Food Assignment #5

Since we've been doing this food unit, i noticed that I have been looking at my food habits a lot more often than usual. I think that my eating habits have changed mostly since I've started high school. I don't eat breakfast or sometimes lunch everyday like I should. As a kid, my mom made sure that i ate at least 3 times a day. However nowadays she's not with me as often as she used to be. Now i eat when and what I want to eat.

I also noticed what i eat has changed a little. My mom and i don't really go to grocery stores that much. We may go to the neighborhood Pathmark every once in a while to get a couple of things but we don't really go major food shopping. 1-2 times a week we might go to the supermarket to get little things like vegetables, fruits, milk etc., but that's about it. In the typical week we eat alot of lettuce, broccoli, spinach, rice, and various meats. Also in a typical week I eat a lot of apples, tangerines, and pineapples.

As I'm walking through the grocery store, I noticed that they tend to push unhealthy products, or products that they think society would enjoy more. These foods are usually high in fat, salt, sugar, and cholesterol and low in the nutrients that we actually need. For example when we went on the class trip to the grocery store i noticed that the beer was placed right in the middle of the fruits/vegetables aisle. I think that maybe they were trying to think that you should buy beer because it's good for you just like fruits and vegetables. Even though i think it's a good marketing ploy, it's not very beneficial to the consumer.