"That's why Americans are so fat."

Sounds like mom, except two or three times a year she gets a weird craving to go back to her roots for a night.

 

I'm still heavier than I want to be (goddamn beer, I can't quit you), but I tend to eat more on the appetizer side when I go out, because meals are just out of control. The difference between what you get here and what you get in Europe is startling. I enjoy the Euro portion sizes way more.

 

On the other side of the portion-size issue: As an empty nester, it’s very hard to find packages of fresh food, particularly vegetables, appropriate for two people at the grocery. Everything is “FAMILY SIZE!” And even the standard sizes are too much. We can’t get through a standard bunch of asparagus or container of baby spinach before it goes bad no matter how much of it we eat.

 

A word that surprisingly hasn’t been mentioned on this thread yet: Costco.

Want to buy six enormous, sugar and white flour-filled blueberry muffins? Sorry, you’re required to buy 12.

And don’t forget the 30-pack of toilet paper rolls … you’ll need those soon afterward.

 

I can't even find the normal 15.3 oz. box of cereal I eat. Every store only has the 23 oz. "FAMILY SIZE" version. Wonderful, except I eat between 1-2 ounces a day, and the stuff starts to go soft before I get to the end of a 23 oz. box.

 

Thanks for the cites and welcome!

You can't outrun a bad diet.

To an extent, @goalmouth is right about eating your ancestral diet. Some of those foodways are utter shite, though.

 

The sugar trade was politicized long before corn sweeteners appeared.

Sugar Act | Summary & Facts

 

For some reason, it amuses me that "That's why Americans are so fat" is right next to "The American Bathroom" in the new posts.

Because, you know, maybe we just don't crap enough.

 

My wife and I go through the same thing. We wind up throwing away much more than we should.
I am in the market for one of those vacuum sealer to put stuff in the freezer.

 

Have you forgotten 2020? Toilet paper is one of those things you can never have too much of in reserve.
During the pandemic rush I was buying it where I could and stockpiling it. I've maintained a doomsday supply of 30-50 rolls ever since. We still have a 24-pack of Charmin Ultrasoft that's two years old. It ain't going bad.

 

The one break I caught in pandemic shopping was that I had just ordered a case of Charmin off Amazon in Feb. 2020. Never had to scrounge for shit paper even at the worst of times.

 

Sanjay did a nice job with this.