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.

And what's the problem with the word "snack"? It's not exactly a new word and I feel it describes something that needs a term: a small quantity of food that is eaten outsided regular larger meals. It's even hard to describe it without returning to the word "snack". Apparenly it's been in use since the 18th century!

What would the objectors like us to use instead??

Yes this…it’s a trial and error process. I could make them with my eyes closed at this stage.

Nee naw nee naw nee naw!

Watch out, it's the snack police!

Shopping and eating habits affect everyone in society. You can only eat the processed snacks because wider society lets you.

That’s why it’s interesting to think about how other people eat.

The most boring hobby I've ever heard of 😂
And this in a world where golf exists

It bores me unpacking my own shopping, why would I want to look at someone else's

yeah but all sport is duller than watching paint dry

Feels a little judgy OP. It's obviously a complicated issue, and isn't just as straight forward as people should just eat healthier foods. Some people, including me find life quite hard and have a fair amount of things to overcome, so forgive us our snacks!

oh bore off and mind your own business

I don't see the point though in caring about something you can't do anything about as you can't control what others eat

The funniest thing I've read here in weeks! 🏆

If you look at how much junk food is sold in supermarkets, I'd say that's ridiculous... aisles of sweets, crisps, chocolates and so on. Junk food is designed to be addictive, it gives us sugar rushes, it's cheap and sometimes people will have it to perk themselves up after a bad day. Some people can't or won't cook, whether it's because they can't be bothered, or because they don't have time after work.

You would have approved of my (expensive) basket earlier. It looked terribly healthy (mushrooms, kale, chicken, etc.). It even had dates in <preens>... which are going to be used to make sticky toffee puddings later.

Lol OP I wish I could say this wasn't my shopping trolley, but it is 🙈
Even when I think I've bought stuff for meals it turns out I've missed some essential ingredient of the meal out 🙄
Dreadful meal planner and shopper.

Hang on, you go online and watch people unpack their shopping?

I’m not bothered about what other people do I’m too busy filling my trolley full of my snacks!!

Ok. Wider society/ companies/ government. Lots of factors. But I'm glad we have choice personally.

Oh piss off with the working mum shaming.
Most of us manage to cook just fine.
Actually research indicates children of working mums eat better due to available funds.

that's like saying there's no point caring about eg poverty.

there are policies and education that can help. we might not be able to do much individually but collectively as a society we can.

OP, this thread is very strange like you're trying to 'out' people who buy or eat snacks.

Why do you even care?

Do you want us to protest against Walkers crisps or McVitie's or what is the issue?

Apparently eating between meals makes you a lesser person, hence they find the term “snack” so objectionable.

I was thinking this. A lot of people seem to think if you make junk from scratch in your kitchen, it isn't junk. It's "homemade baking" not junk.

It may have less upfs but the amount of fat and sugar in most edible flapjacks does not make them healthy. Why not a bowl of rolled oats if you really care about what they are eating?

The reality is a small amount of junk won't harm anyone.

Mind your business. Get a life

Yawn. Well done you. Not everybody has the time to be making homemade flapjacks.

@Upsetbetty there was a time in my life when I was baking cookies, flapjacks etc… a time when there was no crisps in the house etc….
Then I couldn’t (got ill).
You know what? Our health is still ok. Eating the ‘perfect diet’ (according to the couple of nutritionists I saw) didn’t stop me from getting ill either. Or to see my health declining.

Now I’m not saying you’re wrong on paper. A home cooked diet with no crisps etc… is PROBABLY better for you (Probably because eating home made food still doesn’t mean you’re having a balanced diet)

Bit you have no idea what the people you’re judging are going through. Health, ND, stress, family issues, crazy hours at work (I’m thinking shift work etc…) There are MANY reasons why people don’t spend the time you do in the kitchen.
And you do because even if your flapjack feels effortless to you now, it 1- still take time and 2- took more effort AND time in the first place

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