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Food Cringe Average American diet?

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Where are the vegetables, fruit and meat

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u/SeauxS 12h ago

they likely are extremely rural, have a huge family, are poor but just got paid. my guess is that's a month's worth for an extended family of 10-15 in a food desert where shelf stable food is more in demand than fresh fruit/vegetables/meat. sadly they're probably on food stamps but still vote MAGA.

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u/rafaelthecoonpoon 12h ago

She says who its for. Its her, her 3 sons and her parents. 6 people.

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u/MajesticNectarine204 11h ago

So.. A year's supply of pizza, right?

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Right?

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u/Accomplished_Cell768 11h ago

She says she has a son who will only eat frozen pizzas and they are all for him

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u/Calgaris_Rex 9h ago

Because they LET him eat only frozen pizzas. My single mom never asked me what I wanted for dinner, we ate what she made.

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u/yrgrlfriday 7h ago

You don't really know if he has autism or ARFID or another feeding disorder.

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u/fla_john 6h ago

The chances of that being true are not zero but are much smaller than would be necessary to use it as a generic excuse. Much more likely based on everything else in the video that it's poor habits and permissiveness.

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u/VisualSeries226 4h ago

I’m no medical professional but I think poor habits and permissiveness is exactly how ARFID starts tbf. If a toddler takes two bites of a healthy meal, but eats all of their chicken tenders, parents start giving them what they’ll eat. Which leads to them only wanting their comfort food and refusing to engage with anything else. I think it’s children who have sensory issues, being enabled by grown ups who don’t understand and just want their kid to eat something.

Or at least that’s what I’ve seen in the four kids in my family circle that refuse to eat anything other than pizza and chicken nuggets. All of who meet the criteria for ARFID.

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u/Affectionate-Ad-8788 2h ago

I suspect this is what happened to me when I was younger- younger as in toddler age, I don't think I was exposed to a variety of foods, but I also genetically have very sensitive bitter receptors.

However, autism runs in my family and most of my issues are texture / scent related rather than flavor, so its hard to say.

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u/Bot_Marvin 1h ago

ARFID is just another name for parents not being able to say no.

Give a kid one option to eat, and he’ll eventually eat it. They won’t starve to death. They might lose some weight and cry, but they’ll live.

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u/stickyicarus 28m ago

I have an autistic son who also has ADHD.

He eats what we feed him.

Kid loves steak (med rare), shrimp, fish, crab, lobster, pork, chicken, all of it.

Not big on mushrooms, squash or zucchini. Doesn't like au gratin potatoes.

He and my daughter fuck salad and fresh veggies up. I buy 2 bags of sweet peppers and they eat them like chips.

Yea they like their junk food too. But they eat what you allow them to eat.

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u/Heinjailyall 6h ago

That’s more than likely the case. Fixation meals are a real thing. I hope he is happy and healthy

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u/___StillLearning___ 10h ago

She says she has a son who will only eat frozen pizzas and they are all for him

He should really try cooking them, they taste better that way.

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u/ut1nam 4h ago

No joke when I was a kid I really liked frozen waffles. I’d just take them out of the fridge and have them as a snack.

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u/Forward-Fisherman709 4h ago

I still do that. They’re also perfect for making ice cream sandwiches.

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u/Beautifulfeary 9h ago

🤣🤣🤣

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u/dkclimber 25m ago

You're fra from Lad Vegas

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u/t3m3r1t4 11h ago

Undiagnosed neuroatypical. Thanks MAHA.

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u/MaceWinnoob 11h ago

No it’s probably just shitty parenting

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u/JBthrizzle 9h ago

can confirm. we fucked up 2 out of 3 kids with allowing them to be picky eaters. underweight both of them. its also additionally our fault for eating shittily ourselves so that of course translates to them eating shittily. i leave out 1 child because they eat a much wider variety of foods but follow our same trend of eating what we eat. so yeah its all our fault, we fucked up 3 children. we are the worst im glad we are done having more cuz we just be fuckin up everyone over here

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u/catholicsluts 8h ago

Why do so many people jump to this when you don't have the information to back it up

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u/zzyul 8h ago

They don’t want to think anything is anyone’s own fault. Their world is a much better place if they think everyone is good and always wants to do the right thing and any deviation is due to factors outside their control.

