How do you food shop?

I keep a running list of things we have finished and DH does the shopping once a week usually at Aldi. He has taken over this chore and is getting quite good at it (after a few disasters.) The main problem is when he helpfully adds something to the list that he also bought last time (we have a lot of pickled onions!) because he thinks I forgot. He really enjoys spotting a bargain and has more patience for this job than I do. (Also it gives me a couple of hours of "alone" time - you can have too much togetherness after retirement.)

Yes, butter is much better than spreads, and yogurt should be made from whole milk. When fats became the demon about 20 years ago, masses more sugar was added to processed foods. Even bread has far more sugar and salt than you'd use if baking it at home.
I avoid anything listing more than very basic ingredients.

Butter is better than hydrogenated, coloured gunk which they try to sell us as 'healthy spreads'. According to this week's findings we should be dipping our bread into olive oil.

DS always enjoyed a bacon and egg breakfast when he came in from his paper round before he went to school. He was as thin as a rake. I was lucky to get a yogurt and banana into DD (equally skinny)!

We used to have delicious sticky buns with our morning milk at school. Trays of them freshly baked from the local baker's. Kept us going until our cooked lunch.

I shall rephrase my thoughts about butter kittylester and janeainsworth

Butter that you can see your teeth marks in is absolutely delicious but the health food police may not approve.

Children have packed lunch this week as they are all on late (1pm) school lunch which is far too late in my opinion given that they had their (very healthy and fulfilling) breakfast at 7am this morning. What a carry on. Two like tomato, one doesn't, all like ham (not that thin stuff and not with orange yuk on the ends), one likes pear, two prefer oranges, one likes yogurt, one doesn't, one likes those little custard pots, two don't, all three like carrot sticks (yeah)

My DGC have weetabix or porridge for breakfast, with toast or bread spread with either jam, peanut butter or nutella.

My mother always sent us out with a bacon sandwich.

As for food shopping, I don't do it, DH does. (He works for the Co-op)

When my children were teenagers I used to put out three things.

A bowl of almonds for calcium and protein

A bowl of fruit

And either a rice pudding which has cooked verry slowly overnight or porridge.

It kept them going until lunchtime

You beat me to it Kitty
Good source of fat-soluble vitamins!

Whilst agreeing with most of your post gill, now I'm taking issue with butter not being healthy!

I believe Weetabix and Shredded Wheat are whole wheat cereals, made from unrefined wheat and therefore healthier than other cereals. I have one or other of them with All Bran, a very small amount of sweetener (stevia) and semi skimmed milk. Now the clocks have changed we are having more porridge, made from semi skimmed milk with sweetener and a few sultanas. I wouldn't eat cheerios, coco pops or frosties, even though I have just bought myself a Tony the tiger frosties onesie.

You asked "And what's really so marvellous about oats?", Jings, so I told you. It helps lower cholesterol

They are also filling and satisfying. You know you have had breakfast with a plate of porridge in you.

But is that what breakfast is about?

Do schoolkids need to lower their cholesterol?

I think oats are good for lowering cholesterol.

Or scrambled egg...(got it in my head now)

Tuna fish on toast makes a good breakfast for a child.

Or sausage sandwiches.

Shredded Wheat. Just wheat.

And what's really so marvellous about oats? Apart from the fact that they taste nice.

It used to be streaky bacon too.

I often wonder just how nutritional two Weetabix can be. They're just wheat. Same as wholemeal bread. No protein. No calcium.

Perhaps we should go back to the days of bacon, egg and tomato. Sigh!

Food is food. As long as children [and adults] are not eating too much fat/sugar etc it doesn't matter what form the food takes, so no such thing as 'junk food' . It wouldn't be great to eat burgers 3 times a day, but sensible eating includes all sorts of things and a few treats as well.

Oh dear not the breakfast police as well as the packed lunch police.

You did say porridge,toast and eggs were healthier apricot you also said that "breakfast cereals are junk food" (which they are not). What kind of eggs were you thinking of? Fried or boiled? Toast with butter and jam or just plain toasted bread? After all butter is not healthy.

For the record mine eat a combination(depending on how they feel) of ready brek, Rice Krispies, weetabix and cornflakes. Eldest granddaughter has developed a taste for a croissant and I hardly think one croissant per week will do her any harm whatsoever. Children as active as my DGC do need quite a decent breakfast as they use up heaps of energy and often have to wait 5-6 hours for school lunch.

I didn't say cereals were unhealthy, just that there are better foods. Most children don't eat the plain unsweetened cereals, they're eating the equivalent of chocolate bars for breakfast. Chocolate croissants must contain a huge amount of fat and sugar and no nutrients. Nice for a treat.

If it looks like snow then we will buy more things in for the pantry and freezer. Hopefully, we won't have any snow [wishful thinking.]

I love weetabix, talking of cereals.

My shopping is much like that detailed by Gillybob[including the choc croissants!]Little and often seems to result in less wastage, and I try to combine the food shopping with trips to the local towns to do/buy other things/appointments etc to save on petrol.