Welcome to my family's week of groceries challenge! Above, you will find all the things we typically we have for a week in our house, and as well as where we ate out that week.
In the photo, I decided to represent my family with the number of chairs. I have 6 members in my family, my parents, 2 sisters, a brother and myself. While I took this picture, my mom had actually just left for the Philippines and was going to be gone for 2 weeks. If you can tell, there really wasn't much produce that I brought out from the fridge onto the table. I didn't bring much out because we hadn't gotten the chance go grocery shopping, and since my family is big on fruits and produce, they were all gone and eaten before this photo was taken! But, we do still have bananas, strawberries, lettuce and other kinds of things in our photo.
I have a very busy family, and out of the 7 days in a week, we are usually only home for 3 of those days. It's rare that we ever sit down in our home for dinner. The only time we will all eat together is when we go out to eat for lunch after church, or for dinner. My family really loves to buy snacks, like the Special K crisps you see in the picture, things that make up a salad (fruits, lettuce, chicken), juice boxes and things for sandwiches. I know that as a family, we like to do this because it's efficient and easy for our very busy lives. My mom doesn't have to spend lots of time on making our lunches, but they are still healthy and delicious!
I love having sandwiches and salads for lunch because it's so healthy and delicious and easy to make. It's not stressful to make, it doesn't take a chunk of time out of my days, and lets me lead a quick, efficient, easy-going life style. I choose to have very easy things to eat for lunches and breakfast because like I said, it doesn't take up much time, it's still healthy, and its quick and easy.
In Canada, our portions of food are a little smaller than portions of food compared to a country like America. Our prices here in Canada are also a little more expensive than American prices at the grocery store. I've been to the states before, and my family has taken countless trips to the grocery stores there. I know for a fact that in America, they have jugs of juice that are larger than our juice boxes, and cost less. My mom always says that if we lived in America, she wouldn't mind spending so much money on our food because we would be getting a good quantity of food for the amount we're paying. While in Canada, she's realized that we get smaller amounts, and have to pay more with taxes. We would have more opportunities for locally grown fresh produce. In Calgary, because of the weather we are limited to what we can grow and when we can grow it. If we lived in California, we would be able to get watermelons year round, whereas living in Canada, we only get them during the summer time.
If I lived in a different country that had less resources to fresh locally grown produce (i.e. Antarctica) I would probably not like vegetables, or fruits as much as I do now because I wouldn't be used to eating them.
I hope you enjoyed my post about my families week of groceries challenge and stay tuned for my other posts!
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