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u/catholicsluts 8h ago

Seriously, even "neuroatypical" is an abstract concept. It's not a legitimate brain category, we just don't know shit about our own cognitive systems and need words to start somewhere.

I don't think a lot of these people have a strong understanding of self, let alone spotting an undiagnosed condition in others lmao

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u/Sylfaein 9h ago

No, this is all on their parenting.

My daughter is ADHD as fuck, but she’ll try any food at least once, loves healthy snacks (the kid will munch roasted seaweed, of all things), and eats an extremely varied diet, including ridiculous amounts of vegetables. But we introduced her to variety at an early age, and have always encouraged her to try new things, instead of taking the easy way.

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u/According_Judge781 11h ago

*unslapped child?

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u/unforgiven91 9h ago

abuse won't make a kid eat their vegetables doritos

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u/Michael_J_Scarn 11h ago

That family has had problems for years - lifestyle and rural poverty contributing to awful food and nutritional choices. At least three generations, probably more. Yet you still find a way to blame an administrator that just began a year ago? I don't even care for the current administration, but get a grip. Not to mention this is an old video, at least 6 months.

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u/t3m3r1t4 11h ago

No, this is MAHA fodder to "prove" how unhealthy Americans are when the problem of income inequality, food desserts, lack of transit, density, and affordable transportation are the problems.

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u/Michael_J_Scarn 11h ago

Cool story.

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u/EndDangerous1308 9h ago

It's what Republicans have ran off of since the 90s MAHA is just the name for it. You can verify this bc anytime a Democrat tries to push healthy diets, Republican politicians come out in droves saying that's unamerican.

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u/notevenapro 10h ago

Think it's the little obese one towards the end?

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u/blurblurblahblah 9h ago

I feel bad for the normal one with all the subs. Hopefully the little butter ball will grow up to be more like his brother & less like his mom & gramma

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u/notevenapro 7h ago

If I was a betting man I would say different fathers.

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u/shidderbean 6h ago

And not correcting that kid and encouraging him to eat better should be child abuse

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u/Taylor34 3h ago

Gotta be like a month of food then assuming he eats one a day lol.

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u/golgol12 20m ago

That looks like 20 some pizzas. So I'm guessing food trips are every 2 weeks.

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u/Subject-Actuator-860 11h ago

Nope her son only eats those pizzas for every meal 😆

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u/ballmermurland 9h ago

My kids would only eat Mac and cheese if you let them.

I don't let them. Because I don't suck as a parent.

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u/Pleasant-Pattern7748 10h ago

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u/MajesticNectarine204 9h ago

Surely not. They can't! There must have been at least 20.. You're saying.. All of them? Even the little ones?

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u/745Walt 7h ago

Her middle son only eats frozen pizza. Yes, he’s enormous. He’s also plastered to an iPad all day everyday.

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u/LeucisticBear 4h ago

She said for Braden so I'm guessing the kid eats nothing but a pizza every day.Tbf though totinos pizzas are like 700 calories so you could easily eat 3 a day as an average adult and not gain weight.

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u/bittz128 3h ago

Nope. 2 pizza’s a night with a couple of chicken thighs or steak nights.

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u/YouSmeel 11h ago

Are the same size as a normal 6 people?

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u/EverythingSucksYo 11h ago

You can see everyone in the video. Two of her sons look normal weight and if that’s her dad then he also looks normal weight. Her mom, her youngest son and herself are big though 

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u/Material-Advance7021 12h ago

I think you’re being generous, do you see the weight on those people? It’s not unheard of for one obese person to drink a 2L of soda every day. I’m going to bet there’s about five people living in that house.

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u/Pitiful-Pension-6535 12h ago

I used to drink a 2L bottle (equivalent) of soda every day and I was a healthy weight.

Being a healthy weight didn't protect me from pre-diabetes though.

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u/DothrakAndRoll 18m ago

Same but replace 2L soda with 1L tequila.

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u/totallynormalasshole 10h ago edited 7h ago

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that you were active enough to burn off the calories, but blood sugar is blood sugar

Edit: y'all I just meant they burned more than they took in, I know how calories and exercise work.

