AWOF - Grocery Store and Habitual Food Assignment

Here is a list of stores my family buys their groceries: BJs, Costco, Food Emporium, Whole Foods, Trader Joe's and East-West (an Asian food market in New Jersey). My parents usually buy a lot of fruit from BJs and Costco just because it is the same price for three times the amount of fruit compared to the fruit food emporium has. MY parents would buy their vegetables in East-West where the mostly use the vegetables in our home cooked meals of Filipino food. Rarely do we eat salad--at least i don't--but if salad were eaten, its usually store bought where the people make the salad for us. We buy rice and nuts at East-West every two weeks. At times we would buy white rice, other times brown rice. With nuts, my parents will usually buy dried peanuts. Sometimes we cook the peanuts where its moist--but its been a while since we've done that.

[my own] typical week, I would not eat breakfast, though i do snack during the day on either a granola bar or fruit. If i do not snack then i will not eat during the day. I will have to wait til lunch time--during a school day--to eat. When I am at home, my go to meal is a sandwich. It does not really matter what kind of sandwich, sometimes it is a jelly sandwich or turkey sandwich. And I will always have fruit once a day. Other times I will eat Filipino food--Filipino bread called 'pan de sal' or what ever my mom makes. Sometimes I refuse to eat some of the food she makes because it has some ingredients that i do not like, like salmon or ginger, onion. If that were the case, i just do not eat at all.

I feel that the food i eat on a typical week differs from the rest of my family--mom, dad & sister-- because they are not picky eaters like me. Yesterday's class work actually surprised me when I happened to be the only student that had the least amount of fruits, vegetables and grains & nuts eaten per week. It honestly inspired me to eat more varieties of foods, however i do not know how I could/would manage to eat so much food, as Andy mentioned in class. Though i had only seven kinds of food on my list, which include: Strawberries, string beans, pine apple, bananas, wheat, rice, lettuce, I do not think I am an unhealthy person. I just think i that my options are just limited because i am very picky with food.

When the class and I observed two different grocery stores, one being Trader Joes and the other being Associated, both stores were laid out somewhat similar than expected. In Trader Joes--which happens to be very cheap for some of its products, had bananas that were 19 cents each, while in most grocery stores like Associated has bananas more than 19 cents per banana. Usually grocery stores charge by the pound, rarely do they charge the fruit/vegetables individual price of just one fruit or vegetable. Both stores had a similar lay out where all of the fruits and veggies were displayed as you walked into the store while most of the frozen foods were stocked into freezers in the middle of the store or way into the back of the store. I think the display alone urges me to buy fruits and vegetables when walking into a supermarket.