Do you ever check out...

I have to say I do look, but Im not one to judge. I'm really looking for is new food ideas. Especially if the person is obviously fit I will def. take a peek and see what they are eating.
I'm embarassed buying my kids honey buns(my 3 year old loves them) and Dora snacks(again the 3 year old) they are both loaded with sugar and the honey buns have enough fat in them to make you keel over after having just one. :noway:
She doesnt eat much so I bribe her to eat fruit and veggies with the promise of one after. :blushing: At least I get green beans in her, right?

I don't usually notice, but it makes me think of my dad. He is a big guy, the kind you would notice & can be kinda gruff. He HATES when people look in his cart or basket. More than once when shopping with him as a child he would say LOUDLY "See something you want in there?" with a cocky head tilt. I was SO embarrassed by this as a kid. The offending (usually) lady would quickly divert her eyes & walk away, too shocked to speak.

This cracked me up! lol I would have been embarrassed as a kid also but I'm sure the offender was just as embarrassed. I'm usually too polite and sometimes wish I had a little more of what your dad has.

I totally scope out what other people are buying and silently judge in my head. But I'm a pretty big jerk, so it's by no means confined to that scenario. ;D

I look if it's a long line and I'm standing there for a while. It's more interesting than reading about whether Brad and Angelina are finally tying the knot or if Duchess Kate is anorexic.

Re: the express lane. I shop at a grocery store where if lines are backing up, clerks with no one in line will come up and pull you to their lane. A couple of weeks ago, I had a basket full of groceries when the express line checker came and pulled me out. I looked pointedly at her "15 items or less" sign, but she said it was okay. I was almost completely checked out when a couple of people who actually had less than 15 items got in line. I knew that I had nothing to feel guilty about because the checker came to me, but I also knew that they probably thought I was an entitled scofflaw.

Total kudos for using the word scofflaw! I like to look at others' baskets/carts to see if anything they have looks good...lol

I work in a grocery store,so I definitely notice whats in peoples arts whether I want to or not.
I remember a few months ago one of the girls on front end noticed I was losing weight,she said "I bet you eat whatever you want". A few weeks later I went through her cash with fruits,veggies, and fish she said "No wonder your so damn skinny!" Im okay with my cart being judged like that :P

Yes - I definitely do that! I try not to judge though because sometimes when I am buying perhaps party food - it really looks like I'm a junk a holic - but that couldn't be farther from the truth - so I try not to assume the person just eats bad all the time or something.

Of course! Its really sad when I see a really really chubby kid in the cart with a parent/guardian and there are no fruits or veggies but plenty of crap food... ice cream, candy, chips, soda, frozen dinners, etc. It makes me really sad because I dont think there is any effort from the parent(s) to get their kids in shape... or just healthy I usually only see healthy food in a single persons cart lol and they are usualyl very good looking lol Im never ashamed of what I buy lol I get all my friuts and veggies at Sunflower Market, kinda of like fresh and easy.... the only thing I really go to other stores for is soap and clothes and cleaning stuff lol not usually food lol

I look @ what people have & sadly I do judge. I have had my cart loaded w/ junk before I knew better! I was behind a very thin lady last week that had fatty pork chops, candy & processed cheese so she must have good genes!

im too busy fussin at my 4 yr old to stay close to me to be payin attention to what other people are buying lol. if its not him then its the 11 month old fussin the the basket about something. i have no time to pay attention to other peoples carts....

I totally scope out what other people are buying and silently judge in my head. But I'm a pretty big jerk, so it's by no means confined to that scenario. ;D

I totally judge.

:noway: Oh hai fatty with 4 bottles of coke and 3 bags of potato chips. I seee youuuuu.

Of COURSE I do!! AND I JUDGE!!!

ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU SEE 85% of those people with the carts full of junk food, are buying them with GOVT SUBSIDIZED FOOD ASSISTANCE!!

Does anyone else catch THAT pattern?? I mean, I have needed assistance before (heck, sure would be nice right now)... But there is a huge difference between the ability to feed your family for an entire month, or PIGGING OUT AT 7-11 for a week, and then using and abusing the local food banks for the next 3 weeks until you get more food stamps.

Never hated on the assistance programs until recently when I noticed they seem to do only a few things:
1) cost the MIDDLE CLASS taxpayers a LOT of MONEY
2) put the US into further debt
3) perpetuate the cycle of further reliance of government programs (see if that EVER pays us back)

Sorry to turn this into a rant, but if you had to choose what food choices you made because it was the difference between GETTING TO EAT or NOT... I think the US would not be the fattest country in the world!

