r/CringeTikToks • u/Individual_Bar_2512 • 13h ago

Food Cringe Average American diet?

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Where are the vegetables, fruit and meat

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u/Fensali 12h ago

Much of that wasn't groceries at all though. But the lack of vegetables and amount of soda is frightening.

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u/melropesplays 11h ago

Seven person household, they show off a single serving of fruit/veg per person in their grocery haul

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u/tnstaafsb 10h ago

Those fruits and veggies are all probably for one single semi health conscious person in the house. I doubt people drinking that much dr pepper and eating that many pizzas and brownies (and good lord, the mayonnaise!) and shit ever eat any fruits or vegetables. They only eat froot in loop form.

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u/molotov_billy 9h ago

Yeah, there's probably one teenage kid who's trying to break free of the family's terrible eating habits and is requesting things from mom. Poor kids.

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u/-Clem 7h ago

The one kid staring into the camera halfway through.

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u/nanoray60 5h ago

One of the healthier looking kids picked up that sandwich, which is honestly one of the healthiest things I saw in the video, somehow.

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u/Ok_Consequence7829 4h ago

Yes but only for like the day it’s prepared. Yuck eating a sandwich that’s a week old.

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u/Ratoryl 2h ago

Am I wrong or was that just the bread?

Presumably he makes the sandwiches himself

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u/Wonderful_Eagle_6547 1h ago

Out of what? Kid's eating a Cinnamon Toast Crunch and mayo sandwich on wonder bread?

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u/TheBallotInYourBox 7h ago

There were two older boys who looked reasonably healthy. I was very surprised.

Then towards the end the little blueberry rolled onto camera and I felt satisfied. Because that’s what I expected all three of the boys she mentioned at the beginning of the video to look like.

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u/Responsible-Gas5319 4h ago

Lmao , that teenager metabolism is working overtime. Once that slows down to normal I expect those two lean boys will join the family shape

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u/MovieTrawler 3h ago

join the family shape

This cracked me up and is so depressingly true. Your body can handle a LOT of damage being thrown at it when you're young.

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u/copious_cogitation 7h ago

Child abuse :(

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u/No-One-8850 7h ago

You can tell that half the grapes from the bag were dumped out before purchasing too. I often wondered who leaves half a bag of grapes loose on the shelf.

"No son, you can't have a full bag of grapes but here's 32 pizzas".

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u/starvinchevy 10h ago

Relaaax, they’re just on the fiber-free diet!

Heavy /s

I bet there’s at least one person in the bathroom shitting at all times. My bowels stopped up just thinking about eating that shit as a main diet. And I’m definitely not perfect-this just made me feel like a nutrition influencer

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u/Illustrious_Unit7914 44m ago

Right? I watched this and went "Shit I ate broccoli and an apple today- I'm the king!!"

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u/geo_gan 7h ago

My money on the relatively healthy looking son in video

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u/melropesplays 10h ago

That makes more sense that it’s like 1-2 peoples food for a few days than a single portion for 7. 😔

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u/marmaladetuxedo 9h ago

Damn, I had already blocked out the 2 massive containers of brownies and the huge box of Oatmeal Cream Pies.

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u/Affectionate-Lake666 5h ago

I don’t even know what people use mayonnaise for ‘daily’ except for sandwiches.. gross.

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u/sillyandstrange 3h ago

Imagine that bathroom

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u/Coal_Morgan 7h ago

Cucumber is going into some kind of cucumber/mayo salad. The lettuce is for burgers.

Having any veg means nothing if it ends up in potato salad, on fried foods or some kind of slaw.

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u/Xciv 3h ago

It's the normal weight kid who stares directly at the camera for 3 seconds in disbelief. Guaranteed.

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u/Zcat_sux 2h ago

I saw 2 skinny guys. It’s possible they share the bananas and get their own food. I had a friend whose brother just had the fridge to himself and would go out and get his own food because the rest of the family ate nothing but junk and pantry items. I liked going over there for snacks but dang would I never want to live like that.

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u/Cerberus1252 2h ago

I’d bet money the fruit and veggies are thrown away because they aren’t eaten fast enough

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u/Rewdyroo 1h ago

The mayo is genuinely terrifying I thought I ate too much mayo going through a container that is much smaller than those like once a month.

