Do you follow the 5-4-3-2-1 grocery rule?

[Anonymous]

I feel like this guidance is meant to keep waste low. I'm certainly a person that thinks I'm a different person than who prepares food every week. I LOVE to cook, but to make food to just get grub in gullets is sometimes soul-crushing. I just bought the book by Will Coleman and it's a similar approach - discusses how to resuse purchased ingredients.

I also bought a book called 'Cook Once, Eat Twice'. I hate how much we waste in groceries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here was someone else's sample list:
Vegetables
Carrots
Sweet potatoes
Cucumber
Tomatoes
Spaghetti squash

Fruits
Apples
Avocados
Strawberries
Frozen mango

Proteins
Ground turkey
Chicken sausage
Eggs

Sauces or Spreads
Pasta sauce
Hummus

Grain
Quinoa

Special Treat
Oreos

Ok - but a lot of that stuff you can buy in different quantities. It’s better to eat a variety of food, so why limit yourself to eating such limited foods.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here was someone else's sample list:
Vegetables
Carrots
Sweet potatoes
Cucumber
Tomatoes
Spaghetti squash

Fruits
Apples
Avocados
Strawberries
Frozen mango

Proteins
Ground turkey
Chicken sausage
Eggs

Sauces or Spreads
Pasta sauce
Hummus

Grain
Quinoa

Special Treat
Oreos

Ok - but a lot of that stuff you can buy in different quantities. It’s better to eat a variety of food, so why limit yourself to eating such limited foods.

Did you read ? It's a sample of what someone bought one week. It doesn't mean these are the same foods to each all the time. Go wild and buy wild rice one week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We eat in every lunch/dinner the following. So we follow the rule of 9. 9 items to eat.
- whole plant based starch - barley, millets, chickpeas etc or multi-grain flour, or multigrain rice.
- Legumes, lentils or beans
- Spices and herbs. Usually base of all curries are made of onions, tomatos, ginger, garlic, cilantro, green chillies, yogurt, chickpea flour, coconut milk, curry leaves, dried chillies.
- Around 2-3 vegetables (excluding the onion, tomatoes used in base) - green leaves and cruciferous
- A raw veggi side - beets, carrots, radish, tomatos, onions, lemon juice.
- Small amount of animal protein like chicken, eggs, fish, lamb.
- A chutney made up of cilantro, mint, coconut, lemon juice, green chilli, salt.
- Yogurt based dish to get probiotics.
- Fruit and nuts in icecream.

You eat raw beets?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We eat in every lunch/dinner the following. So we follow the rule of 9. 9 items to eat.
- whole plant based starch - barley, millets, chickpeas etc or multi-grain flour, or multigrain rice.
- Legumes, lentils or beans
- Spices and herbs. Usually base of all curries are made of onions, tomatos, ginger, garlic, cilantro, green chillies, yogurt, chickpea flour, coconut milk, curry leaves, dried chillies.
- Around 2-3 vegetables (excluding the onion, tomatoes used in base) - green leaves and cruciferous
- A raw veggi side - beets, carrots, radish, tomatos, onions, lemon juice.
- Small amount of animal protein like chicken, eggs, fish, lamb.
- A chutney made up of cilantro, mint, coconut, lemon juice, green chilli, salt.
- Yogurt based dish to get probiotics.
- Fruit and nuts in icecream.

You eat raw beets?

And onions? You must smell lovely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow this really helps me op I appreciate it! How do you scale it though, is that per person per week? How does it split into meals ie two veggie meals per week ? I’ve got three growing boys and a carnivore husband so I struggle with meal planning. We do eat a lot of beans does that fall into starches?

I assume you would scale. Say you buy 15 pounds of meat, you should buy 25 pounds of veggies. If you buy 6 pounds of meat, 10 pounds of veggies.

But the whole thing seems silly to me. It's like you're buying the food for one week and expect to consume it all that week. That's not how I shop. I buy certain essentials: for me that means 1 gal milk, 1-2 onions (I don't buy bags ever since a fruit fly adventure, so I weill buy one onion no matter what), fresh fruit for the week, veggies (I buy 5 lb carrots at a time, which lasts awhile, so that's part of the veggie stock). Anything else is determined by 1) what I am out of and use regularly enough I need to keep it around; 2) what's on sale and can be stored, so I stock up--that's where meat, fish, chicken, and cheese come in; 3) what I need for a special recipe or meal.

The rest is just meal planning.

PP beans are considered both protein and starch in terms of meals, although cornbread or fresh tortillas with chili just makes sense to me, and falafel and hummus go on pita, so there you are. Maybe the magic numbers should be adjusted for a vegetarian diet because that will focus on grains and legumes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We eat in every lunch/dinner the following. So we follow the rule of 9. 9 items to eat.
- whole plant based starch - barley, millets, chickpeas etc or multi-grain flour, or multigrain rice.
- Legumes, lentils or beans
- Spices and herbs. Usually base of all curries are made of onions, tomatos, ginger, garlic, cilantro, green chillies, yogurt, chickpea flour, coconut milk, curry leaves, dried chillies.
- Around 2-3 vegetables (excluding the onion, tomatoes used in base) - green leaves and cruciferous
- A raw veggi side - beets, carrots, radish, tomatos, onions, lemon juice.
- Small amount of animal protein like chicken, eggs, fish, lamb.
- A chutney made up of cilantro, mint, coconut, lemon juice, green chilli, salt.
- Yogurt based dish to get probiotics.
- Fruit and nuts in icecream.

You eat raw beets?

Don't restaurants call it beetroot tartare? (I don't know why they make a point of saying beetroot instead of beet; I know beet tops can be used for cooked greens, but most people think of the round red thing when you say beet). Or make salads with shaved or shredded raw beets? You can eat carrots raw.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This seems very gimmicky. I don’t want to have to tailor my meal planning to an arbitrary grocery list. I plan meals and then buy the necessary ingredients. Once in a while, if there’s a really good sale that I stumble onto in the grocery store, I may make a spur of the moment change to my menu plan.

+1. This seems like something that you would use if you don’t know how to cook a meal or shop for ingredients. Sometimes you just need to buy milk and eggs. Sometimes you just need cucumbers and tomatoes. I can’t imagine anyone shopping with this restrictive rubric.

Try it once. Just try buying the items you need for a week based on these numbers/person in your home who eats.

No thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can you explain how this rule works, please?

Purchase as 54321 states for each member of your home unless they have dietary restrictions adjust for whatever it is they need or don't. Homes with teens may need to increase in certain categories as a few posters said some of them can really eat but consult with pediatrician if unsure.

Do you follow 5-2-1-0?
It's the guideline for promoting healthy habits in children, focusing on nutrition, physical activity, and screen time.
5 or more servings of fruits & veggies/per day
2 hours or less of screen time
1 hour or more of physical activity
0 sugary drinks

Some may know 95210, the 9 being # of hours of sleep recommended for kids

Thanks.
(9)5210 I get.
I don't get the 54321 shopping thing.

[Anonymous]

Too much fruit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Never heard of this rule.

Because it's a new thing some is trying to sell.

Fetch will happen before this does.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Never heard of this rule.

Because it's a new thing some is trying to sell.

Fetch will happen before this does.

What is Fetch? Maybe I shouldn't ask.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Too much fruit.

In what? The grocery shopping rule?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do every time I go.

5- members of one family shopping together and blocking every aisle
4 - premiere chicken fingers witnessed being sampled at the hot foods buffet
3 - bum wheels on my cart
2 - people contemplating their navels in the cereal aisle
1 - coffee to get me through it

LOL

[Anonymous]

This rule and thread are perfect for when I have insomnia.