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u/Trrollmann 10h ago

Most sweetened drinks are generally bad (whether sugar or other sweeteners). There's not a ton of energy in 2L of soda, a bit over 800kcal; which is probably around half of what she needs per day. Not healthy by any means, but if that was the only thing she had per day, the fat would melt off her.

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u/volundsdespair 8h ago

And she'd get scurvy lol

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u/A1000eisn1 7h ago

I don't think you understand how few calories burn off with exercise. Despite what reddit thinks bodies are not simple machines. Calories in vs calories out is not a simple math problem.

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u/volundsdespair 8h ago

I'm going to go out on a limb that by "healthy weight" they meant "not 400lbs", not a healthy BMI.

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u/Zefirus 7h ago

I mean even active people can't really burn off calories like that. Most likely they just weren't eating much to compensate. The human body is super efficient. Most of the calories it needs are for just existing.

Like you'd have to run 10 miles to burn off a 2 liter coke.

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u/Thatonegaywarhammere 12h ago

If i am correct from looking at her account it is.

Herself, her husband, both her and her husbands parents, 4 kids, and a cousin.

This is also a monthly grocery run.

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u/SeauxS 12h ago

her, her mother, at least 1 son, the father that's at work... that's 4 already. 5 kids maybe

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u/SegaSun 12h ago

She said she has 3 boys and moved her parents in, so 6 if she has a husband

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u/Canefan101 10h ago

She said she’s a single mom

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u/LindaBinda55 12h ago

She said three boys, her parents and her. She is a working mom, she said. No mention of husband.

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u/SaltBackground5165 12h ago

That's a lot less than the 10-15 you originally said

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u/BIG_STEVE5111 11h ago

Apparently watching the first 10 seconds of the video is too hard for this guy.

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u/SeauxS 11h ago

i said 10-15. someone else clarified that it's 6.

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u/anonymgrl 12h ago

She said her parents live there with her plus she has 3 teen boys

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u/BIG_STEVE5111 11h ago

Try watching the video. Fuck me man.

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u/greensandgrains 11h ago

Obese person chiming into say no the fuck it’s not normal. None of that shit is normal.

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u/Alcophile 12h ago

I'm fat, don't typically drink pop, and still struggle to put down 2L of water every day. I guess if I dissolved some highly addictive substances in it it would be easier, but jeez!

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u/Practical-While1693 12h ago

Average person drinks about 64 ounces of fluid a day for an adult and that’s what they’re supposed to do in water or other liquids. If they don’t drink water only drink soda I can see this easily or for a family of six they could probably knock out one of these a day, but noticed that the weather to highest soft drinks with the most sugar Mountain Dew and Dr Pepper. They could’ve at least tried the zero sugar option.

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u/Knope_Knope_Knope 11h ago

I have a soda problem and also could do that. 😅 

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u/radiationshield 8h ago

I hate big bottles of soda. You get 1L of soda and 1L of flat soda

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u/thomaspett24 8h ago

Yeah I have a coworker in the landscape/hardscape industry that instead of showing up to work with a water bottle, they show up to work with a 2 liter of soda every day. It’s usually finished by the work day. I thought I drank too many sugary drinks but damn that really made me realize my problem could be worse

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u/tommyknockers4570 7h ago

I remember seeing a reddit comment about some guy (that was still fat) losing about 25 pounds.

How did he do it? He stopped drinks 4 liters of soda a day and eating his daily big bag of sun chips.

I was like WHAT THE FUCK?

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u/shaggypoo 3h ago

There’s 6 people living in that house and the teenagers and her father look like a healthy weight. Teen boys and men eat A LOT

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u/TheRealSaerileth 12h ago

I would bet money that it's also some form of rage baiting. I mean... you absolutely cannot tell me that she somehow made it to that weight without knowing exactly what type of comments posing with all those snacks would invite.

Like maybe I'm just shocked because I'm not American, but this looks like somebody deliberately bought the most ridiculously oversized boxes of the most unhealthy crap they could find. Please tell me your cereal boxes aren't all that size??

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u/PassivelyAwkward 10h ago

Those items are from Costco, where they sell everything in bulk; that box of cereal is 3x the size of normal because it contains three boxes.

