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.

How odd for you to deliberately watch content on Instagram about other people's shopping and then start threads smugly claiming your children eat nothing but oat bars and home made flapjacks.

Erm, why are you buying oat bars if you can make flapjacks which are the same thing?! Weird. I buy snacks I can't make myself.

Its up to other people what food they buy.
I have a lot of junk, looking at my shopping you would think i have kids but I dont.
Smilies, turkey dinosaur/ unicorns.
Hamswichs, rustlers burger 🍔 😋 loads of them.
Crisp crisp lots of crisp loads of munch.
Mini milkshakes i get them offline via the crate.
Mini ice creams, mini pizzas cheese strings, fish shaped fish cakes.
And the list goes on.

I was raised in a house where 1 bag of crisp a week was lucky.
Boiled potatoes and veg day after day, fruit if it was given.

I raised my son to eat what the fuck he wanted when he wanted, I never had restrictions on food.
And no hes not obese either am I.

Op what others do tbh is none of your business.

@MageKing , If you like them and can afford them and eat them in such portions then fine.
I have to watch every penny and love carrots, so the carrots would be my choice. I eat carrots most days but biscuits only every few months.

@DrEmilyCrabtree Same here!

I've got the NHS healthy start card, you can only buy fruit, veg, pulses, milk and baby formula with it, and I tend to go to Lidl where it's cheaper. I think me and DS have a reasonably healthy diet (although I'm guilty of saving things like fruit for him and not eating them as well.) He won't drink milk though. He only has milk in cereal or mixed into other things like mashed potatoes. I blame the formula he was on, that was disgusting.

I find it shocking the amount of junk food on sale - supermarkets with 2+ aisles of crisps alone!
You can’t really blame people for buying it (although I don’t) when its presented as ‘food’

@Womanofcustard , I quite like crisps but find they're something that makes me hungrier after eating them than I was before I ate them.

Fancy a tasty snack or a sweet treat to munch?!

Aaaaargh.

I will add the tendency to name cafes and food outlets after the physical act of eating. Munch, Chomp, Slurp, Guzzle...fair puts me off my lunch.

To be fair, if you looked at ours it would look a lot like that (thought less in quantity and price, as our weekly shop in the supermarket is around £50-60). But we buy all our meat monthly from the butcher, and buy veg regularly throughout the week at the moment (as we're mostly eating salad).

I wondered if Op is an advert for the very expensive nut free oat bars they seem to be over £2 each.
As with everything there needs to be moderation. I wouldn’t be feeding kids a big expensive oat bars daily at school and homemade high calorie flapjacks at home I’d want them to have variety.

Neither are eyeballs 👀

God how tedious that life would be. Weighing every single lentil. Drinking only organic water. Eating only free-range cabbages.

I don't want to get to 100 on pulses and grains, I'm not a Hen I'm a human and want crisps and chocolate and the odd jammy dodger.

And alcohol - which is a toxin. 🍻

I hate it when you see families with trollies piled high with junk. UPF are linked to obesity, Cancer , Heart conditions, Diabetes.

Years ago I had a part time job in Asda on the tills, you saw it all the time.

My mum is Hispanic and always cooked from scratch but growing up we ate lots of seed oils, Sunny Delight, Peperamis , Crips etc . I wish she knew what we knew now about these foods!!

I have explained my reasoning up in the thread….

Don't get me wrong, I hear what you're saying about the amount of junk food out there, but my local big sainsburys must have 50 aisles or more, 1 aisle for crisps and 1 for chocolate and biscuits doesn't seem excessive. Especilly as most people aren't buying across the aisle ie they are just buying one or two things from the aisle vs other aisles where they're buying loads.

I never said they have them daily…

Coconut oil is great for my hair 😜

Aww thanks, I have seen those but they’re really expensive.
I was hoping you’d found a unicorn I could just pop in the trolley with the rest of the shop. I make my own but sometimes they don’t travel too well and I get sick of baking all the time.

personally I don’t get people who watch something on social media and think it’s their moral duty to comment on other people’s eating habits eating or shopping habits in a way that’s passively aggressive judgy bs. You do you is a pretty good coverall for these types of posts

Are you an almond mum ?
We know what that is callED

Also carrots are awful dipped in your cup of tea.

sure yes. But my point was that you being outraged that a biscuit is so much MORE per kg wasn't a fair comparison. Per portion, they're not. And then, yes, you're absolutely right, it's up to individuals to decide whether a portion of carrots is omething they'd choose over a portion of biscuits. (or, more likely in the real world, whether it's justifable to have both).

I wouldn’t care . I’m very happy to eat the best bioavailable nutritional food you can get

OMG 100% this!

Far better to teach children how to eat in moderation. Which foods make your body happy, and which make your brain happy, etc.

When certain foods are prohibited, it can make them more attractive. Which can have the effect of kids not being able to stop eating them when they finally get thr chance to have them.

An eyeballed recipe is where you just bung the ingredients into a bowl, give it a brisk whisk, chuck it in the oven, and pop in on a cooling rack, and see the joy on your family's faces as they can't wait to munch on their sweet treats after a delicious and nutritious supper.

Tbf, I'd eat the OP's flapjacks.