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Originally Posted by margaretmattson
I may be wrong but I think the food is for one week? Looks pretty standard. Eggs, milk, bread, oats for breakfast. Tuna and peanut butter for lunch sandwiches with a piece of fruit. Meat and vegetables for dinner, plus a few snacks.
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It's not reasonable to assume it's for one week. I don't know of anyone who goes through 2 pounds of flour and a pound of butter in a weekly routine. I get a pound of flour and it lasts a couple of months. A pound of butter can last between a month and three months, depending on my mood to bake desserts.
Five POUNDS of bananas plus three pounds of apples? For one week? I'd be making banana bread with three of those five pounds of bananas; they'd be too mushy to eat by the time we got through the first two pounds.
A pound of peanutbutter for one week? That'll give you some hard-core constipation if a family of two went through that much in a single week.
Most of these pantry items are just that - pantry items. They're not intended to be consumed in one week. And if you're cooking up three POUNDS of boneless chicken breast AND a pound of ground meat (it hasn't been $5/pound even in Walmart since 2022 by the way), you're eating way too much meat.
And the only fresh greens is spinach? Where's the romaine lettuce, or field greens/spring mix? Who's gonna eat a whole POUND of fresh spinach? I mean - that's a LOT of spinach. The average salad bowl will only hold around 1 ounce of fresh spinach leaves. So that's 16 salads - by the time you get to the last 6, the spinach is slimy and you have to throw it away.