| Grocery Store and Habitual Food |
Whenever my father and I usually go shopping we have a goal in mind. I don’t pay much attention to the other produce around me; I go straight to the specific lanes and get out. I wouldn’t say I use the grocery store to its full potential because I don’t take the time to look around. I don’t eat many vegetables weekly. Although I can name many vegetables that I like from the class list I couldn’t name many that I eat often. I found that my list of roots, grains and nuts were bigger than both my fruits and vegetables together. On a typical week my family would eat : Peas, Corn, Mushrooms, Potatoes, White Rice, Yellow Rice, Grapes, Apples, Bananas, Oranges, Red beans, Pink Beans, Onions, Garlic, Peppers, Strawberries…exc.
Although I might not eat the types of fruits and vegetables that I love all the time it doesn’t mean that I don’t eat a variety of foods. I noticed that my variety of vegetable intake has decreased over the years because my mother doesn’t supply them anymore. Now that my life runs a lot faster and I don’t have someone here to take the time out and make food for me I guess I just don’t find time to go out of my way and make those things for myself. My “habitual diet” is odd, I don’t eat most of my favorite dishes every day, and instead I eat the thing that can be made quickly.
Visiting the fancy grocery store was eye opening; this grocery store was not like mine or many others that I have visited. The arrangements of the produce were eye catching; it made the food look appetizing. If I were shopping in that store and passed the fruits and vegetables I would have been more likely to buy them here than in the stores near my house. Another thing I recognized was the level of the prices, they were all eye level for me and I think it’s because the store wanted no confusion on the cost of the food. Something that was pointed out to be was the different labels of the poultry. One of the chicken packages mentioned that the chicken had been feed only a vegetarian diet and was allowed to roam free. The packaging was trying to get the buyers to purchase that brand because of all the extra things that it had to offer. |
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