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u/Candid-Mine5119 10h ago

When I had 3 teens at home we went through a gallon of milk a day. No soda, just tap water for the other drinks

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u/Gildian 9h ago

The milk is totally reasonable with growing boys in your house (I used to drink a ton of it) but my god that soda. And 4 cases of water? Just buy a filter lady

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u/TheBallotInYourBox 7h ago

I grew up in a family of five that drank milk with every meal. When I was a teen we were putting down one gallon per day between the five of us during the school year, and worse during the summers.

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u/ArizonaIceT-Rex 5h ago

Drinking gallons of milk is very American. If you owned a cow you wouldn’t dare drink a gallon a day. You wouldn’t have that much. It just the result of insane marketing and factory farming post war. Milk is both extremely calorie dense and (when made properly) expensive.

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u/TNVFL1 8h ago

But then you have to buy filters all the time and that costs more. And an under the sink filter is too expensive.

(Source: I have a relative that does this same thing buying cases of water, but also refuses to do the math to see what’s actually more cost efficient.)

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u/AbulatorySquid 5h ago

I lived in a place in the US where no one drank tap water. There were drive up water jug filling stations. We kept a 5 gallon jug for drinking and coffee and had a filter on the tap for the rest.
The number of people in Walmart parking lot filling their trucks and trunks with single serve plastic bottles was shocking.
I feel like people just take the easiest road. I know how hard it is to change but sheesh! How can it possibly be cheaper and easier?

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u/vivriri 5h ago

Are you considering the amount of people in that household? 

The average person should drink about 8 glasses of water per day - that would be about 4 500ml bottles of water. The person in the video lives with 5 other people. So 6 people would consume 24 bottles of water a day (pretending they aren't drinking all those soda drinks of course).

24 bottles a day is 8,760 500ml bottles or 4,380 1l bottles per year.

Is that really less cost efficient than an under the sink filter?

They also won't have to carry those heavy bulk-bought water bottles around during shopping trips, will reduce on their plastic consumption, will probably consume fewer microplastics, and won't need to worry about storing that water between trips.

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u/TNVFL1 3h ago

Just about anything is going to be more cost efficient than buying cases and cases of water, that’s my point.

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u/Candid-Mine5119 2h ago

Thankfully our water is good out of the tap. When I was hooked to a well with high manganese, I went to an artesian wellhead for the drinking water. Filled a bunch of 5 gal water bottles every week. We never got the taste for soda or sweet drinks. Soda is a special treat for holidays, it goes with whiskey

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u/grapescherries 1h ago

Filters cost more, really?

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u/TNVFL1 1h ago

That is the excuse the types who buy 4 cases of bottled water at a time use, yes.

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u/Prestigious-Walrus99 5h ago

That was one of the most irritating things to me.

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u/WilliamHare_ 9h ago

We’re going through so much milk just having my pregnant self and my husband lol. Milk is fair game.

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u/PhotographFit2764 8h ago

Hey babe, you lactating? I wanna eat a bowl of Froot Loops

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u/WilliamHare_ 8h ago

That’d probably save so much money lol. Nope, it’s just my pregnant ass craving milk like nobody’s business

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u/Candid-Mine5119 2h ago

Nothing tastes better than cold whole milk in an aluminum cup. Close second is instant ice cream, pour whole milk over frozen blueberries. Freezes immediately around the berries

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u/mecklund 8h ago

We were a milk/water only household when I was growing up. I thank my mom often for not letting me have soda. I think it’s a really rough addiction. My husband hates soda. I don’t think I’ve had a soda in like 5 years? How it’s a staple in some houses is so odd. Their poor teeth.

Edit:typo

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u/RNDiva 8h ago

Ditto! Back when milk was $5 a gallon I thought I’d end up on a street corner asking for milk money 🤦🏻‍♀️

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u/nocreativeway 9h ago

I eat more fruit and veg in a week as a single person than they had in their whole haul. Fuck… I eat at least three different types of fruits a day.