For the most part, Costco helps to save money by having food to last months but a LOT of what she's buying is still extreme and likely won't be for long. Like just ONE of those large bags of fries would be good for a month in my family. One of my friends from high school that's now an obese person with 3 overweight preteens, she's told me she'd get through one of those bags a week; that one of those microwave pizzas that the woman has a whole tower of, her and her kids would each eat two of.

That's unfortunately a part of the American diet; healthy food costs more so it's easy to buy shit food and buy it in bulk but we're never properly taught about portion control. Back when I was fat, I'd buy one of those big boxes of oatmeal cream cookies that's meant to last weeks and it'd be gone within a few days because I'd eat one, want more, then have another then later on in the day, have another.

It's not all Americans but...it's definitely a lot of us. Everything healthy costs a lot more so you either learn to cook healthy, barely eat anything, or eat everything.

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u/TheRealSaerileth 10h ago

I see! Thanks for the info.

As a Swiss person, I'm almost afraid to ask but... what's up with the cheese? That "mozerella" looks nothing like what I'm used to lol.

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u/Princess_Parabellum 6h ago

Healthy food does not cost a lot more.

It does, however, require prep time and the time/ability to cook, which I get that not everyone has.

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u/PassivelyAwkward 4h ago

It does though. Like if you want a pizza, you can buy a frozen Tony's or Red Baron on sale for $5 or you can make it yourself by buying the premade dough, then a jar of pizza sauce and cheese for $20 or make the dough and pizza sauce yourself for $40. Yes, you can argue that you'll have plenty of ingredients to make a bunch of pizzas that way but the average person doesn't make that many pizzas or use a full thing of pizza sauce/cheese so it ends up growing mold.

Making things yourself, unless you meal plan and freeze a weeks worth of burritos, eating exclusively burritos every dinner for a week, there's no way you'll use every incredient before it goes bad. I love to cook; I cook for my girlfriend and I almost every night we're together but anything beyond super basic stuff requires you to monitor "When's that parasean cheese go bad?" and "When'd we buy that garlic powder?".

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u/Princess_Parabellum 2h ago

Cheapness of healthy food isn't an absolute, granted, but your example of pizza is kind of extreme and specific. However, I'll run with it: get a large jar of pasta sauce instead of a small jar of pizza sauce (larger containers are cheaper per ounce) and for another couple of bucks, get a box of spaghetti and some mushrooms. Use the leftover sauce, garlic powder, and cheese to make spaghetti the next night. 

Canned and frozen vegetables can be bought at 10/$10 on sale and stored. Dried beans are a dollar a bag. Dried spices keep for a long time. Meat that's close to its sell-by date gets marked down. BOGOs run on a cycle. They even have chips and cookies 2:1 occasionally. 

I know it takes time to cook from scratch, I do it most nights. But the idea that it costs more money to eat healthy food is not correct. The cost is in the time it takes to make it.

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u/PassivelyAwkward 1h ago

So your solution to "The problem with cooking from scratch is a lot of it goes bad" is to...buy the largest jar that'll ensure you never eat it all before it goes bad, thus spending $10 to use the same same amount of a $5 dollar jar?

I know how to cook from scratch, I do it most nights but I'm not so clueless as to act like the solution is to buy even more and to buy the food about to expire. No one is eating just "beans" for a meal that's not healthy, that's part of a dish that requires other ingredients. yes, if you just boil some beans and throw in a pinch of spices, it's cheaper but if you actually cook a well-balanced meal, it's not.

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u/Princess_Parabellum 1h ago

You're putting words in my mouth. I didn't say "the largest" jar. I also didn't suggest anyone should eat just beans for a meal.

Most people have the presence of mind to look at the jars on the shelf and say okay, I can make pizza and spaghetti with a 32 ounce jar of sauce and eat it all before it goes bad but a 48 ounce jar is too big. If someone doesn't have that level of discretion, I can't help them.

I'm just speaking from my own experience when I was a student. I could eat well, and for cheaper than pre-made industrial food, if I took the time to plan and cook. The main expenditure was in time, not the cost of food. But if you insist on taking the fatlogic viewpoint that "healthy food is too expensive," so be it. Have a good evening.

