Grocery Store and Habitual Food
Please write a post about how your family uses grocery stores and the variety of vegetables, fruits, roots, grains, and nuts that you eat in a typical week.
You should include your insights about how grocery stores "push" particular types of products, how you learned (or didn't) to eat a variety of foods, and information about your favorite meals and habitual diet pattern.
My parents usually go grocery shopping once a week, but, as I stated previously, my brother and I are often left to do our own thing. My parents usually buy copious amounts of fruits and vegetables that are usually gone within 2 or 3 days. We often thrift shop and because exotic fruits (ie: durian fruit, papaya, mangosteen, leechee, guava, rambutan, etc...)are usually more costly than main stream ones (ie: bananas, oranges, grapes, apples, pears) our fruit selection is fairly homogeneous. I, however, spend any money my parents give me (something along the lines of $20-$30 per day) on different kinds of fruit when I can. Papaya is one of my recent favorites.
I don't eat nearly as much grain as I probably should. I'd say I have a few pieces of what/whole grain bread each day with sandwich toppings (mostly veggies with tofu bacon and mustard), but most of it is just oats mixed with flour and white bread anyway. My parents don't really shop for oats and wheat simply because there is no real demand for it. They only started buying as much fruit as they do after I started asking for it. I eat fibrous, whole wheat cereal every now and again(and only fibrous, whole grain cereal), if that counts for anything.
Most of my meals generally consist of soy, some form of bread (always wheat or whole grain), mustard, veggies, with a large side various types of fruit; most recently its been grapefruit or papaya. I'd say that I'm a pretty healthy person; I eat a fairly wide variety of fruits and veggies frequently, balance it out with vitamins (for what I lack) and eat for the positive feeling that it gives me as opposed to just satisfying the gut urge, which I seldom get, seeing as I snack perpetually throughout the entire day between small meals.
I didn't always eat this way; I grew up eating a pint of ice cream every night with a massive, American- sized burrito for dinner. Over the past two years I came into my own diet-wise and helped to turn my entire family around in a healthier direction. Every member of my family has lost weight since I changed my diet.
Grocery stores may have influenced my eating habits as a child, but I don't feel too drawn to most of what they advertise. I'd say that grocery stores generally guide people towards buying cheap or marked-down foods. When I walk into a supermarket the first thing I usually see is a massive sign reading "discount prices." They try and harp on cheapster within each and every one of us.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
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