Personal Narrative: A Day At Grocery Outlet

The best place to get fresh fruits and vegetables for not a whole lot of cash is at Grocery Outlet. The second best place to get superb fresh food yourself would be to visit the Farmer’s Market. It opens at five-thirty in the morning in Sacramento and goes until one-thirty in the afternoon. All stalls remain open until the run out of their produce. Price and availability have a substantial impact on food choices. If a McChicken from McDonald’s cost $2.03, then it would seem easier to instantly have a meal ready for you. On the other hand, if you wanted to make a Cesar salad with all the ingredients store brought from Raley’s, it would cost $15.65. The average American is always in a rush, with their daily responsibilities towards their career, family, school, etc. Most people would rather grab their meals from fast-food chains, restaurants or pre-made from the deli department in various grocery stores. Fast-food is available all day, every day. In a ten mile perimeter of my home in Sacramento, there are eleven various fast-food chains open twenty-four hours a day which varies from Denny’s to McDonald’s. When I used the Food Access Research Atlas to view food deserts around my neighborhood, I found many locations near me. The map lit with lime colored squares from Sacramento, Rancho Cordova, Davis, Rio Linda and much more (Figure 1). Even …show more content…
Healthy food is increasingly getting more expensive. From 1978 to 2008, fish has increased its price by two percent, vegetables by forty-one percent and fruits forty-six percent. Sodas have decreased their prices more than any other item in the last thirty years, “The prices of oranges, to take one extreme example, has more than doubled, relative to everything else. So if in 1978, a bag or oranges cost the same as one big bottle of soda, today that bag costs the same as three big bottles of soda”