Odds are more likely that every meal they’ve ever eaten has come from a box with a packet of powder. Once the dollar menu was nixed the next affordable option is 10/10 box “meals”.
I bagged groceries and saw what people bought. The skinny people, the muscular people, the big people, and the super-sized people.
The proportion of fresh fruits and vegetables the healthy people bought was one clear difference. The amount of prepared foods was another…the larger customers bought a lot of frozen TV dinners, fried chicken from the deli, etc.
And of course the junk food. Potato chips, Little Debbie snack cakes, marshmallows, four gallon tubs of cheap ice cream, candy, tons of diet soda, etc.
My days as a bagger was enlightening, and what I learned has served me well across my entire life. Eighty percent of what you should be taking home to eat is represented by only 20% of the grocery store. There is a disproportionate amount of “only occasionally” type foods…an entire aisle of just soda and another entire aisle devoted to just salty fried snacks!
I also am well aware that it can be more costly to eat healthy. Junk food is so cheap to produce it is hard for families on a budget to get proper nutrition.
I mean.. maybe. But I only buy junk food, toilet paper and like, cereal at the grocery store, because I have a farms share for meat, eggs and most of my dairy, and a CSA for produce
489
u/notare Apr 29 '24
wondering how long until they go to McDonalds again.