Grocery Encounters on SCD

Since following SCD, I do a lot of cooking to always be prepared for, at least, one week in advance.  Most of the food I have been eating is cooked, puréed, and more or less 'baby' food consistency.  Consequently, I make large quantities of food and I buy large quantities of food.  I'm starting to realize that this is a pretty irregular concept when I shop...So, here is a 'welcome to my world' with the very amusing encounters I have at the grocery store!

To help you picture it a bit better, understand that I usually buy tons of veggies and fruits at the grocery store, since most of our meats come from buying cows, pigs, and lambs from a local farmer (again, large quantities...we may or may not have just brought home a 'half' a cow which equaled 415 lbs!!).  When I go to pay, the kind cashier usually makes conversation with me...which usually entails amusing questions.  The following are the regular questions I receive. The blanks can be filled with whatever type of fruit/veggie.  The responses are usually what go on in my head (poor cashiers):

• So, you must really like _________?...Yes, I do...that's why I'm buying it!
• Are you going to eat all of that _______ ?...Yes, I will.  That's what it is for.
• What do you do with all of that _______ ?...Eat it, actually.

Today, I received a new one, that caught me off-guard:

• Do you make a lot of baby food with all of this zucchini?...Well, in fact, I do...

After three years on the diet, this is the first grocery encounter that produced this question!  All in all, the cashiers usually have the best questions.  On the flip-side I do often receive blank stares from employees when I ask specific questions about their product, such as:

• Was the fish/chicken frozen with a freezing solution? 

For whatever reason,  I don't usually receive questions about food choices from customers...but, poor, Captain America is usually left responding to questions that he has no idea about:

• What do you think of kabocha squash versus acorn?
• Isn't kale high in vitamin D? 

Then, of course, the older women usually encourage him for being so healthy!  Needless to say, shopping to heal my Ulcerative Colitis is always entertaining.  Considering, that all of these encounters play-out prior to even making the food, once I'm eating my food in public the questions multiply ten-fold!  Yet, that will have to be for another time...I hope that gave you insight into my world of SCD living.

~Andréa

Is there something in how you live-out your life that promotes amusing questions?