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

I buy crisps and fizzy drinks every week and biscuits from time to time. I’ve been 9st - 9.5st at 5ft 7in for pretty much forever so I’m not going to stress over a packet of crisps and a glass of diet Dr Pepper. It’s far healthier to not have an exclusionary approach to any food. My weekly shop is around £75 for 2 adults.

I agree. My daughter moans that we’re an “ ingredients family” 🤔her words for having meals that are cooked from scratch which is bonkers. It’s eating real food!!!The Waitrose delivery guy joked today that my delivery was the healthiest he’d delivered all day. It had a sack of maltesers and a bottle of wine sticking out the top! I have a Riverford box and cook round that. A lot of veggie food which cuts down cost, huge jars of homemade granola, home made packed lunches etc.We have a tub of ice cream or chocolate at the weekend but just don’t buy or need crappy ultra processed high plastic packaging expensive snacks or foods the rest of the week. There is zero excuse not to cook from scratch with the internet. My husband has just fixed two toilets replacing flush mechanisms via YouTube. If he can do that anybody can follow a recipes.

They might be empty calories for you, sweets and sugar is a dietary essential for me to treat dangerous hypos. And no you can’t just use fruit.

You sound incredibly naive.

People should not be "enjoying themselves" by eating unhealthy snacks. We need to reprogram people's brains to remove the pleasure they get from junk food.

Biscuits, potato-based snacks, sweets, cakes, noodles etc are 'empty calories'.

@Lilyhatesjaz , but the snacks now would have been meals then.
I don't think people see an apple as a snack, but they would a pile of 'pringles'.

Portion sizes were smaller in the 1970s.

God forbid someone enjoys themselves.

What are you classing as no nutritional content?

Why? Genuinely, why?

I enjoy them as part of a well-balanced diet. I eat super healthy through the week, at weekends I chill the fuck out. As likelihood is something else will kill me first.

Why should anything be banned? People need self control. They shouldn’t have to be babysat through life.

Food needs to be much more tightly regulated and foodstuffs with little to no nutritional content should be banned outright.

Well not if you’re snacking on apples and nuts.

But UPFs are deliberately manufactured to make you crave and buy more.

Normal people don't unpack their shopping on Instagram.

Put the internet down.

Voices: 'Ban empty calories': Readers on the UK's weight loss problem (from The Independent)

I know what you mean, but he was replaced with Jordan Banjo.

I used to like that and have the cookery book, but wouldn't watch the UK version now (Gregg Wallace 😐)

Have a look at 'eat well for less' I'm currently working through the NZ version. There are a lot of reasons people buy snacks, and they are not all straight forward.

I grow blueberries in large pots, they are really easy to grow but they do need eracacious soil which you can get from the garden centre and to be watered with only rainwater.
You would need to be in an area with acidic soil to grow them straight in the ground.

Most of this stuff is not “food”, just a mix of flavouring, colouring and preservatives! Have a read of Ultra processed people it is a real eye opener. The food industry and big corporations are playing us and dont give a crap about the nations future health, only interested in profit which they make by the millions by creating more and more addictive “treats” that we consume and give our kids and so the cycle goes on…

I've never had them before, but these sound delicious so I might give them a go
www.tamingtwins.com/courgette-fritters-recipe/

I think your feed would benefit from some of the content creators making recipes for disabled and chronically ill people. You might gain a bit of understanding of how people can struggle to cook healthy food from scratch.

Do you have a good courgette fritter recipe!? 😂

And courgette cake is actually moist and delicious.

There is something quite nice about the slight lack of control in that though - kind of turning yourself over to Nature and being at one with the seasons.

It contrasts hugely with force-ripened strawberries at Christmas!

I would have to ask DH as he is the gardener 😁 We do have quite a few bushes, but have had blueberries every day for weeks, but think they are coming to the end now.

The thing with growing your own is that you have to eat what you've got, which can mean a lot of dinners with courgettes if you get a glut! (Although lemon courgette cake is 😋).

I forgot strawberries and raspberries.

Blueberries is interesting! Do the bushes take long to get to size?

Blueberries are quite expensive so that is a useful bush.

We (DH) grow lots in our garden (tomatoes, peppers, chillies, courgette, dwarf beans, runner beans, cucumber, blueberries, salads/spinach, beetroot) which us why there's not so much veg in our virtual trolley at the moment. So if the Sainsbury's delivery person wants to judge, crack on.

What do you grow?