to not want my food shopping choices to be questioned?

[OutOutLetItAllOut]

went food shopping with 2 of the kids today, they are full of cold so off school.
i do my shopping, load on belt and checkout lady starts scanning. all going well. until she feels she has to start up conversation about what i am buying. and what i will make. and the other choices that she thought would be better, for ''a family like yours''.
she started going on about too many people buying ready made things, and how much salt kids have in their diet and that it was no wonder that so many kids are fat.

so was i being UR to ask her if she thought my children were malnourished or overweight?
and then to ask her where she got her qualifications to be a nutritionalist?

Well I thought it was quite normal, too! Glad the mumsnet jury is with me so far. Not that I was offended or anything, I just wondered why she clearly thought it was weird. I had to go and have a coffee and cake with ds in Starbucks to ponder what I was doing wrong .....

scary....thats naughty.
what cake?

LLKH, maybe she was just making convo, but it was when she said things, like with the comment about lean mince, and fat kids, or when she put the frozen veg through, and said, what will you use those for, i dont see why people dont buy fresh..

They must take their time looking & thinking about the customers shopping. When I worked at a checkout I just whizzed everything thorugh. Unless it was just a few things I wouldn't have remembered the contents of their trolley well enough to make comments. No judgements from me on what they were buying. Plus most people want to just get out of the shop. Those customers who want to chat often strike up the conversation themselves.

Cinammon swirl - that OK with you, or what?! (only joking ....).

Someone once said to me at the checkout "Who is all that fruit and veg for?" I said, me. Then they said "Oh, you don't look like you eat much fruit and veg."
What, because I'm not supermodel stick thin? Thanks a bunch

no its bloody not!!
( mainly cause im on a diet and highly jealous!)

I saw a guy walking down the street the other day with 3 18-roll bumper packs of toilet paper.

I don't normally have much interest in other people's shopping but I mean you have to wonder??

Do you think maybe they've all been told to make alternative suggestions based on people's shopping habits?

I get the opposite problem here. Our supermarket is quite well stocked, but not in an area - how shall i put this without getting flamed - renowned for experimental cuisine.... and I get a lot of 'Ooh, what's that then? What do you do with it? Never seen one of them before!' to things like fennel (admittedly slighty odd looking) and, more surprisingly, avocado.

DH is obsessed with batteries and always feels we "need" some no matter what. So if I send him to the shops he always gets something plus batteries. Beer .. and batteries. Apples .. and batteries. God knows what they think of him there.

there is a programme on about army chefs at the mo, and they were 'testing' a new guy on his knowlegde of fruit and veg, anything he wasnt sure of he kept saying,
'is it a pommygranny?'
and the top man looked like his head might explode.
i know working in the shops you cant know ever food, so asking is ok, but judging is nasty.

And the last time I bought a pregnancy test, I swear the cashier looked at me a bit funny the next few weeks (like "ooooh I wonder if she was or not ....").

I get the funny questions at our local supermarket too. "Wassat then?" holding up a courgette or a lemon.

no yanbu OP!
(but you have inspired me for another thread)

Yeah, I don't mind the questions at all because I like talking about food, but you do feel a right ponce saying "It's called fennel, and I'm going to braise it with vermouth and serve it with seabass" which I think was what I actually was planning to use it for.

Instead I muttered something about it tasting like aniseed, y'know, like liquorice.... she must've been well confused!

SPB.
i am honoured.

OutOutLetItAllOut Ah, I see. That would irritate me too.

Forgot to say in earlier post that I didn't think you were BU at all. You have more courage than I would (which is why I use self-checkouts when they're there).

do I detect a hint of sarcasm there :o

nope.
none.
but now i have to hunt for your thread! just so i can agree with you!

30andMerkin

I was asked what peas were..........