Last week, we spent $490 on our weekly grocery haul. This is maybe a bit higher than normal because Harry is home, so we are buying more stuff (the week before that, we went through nine half-gallons of Fairlife chocolate milk, for example), and we bought some Costco Big Things, which will (hopefully) last awhile. Sadly, we only got 5 dinners out of this haul, but we knew that going in and planned to get take-and-bake pizza and fresh salad stuff (plus more cookie dough bites) from Whole Foods on Friday night.
The meals:
Sunday: Burgers (turkey and beef), fries, salad, and brown butter brown sugar cookies
Monday: Chicken parmesan, green beans, kale caesar salad, garlic bread
Tuesday: Eggs, turkey sausage, protein pancakes, fruit
Wednesday: Ham or salami sandwiches, veggies and dip, assorted fruit, chips, chocolate chip cookies
Thursday: Last call on any leftover anything/ another round of random sandwiches/ whatever you want in the freezer (THURSDAY NIGHTS ARE BUSY)
Here's what we got:
First, a Whole Foods delivery of fave things plus orange juice and yogurt that were cheaper there than the regular store: $62
This stuff! OMG. It's in the frozens-- you gotta get it.
THIS IS THE BEST SALAD KIT EVER
This is currently all Dorothy eats.
Next, a Costco delivery of Big Stuff for $164
Cooper is currently devouring both egg whites and Go Go Squeeze applesauce pouches at a rate that only Costco sizes can sustain. Do you buy your vanilla extract at Costco? It is only $11 for that huge giant bottle. Strawberries, grapes, bananas, and spinach are the only produce weekly staples we consume at a warehouse rate. The kids love pancakes and waffles, and I am trying to make this Kodiak stuff happen becuase if you sub water for milk and one egg, it has a crazy amount of protein. WE SHALL SEE if it catches on. We ate a regular size box in a week, so maybe... I have never tried those toaster grilled cheeses, but both Harry and Jack are ready for another meal around 11pm, so these could be a great option maybe?(I also got bagel dogs at Whole Foods).
The 45 packs of Goldfish should last a couple few weeks? And they inspired m to sort our laundry room grab-on-the-way-out-the-door snacks into goldfish an not goldfish. The not goldfish box is sooooo very random, everything from Airhead Extremes to freeze dried strawberries to beef sticks.
We got pick up for our largest order of the day, but only because we have a child (Jack-- he's the sweetest) who is always up for going to get it. Here's $253 from Metro Market, which is most of the dinner stuff, plus most breakfast and lunch options.
We usually consume like 3 bags of chocolate chips a week, and SO MANY DIFFERENT kinds of bread-- whole grain white for the kids, sourdough for Jack when he wants a sandwich, French for garlic bread, thin-sliced sprouted wheat for me. The kids are obsessed with Jack's-brand frozen cheese pizza and eat them at all hours. Minnie is going through a Danimals and dill pickles moment. There is much cheese. (Which is funny because Ben always hits the wine and cheese store on Thursdays). I buy tomatoes, honey crisp apples, red and green onion, cucumbers, mini sweet peppers, apples, and blueberries every week, plus usually a clamshell of salad greens and whatever hot veggies we plan to make. Coop drinks Naked Juice smoothies on the way to dive practice (eye roll), and we buy at least 3 bags of chocolate covered pretzels a week.
This is why I love to grocery shop online-- my cart is so easy to just re-order.
I think I am not saving money on groceries (lol-- ya think?!) but I am saving SO MUCH TIME. And! Both Costco and Whole Foods order shoppers do an excellent job with produce selection (both of those stores have great options on the shelves all the time. Metro Market is less awesome with produce-- especially berries and grapes-- so I shop accordingly). For me, it is worth the slight mark up at Costco and the tips both places to have my groceries come to me. What about you-- do you still shop online post-panny?
ETA: We ended up with another $100 Whole Foods delivery on Friday to top us off before the weekend:
ONE HUNDRED GROCERY DOLLARS DO NOT STRETCH FAR MY FRIENDS.
I do buy my vanilla at Costco, and remember when it was like $38 a bottle? I am thrilled it's back to manageable prices. I also always pick up some vanilla at the duty free when we go to Mexico. I get vanilla, Rob gets tequila. Mexican vanilla tastes different from the Madagascar stuff in Costco but both are good, I think. So much food in your house! Our over/ under at Costco used to be $300 (pre-pandemic) but now it's more like $600. Everything is so expensive now!
ReplyDeleteIt is crazy how much even a few things at the grocery store can cost.
ReplyDeleteI literally stop every time I tap the credit card machine to give thanks for the fact I can afford whatever the bill ends up costing. It is staggering to think of the impact on so many people right now. I can't even imagine having to skip meals because I can't afford food, but yet that is clearly an increasing reality. I especially think about it in context of my kids. Like...there is just always food (good food, lots of it!) whenever they want or need something. And yet, for the most part, I don't think about it as I move through my day.
Anyhoo...big tangent. Yes, food prices are ridiculous.
Feeding a big family is so expensive! You spend more in a week than we do in an entire month! But our Kids eat so little since they are pretty small. We don’t do grocery delivery since Phil is super picky about produce, but he does all of the grocery shopping so that’s our compromise. I handed that task over to him when I had our first child because I didn’t want to be away from Paul on the weekends. Now I think he has the better end of the deal at times because grocery shopping is more peaceful than managing the chaos of two young kids that always wanna mess with each other!
ReplyDeleteI have gotten used to my TJ's cart topping $300. I try really hard to make that our only trip most weeks and usually we can do it (maybe ONE Publix run for like, more milk or bananas or something). Was this a week with everyone at home ? (ie, is it a bit lower other weeks)? I am the only one who hates Costco. I honestly can't even stand the thought of going there - it's so cold and big and i can never actually find anything I want to actually GET a large amount of.
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