Grocery Store Snob??

mostly i just have to explain what ginger, daikon radishes, and bok choi are to the checkers.

i hope that no one looks in my basket and decides to comment on it, because

1. what i eat is not necessarily the reason i am so thin. it really doesn't matter what i eat. i'm going to be skinny regardless. i hate having to admit this.

2. it's easy for me to stick to fruits, veggies, lean meats, nuts and seeds. i like these things. i prefer to eat them. it is not an effort for me to eat broccoli and spinach like it is for some folks. i kinda hate having to admit this too.

i hope i can be an inspiration for someone who spies my basket. i hope no one looks and thinks "It must be so easy for her..." (because it IS easy, and ppl don't like hearing that)

I am guilty too! I am also a food label snob. People look at me like - Why does she read every label. They have no idea that I used to weigh over 200 lbs!!!

I look in other people's cart and baskets just to come up with new meal ideas.

I really don't have time to look at other people's carts and think about what they are buying. I'm busy with you know, not spending my day off without my daughter in the grocery store pondering the dietary choices of strangers.

I buy junk and healthy foods because I've come to the realization that the "journey" I started 9 years ago is actually a lifelong process and that process is A LOT easier if I don't sweat the small stuff.

yes i really like ur comment.

so true!!!!

I second this

The biggest thing I always notice is that I help my mother-in-law do her weekly shopping, at a different time the I do mine, because she isn't patient and there is no way in heck I could get what I want with her barging forward.

Anyways, she's the type that won't take the time to make a decent meal (she's 79, always been like this!) her cart is stuffed with 99% frozen or processed items, and then banana's, because my father-in-law probably gets 90% of his nutrition from 3-4 bananas a day. Her idea of feeding him is opening a can of soup or throwing in a TV dinner! Her favorite meal is a cheap white bread smothered in 1/2 inch of pimento spread. She also can't cook meat, unless it's frozen and processed, and even then it's usually atrocious. She spends $100+ a week on food, that feeders her and her husband 3x a day and their son eats out there at lunch, as we are taking care of them.

My trips to the grocery store don't venture much outside of the produce department and dairy sections. We eat our own meat about 50% of the time, as we buy fish and chicken, just not beef or pork since we raise them. I spend $30-$40 a week for my meals/snacks and my husbands breakfast and lunch. It's just night and day between our two trips to the store without a doubt. And, heck. I guess he is 79 and he is 84 so they must be used to it!

I work in a grocery store, and a good way to make time pass faster when cashiering AND a good way to make me more motivated to work out or buy healthier stuff myself is beep MOUNTAINS of ice cream, frozen pizzas, pop, beer etc., see how chubby the people buying them are and just feel grossed out by the amount of junk going through my hands. I never say anything to a customer, of course.

I don't think I've ever felt so bad about other people's choices (in general, it's their choices, not mine) than last weekend, when a very high-ranking politician whose area of responsibility is health care came to my cashier line and bought 4 frozen pizzas and 3 packs of ice cream, plus some chocolate and candy. Although she is a skinny/normal-sized lady who looks healthy (and usually buys healthier stuff, she's a regular) and I get that sometimes you just want junk food, thinking she's responsible for health care development and eating/binging that did not make me feel good.

Why would you assume she was binging? Sounds like a party in the making to me.

I don't think I've ever felt so bad about other people's choices (in general, it's their choices, not mine) than last weekend, when a very high-ranking politician whose area of responsibility is health care came to my cashier line and bought 4 frozen pizzas and 3 packs of ice cream, plus some chocolate and candy. Although she is a skinny/normal-sized lady who looks healthy (and usually buys healthier stuff, she's a regular) and I get that sometimes you just want junk food, thinking she's responsible for health care development and eating/binging that did not make me feel good.

Could have been a kids birthday?

She doesn't have kids... That would have made sense though!

Its just as bad as someone ordering a double cheeseburger, large fry and then a DIET COKE!! uGH.....

I've never understood this logic. Not ordering this meal, but why people thik there is something wrong with it. Ordering the diet drink with that meal saved 100-300 calories, depending on the size of the drink. Since when is saving calories a bad thing?

Yup....

I work in a grocery store, and a good way to make time pass faster when cashiering AND a good way to make me more motivated to work out or buy healthier stuff myself is beep MOUNTAINS of ice cream, frozen pizzas, pop, beer etc., see how chubby the people buying them are and just feel grossed out by the amount of junk going through my hands. I never say anything to a customer, of course.

I don't think I've ever felt so bad about other people's choices (in general, it's their choices, not mine) than last weekend, when a very high-ranking politician whose area of responsibility is health care came to my cashier line and bought 4 frozen pizzas and 3 packs of ice cream, plus some chocolate and candy. Although she is a skinny/normal-sized lady who looks healthy (and usually buys healthier stuff, she's a regular) and I get that sometimes you just want junk food, thinking she's responsible for health care development and eating/binging that did not make me feel good.

Why would you assume she was binging? Sounds like a party in the making to me.

Yeah, it would sound like that to me as well - any other time than when this happened, which was Sunday afternoon. Oh well, it's really not my thing to criticise her too much since like I said, she does normally buy the healthy stuff and everybody gets that craving sometimes. I just felt sooo grossed out at the moment. Plus, she's nice to the store staff which always scores extra points from me.

Children will NOT starve themselves (excluding those with medical conditions of course) and eventually will eat. I will be damned if my girls become overweight because I've fed them crap for my convenience. If I can teach them anything at all, it is that they are to take care of their bodies properly via nutrition and activity. I can only hope they learn by the example of my struggle with obesity and never do to their bodies what I have done to mine.

Nothing makes me more sad then overweight children.

I don't really check out other people's carts, but if I go shopping with the hubby, my cart must look very confusing. You'll see healthier items like organic produce, organic lean meat, nuts etc (my picks) and super unhealthhy stuff like frozen breakfast sandwiches and oreos (the hubby).

This makes no sense. What makes you think your children will starve if you feed them healthy food?

My son is super picky... he has missed a few dinners in his short lifetime but he's never missed a healthy breakfast and his lunch box is usually empty. Most of the time he will eat dinners I prepare and if not, no sweat. Be hungry for tonight. He will be starved for nutrients for the rest of his life if I feed him what he wants to eat, better he go without for the day instead.

What? Please tell me this is a sarcastic comment.

No it isn't . If my son misses a meal I don't sweat it. He will eat at the next meal. Missing a meal isn't a big deal.

My son has sat at the table for 2.5 hours before while we reheated the same green beans.

I had to eat the peas cold.

However, my understanding of the literature is that it is indeed best to let them go without until they are hungry enough to decide to eat what you are offering. There are obvious exceptions to this, such as failure to thrive children, but it tends to be the recommended strategy these days and it pretty much coincides with the general habits of the naturally thin adults.

I am only about 2 weeks into this and all 4 times I have been to the store the cashier (different person each time) has asked me "Starting a diet?"
So, cuz I am visablely fluffy and buying awesome healthy food with no junk I must be starting a 'diet'.
I guess I am, but still, I am so focused on changing my lifestyle and not 'dieting' it annoys me. Besides that I enjoy the foods I'm eating, why are bell pepper strips and hummus 'diet' food? I think they are tasty, period, diet or no.

Sorry, I got my rant on.:grumble:

im opposite. i feel like and have actually had people comment on my cart full of veggies and fruit and protein bars so i prefer to hit self checkout

Same here... or the cashier "oh! someone's eating healthy.. " In the same tone you'd talk to a child.

Self checkout for me too.