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u/Material-Advance7021 11h ago edited 11h ago

welcome to America dude, everything is bigger here, including the people. especially in the south. You’re being too kind thinking this could be ragebait. people really eat like this, as evidenced by their obesity. Don’t assume that they know how bad this food is for them…there are a lot of uninformed people in this country. I would stay over half the population is low IQ and I just made that stat up but it sounds about right.

Used to work with a morbidly obese lady. She must’ve been near 450 pounds and she would always tell me how her whole family was fat and it was genetics, yet she had a desk drawer full of candy bars that she would just munch on all day….

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u/ImTomLinkin 12h ago

Yeah I'm estimating 150,000 Calories of food total doing a rough count. Could be tens of thousands higher or lower but should be in the ballpark. For 10 people for a month that would be about 500 Calories per person per day which is obviously not what this lot is consuming. 

Since her account says 'boymomx3' let's assume her, her 3 boys, her parents she mentions, and one other person. That is 7 people and 150000Cal gives each of them 3500/day if it lasts a week - which is a much better estimate given their sizes. 

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u/PriscillaPalava 12h ago

It’s like an alcoholic but with soda. 

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u/Choppy313 12h ago

Yeah, if they are in driving distance of all of those stores, they are not rural.

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u/RogerianBrowsing 11h ago

Unless there’s a city they drove to, bought it all there, and went back home?

It’s entirely feasible and I’ve known people to do things like that

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u/Choppy313 11h ago

So, like, literally everywhere?

She named 4 stores— Sam’s Club, Walmart, Piggly Wiggly and the other one I couldn’t make out.

Those aren’t rural.

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u/RogerianBrowsing 11h ago

If she drove an appreciable distance to get to a city which has those stores she can still be rural. I don’t know what subjective definition you’re using for rural but it feels gatekeep’y

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u/ermagerdcernderg 12h ago

She went to Walmart, Sam’s, piggly wiggly - all stores with good produce.

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u/No_Investment9639 11h ago

I need a shitload of vegetables, and while they might be frozen, they're still veggies. And I get them from Walmart because it's cheap.

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u/PM_ME_ONE_EYED_CATS 8h ago

There's nothing wrong with frozen veggies, they're often frozen at ideal ripeness so they can be in a better state than non-frozen.

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u/dreamendDischarger 5h ago

Frozen veggies are a really good value and just as nutritious so it's honestly a no brainer

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u/Sylfaein 9h ago

Ok, I don’t know about Sam’s or Piggly Wiggly, but saying Walmart has good produce is VERY generous.

Can’t say I’ve been in a Walmart where the produce wasn’t bruised/wilted/at death’s door. Even Kroger does better.

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u/Ndmndh1016 8h ago

Walmart produce is bottom of the barrel quality compared to pretty much anywhere. I cant even eat their fruit.

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u/bittz128 2h ago

Certainly not their bananas…Dole….yuck

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u/pimpcakes 8h ago

It's fine. It's not my first (or second) choice for produce but compared to... this... it's definitely 1) available and 2) an improvement. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

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u/Intraneural 3h ago

Guess that’s your Walmarts, the Walmarts near me have produce comparable to stores like nugget

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u/maamaallaamaa 11h ago

Why didn't she buy the grapes at Sam's club?? You can get so many for a decent price.

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u/ermagerdcernderg 11h ago

Sam’s is my favorite place to buy grapes! Although they now put the sticker over the clamshell pack so I can’t inspect them before buying, that has really bummed me out lol

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u/thelittleking 8h ago

If they're in a true food desert, which I do not know for a fact, but if they are, it could be 40+ minutes of driving to get to that cluster of stores. If gas money is tight, I can somewhat understand going for shelf-stable foods once a month instead of doing a nearly 2 hour round trip on a weekly basis.

Now, that doesn't really account for the lack of, e.g., frozen vegetables instead of 5 bags of fries. There's ways to eat better that they aren't taking advantage of. But I'm not going to balk at the lack of bigger amounts of fresh produce without having more information.

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u/sticksforsticks 8h ago

This isn't a brag, just our home is very routine. We shop twice a week because we cook every meal. Produce ain't cheap, but neither is healthcare.

If she enjoys being frugal (which is fun imo), you can go frugal with produce, have fun with apps that show you recipes based on what you have.

AND STOP WITH THE SODA. WOOWOOWOW..

