It's safe to say that when my family goes to the store, we aim for the lower prices. We sacrifice name-brand foods for the cheaper knock-offs. Thinking about that, I think that is a much better alternative than looking out for the stuff we see on tv. If you can have the same tasting stuff at half the cost with twice the quantity, why not? I think a lot of that is image. Grocery stores always have to maintain their image, stocking up heavily on the TV advertised foods, while placing a lower emphasis on the general brand sale. Typically when we go to the grocery store, we buy enough food to hold out for a couple of weeks, when we have to go back. We buy a lot of dinner meats as well as a supply of flash-frozen microwavable foods for the days when no one feels like cooking. The stuff might taste like cardboard, but its filling.
My habitual eating habits usually surprise people. I don't eat a whole lot. I wake up and skip breakfast most of the time because I'm never hungry. I eat a school lunch, which means a burger or chicken something. I go home and there's usually some kind of dinner waiting, always with some kind of meat or poultry and carbs. Recently I've been requesting that I have some kind of salad or vegetable alternative to meat because meat has started to disgust me. Not so much because of animal cruelty or anything, but because of it's heavy, bloody, greasy taste. Echh. Other than this I eat sparsely, sometime snacking on chips or what might be in our press.
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I think that you have a valid point about the cheaper food. Another factor to take into account is that if you see ads. of a product on TV all the time, then they might be spending less money on the actual quality of the product
When i shop with my twin brother i look for cheap prices as well. A good way to avoid those microwave dinners is to have some kind of alternative dinner that you can make fast and on your own like Peanut butter jelly sandwich or fruits, make your own fruit salad. Just don't something that isn't that tasty at the same time not that good for your body.
I don't think Lauren and my Father look for the 'cheap knockoffs' but instead whats on sale. I think (and so does my family) that the cheaper foods (well the cheap immitation foods) taste worse than the high priced foods. I'm wondering if the cheaper ones are healthier though? Idk, but I prefer to find a high price food on sale rather than look for cheap knock offs. I'm sure thats a bad way to shop though.
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