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

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AIBU to think that the amount of processed snacks people buy in their grocery shopping is getting ridiculous? Watching people share their grocery shop on instagram etc and I can’t see what meals they can even make as it’s all snacks?? And then they say oh grocery shopping is so expensive!Do people really do this? I don’t buy any biscuits, fizzy drinks (18-20 pack slabs) or crisps as a part of me weekly family shop. I buy the meat, veg and pantry items. That is my weekly shopping. I buy one packet of oat bars for my DCs lunches. If my dc want a snack they have fruit, yogurt, homemade flapjacks etc.

It's school holidays over here @Momtotwokids
The grown-ups here aren't that rude!

Dark chocolate is actually healthy and is recommended for many health conditions.

Baking is just as unhealthy as buying it. You don't cheat reality by donning an apron!

People can make their own dark chocolate from cocoa beans etc.

If people had to go to the effort of baking their own snacks instead of buying them ready made, they would eat fewer of them.

But there is absolutely no health benefit in requiring people to conch chocolate! Dark chocolate is healthy.

When Dd was little she had a treat box containing chocolate and sweets. She didn't eat a lot of either so a full box would last a good few weeks, however, as you say, when we went to our local store to restock the box we got some funny looks due to our basket full of chocolate. 🙄

I mean, good for you, but I think your weekly shop sounds as boring as Gillian McKeiths. I cook from scratch, go to the gym 4 times a week, walk the dog 3 miles a day before I go to work and I rarely drink. What I do do, however, is drink ‘slabs’ of fizzy drinks, I snack and being that I’ll be alive for about 75-80 years and then dead for forever I’m sure as shit not going to worry about if I have ‘too many’ snacks in my trolley!

I remember Gillian! Didn't she pile all the food on the table then show a sample of how it would look as poo, or something?

I said 'shredded wheat' not cereal. It is just wheat.
I said the bread was UPF but overall the meal would be low in UPF.
You were nitpicking.

I can’t imagine watching reels of people opening shopping, but I might try it. Could be soothing as long as I’m not judging, better than all the news I watch. In any case I’m no better, I’m here scrolling MN which is no healthier for me.

Im sure that cooking from scratch would be cheaper and healthier for me, but think I’ll only do it once this week and every meal will have UPF (the meal I cook has cooking chorizo and tomato puree that has additives). I’m not proud of it, at the moment depression seems to be just there. I’m buying snacks I know I don’t need. Mostly fruit but crisps as well. Multipack helps me control because the portion is smaller in each packet and I stop at one.

Another perspective and I might have commented to a friend or colleague how shopping is more expensive now.

I thought you meant Shreddies which has invert sugar syrup among other things, and actually was genuinely trying to be helpful, as loads of parents give their dc box cereal thinking it is healthy and it really often isn't.

Yes, she was also the most sanctimonious joy-sponge when it came to food. I mean, the woman lived on three sprouts and a handful of quinoa per week and you could tell. You could also tell that the woman had never put something in her gob that brought one second of full fat, full sugar bliss.

You’re seeing a snapshot of someone’s life. It may not be indicative of how they shop every time.

Not that it has anything to do with you either way.

No, I deliberately said shredded wheat. Shreddies are not shredded wheat.
You weren't being helpful.

Shredded wheat is minging though 😂

My kids mostly eat Weetabix with fruit, with the occasional cheesy crumpet thrown in, and that's good enough for me.

I don't eat breakfast, but if I had time to make shakshuka every day...

Some of us have health conditions that prevent us being able to stand and cook a meal, and nobody else in the household who can either. We rely on "quick" things to be able to eat.

You can cook sitting on something.

You have to be pretty pathetic to share weekly shopping lists on instagram and equally pathetic to follow it and pay it any attention.
In the words of Reacher society has gone to shit.

And you talk about nit-picking!

Why are you here just being unpleasant to posters?

If @AlmostAJillSandwich her disability makes it hard for her to cook, it isn't really your place to push back on that.

Shredded wheat is indeed minging. I hear eating it can put you in a foul mood ...

For some reason I thought Gillian McKeith had died of cancer, but just googled and she is alive and well (apart from having scoliosis and being in pain a lot of the time 😔 )

Actually, now you say it, I think I heard something like that too. But perhaps it was the scoliosis.

I suppose in fairness to Gillian, living with that pain might have made her more aware if what we CAN do to support out health, which may be how and why she got so incredibly taken up with it all. There is usually a fairly innocent explanation for these things.

I'm not being unpleasant. DH was cooking with his leg in plaster (he wanted to).
You must have just eaten some.

I'm not the expert on them: shredded wheat, shreddies, it's all the same to me.

Trying to think who does eat them ...🤔😁

I must admit I'm sometimes a bit shocked by the contents of some other people's trolleys in Sainsbury's. Yes, it's all highly processed stuff - multipacks of crisps, multipacks of kitkats, tubs of ice-cream, ready meals, pizzas, pot noodles, fizzy drinks, flavoured yogurts, chocolate desserts, cereal bars, jars of ready-made pasta sauces and so on. Hidden beneath it all there might be some actual food!

I don't blame people for choosing convenience. Many people just don't have the time any more to cook from scratch. Sainsbury's stocks what its customers want to buy - and my local store has a whole aisle dedicated to ready-meals and pizzas, another aisle full of crisps and snacks, another full of sugary cereals.

It is said that 60% of the average UK diet is ultra processed foods. That's just an average, so for many people it will be much more than that. It is quite worrying, as these UPFs can lead to all sorts of health problems a few years down the line.

No. You can’t.