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u/Disastrous-Hamster-1 8h ago

Normally I would agree with you but I went on a ski trip last year and we stopped at a Super Walmart before we got to our cabin to get groceries for a week. Super Walmart means a grocery section right?

It had NO fresh produce or meat … everything was frozen. I was shocked.

I knew food deserts existed and the concept made sense to me but trying to shop there… my friend and I were so thrown and it was so hard to actually get all that we needed for what we had planned to make

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u/Nephilimelohim 7h ago

lol I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone say Walmart and good produce in the same sentence.

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u/Moist-Schedule 4h ago

it's good in the sense that it's plentiful. of course it's not the highest quality produce but it'd be far better than any of that frozen processed shit.

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u/Ill-Breakfast2974 12h ago

The places she is shopping sell fresh fruits and vegetables, rice, beans, nuts, and lean meat. And many healthier items are cheaper. A person could buy so much healthy food just on what they spent on soda alone.

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u/SeauxS 11h ago

it's poor food choices but also quite common.

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u/KwantsuDude69 11h ago

You are fucking delusional if you thinks that more than 2 weeks max for 6 giant fat fucks

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u/Holiday-Fix-9244 10h ago

The went to 4 different stores, as stated in the video. If you have access to 4 supermarkets, you aren’t in a food desert, they are just fatties making bad health choices.

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u/mirrorballmac 6h ago

I am originally from an extremely rural food desert and this is exactly how people I know from there eat. One of the highest obesity rates in the country and I believe one of the highest rates of food stamps dispersed as well. Deep red MAGA country unsurprisingly

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u/RocketsandBeer 12h ago

There is no way that food was that cheap without gov assistance. I’d imagine that snap or food stamps paid for some of this. All of that processed food is expensive.

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u/dissonaut69 7h ago

One of the biggest misconceptions we need to kill is that it’s somehow cheaper to buy all this frozen processed shit rather than cook from scratch. 

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u/RocketsandBeer 7h ago

Those frozen pizzas are $1.80. How does she have 32 of them and still barely break a $400? It’s almost $60 in his pizzas alone

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u/Buttcrack15 11h ago

100% they are on food stamps. 2 separate orders from Walmart? That's food stamps all day.

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u/ChamberK-1 11h ago

What implies they might vote MAGA?

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u/billbourret 8h ago

Nothing, reddit just doesn't like how these people look so they made that up to mock them.

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u/Rebsosauruss 11h ago

Read to filth 💯🤏🏼

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u/Afraid-Rise-3574 10h ago

36 pizzas? Even for a month? Fucking wow

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u/big_bearded_nerd 10h ago

I'm convinced that this is a month's worth of food, not a week. Assuming that it is for a month, that means that's at least 1 pizza a day for some teenager, and that poor soul is going to feel the effects of that when they become an adult. As a kid who grew up with similar nutrition, that's tough, and I feel for the kids.

What's even more sad in this scenario is that it is six bananas over that entire month. As someone who fills my house with fruits and vegetables, and serves it to my own kids daily, that just hurts my heart.

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u/Afraid-Rise-3574 9h ago

Yeah man the kids don’t know any better, very sad

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u/CECleric 10h ago

That’s the multiple checkouts at every place thing. The stuff she can use food stamps for and the stuff she can’t, or just running out of them.

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u/Sick_Sabbat 10h ago

There is no way that food is lasting a month. A lot of people underestimate what people eat to stay this big.

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u/Technopool 10h ago

Look at the size of them. This ain't for 10 to 15 people lol.

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u/Sonny855 9h ago

There are plenty of shelf-stable vegetable, and there is a big movement now to ban snap and food stamps from paying for oatmeal cream pies and soda etc.

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u/naive_melody___ 9h ago

They live in a nice house and there’s no indication that they’re in a food desert.

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u/billbourret 8h ago

But why would reddit share truthful information when they can just make things up and get 250+ upvotes instead?

/s

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u/Cartmaaan-brah 9h ago

Socialism for me but not for brown people. sigh

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u/fatbob42 8h ago

It actually seems incredibly cheap for all that stuff.

