$85 HEALTHY GROCERY HAUL / What my family of 5 eats in a week / Plant-based & Vegan Meals 

Good to know. I hear their canned refried beans are the best. Gotta try them.

Being forced into frugality is a secret blessing that lasts forever :)

Same. I was the coupon queen!

Thank you so much 🤗

Thank you!

Thank you! I am happy to be back making videos again :) Pregnancy hit me hard this time lol.

You are welcome!

It would definitely make your life easier! Lucky for me, everyone in my family is neurodivergent and prefers to eat the same thing every day. We have been eating this way for years, and I just recently connected the dots that it is probably because of ADHD and ASD lol.

I make a dinner on Monday, with enough to have on Wednesday. Then I cook Tuesday with enough for Thursday. It's half the work. I also keep frozen meatballs on hand for a quick pasta dinner or meatball subs.

Thank you! What a wonderful idea! I will try that in March. Right now I am trying to see what needs to be used up and planning meals around that.

I'll be honest I've never been a person that has cared for leftovers so this would not work for me but I only have to worry about feeding myself I'm glad it works for you and saves on your food budget

These are all great tips and things I do need to work on implementing more! Thank you so much for sharing!

Thank you!! 😊

Aww, is it a girl? I wasn’t sure but regardless, such a gorgeous baby!! I was leaning more towards boy (not because of the gender neutral clothing), because I had thought that the whole time she was pregnant

Yes! This food will feed us for the entire week - we just eat the same thing every day 😊

I have not but have been thinking about trying it!

Sometimes I buy dry, which I know is less expensive, but sometimes I need the convenience of canned 🙃😂

Try making the cream of wheat with oat milk or almond milk, a dash of cinnamon and splash of vanilla extract, obviously include sugar as package says, when done top it with some applesauce. I make farina topped with strawberries for my kids and though they love it, hubby didn't.....until I topped with applesauce. Maybe try it as a snack or dessert sometime and ease him into it lol.

Oh a drizzle of honey is amazing as well

Those were cheap prices for Florida. The only cheaper place than Aldi is to go to the farms where the stuff grows.

@@57msdeb it's the opposite in Canada. Farm produce is more expensive than the store.

@@OneMamaToAnother that’s surprising because when you buy at the market, the farmer, the trucker, and the store all have to make their profit. When you buy at the farm, just the farmer makes profit.

@@57msdeb We have such a short growing season most farmers have to use greenhouses and pay for heat etc.

I don't grow a lot right now, but I really need to! The house we are in has a small yard, but I want to do a complete yard renovation and add lots of edible plants. The hurricanes helped with demo lol, now I just need to start planning and planting! I also need to learn the growing seasons here - it is so different than everywhere else in the US.

Funny, I was thinking how low those food prices are! I’m in an area (in the US) that grows tons of apples and I’ve never seen them that cheap!

Maybe 50 or so grams a day right now. When I am lifting weights and working out more, I focus on adding in more protein. We definitely have some go-to high-protein meals we love, but unless I am actively trying to build muscle I don’t really worry about it. I do have a video planned soon with some high-protein vegan recipes 😁

They have been so great! Before baby arrived, they were a little concerned it would cry all the time ... luckily, we had a 95% happy baby lol

@@raisingwildflowers your baby is beautiful and lucky to have you as parents!

No WIC

Any food pantry

I am able to get enough fats and protein from plant-based sources 😊 Many, many babies actually cannot tolerate dairy in their breastmilk so their moms have to go dairy-free anyway. My milk supply is great without meat or dairy, if anything, I struggle with an oversupply the first few weeks 🙃 Baby is growing great and in the 60% percentile 😁

​@@raisingwildflowers I agree. I've nursed all 5 of mine and also have ADHD so i normally don't have a huge urge to eat "healthy" but when nursing my snacking is crazy but it's still grown 5 babies and kept me alive so i think every mom/baby relationship is different. Do what works and looks like your are!

Totally agree with going dairy free for the baby! I had to do it twice so my babies didn’t have such bad reflux. Great video!

How judgmental and opinionated of you. My older kids are 17 & 15 and have had a wonderful life and do not resent me at all. We live at the beach, most years we have had yearly passes to theme parks, and we homeschool so they are able to hang out with friends mostly whenever they want. Living a frugal life does not mean we are “dead ass broke.” We are completely debt free, including owning our home. Thanks to being frugal, we don’t have to work our life away and I get to BE THERE with my kids. Just because our lifestyle is different from yours, doesn’t mean it is a bad one 🙄

@@raisingwildflowers you put yourself out here to let the world see what a wonderful job you’re doing living on dirt wages. So you don’t like my comment because it doesn’t line up with what you think we should all be agreeing with. There’s other comments on here but you’re just happy with the ones that say oh you’re doing a great job. The reality is is the kids are smart, and they know when they don’t have something that somebody else has and yes you’re right it’s not a nice thing to say, but it’s true.. when kids are brought up on dirt wages they inevitably will be heard commenting later, that yeah, they had a lot of fun in their youth, but they don’t ever want to be that dead ass broke again. Continuing to have children and just assuming that feeding them is enough is unrealistic and selfish. Perhaps homeschooling them is your only option since if you send them to school they be bullied. I, personally, work from home and see my kids all the time and still make 10 times what your husband brings home. I am not exaggerating and when my kids come to me and say hey mom, can I have some money to go to the theme park with my friends, I make sure it’s a safe environment for them and they’re going to have a good clean fun and I don’t have to tell them no because that’s my grocery money for the week🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. I'm always perplexed by people that announce their lifestyle to the world, but god forbid you think they're lifestyle sucks and then all of a sudden you're 'judgmental and opinionated'. So are your supporters, otherwise no one would make any comments..positive or negative. It's called an opinion.

Bullied by people like yourself? 🤔

so according to you, anyone that doesn't agree with you is a bully. Thank you for making my point...that being on here is just for extra cash and having people tell you you're wonderful...ha ha.