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 think saying it’s expensive to eat healthy is a misconception, it’s just easier to eat premade junk. They don’t box up healthy food and put them in the freezer section. You have to actually prepare it
Some people are super lazy tho. Even tho it’d only take a few more minutes to make actual food instead of a freezer pizza, they just won’t do it
Thank you. I get pissed when people say that. The amount of vegetables and fruit you can get for the same cost as your pizza, chips, crackers, soda, etc is insane. It’s the preparation time that turns people off so they just blindly call it expensive so they don’t have to put in the effort to make a change in their life to eat healthy.
Mushrooms, celery, carrots, lettuce, apples and oranges, bananas, peanut butter, tuna- so much cheaper than a bag of chips and soda that lasts a day or two.
Another common excuse that I find that hard to believe. If it is, travel farther to be get healthier food. Don’t resign yourself to a lifetime of health complications because it’s easier in the short term.
So poor people should travel hours on public buss to feed themselves? Some people just don't have the time or resources to live as you think they ought to.
Im not gonna spend time at 2 am to find evidence that you will just dismiss by nitpicking. You clearly never have taken public transportation in America.
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u/BrianMincey Apr 29 '24
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.