What sort of shopper are you? 🍏🍕🌶🌮 This... - Healthy Eating
What sort of shopper are you? 🍏🍕🌶🌮 This is a multiple choice poll and please feel free to say what "other" is.
126 VotersPlease select all that apply:
Primarily fresh whole foods for me. No chemical and bad stuff filled processed foods. I want to be as healthy as possible for as long as possible.
In edit, I’m also very cost conscious. I purchase in bulk and freeze food when I can.
Hi Jerry, another good poll and thank you. I have chosen free range/organic/frozen non processed, vegetarian and other. I am also cost conscious, definitely not ready meals, as I have to keep an eye on the purse but if I didn't have to watch the money then I would buy everything organic and most of my food from farm shops as I would also be saving the planet by not having things wrapped in plastic. I buy organic where I can i.e. milk, oats, cacao powder, broccoli and eggs.
Thank you for this. 
I would have put cost conscious, but the question grouped it in with convenience foods, so I had to put other. I try to buy as healthily as I can on a limited budget. I avoid ready meals and suchlike.
Cost conscious waste reducing trying to be relatively healthy!
I try to eat non processed foods and as much fresh fruit and veg as I can.
Fresh & whole foods primarily, also have to be cost conscious, but never buy ready meals...seems very strange to put those two things in the same category to me. ☺
Anything gluten free and easy to do quickly.
Fresh veg/salads when I can and meat from our local traditional butcher, cant be doing with this vac-um packed rubbish with nothing inside
Pretty much depends on how lousy I feel and what's kicking around the bank account. Try to do organic with a couple of vegan days a week, but sometimes it's a ham and cheese sandwich, husband likes them. Have even ended up with hummus and pita chips. Pain really buggers things up.
Love fresh food, healthy fruit and veg. Organic meat and eggs.
I’m definitely cost conscious but I don’t buy ready meals. Only recently have I become more careful on what I buy, when my kids were small we survived on beans mainly as I was so knackered😆. I make just about everything I can. I have a family of four to feed but I save a fortune not buying loads of crisps, biscuits,juices etc. I will never get meat anywhere but a good butcher , so we eat it occasionally as opposed to everyday just because we can.
My Grandad was a Cattle/Dairy farmer/milkman taking the churns out by horse and Cart and refilling people’s churns on the doorstep, it’s been passed down to me to eat seasonally and choose well (not necessarily expensive).
My Grandad was a dairy farmer too Frostie2560 my dad was the young milkman delivering milk from churns by horse and cart, apparently he was quite a hit with the housewives and often ended his round with a stash of home baked goodies!
Fabulous!!. I wish I could ask my Grandad about those times, my Mum passed away 2O14 so I can’t ask her either. I did wonder if that’s how he met my Granny though, love by baked goods😊.x
A bit of a combination. We grow as much of our own food as we can. Then we try and buy fresh and local. Refuse to buy meat in a supermarket, always go to a decent butchers, fish mongers etc. But for some things supermarkets band price have to take priority.
other = exotic food shops (when I can get to them)
We are Keto, like ClareCrip did grow our own for a while then expansion caused the deer moving in. I became Mother Nature Nature feeding them but even with fenced plantings they got in. Now buy from local markets in the summer or Whole foods during other months. All meat(beef & lamb) are free range and grass fed along with poultry and eggs. Seafood is only from the best seafood monger and coming from the Great Northwest or Shores of the south for Shrimp, Cape Cod is Mussles. We watch for sales on products and stock up the freezer. Will experiment with different cuts of meats to meet our standards.
I buy a mixture. Plenty of fresh salad/fruit/veg. A lot of quorn though which is quite a processed food but very useful as it makes meals that all four of us like (1 vegetarian, 1 pescatarian, 2 meat eaters). I tend to buy the pieces and mince and make meals with other fresh ingredients so it balances out a bit! Fresh fish. I don't cook meat, if sons 1 and 3 want it they cook for themselves. Most of what I buy has animal welfare in mind, all toiletries and cleaning products are brands or supermarket own brands that aren't tested on animals.
It is great see where the lead is. We even get our whole, organically produced, unprocessed milk direct from the farm; sometimes it is still warm from the cow if I arrive just after milking. The taste is totally different.
Even though I am cost conscious, I do not buy ready meals as they tend to be full of salt and also are very small and I am greedy! I much prefer making meals from scratch. I would say that my motto is "everything in moderation" but there are certain things that I will not eat/drink even in moderation, such as anything with artificial sweeteners in. We always have "normal" dairy as opposed to low fat too. There are two veggies and two omnivores in the house so our shopping basket is varied to say the least!
Other: Choosing fresh food with as little plastic packaging as possible. We grow almost all our veg & some fruit, so it's all organic, and eat seasonally. Meat from local butcher.
I buy from supermarkets. Fresh fruit and veg. Not much processed food. Cannot afford to go to to farm shops every week. Now and again for a treat.
I have clicked on all the replies except for Vegetarian and Vegan and Other. I do have some meals that are 'vegetarian' and occasionally it might also be described as 'vegan' - in terms of the content of the meal, but I am an omnivore basically, hence I didn't use the terms to describe 'myself'.
I shop in various ways at different times - trying to make the best choices I can at the time, and with what is available. I think I am 'cost conscious' and adapt as a result of that as well - looking for bargains whenever I can.
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