Someone probably shouldn’t be your teenage son AND your husband.
Lpt: replace all - and i mean all the snacks and prepackaged food with fruits and vegtables or just healthy things. Watch, as these thi gs will last for seemingly forever. Until you’ll be forced to eat them. It’s funny
It won’t last forever. It will rot the day after I buy it.
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Keep them in a well ventilated space, if they rot too quickly it may be due to ethane making them ripen too fast. A mixed fruit bowl is one of the worst possible ways to store fruit.
Apples offgas ethane as an example, making other things around them ripen faster. In a cool, ventilated environment where you replace the ethane with something inert they can last over the winter.
I tend to get 1-2 weeks of shelf life from fruit, though I tend to only buy the stuff that stores well. (apples, bananas, oranges etc.)
I have learned more from your comment than anything else in my adult life.
In my experience, without the drive of ‘I need to eat better’ really being cemented into your soul, this will just result in everyone covertly buying snacks and letting tons of fruit go to waste.
People do seem to like nuts though, barring a legitimate reason like an allergy; I don’t think I’ve met anyone that dislikes nuts.
That makes sense. They are full of fats, proteins, and other carbs. Lots of them are even dusted in salt or sugar
One of my best friends doesn’t like nuts. He’s very sensitive to bitterness.
See that just blows my mind, I would never describe nuts as bitter.
Or they might develop cooking skills, which enables you to turn even the healthiest of ingredients into delicious junk.
I bought a cantaloupe recently. It sat there for a week because I didn’t want to cut it. Then when I cut it, it disappeared within hours.
Can’t wait! I’d eat like 4-5k calories a day, and literally couldn’t put on weight, although swimming competitively helped a bit I’m sure. Was just a bean pole.
Smoked an unhealthy amount of weed as a kid too, and my go-to high snack was a half gallon of milk and an Entemann’s All Butter French Crunbcake. Believe it or not, I cannot eat like that anymore.
although swimming competitively helped a bit I’m sure
Swimmers fallacy :)
I lifted weights (not competitively), had PE class and did folk dance and that was enough that I could also eat around 4-5k calories daily and not put on much weight besides a little muscle mass
Ah and I also cycled to school oftentimes
Was it not illegal back then to smoke weed when you were a teen
Ah yes, because the legality of it famously stopped so many people from smoking weed…
Well, you could get put in jail! They would risk getting high for that? Bit stupid, honestly.
Yes, it was. Nobody was going to jail over weed though. They handed it a year of probation if you got caught by the cops.
the solution to every human problem is “don’t have kids”
no humans, no human problems
pull out of her.
pull out of her.
Do you want kids? Because that’s how you get kids.
Hey there are worse methods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_birth_control_methods
Also people suck at using condoms
We usually have four young people around the house ages 16-21 ((only three are ours). We’re lower middle class and don’t receive any food assistance. Our food bill straight up destroys our budget.
I have 4 boys 12-17. Costco treats me like royalty.
Yeah for me Costco is almost an hour away but Sam’s Club is about 5 mins. So yeah that’s where I do a lot of shopping. Thank goodness for bulk packs.
I remember a reddit post from forever ago where the guy said that the grocery store had asked his mom to let them know when their son went to college because him leaving would impact the quantities of chocolate milk they stocked.
I remember that one too. What a world.
Yeah that was me. Come home from school after eating a big school lunch, eat a quarter loaf of bread and 1L milk. Have a 2 hour nap, eat 2 servings for dinner, ask if anyone else wants more before scraping the leftovers in the pots and pans onto my plate.
My parents always had rice in the rice cooker and some kind of stew in the fridge. My favorite is the pig feet stews.
Cereal is overated
Agree. Cereal is so overrated.
And they wonder why Americans aren’t having more kids
I used to do that
And it’s dry… I was just looking at her in disbelief the whole time. Then we have lunch and she gobbled 1kg of fruit afterwards… Bitch’s not even fat yo where she’s storing all that shit?
This is why they invented leaving your family.
“Mother won’t be back, son. We ate too much cereal and brought this upon ourselves.” - my husband, probably.
My nephew moved in with us years back so at the time i had a partner in his 20’s and a nephew in his late teens so I just groaned and doubled the grocery budget.
testosterone makes 'em a food hoover until they hit about 25, deal with it
Get some grapes nuts it’ll last for months
When I was running a lot I would eat 1/2 a box or more of grape nuts, add 1/3 of that volume in honey, and add milk.
They are basically savages.
Been there, done that. With half and half instead of milk.
Excuse me, half and half!? People used to give me trouble for homogenized milk.
I used to be dreadfully underweight before my Crohn’s was under control. I tried to squeeze in calories wherever I could. Most of the time, I had meal replacement shakes with my meals. Then, I found meds that worked for me and my eating habits backfired. Every now and then, I may slip back to my old ways by following out a loaf of bread and filling it with a container of Nutella and eating the entire thing in one sitting. Hence why I am now 246lbs.
That sounds like it was a lot to deal with I’m really sorry I had to go through that.
I definitely have some of the same issues food used to be pretty scarce because I grew up fairly poor and now that I’m doing well for myself it is sometimes difficult to remind myself that I don’t need to eat like this is my last meal.
