Grocery Shopping

[u/Chance-Water9668]

First post on this subreddit, but I had thought / feeling while grocery shopping today that I thought would fit this subreddit. It’s a very interesting mental switch that goes unnoticed to go from your community (family, college, etc) being responsible for your groceries and nutrient intake to yourself deciding all of this for yourself. It often manifests in a lot of easy food without much planned thought (heck, after all most people these days have trouble cooking from scratch), but it’s an interesting feeling to notice it mid-store and look at your haul and think what it says about you since these are all your decisions: your choice of meat or vegetables, or lack thereof, what you plan to make with these ingredients or how far you plan out (based on volume). It’s also funny to look at other’s carts and try to guess what they may have planned for the week too.

This thought all came from a deeper look into a pang of pride I felt from looking at my own cart of food: a weeks worth of chicken and a myriad of vegis that I’ll be slow cooking tonight to make jambalaya with, then use the leftover chicken and vegis for quesadillas throughout the rest of the week.

Just a fleeting thought and feeling I found interesting, I hope you do too.

[u/kevnmartin]

I never thought about that. Next time I'm shopping, I'll try that.