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

[Upsetbetty]

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.

You don't buy any snacks?

What a sad little life.

When I watch other people's shopping go through at the checkout I always find myself thinking either how interesting their shopping is compared to mine or how did they find all that stuff I searched high and low for?

I don't understand the interest watching other people do mundane stuff, I'm not on fb and simliar but have heard about kids unboxing toys and people doing the same with all sorts of things. Do people really film themselves unpacking their shopping ?🤔Each to their own.

Mumsnet actually cracks me up 🤣🤣🤣🤣

People will debate or argue over anything.

Im not sure about the other poster but we put like one tablespoon of coconut oil in our flapjacks and it makes about 12 portions.

Hardly feeding meth to the kids.

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In response to this and also your earlier comment, I think the reason people are pushing back is sanctimoniousness.

Congratulations on your superiority 👏

I used to buy snacks as it was my way of coping and relaxing etc, but stopped all that. If you're younger or you don't get addicted to it, I suppose it's okay, but being middle aged person with a sweeth tooth, I had to stop it and glad I did. Really didn't want to develop diabetes type 2. Also lost weight almost instantly.

A bottle of wine with the people you love, a steaming hot plate of pie and mash after a long country walk, a slice of the lemon drizzle cake Di made and brought into work to celebrate Jess's birthday, going out for a meal with everyone in your cross-stitching group at Christmas....

These are the things most people live for.

Instagram works in that if you are watching content showing weekly shops with a lot of snacks it will show you more.
I watch things like good buys from m & s if you are on a diet type content. It’s clearly not all they buy but gives ideas. The beans/chickpeas in jars was all I seemed to see last week.
If you follow cook from scratch low upf type content that’s what you’ll see.

I do not watch anything on Instagram but yes OP people do seem to buy lots of snacks.
Hence the huge multipack crisps you can buy, packets of chocolate, biscuits, cakes. Large tubs of nuts. Sometimes it is because they are feeding a crowd. Sometimes because there is a special offer.
Many people have a snack drawer or cupboard. Full of chocolate, crisps, sweets.

We eat too much generally I would say. Of processed and unprocessed food. Huge portion sizes are almost revered and expected. People feel shortchanged if they don’t get a large quantity if they eat out.

A lot of what we eat is peculiar. Additives considered safe were never tested really. Not in the combinations of them food manufacturers rustle up. Not over a ten year timespan to see impact.

We have grown taller and wider. Additives came into being in the UK around the 60’s. We were still largely slim in the 70’s. The cook chill became widespread in use in the 1980’s. When cookery classes in the old fashioned sense were abandoned. By the 2000’s all manner of food was sold like this. Lots of red on the sleeves. Lots of fat, sugar and salt.

An Italian teacher once said the food in this country literally made her ill. She had to go back to Italy. She wasn’t being funny. It was sincere.

And here we are. Taller, wider, fatter. Snacks and all.

Do people really look at other people's shopping online? I mean there's some banal tripe online, but grocery shopping?

But just fyi.

I get all my bread, fruit and veg from oddbox 😇 and I bulk buy snacks from the likes of peeko, so stuff shortly meant for landfill. And meat from butchers. Anything else is got at our local market.

I don't judge you for using a supermarket.

Depends on whether you’re directly addressing a poster who used it.

Yes it’s popular content from mum content creators or diet accounts. They show a shop from a supermarket. Gives ideas and people engage eg suggesting cheaper swaps. Some film in supermarkets too.
Come with me to x shop to buy 4 meals for £20.

This - we have far too many snacks and canned drinks - buy my kids are home for the summer and are students. They can’t afford these treats when at uni.

Feels like a stealth boast, frankly, because OBVIOUSLY most of us started out offering only yoghurts and fruit as snacks (and still do), but kids are individuals, distinct from their parents, and are allowed to like snacks and canned drinks if their budget allows and overall diet is relatively balanced. Have also found that nuts and yogurt are a misrepresented healthy alternative anyway - a packet of cashew nuts is obliterated in 24hrs and a pack of yogurts can go in the same period (former full of calories and high in salt, the latter full of sugar and calories too) .. and don’t get me started on flapjacks - sugar/syrup and fat filled calorific bundles lacking no real nutrients other than in the now soggy processed oat?

Unless you have a lock on the cupboard and are dispensing even ‘healthy’ foods under highly rationed circumstances, then it’s all just media hype and virtue signalling.

No real family is perfect. I just focus on my own and my own spending.

No, but neither is butter. They're equally as bad as each other, healthwise, but coconut oil comes with a load of air miles and massive ethical concerns - it's worse than palm oil when it comes to destruction of habitat and the growth in its use has directly contributed to the near-extinction of some species of birds and bats, and the labour practices involved in its harvest and processing are horrific, both to human labourers and animals. Because yes, some farms use barbaric methods to train monkeys to harvest them, carrying weights their frames cannot manage.

None of this is a problem though if people aren't virtue signalling about their healthier/better choices. At least no one tries to pretend that Pepsi Co are the good guys.

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If my dc want a snack they have fruit, yogurt, homemade flapjacks etc.

Poor little sods.

Probably more shite bought in the summer holidays, I'd imagine. Do you have a houseful of grazing, perma-hungry teenage boys?

IKR!
As if the whole things wasn’t tedious enough already.
Plan, shop, unpack, hope the teenager doesn’t eat the lot in 2 days.
Or, as above plus….oooh must put on Insta.

Is this for real, people sharing their supermarket shopping online?? It’s dull enough doing your own shopping, I can’t imagine viewing someone else as entertainment.

It's really popular, same with cleaning videos and "get ready with me" or "spend the day with me" ones.

Some people make a lot of money filming stuff like that, especially if they get brand deals or sponsorships.

Can't say that I have ever watched anyone unpack their shopping on Instagram. Sounds tedious as fuck. I don't even like doing my own.

Ignore the posters saying you're just trying to look virtuous OP.

I absolutely get what you mean and am often horrified by people's trolleys full of utter shit.

My diet is far from perfect but I do buy ingredients and don't buy fizzy drinks or stuff like Pringles, pre-made cakes etc, mainly because they don't taste nice

Is anyone else just... exhausted at all this bullshit about what we're supposed to be and not supposed to be doing? Eliminate UPFs, fine. But don't get those seed oils because of the air miles and the water consumption. And don't buy anything from Amazon because of the tax evasion and the zero hours contracts. And don't eat meat because of the animals. And don't eat butter because of the saturated fat. No snacks because of the gluttony. No fruit because of the fructose. Don't quit your job to keep up with all this bloody fending and foraging because obviously, feminism. Give up your car because planet but obviously take your kids to swimming lessons because life skill. Remove all screens, but learn to code. Improve your reading comprehension skills, but don't buy books because trees.

HAVE A DAY OFF