Same here. While I appreciate the feel-good goal of EBT/SNAP/Food stamps, I think there should be limits placed on what foods can be purchased. Some would argue that the government would be playing too directly into the lives of the people that way, but I don't think so.

Let's look at the facts. Poorer people have poorer nutrition and are more often obese. They are less likely to have health insurance, so they rely on government health care (Medicaid). The government pays twice for the same person. Once for their food, and again because of their food. EBT is a gift. Currently, it is a gift given with no stipulations. "Here's some money. Go buy whatever food you want!" If we changed it so that it was "Here's some money for food. If you want sodas/cakes/crap, then pay for it yourself" I think we would be in a better situation overall. EBT should be for the essentials to live - fruits, veggies, grains, proteins, dairy - and not for luxuries - sodas, candy, energy drinks, chips, cakes. I don't want to pay for a family to eat chips, frozen pizzas, TV dinners, sodas, and snack cakes then have to pay again for them to go to the ER for their heart attacks and diabetes.

When I see people driving around Walmart in their scooters because they are too obese to walk, their carts are almost always full of absolute crap. When they go to pay, it's almost always with EBT. (I live in rural Ohio, folks are poor around here.) It pretty much pisses me off, not gonna lie. I do judge people by what they buy. I've been a cashier for a big box grocer for years. I judge you by what you put in your mouth, in your cabinet, what you feed your family. Am I perfect? Nope, but I like to think that I'm better than a lot of the people I check out.

On the same token, I don't like shopping for my boyfriend's food. He's a grown man and can eat what he wants. He likes Lunchables, hot dogs, the occasional soda, chips, donuts. He works 55 hours a week and works hard enough to not gain weight eating like that. I, however, am overweight and am actively taking steps to eat and live better. But boy do I hate pushing that cart with a case of Mountain Dew and a box of Krispy Creames. I'm sure that people have looked at me, looked at my cart, and have judged me. That's fine. We all do it, whether we mean to or not.

Of COURSE I do!! AND I JUDGE!!!

ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU SEE 85% of those people with the carts full of junk food, are buying them with GOVT SUBSIDIZED FOOD ASSISTANCE!!

Does anyone else catch THAT pattern?? I mean, I have needed assistance before (heck, sure would be nice right now)... But there is a huge difference between the ability to feed your family for an entire month, or PIGGING OUT AT 7-11 for a week, and then using and abusing the local food banks for the next 3 weeks until you get more food stamps.

Never hated on the assistance programs until recently when I noticed they seem to do only a few things:
1) cost the MIDDLE CLASS taxpayers a LOT of MONEY
2) put the US into further debt
3) perpetuate the cycle of further reliance of government programs (see if that EVER pays us back)

Sorry to turn this into a rant, but if you had to choose what food choices you made because it was the difference between GETTING TO EAT or NOT... I think the US would not be the fattest country in the world!

Same here. While I appreciate the feel-good goal of EBT/SNAP/Food stamps, I think there should be limits placed on what foods can be purchased. Some would argue that the government would be playing too directly into the lives of the people that way, but I don't think so.

Let's look at the facts. Poorer people have poorer nutrition and are more often obese. They are less likely to have health insurance, so they rely on government health care (Medicaid). The government pays twice for the same person. Once for their food, and again because of their food. EBT is a gift. Currently, it is a gift given with no stipulations. "Here's some money. Go buy whatever food you want!" If we changed it so that it was "Here's some money for food. If you want sodas/cakes/crap, then pay for it yourself" I think we would be in a better situation overall. EBT should be for the essentials to live - fruits, veggies, grains, proteins, dairy - and not for luxuries - sodas, candy, energy drinks, chips, cakes. I don't want to pay for a family to eat chips, frozen pizzas, TV dinners, sodas, and snack cakes then have to pay again for them to go to the ER for their heart attacks and diabetes.

When I see people driving around Walmart in their scooters because they are too obese to walk, their carts are almost always full of absolute crap. When they go to pay, it's almost always with EBT. (I live in rural Ohio, folks are poor around here.) It pretty much pisses me off, not gonna lie. I do judge people by what they buy. I've been a cashier for a big box grocer for years. I judge you by what you put in your mouth, in your cabinet, what you feed your family. Am I perfect? Nope, but I like to think that I'm better than a lot of the people I check out.

