant you can get a better breakfast than McDonalds. I'd go to the 'greasy spoon' up the road or the 'Spoon.

It sounds a lot like 'My uncle smoked 80 Woodbines a day and lived to be 89'.

This. A hundred times over.

Can't believe there are so many people on here defending crap food and happily feeding it to their children.

I REALLY doubt that they are!

Pretty much what I think I would do!

What on earth are you talking about?

Oh and before anyone else says it, no I am not afraid of serious illness either. Having lived the vast majority of my life since a teenager with a severe, debilitating illness (that no, is NOT cured OR managed by diet) and having suffered so badly I've cried in my bed wanting to it to end and that I can just 'go now' at various points in life. Actually, I quite enjoy a good chocolate bar, coke, and whatever else I fancy. If it brings me some enjoyment, amongst other non-diet related things in life, I'll do it. There aint much of that in this world for a lot of people.

I'm not getting out alive, and I'm not getting out without some suffering, and neither are most people.

(Waiting with amusement to be told by the clean diet freaks that have no idea what my illness is, that actually yes, it is improved by diet because all things are..). Nope.

No, I can safely say with 100% honesty that I have never looked in anyone's trolley (I mean in an actual shop, in real life) and thought to myself 'well, that'll be why you're fat/poor/insert unfavorable self-induced quality here that allows me to feel superior, then'. Much less on Instagram.

I really couldn't give a fuck what other people consume, whether they'll die 10 years earlier with a horrible disease because of it, or whether actually, they'll reach their 90's having smoked every day for 70 of them and eating whatever they'll like, and surviving poverty (self-induced, of course).

And I certainly never look at a trolley of 'obsessively clean eaters' and wish that was my life, either, or admire it very much at all.

You may very well reach 98 and spend the last 20 years of your life pissing and shitting yourself, miserable, with various health issues that do come from age or genetics, or you may not. I hate to say it that old age is rarely a dignified experience regardless, at some point along the line. Crack on.

When death gets us is very unpredictable and there are many, many things that can go wrong with the human body irrespective of diet that would make me think having some crisps, chocolate and fizzy drinks is worth the risk. Plenty of healthy people keel over, and young too. I'm not frightened of death.

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What, she's boring and miserable because she's not filling her kids full of UPFs?

But how often are they having that kind of thing?

My comment wasn't aimed at you in particular. I stand by my comments, read through some of the posts of this thread - apparently we will all die early if so much as a morsel of "bad" food so much as touches our lips, and apparently they are all going to live forever they eat so healthily!

Too late - I enjoyed my McDonalds bacon and egg McMuffin very much, and given that my everyday breakfast is porridge and Greek yoghurt I feel no shame. Thanks for your concern, but your comment does in fact highlight exactly what I said. What is so terribly wrong with a small piece of bacon, an egg, slice of cheese, a muffin and a hash brown now and again?

I don't think many of us 'sanctimonious types' think that ' if one bad thing passes their lips they are DOOMED. '
It's the amount of snacks in grocery baskets we're commenting on.

There are plenty of people who seem to eat very little that isn't UPF.
I wouldn't bother with McDonalds, you can get far better.

So many sanctimonious types here. I agree that eating nothing but UPFs is not good, but honestly, save me from those who think if one bad thing passes their lips they are DOOMED. Boring as.

Just off to have a shower and then I'm going to McDonalds for breakfast 😉

Also the average 30-60 year old woman in the U.K. doesn’t fit your description as I’m sure you know

Why I have created a sub culture….
didnt realise I was responsible tbh!
having spent the last 35 years trying to educate others regarding health promotion I refuse to accept that responsibility 🤣
i do believe that governments and the food industry have to accept a lot of the responsibility but agree that individuals need to primarily as it is affecting their bodies and those of their children

Ha! That reminds me of my mum telling me that when she came out of her coma and was told she was diabetic (type 1 - not diet related!) at aged 17 the first thing she said to the doctor was ‘can I still eat crisps?’

Maybe its time ypu looked at why you have created a sub culture of brainless morons who are incapable of making basic decisions about food the rest of us do. And an education system that doesnt teach children how to cook or get jobs. Or a benefits system that means that 99% of people on a grotty high street carry a walking stick under their arm or drive an invalid scooter. Maybe the UK should fortify tattoo ink and pink hair dye with slow release vitamins and then their average 30 to 60 year old women would be able to lose 30 stone and get a job.