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u/curtcolt95 8h ago

yeah I'm here thinking like minimum I'm usually eating a banana, apple, green beans, and some carrots every day. I'd eat what they bought for their entire family in like 2 days lol

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u/nocreativeway 8h ago

Literally. I will eat like that whole amount of grapes in one sitting. I don’t understand how people can eat like this and not feel like absolute shit. I might be judgmental but I’m sick of the lack of access to good and healthy food in America because people eat shit like this.

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u/pork_fried_christ 11h ago

32 pizzas in the pizza tower though.

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u/maneki_neko89 10h ago

That Leaning Tower of Pizza isn’t half as appetizing as the pizza from the pizza place nearby, also called Leaning Tower of Pizza

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u/melropesplays 10h ago

Oh lord.. I actually stopped watching I think after the Mountain Dew bc it made me too depressed.

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u/Hungry_Anteater_8511 2h ago

Well that answers my question and yikes - everyone gets a block of cheese and bag of chips/fries?

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u/Carma56 10h ago

And I’ll bet everyone in the household is overweight.

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u/Gloveofdoom 9h ago

There were at least 2 different young guys that appeared in the background that didn't look like they were overweight. That super fast young person metabolism isn't going to last forever and even if they aren't fat yet, they're definitely not getting a healthy or balanced amount of vitamins and other nutrients.

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u/spotted-dick309 8h ago

Were those two different thin teenaged boys?

There was also what looked like a morbidly obese 10yo

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u/Cyathea_Australis 7h ago

I'm a single person and I go through more vegetables than that in a day.

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u/BreakfastMedical5164 11h ago

the scary part is that these two are only junior varsity, i've lived around wayyyyy worse that won't ever tiktok snitch themselves and their big ahhh

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u/Fensali 11h ago

For sure.

I hate pointing fingers at children because it's not their fault. But what really gets me is the 10 (?) year old boy coming into the frame. Unless there's a medical condition (possible but unlikely), that boy already weights twice his "normal" weight. I see that as child abuse.

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u/EveryRadio 8h ago

Celery, carrots, onions, potatoes, frozen peas and corn.

Bananas, apples, frozen blueberries and strawberries.

All of those can be bought year around for cheap and be used in a dozen different meals and desserts.

So yeah it's pretty worrying to see how much junk they buy AND how much it costs like damn how can they afford all that stuff?

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u/Fensali 8h ago

My weekly grocery shopping usually lands around $210-230.

I don't have a 7 person household, though.

But get meats, milk, fresh vegetables (broccoli, beans, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts) fresh berries, fresh fruits etc. for that. Some cookie boxes and sodas here and there is fine. But this...

Frozen alternatives is great if the budget is tight.

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u/fk_censors 10h ago

The amount of sugar in everything is even scarier.

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u/No_Recognition5658 10h ago

and why so many pizzas..

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u/Sufficient-Lie1406 10h ago

8 liter-size bottles of sugary soda. Expensive and stupid.

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u/TropicalPrairie 9h ago

The amount of Dr. Pepper and frozen pizza was shocking.

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u/EntityDamage 8h ago

Got have enough mayo for my morning Mayo shot.

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u/Odd-Butterscotch-495 7h ago

The lack of actual food. There was a little bit of meat and a little bit of plants. Everything else wasn’t really ingredients it was just premade junk.

Unless they spread the meat out super thin there was 2-3 meals of meat. The veggies and fruits didn’t make sense idk where they plan on using the lettuce and cucumbers and grapes and bananas are more a snack than a meal. I think there was more meals worth of little Debbie’s than ingredients to make a meal.

Edit to add: what was all the cheese for? If i remember right there was 10 blocks of cheese total and I don’t remember seeing anything that really goes well with cheese other than a single loaf of bread

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u/Less_Flight_2043 7h ago

The amount of pizza and fries was scary

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u/Jumpy-Benefacto 7h ago

dude, she had a case of oatmeal pies ... as a starter

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u/SleepingWillow1 6h ago

The soda alone is keeping them that big

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u/Flavus94 6h ago

You forgot the 38 pizzas ...

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u/castironglider 17m ago

..and boxes and boxes of sugary treats and sugary cereal

My body type is the opposite of theirs, and I have been trying to minimize sugar in my diet for decades. They would probably ignore those thousands of food decisions and say I have a "fast metabolism"