I once read that to avoid overeating and wasting food one should shop with a grocery list. I’m not sure how true it is but I did use a list every week when I did my grocery run. I’ve downloaded it and tabulated all the items to see just what I ate for a year*
Overall here are the items I bought, according to my list. I do still impulse purchase random items but I’m pretty good at recording it down.
Not bad, but not quite an accurate view of what I ended up eating. Most snacks I bought were for students and random challenge problem prizes so I didn’t end up eating it. I don’t trust myself to ration sweets so I just don’t buy them. I’ve never bought milk, cheese a few times and no juices or other soft drinks. My drink of choice tends to be soy or almond milk. It says I only bought 8% carbs but 1 bag of rice counts as one item on a list but comprises a large portion of my diet. 8% fruit sounds about right, I’m just not a big fruit eater, but when I do eat fruit, it tends to be a lot of citrus and apples.
Pro tip: eat before you shop so your stomach doesn’t make decisions for you.
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| I eat way more rice than anything else. |
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| More than 50% from plant sources yay! |
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| I’m quite proud of how many different types of veggies I regularly eat. |
Overall I’m actually quite proud of myself for my diet. It could definitely go worse and it’s surprising to see that I eat quite a variety of veggies. Ideally, I’d like to go up to 100% plant-based proteins and avoid eco-destructive meats like beef and pork all together.
For my process, I just sent the list on my phone to my email and copy pasted everything into excel and sorted each item. Boring but effective.
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| You can spy on my diet for fun. |
*Technically I kept the list for 2 years but I didn’t use it as religiously until my second year.