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View submission: Do you eat your 5 a day?
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 Uhura-hoop at 27/02/2025 at 13:33 UTC
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Not everyone has the luxury of being able to go to the shops every single day (every day- really?!) these days as most of us are working full time and juggling other responsibilities like childcare, housework and looking after parents. When I hear people say this sort of thing breezily like it’s no effort at all, it makes me think:-
1. they live nextdoor to a supermarket
2. they are ‘homemakers’ and don’t work
3. they are sanctimonious pricks
If I bought and prepared all our meals from scratch using fresh ingredients every day (the only way to 100% avoid ‘processed’ foods) I’d never have time for leisure, playing with my kids, walking the dog. It’s no way to live. Yes we all should eat more veg, no we don’t need to shop every day. Because that’s insane.