I love this!!! I don't have kids but my partner and I eat plant-based and it's so so great to see a family feeding their kids REAL FOOD. WHOLE FOODS. What a breath of fresh air. You have 5 kids and you don't make excuses like "I don't have time to prepare real food"......it's basically always possible to feed kids real food! Fruit and veggies with hummus take no time at all. I wish more people would catch onto the real food lifestyle. Thanks for sharing this!!!
Thank you! Yes, and I think the more it catches on, the more convenient real, whole foods we'll see on the market. Not everyone wants to cook from scratch, which I totally get.
So this family of seven is eating whole food plant-based for $800 a month. $113 per person per month. This woman is a hero to her people celebrated in both song and legend😊
I never get tired of whole food haul videos. It seems I always pick up tips to use with my family, like mixing cauliflower rice with brown rice. Great idea! Thanks! Would love to see an actual meal plan that goes with the haul and recipe videos, too. Annie, you are a natural on screen. Thanks for sharing!
That is amazing! It really illustrates how eating plant-based does not have to be super expensive. We wash our greens then roll them in dish towels. For greens in the plastic tubs, open the new tub, add a paper towel or dish towel, and store upside down - helps keep them fresher by absorbing excess moisture 😁
@@annebean1331 I have seen people say damp towels, but we use dry towels. However, the greens are still a bit wet from washing them, so the towels get a little damp pretty quickly 😉 if we get a bunch of kale or Swiss chard, for instance, we pull the leaves apart, give them a wash, sit them in a colander for a bit to drip a little more dry, then lay the leaves flat across the towels and roll so there is one layer between the towel rolls. Sometimes one bunch will take two towels. I face every other leaf up, to save space 😉
I make kidney beans in the pressure cooker but they must be soaked overnight before hand. I cook them for 32 mins for small ones, 40 for large one. Hope it works for you. Thanks for the video.
Hahaha. I have a 5 gallon bucket for each of: pinto beans, white beans, rolled oats, steel cut oats, split peas, chickpeas, and 5 grain rolled cereal. Black beans get a massive dog food bin. We like our beans! (And I dislike opening soooo many cans just to feed us dinner.)
THIS! This is the way to shop and feed a family. What a beautiful sight to see, especially compared to how most people feed their families. Smile on my face the whole time watching this 💪🙌
Great grocery haul!! 🙌🏽 Yes, looks a lot like mine. With a family of 5, I've learned to keep a budget, shop bulk items and stock up on sale goods. Thanks for sharing and I'm really enjoying your channel! 🌱❤
If you have any land around your house, plant blueberry bushes. We harvest from 12 bushes and freeze most to carry us through the non-producing months. Same thing with your blackberries (we're in Oregon, too). Be sure they are fully ripe. Only two of us in our house now, but our food budget is $250 per person, so you are doing well. And yes, Winco here has the best bulk food section of any store I have come across. Happy holidays.
Looks very much like the groceries I cart into my OWN house after a trip to the stores, right down to the bulk items and the fruit and veggie selections. So happy to see the kiddies being brought up with such a bountiful, healthful diet!!! Lovely family.- a delight to see everybody so clearly thriving.
The inexpensive bulk basics (legumes, grains, etc.) help a lot to keep costs lower. Also, it helps that I cook a lot from scratch. As we move more to organic and locally grown food our budget is creeping up, but it's worth it for us.
Glad to see the use of reusable bags! We use ours to buy apples, potatoes, and really any time something is offered without plastic, we get it without plastic lol! Also, here in PR we have to pay for bags too, so it's common to just reload the cart, take it to the car, unload everything into the car, and do the same at home. No reusable bags, no disposable. And with many hands makes light work haha Thanks for the video! Catch you in the next one
Absolutely loved this!! I'm WFPB and I want to feed my children more on these lines. I only have two. I would love to see some of the recipes she makes for her family.
Something I have been trying with bunches of kale is to wash them as soon as I get them, cut the bottom of the stems, put them in a vase (like flowers) and let them dry off naturally overnight. After this I dry the stems (the only part that are still wet) and put them in a fresh bag in the fridge. They actually seem to get fresher day by day!
Love your whole WFPB family! So happy to see a family thriving with this lifestyle. It would be interesting to see how much more it would cost to add even a modest amount of meat to this order.