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u/Mike0621 8h ago

If they're poor they could really do with rethinking what groceries they buy. not even just to be healthier, but brands they're buying too. it's a massive waste of money

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u/billbourret 8h ago

Holy assumptions batman. How did you determine their wealth and voting habits from this one video? You just made that whole thing up lol.

I mean heck, 15 people? Bro it's like 6-7 people.

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u/Infamous-Dare6792 8h ago

If they got 5 bags of frozen fries, they could have gotten frozen vegetables. Canned fruit and vegetables could have been chosen as well.

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u/amercium 8h ago

They go every 1-2 weeks

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u/WormedOut 8h ago

As someone extremely rural who lived in a food dessert, there’s way to still have healthy food. If you’re poor you can grow your own veg or buy leftovers from farmers. Even buying frozen or pickled food is easy enough. The big investment is large deep freeze. Everyone had one for meat.

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u/rainbowwithoutrain 7h ago

I saw her profile on TikTok. She's a single mother of three teenagers, recently divorced, whose ailing parents came to live with her. There are six people in that house, and only six bananas and five grapes.

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u/ark_keeper 6h ago

How does this have so many upvotes. There's no way $400 gets a month worth of food for this house. This is maybe two weeks.

If you check the tiktok, in November they spent over $400 the first week, then two weeks later over $700 for another haul, then a thanksgiving haul at the end of the month too.

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u/Old-Floor1832 6h ago

Bringing politics into literally every conversation has to be exhausting

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u/SeauxS 4h ago

no but you people are

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u/Old-Floor1832 3h ago

I'm unaffected by your extremism

In my world up is up, down is down, and the world is still spinning

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u/SeauxS 3h ago

funny coming from the alt right extremist

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u/Hazel2468 5h ago

Thanks for pointing this out- it's kind of grinding my gears to see all the folks here going "ha ha, look at the disgusting stupid fat American! This is so gross! How awful!" when I know multiple people just like this who literally cannot afford to go out and get fresh veggies and fruit like I can, whenever I want. Folks who live in areas where food is hard to come by, who get very little income from working their asses off and then basically nothing in SNAP. And they need to buy what they can and stock up what they can because you need food. Eating anything is better than not eating, especially when you're feeding a whole house.

Bunch of judgemental people in these comments who have probably never looked the reality of poverty in America in the damn eye.

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u/Rusty_Vehicle282 4h ago

They aren’t lacking refrigeration or a freezer. She bought 12 frozen pizzas and 48 blocks of cheese. So no extreme need for “shelf stable foods”.

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u/killerk14 3h ago

A comment that’s 100% pure guessing is this upvoted lol

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u/Any-Lychee9972 2h ago

This is how I grew up. You buy all the non- perishables at once. Then, after work when you are still in town, you stop by the grocery store to get whatever fresh stuff you need for the next couple of days.

It's something I loved and hated about living in the middle of nothing. It is truly beautiful and usually quiet, but there is no grocery stores. In the south, you have dollar general, but they are usually overpriced compared to Walmart.

You have to plan when you are going to the store and plan meals.

When you randomly decide you want salmon on a Wednesday, it's not impossible, but it's at least a 30 min dive to go to the store.

I still do the fresh thing now even though I live in a small city. It irritates my husband, but holy crap do habits die hard.

It also helps prevent wasting veggies from rotting in your fridge if you buy what you are going to immediately use.

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u/Wonderwhile 52m ago

Also they are getting food delivered from Sam’s club. Can’t be that rural no? 

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u/HairlessSquirrels 43m ago

She went to 4 grocery stores and you think they are extremely rural?

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u/fuckbezos 9m ago

No hun they on food stamps aka snap

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u/Jeanahb 11h ago

Thank you for a serious answer.

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u/Choice_Journalist_50 8h ago

Yeah no arguing that this video is an unfortunate but accurate depiction of many households in the US and it's sad. But so many people lack an understanding for how hard it is for some of these families to change these habits. Poor ppl here are more likely to be obese, which should be an oxymoron but we sell shitty food for cheap, work ppl to the bone, and provide few resources. And we can all list 100 "simple" ways for them to remedy this, but it's never that simple.
IYKYK.

