Upon entering through the large, glass doors of this supermarket I went to, you are immediately confronted by the full-frontal view of an enormous display refrigerator. It is stocked with an amazing number of convenience foods. Quite honestly, I’d never imagined it would be possible to actually produce comfort-combined-with-convenience foods in these artfully designed packages.
Moving on. There’s a fresh salad display. Lots of plastic partitioned plastic containers, with eye-catching arrangements of veggies, cheeses, cold meats in them. I mentally calculate their sales price with making a salad at home. From an economic perspective, plus using up stuff from my refrigerator, I think I come off best!
We’ve become so conditioned to all these plentiful versions of food now, that it’s all some young folks have ever known. For others the convenience, enjoyment and minimal time needed for preparation outweighs any thoughts of cooking from scratch.
Many older folks too just buy these frozen convenience foods. They microwave them. You buy seven meals from the store freezer, and then you don’t need to bother cooking at all. Breakfast and lunch are easy. It’s the evening meal that seems to be the sticking point, the red line that folks just don’t want to cross!
The pandemic has made everything just so much worse. You’re stuck inside most of the time. Suddenly you’re in a routine you really don’t want to be in. It’s breakfast, lunch and dinner every day, no break, no going out for coffee with friends. Many restaurants have closed. You still have your fridge though for the snacks that you’ve grown to need and enjoy.
I know…real food like veggies and fruit are much harder to get in some areas. I can’t help thinking of a remote little island we lived in for a few weeks, part of Malta. Most people walked everywhere they could. Not much convenience food. But old trucks go early in the morning, collect veggies fruit and other needs, then do their regular rounds.
I absolutely loved this, and would go to choose my produce with huge enjoyment. Noel, who owned “my” truck, would weigh everything, and drop it off carefully in the shade of a plant for when I returned “home.”
Tim Horton's chili
It’s delicious. But it does give me a headache,
MSG ( mono sodium glutamates) is “unknown”, yet in a little separate box, there’s mention it does have glutamates!
Now follow the convenience food experiment by the same British doctor, after he realized the way so many folks are eating today.
This was brought home to me when I went for routine lab tests a couple of days ago. There were six others there, and all were obese, with very limited mobility. Two of them were very young guys.
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It is great to fill in a little corner. Impossible not to notice! The spiral growth really does look like ringlets.