I only pressure cook kidney beans in desperation. I agree that they don't work very well cooking them from dried state. But for me, pressure-cooking the beans is a distant second place finisher to slow-cooking large batches of them and freezing them in batches. Slow-cooked kidney beans for 8-12 hours are a lot nicer than the ones that come out of the can and the broth is a lot nicer too.
We also have 5 kids, I do a lot of plant based cooking, rice and beans and lots of veggies (fried cabbage pancakes of a favorite amongst my kids!). Your haul looks pretty similar to ours, which is so great cause I never get to see that and it's refreshing to not be alone!
We have ten people in my house and we're 100% wfpb. Our favorite meal is butternut squash curry with tomato paste, coconut milk and tofu. It's sooo good!
I love watching other family’s grocery hauls. We are finished growing our family with three kids, so our family of 5 doesn’t go through that much food, but even so, 400$ per week is pretty standard for us where I am (in Canada).
Just started this journey with my family of 6, would love to see some of your favorite recipes or what y’all eat in a day. Will continue to look around this channel! So great!
Looks great- very inspiring. If your kiddo is having issues with grains- you might switch to ONLY organic grain, beans, seeds to avoid the glyphosate. That is a trigger for most human biomes bc it’s an antibiotic.
This is a great list of food to buy and looks like a multitude of what I usually buy! :D What do you prepare your oats with? Just water? Or any kind of plant milk or Juice? Just one thing I would try to work on, if you have the chance to: Try to find stores, in which you can buy your produce with less or no plastic packaging. And if there are none around you, whichare still affordable for such a big family, keep asking in the store to find ways to use less packaging. Btw., to store my salad in the fridge, I use Tupperware. It's plastic too, I know, but at least reusable and very long lasting. ;)
Thanks for the tips on reducing waste. I am going to try transitioning further away from those darn plastic bags. I had to stop buying apples, etc. from Costco when they moved to the clamshells that encase each piece of fruit individually. Buying local really helps with reducing plastic as well. I do make my oats with water, and I'll add a splash of plant milk for creaminess when I put in my fixings.
A very hot tip regarding oats. Mix cocoa powder(sugar free) with oats, plant milk of your choice, chia seeds, flax seeds, loads of frozen berries and some dried goji berries. Let it sit for ca 10 min or so, just long enough for the frozen berries to defrost a bit. It is amazing. It's like eating a super nice desert, but very healthy.
Loved this video! I smiled all the way through it. How they actually manage the meals is beyond me. I live alone and only have to cook for one and I feel it's too much work, lol.
For your bulk grains/ beans you might want to check out USFoods. We buy a lot from them in Idaho, and they have stores in Oregon. Best part is their inventory is all online, so you can check prices before you go.
Thanks for such a great video. Anne, your kids are fortunate to have such a lovely and healthy mum. Grandfather Chris, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Well done on raising such a wonderful daughter. I'm grateful to live in Napier, New Zealand. The produce my wife and I purchase comes from a Chinese market garden plus the local farmers market. We take our cloth bags, no plastic at all, and its nice to buy fresh produce straight from the grower. Regards Glenn
That is a whole lot of food but you got a big family to feed. I grow my own kidney beans from my son’s sprouting school project some 8 yrs ago that gone crazy and have been cooking fresh beans since. I also dry what we cannot finish so i usually soak them for 15-30min before pressure cook them for 45 min natural release. It came out nice & soft every time. I often use my kidney beans to make my son’s favorite “spam”.
Dried Mango is great and a healthy alternative, no need to feel guilty 🌞It is such a treat and when I get my hands on a bag I cannot stop either (the bag size limits my intake).
@@juliawls Oh yeah, serving size is the key! We have a store near buy to buy dried food in bulk. They have veeeery delicious fatfree roasted chickpeas in dark chocolate. If I buy some, I rather take 4 tiny jars than two medium jars or one big jar. Because no matter the size, I empty it in one sitting. XD So I have to trick myself via buying them in small portions. ;)
I love the barilla pasta, here in Belgium we have a chickpea version we love. I've got celiacs disease, and I'm making Amy Chaplins buckwheat and millet bread: whole food, vegan, and delicious. I omit the olive oil in the recipe and use GV oats.
