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

One of the reasons I am healthy is that I dont use the NHS. I have access to decent healthcare and if I fancy a treat, I have one. I certainly don't depend on a totally inept government and health system to instruct me. I don't drink, i am 8 stone and fit. Crisps are just crisps, not smack.

You’ve missed the point in your defensiveness.
Buying sweets/sugar every week because you are Type 1 is not the issue. Buying and eating lots of junk food in addition to that is.
No one looking at 7 bags of sweets amongst a load of vegetables, meat/ fish /tofu is going to think - that person needs less junk. 7 bags of sweets amongst crisps, ready meals, processed meat products and little fresh stuff might be different

I love watching the grocery videos! I find it fascinating to see what different people chose to buy! Sometimes I get ideas for new things/meals to try, and sometimes I think "what the actual heck is going on?!"

@Calliopespa ,this reply says a lot more about you. It was posted to try to wind me up, and the contents of the second paragraph are ridiculous. Would you really try to feed someone with dangerously low blood sugar a dry no added sugar cereal ? Given that you didn't know that shredded wheat didn't mean Shreddies, then you probably might.

You've also accused me of "being quick in judging the habits of ...those with disability.". Given that I have members of my close family with disabilities, you have completely twisted my posts to suit your agenda.

As I pp, I have close family with disabilities. One, a wheelchair user, lives independently and eats very healthily. One, limited by arthritic hands does eat UPF, mainly because he/she cannot prepare fresh food and although has a lot of help, is limited by what products can be prepared. You even managed to twist that.

a@SquirrelGG ,not everything but the main supermarkets only sell a few items loose. Depending on where you live, there may be greengrocers who sell fruit and veg individually by weight.
The ones near me are either in the town centre or very close to the supermarket.

God these posts are tedious.

One packet of oat bars for my children's lunches 😂

You won't need to wait until your death bed. People who eat diets high in UPFs end up in their 50s and 60s with metabolic disease, heart disease, cancers, cognitive decline, type 2 diabetes and all its complications, early onset dementias, Alzheimer's, etc etc, and you can spend what remains of your life suffering from those and other debilitating health problems - aka, all the diseases of ageing that we now know are in fact diseases of diet and lifestyle.

Reminds me of the 60s and 70s when smokers tried to defend cigarettes!

Wow who knew eating real food and being aware of alarm from medical professionals re ultra processed food was a MN thing.

Crack on. Your health, your choice. I do hope though that taxes on UP foods go up hugely to cover the impact on the NHS.

And you're proud of that?

It gives me pleasure to report i am sitting in the car park in the ME, engine running eating a sandwich of cheese and onion walkers and marksmanship sowncer thick cut white sliced, drinking a coffee and puffing on my ecigaterette. I feel joyful that I am not in the lentil weaving clique. I could not be more un mumsnet if I tried 😅

No but you may be thinking how much more you could have done in your later years if you hadn’t had chronic health issues. Healthy years are what count

@CandiedPrincess , I doubt that those who die of old age having never had a day's illness in their lives are thinking on their deathbed 'man, I wish I'd eaten more crisps'.

Those suffering from illness caused or exacerbated by eating too many UPFs are probably cursing their poor diets.
Such illnesses include asthma, anxiety and depression, cancers, cardiovascular disorders and heart disease.

Exactly!

Yes, yes, bad for our health but newsflash - nobody gets out of this alive. On my death bed I’m pretty sure I won’t be thinking “man, I wish I ate less crisps”.

But this post isn’t just about you! Good for you if you restrict the amount of UPF but many families don’t and we are now seeing vastly overweight and unhealthy children. Type 2 diabetes which when I started working in General Practice in the early 90s was seen as a disease of the elderly but is now not uncommon in teenagers! We are also seeing a nation living with poor health from a much younger age so people may well live into their 80s but for many it is with chronic ill health for decades vastly reducing their quality of life and costing the NHS a small fortune in the process

Yes you can do that here also. Do UK supermarkets sell everything in packs? Ridiculous.

All of those levels are perfect too. Eating crisps doesn’t mean the rest of my diet isn’t ’real food’.

@Calliopespa , I had it with me in case it was needed.

@Marroon , I wouldn't ban sugar either or impose a special tax on it.
I don't think sugar or salt are 'bad'.

Diabetics could just carry a packet of sugar cubes in their pocket.

Tut tut @BleedinglyObvious! What were you doing with a ginger beer!😱

I wonder if shredded wheat would have have the same restorative effect!

I wouldn't ban sugar.

The joke is on you because chocolate is terrible for hypos and no it’s not “once in a while” is absolutely like buying coke or juice as an every day weekly shop item 🙄

Having chocolate because you are hypo or the odd Coke because you have a stomach upset or a take away is “once in a while”.

Thats not the same as buying soda drinks as part of a weekly shop, chocolate as a regular meal deal and MacDonalds every week because it’s quick. Which many people I know do all three every week.

If you have a medical condition that means they are necessary for you then presumably you have been advised accordingly.

They are empty calories for most people.

I was once thanked by someone for 'saving his life' (his words) because I gave him my ginger beer when he looked like he was about to collapse. He looked in a bad way and the sugary drink hit the spot.

Good health is not about weight. You can be a healthy weight and have dire cholesterol, blood sugar levels and high blood pressure. Ultra processed food has been linked to bowel cancer rises in younger generations.Eating real food doesn’t mean you exclude foods.

They taste nice though don’t they? Not everything needs to be about nutritional content.