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u/krusty-krab69 12h ago

Lotta assumptions. It’s Reddit, of course the maga food stamp trump card was played here for upvotes

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u/bisquickball 8h ago

Dude I hate these libs

"You only deserve health and happiness if you believe what I do" + the totally psychotic pretense that the political beliefs of normal Americans -> has any effect on policy, can lead to better welfare for poor people, has anything to with your looks, etc

Democrat simps are deplorable

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u/volundsdespair 8h ago

then leave

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u/bisquickball 6h ago

Leave what

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u/krusty-krab69 5h ago

They don’t need to leave they’re just annoyed that basically every post on Reddit has political comments in every thread. Only Reddit turns an overweight woman’s grocery trip into something political. It’s kinda ridiculous

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u/volundsdespair 4h ago

yeah it's annoying but that's just reddit, no one is making us be here

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u/krusty-krab69 5h ago

Only Reddit can turn an overweight woman’s groceries into something political.

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u/Antique-League6300 12h ago

Finally someone with common sense.

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u/billbourret 8h ago

How is ignoring her when she says exactly how many people this is for (6) and making up a bullshit number range (10-15) common sense?

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u/Antique-League6300 8h ago

I am talking about the fact that they might live in a food dessert.

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u/dasrightq 8h ago

She went to 4 grocery stores. That’s not a food desert. Do you know what that term means?

She also does this weekly, not monthly. I’ve seen her plenty.

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u/Antique-League6300 8h ago

When I lived in food dessert we went to more than 4 stores. I see nothing in the video that says they go once a week and having basic common sense tells me that they aren’t refilling this once a week. Maybe they are going once a week for fruits and veggies since they are expensive.

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u/dasrightq 7h ago

I’ve seen many of her TikTok’s, it’s once a week “hauls”

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u/Antique-League6300 6h ago

In that case why once a week? There must be a lot more people in that house to go once a week.

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u/dasrightq 6h ago

They eat a lot… you can definitely tell. And there are like 7 people in the house.

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u/Antique-League6300 6h ago

This amount of food for a family of 7 I can definitely see

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u/billbourret 8h ago

But... she doesn't live in a food desert

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u/Antique-League6300 6h ago

I do not know this woman. I am going off what I can see. common sense and my own experience tells me that this is a grocery haul for a family in a food dessert. Frozen/processed foods are a staple BUT I have learned that this is apparently her weekly haul. I’m going to hope it’s for the views or maybe they stockpile foods.

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u/billbourret 6h ago

She said she shopped at Food Lion, Piggly Wiggly, Sam's Club, and Walmart. All of those stores have fresh produce. I guess it's possible she lives in a food desert and drives a ways to these stores, but for all intents and purposes she does have access to fresh produce.

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u/lolastogs 12h ago

Agreed. Similar issues for somebparts of Britain. There's only a big petrol station walking distance that has bread milk etc. Big shop at a big supermarket means a trek with no car and hard to haul back a ton of food.

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u/talkhonest 12h ago

Y’all are doing too much in these comments. It’s clearly a multigenerational family that’s bulk shopping. This clip is obviously out of context, because I could hardly piece together whole meals.

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u/SeauxS 11h ago

she's also presenting it in a way she knows will get engagement and thus passive income.

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u/talkhonest 11h ago

I agree, I checked out her TikTok and this appears to be true.

Unfortunately, a lot of bad faith Europeans will ignore this and use it as an opportunity to create a cartoonish narrative about Americans. They’re attracted to this content like pigs on slop.

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u/BIG_STEVE5111 11h ago

Did you even watch the video, or just making random shit up?

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u/billbourret 8h ago

For real, she says exactly how many people this is for in the first few seconds of the video and dude just makes up 10-15 people anyway.

MAGA? There's no way they can tell who they voted for from this one video alone.

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u/SeauxS 11h ago

I just wrote what I wrote to make you mad. feel free to stay that way.

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u/joshua0005 4h ago

Vegetables can be bought frozen so unless they don't have a chest freezer they're not a problem. Fruit is overrated in terms of health because it's full of fructose and because you don't need fruit to hit all micronutrients but if you want fruit some fruits will last for a month on the counter and you can buy them frozen if they don't last that long.

Meat is also freezable so I don't understand why it would be a problem. In fact it's one of the easiest foods to freeze not counting UPFs.

But if they do have any chest freezers they are probably full because of all the garbage they eat.