On the same token, I don't like shopping for my boyfriend's food. He's a grown man and can eat what he wants. He likes Lunchables, hot dogs, the occasional soda, chips, donuts. He works 55 hours a week and works hard enough to not gain weight eating like that. I, however, am overweight and am actively taking steps to eat and live better. But boy do I hate pushing that cart with a case of Mountain Dew and a box of Krispy Creames. I'm sure that people have looked at me, looked at my cart, and have judged me. That's fine. We all do it, whether we mean to or not.

As someone who has been on Foodstamps ( when I was a single mom) let me tell you that they usually don't give you enough money to buy healthy food to last the month ( lets face it eating healthy is expensive) and when you have hungry kids you are just concerned with getting food into their bellies

I don't usually notice, but it makes me think of my dad. He is a big guy, the kind you would notice & can be kinda gruff. He HATES when people look in his cart or basket. More than once when shopping with him as a child he would say LOUDLY "See something you want in there?" with a cocky head tilt. I was SO embarrassed by this as a kid. The offending (usually) lady would quickly divert her eyes & walk away, too shocked to speak.

HAHA! Serve the nosy people right! Love it

Of COURSE I do!! AND I JUDGE!!!

ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU SEE 85% of those people with the carts full of junk food, are buying them with GOVT SUBSIDIZED FOOD ASSISTANCE!!

Does anyone else catch THAT pattern?? I mean, I have needed assistance before (heck, sure would be nice right now)... But there is a huge difference between the ability to feed your family for an entire month, or PIGGING OUT AT 7-11 for a week, and then using and abusing the local food banks for the next 3 weeks until you get more food stamps.

Never hated on the assistance programs until recently when I noticed they seem to do only a few things:
1) cost the MIDDLE CLASS taxpayers a LOT of MONEY
2) put the US into further debt
3) perpetuate the cycle of further reliance of government programs (see if that EVER pays us back)

Sorry to turn this into a rant, but if you had to choose what food choices you made because it was the difference between GETTING TO EAT or NOT... I think the US would not be the fattest country in the world!

Same here. While I appreciate the feel-good goal of EBT/SNAP/Food stamps, I think there should be limits placed on what foods can be purchased. Some would argue that the government would be playing too directly into the lives of the people that way, but I don't think so.

Let's look at the facts. Poorer people have poorer nutrition and are more often obese. They are less likely to have health insurance, so they rely on government health care (Medicaid). The government pays twice for the same person. Once for their food, and again because of their food. EBT is a gift. Currently, it is a gift given with no stipulations. "Here's some money. Go buy whatever food you want!" If we changed it so that it was "Here's some money for food. If you want sodas/cakes/crap, then pay for it yourself" I think we would be in a better situation overall. EBT should be for the essentials to live - fruits, veggies, grains, proteins, dairy - and not for luxuries - sodas, candy, energy drinks, chips, cakes. I don't want to pay for a family to eat chips, frozen pizzas, TV dinners, sodas, and snack cakes then have to pay again for them to go to the ER for their heart attacks and diabetes.

When I see people driving around Walmart in their scooters because they are too obese to walk, their carts are almost always full of absolute crap. When they go to pay, it's almost always with EBT. (I live in rural Ohio, folks are poor around here.) It pretty much pisses me off, not gonna lie. I do judge people by what they buy. I've been a cashier for a big box grocer for years. I judge you by what you put in your mouth, in your cabinet, what you feed your family. Am I perfect? Nope, but I like to think that I'm better than a lot of the people I check out.

On the same token, I don't like shopping for my boyfriend's food. He's a grown man and can eat what he wants. He likes Lunchables, hot dogs, the occasional soda, chips, donuts. He works 55 hours a week and works hard enough to not gain weight eating like that. I, however, am overweight and am actively taking steps to eat and live better. But boy do I hate pushing that cart with a case of Mountain Dew and a box of Krispy Creames. I'm sure that people have looked at me, looked at my cart, and have judged me. That's fine. We all do it, whether we mean to or not.

I have so many opinions on EBT.

The first one being: Drug-Tests before being approved for any financial assistance.

I usually don't notice unless it's something extreme, like their cart is full of nothing but toilet paper and baked beans. Which would make sense, but still...

Thanks for that!