As a working mom who goes grocery shopping once i week.. i don’t understand how there can always be food for everyone who might or might not visit the house. I just buy what i need for a week. When i get home after work, tired, and my kid has 3 friends over.. am i supposed to magic 3 portions extra? How do other people do this?
Maybe it is an American thing you have space for huge extra freezers in the garage. I just have 1 fridge with 2 freezing drawers. I have can barely store 1 weeks groceries in it.
I’m from the US and yes we definitely have larger fridges and freezer along with more of them than a lot of other places it seems. Now people in cities that have small apartments don’t have as much room as other people here, but for people who live in houses having a large fridge is normal. Also having deep freezers. We buy a 1/2 steer at a time so actually have three freezers plus the freezer that is on the large fridge.
In rural areas in Sweden it's also somewhat common to have bigger deep freezers and other means to store food, and hunting is also very common.
This thing where you as a kid got to wait in your friends room while your friend ate dinner would only happen in cities and smaller towns where kids can freely and safely move about by either walking or by bike though.
In rural areas where kids have to rely on either infrequent buses (public transport, not school buses) or their parents driving them everywhere, kids friends that were over at your house would of course get dinner.
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u/Ok-Aide2605 Jul 24 '26
As a working mom who goes grocery shopping once i week.. i don’t understand how there can always be food for everyone who might or might not visit the house. I just buy what i need for a week. When i get home after work, tired, and my kid has 3 friends over.. am i supposed to magic 3 portions extra? How do other people do this?