In my house we have a variety of fruits, vegetables, and grains, and nuts that I eat in a typical week.
Fruits: Oranges, mangoes, blueberries, tomato, pepper, peaches, plums, pears, banana
Vegetables: Strawberries, lettuce, cucumber, broccoli, potato, corn, mushrooms
Grains/Roots/Nuts: Beans (black, red, white, lima), white rice, peanuts, macadamia, cashews, almonds, wheat rice, onions
Grocery stores tend to push foods that taste or look good to the consumer meaning food with sugars, salts, and fats, these are the general ingredients in products that people seem to like to eat. Or even fruit that looks most pleasing to the consumer. In the snacks aisle the chocolate chip cookies were at eye level for customers to see while the saltine crackers were at the bottom. And in the fruits and vegetable sections the fruits had to look shiny, colorful, and appealing.
As a child my parents raised me to eat and try a new foods for meals and snacks. Now, since I've had that experience with various foods the way I eat now I am not a very picky eater I have lots of foods that I like or am open to try if I haven't already. Other eating habits I have now that I've noticed is that I don't eat breakfast everyday, I don't think it is because of my habits as a child because when I was younger my parents made sure I would eat breakfast but now that I am responsible for my own breakfast and getting myself to school, I just get lazy and don't make the time to eat breakfast. But I always eat lunch and dinner sometimes with snacks in between because that is how I was raised.
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I agree with what your saying about supermarkets trying to put foods that more people would rather eat at eye level and then putting others on the bottom or some times even at the very top. I find it interesting that your not a picky eater because I am the complete opposite.
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