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View submission: Do you eat your 5 a day?
It is though, unless you're cooking for 3+ people per day. Buy 10 different fruit and veg and the last quarter or half will have gone off by the time it needs to be eaten. Plus since veg mostly lack substance, you have to eat it *in addition* to your sources of carbs, proteins and fats.
Comment by [deleted] at 27/02/2025 at 11:14 UTC*
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It’s really not. I live on my own and shop everyday instead of weekly, fortnightly or however people do there shopping. This saves me wasting anything. Most vegetables you can buy singularly in a supermarket, so just grab what you need for your meals that day and be done. Even if I want something like a bag of broccoli tenderstem, I buy the bag and just make sure I incorporate it into my meals before the best before date. You can buy bags of frozen fruit which can be added to bowls of oatmeal, both are very cheap. I haven’t even started on frozen skinless fish like cod, or tins of mackerel / sardines, bags of rice and potatoes, frozen peas or mixed veg being far cheaper than any frozen ready meal (that actually contains any real edible food). You can make huge stews tasty, hearty, healthy stews with about 5 ingredients in and dig into them over the week. Literal butchers meat coming in cheaper, tastier and more economical as again…you can buy it singularly instead of say, buying a 6 pack of chicken breast from Morrisons and then wasting 3 because you couldn’t finish it in time. Again, I’m talking purely off a single persons household. Fact is, a lot of people are lazy and don’t want to put the effort into learning about nutrition, nor do they want to be eating healthily. They’re happy eating UPF out of a cardboard box because it’s ‘simple and easy’ and try to reflect the fact they’re just being lazy onto the bullshit claim that healthy eating is more expensive. I don’t care what people eat but I’m tired of hearing excuses. Just own the fact you’re happy eating shit.
Comment by CaterpillarCrumpets at 27/02/2025 at 14:51 UTC
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I've easily eaten 5+ for the last decade, I've lived alone for 6 out of those 10 years (and with only one other person for the other 4), and for 9 of them only shopped once a week (for the last year I've lived closer to the supermarket than the back half of the supermarket's car park so I don't bother with big shops anymore and just treat the supermarket as my personal pantry).
Things like broccoli and carrots easily last a week if not two, a head of cabbage more like 3 weeks. Frozen veg is a thing and is really convenient and easy to use. Most fruit lasts more than a week except some of the soft berries.
Salads are less so, but still easily 4-5 days.
You can replace some of your carbs, it's a really easy way to eat less high calorie food which most people need to.