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Topic: Going grocery shopping depressing?
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elixir
Knowflake Posts: 456
From: seattle,wa
Registered: Apr 2012
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posted March 08, 2013 11:13 AM
  
Is it just me or does anyone feel this way when they go grocery shopping? I was at the store this morning with my cart and I just felt like there was no real food in the store. For example, I would go to look at the eggs and I ended up buying the cage-free, vegetarian and organic eggs. They were much more expensive. It makes you wonder what kind of **** is in the other food that has no labels. Same with milk. I read online that milk actually has blood in it and they use a special bleach for the milk to make it white. Especially the way milk is produced nowadays...who knows whats in it. Then, onto the vegetable section...what is and isn't GMO? Is "organic" really organic? I just dont't even know....I have seen the documentaries about meat and I don't even trust meat anymore. I bought a cup of noodle soup and when I got home I was eating it and after reading the ingredients on the label I had to stop. Everyone knows those are horrible for you though, I knew better than to buy that. And all those cookies and frozen meals are super processed of course. Maybe I am being overly negative, but does this make anyone else feel overwhelmed?IP: Logged |
charmainec
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From: Venus next to Randall
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted March 08, 2013 02:22 PM
I hear you. I dont buy frozen veggies or meals at all. Fresh is best and you can taste the difference in your food when you cooked with fresh ingredients.------------------
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peregrine
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posted March 08, 2013 06:26 PM
First world problems lol jk!IP: Logged |
elixir
Knowflake Posts: 456
From: seattle,wa
Registered: Apr 2012
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posted March 08, 2013 06:52 PM
@peregrine. true. but i have been to second world countries and this stuff would be an abomination over there lol. IP: Logged |
hippichick
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Registered: May 2009
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posted March 08, 2013 09:07 PM
Yea, hear ya.And the thing is, if you grow your own veggies etc, still all products we introduce into our mouths are products of our enviroments...unless you live in some remote place of the world, we can never get away from our environments. IP: Logged |
peregrine
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posted March 08, 2013 09:34 PM
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Originally posted by elixir:
@peregrine. true. but i have been to second world countries and this stuff would be an abomination over there lol.
Im from the third world lol but i was JK anyway. Things might be so backward here we actually get more organic stuff. IP: Logged |
Yin
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Registered: Apr 2009
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posted March 08, 2013 09:55 PM
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Originally posted by peregrine:
Im from the third world lol but i was JK anyway. Things might be so backward here we actually get more organic stuff.
Not backwards. Developed countries produce more food, cheaper, gmo, pesticide-laden at the expense of quality.
Developing countries just aren't there yet. Be glad. IP: Logged |
Randall
Webmaster Posts: 26427
From: Saturn next to Charmainec
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted March 09, 2013 02:53 PM
I love grocery shopping.IP: Logged |
T
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Registered: Apr 2009
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posted March 09, 2013 06:07 PM
I don't like it as well ( i dislike even driving there, especially this time of year, when traffic is out of control. at this point, i need to get there asap...thinking of making a grilled cheese instead.....i soooo don't want to go the the grocery store....  It stresses me out because I don't know what to get and also the bill at the end of scanning it all, because I don't cook much and half of it goes bad. It's like: "Wow! I just spent $200 and have nothing to show for it! Great!" What the hell will I do with all this ****?" I'm slowly learning new recipes to play with and better ways to cook for one person, but tbh don't enjoy cooking .... AT ALL........ or is the clean-up? If I had a live-in dishwasher and prep-cook, i might enjoy cooking a bit more more. lol (lazy Taurus   ) IP: Logged |
T
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Registered: Apr 2009
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posted March 09, 2013 06:11 PM
I also cant stand getting to the grocery store and having a cart full of crap and finding only one person working the three thoussand resgisters they have available - but only one open!.Hire some more people to work this ****!!! My ice cream is melting!!! GEEZ!! lol IP: Logged |
T
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Registered: Apr 2009
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posted March 09, 2013 06:15 PM
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Same with milk. I read online that milk actually has blood in it and they use a special bleach for the milk to make it white.
There is also something they use to make egg yolks yellow.... ....where did I hear that? Probably here..... normally they arent like that. IP: Logged |
ail221
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From: Mary Margaret Blanchard's home
Registered: Feb 2012
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posted March 12, 2013 09:59 PM
Yes in someways knowledge isn't power when grocery shopping. I haven't eat beef or pork and for a brief time period I was vegan which was difficult because I wasn't consuming enough vitamins and nutrients for my daily intake which leads to other problems. Plus its kind of hard to live in a major city and eat a certain way sure there are ways of eating more clean but its expensive and time consuming. The best possible option is just to cook most of your meals the healthiest way possible. I just substitute things I know that are easy to substitute instead of butter using coconut oil or sunflower oil, instead of milk use almond milk or hazelnut milk, instead of wheat bread opt for more veggies or gluten free grains. IP: Logged |
GemNymph
Newflake Posts: 16
From: TX, USA
Registered: Mar 2013
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posted March 27, 2013 03:41 PM
I'm on a restricted diet because of PCOS and allergies. I have to eat meat since I have too many allergies to vegetable protein, but I have to avoid meat that is pumped full of hormones because of my PCOS. The treatment of diary cows is beyond appalling (I live near some factory diary farms) so I only use milk, cheeses and butter from organic or humane sources and I use a vegan olive oil spread and organic vegetable oils. I also strongly oppose the overuse of antibiotics in food animals, for both human and animal health, and I don't eat much fish as for environmental reasons or fear of pollutants, so that leave me with very few choices, and often times only more expensive ones (and I'm far from well-off money-wise). My local stores sells organic bison, for example, as $10 a pound, and organic beef for $8 a pound. Poultry isn't as expensive, but organic options are hard to come by here. Organic, cage-free eggs cost $4-5 whereas the regular ones are under $3. I pretty much have to wait for sales and stock up when I can. I'm allergic to both soy and corn--about 80% of all processed food in our gorocery stores today have soy or corn in them. I cannot eat any startchy, high carb food right now. In a couple of months I can re-introduce beans to my carb-controlled diet, but cereals are pretty much off the menu for me. My mom developed a gluten sensitivity in her later years, so I'm at high risk of that, as I never have seemed to tolerate grains very well at all. Thankfully I can eat most veggies, fruits and a few nuts (the ones I'm not allergic to) and can get either locally grown or orgnaic options of those. And I can cook pretty well--it's just that many days it seems I spend a lot of time preparing food that I can eat. I do use Aktins shakes and bars, my one indulgence in processed foods. I hate our food supply system. It's insane, it's unsubstantable, it's sick. And as a mere consumer, I have very little power over it to demand change. Someone gets sicks from bad food, the big corps just pay out a settlemnet and fine and nothing changes. We as a nation have to pressure our government to act. End wasteful subsidies that fuel corn and soy overproduction which in turn is made into animal feed for big meat factory farms. We need to demand more diverse argiculture, more transparency in food production, and stronger regulatios and penalities. And lastly, we need to break up the big food corps, like we need to break up the big corp banks. We live in a corporatocracy, and it's going to kill us. Ok, rant over. IP: Logged |
Randall
Webmaster Posts: 26427
From: Saturn next to Charmainec
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted March 28, 2013 09:49 AM
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