This video inspired me so much you have no idea. For an amazing, adorable family. I have no words, I will watch this video once in a while to remind me how simple, yet delicious, a whole plant vegan diet can be, this definitely motivates me to keep aiming to go vegan (curently only vegetarian).
Brilliant summary. I would love to drive down the grocery bill and can see how the bulk purchase would likely make the biggest difference for us. However, buying larger quantities, we often suffered from „food moths“ at some point. So I would love to hear more on how you store your bulk purchases to avoid this kind of issue.
Ack! That's frustrating. I have had moths years ago in flour products, but I've never had trouble in "whole" things like beans, quinoa, etc. I keep each item in a 5 gallon bucket with a screw-on lid. Smaller quantities (like date crumbles or cashews) I keep in locking tupperware-style containers. I only buy in bulk items that we regularly eat, so they do get rotated through fairly quickly.
Alex, I use any container than can seal tightly enough that bugs and insects can't enter into. Since I come across such containers all the time, I always keep an eye out for something better. Something better is something that fits better in cupboards or is better for my routines. A pasta sauce jar might have volume markings on the side, so I can use that to store measured ingredients for a future meal. When I'm ready to use it, I can just add water directly to that jar to soak. Buckets, for food in the past, will do fine for storing rice and non perishables. Also, the food packaging can be used, too. Just find a clip, a twist tie, a string, or a way to keep the food sealed inside. If you roll the top shut, and then fold the bag, and then lean the bag on the folded portion, then you'll do fine.
Love Costco for all the produce fresh and frozen! Our freezer is filled with frozen veggies and fruit for convenience dishes and when fresh produce ends at our house. Frozen is cheaper for many if not all produce. I don’t visit winco but to Asian/Indian stores for all legumes and spices etc.
The Swedish crispbreads (knäckebröd) are truly delicious and crispy! Our own Finnish ones taste basically rye and crack a tooth 😂 Not bad, but definately our neighbours in Sweden made it better and concurred the world. A very nice and educational video indeed and a sequel or two wouldn't be bad at all. 🙂
@@annebean1331 The very thin Finn crisps are addictive. I always have those for a quick snack. Quite hard texture but full of flavour. The ancient crispbread was basically dried rye bread and extremely hard, but luckily there has been some product development since then 🙂
Quite impressive and a lot of food. Well, a lot in the eyes of a lonely me, i could live off with 1/10 of that for weeks, focusing more on grains and legumes, but i can't really imagine how much a family of 7 consumes per week or month so i won't judge much :p P.S. Minus the kale, yuck, tastes like cardboard. Luckily i have unreal amounts of lettuce in the garden.
I. L o v e. This Channel!!! You guys are awesome and I hope more people find it. Happy to see the Swedish Wasa bread and totally understand the ”not exciting” part - but tell that to my wife who will munch on them all night… So. To cook kidney beans - try soaking them in water and add a tblspoon of baking soda. Remember to toss that water though. You can soak over night and cook for about 20 min and 15 min natural release. Or try 1 part beans and 3 1/2 parts water and cook 45 min without soaking + 15 min natural release. 🙏🏻
Your shopping looks like mine. My kids never liked meat, therefore we started eating vegan. So much better and healthier. I make a lot of my food from scratch as well.
Love, SO love this.❤ I wish you guys were my family growing up. Do you even know what a treasure you are? BTW yes looks a whole lot like my groceries except I get a lot more dark green leafies, cabbages, and bananas :)
I really like your approach of taking a deep dive into the scientific literature on nutrition topics. I was wondering if you had ever examined the research on whether organic produce is really any better than conventionally made produce. Is there a chance you are paying more for organic produce when it really isn't any healthier?
Fascinating question! You might like this episode because sewage treatment solids are forbidden by law on organic farms and PFAS chemicals often reach very high concentrations in sewage waste: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cGkEpbpIJuA.html
I pressure cook kidney beans often. Soak them overnight, rinse in morning, add with double the dried amount of water, and then pressure cook (I have whistle style pressure cooker so it take 3-4 whistles before they are soft enough to pressure). I have seen stick test to the beans, throw cooked beans to a wall/tile (preferably for easy cleanup) and if they squish and stick then they are nicely done! I don’t do that test I just use my fingers 😅
Haha I've only ever heard of throwing pasta! My issue with kidney beans in particular is that a portion will still be tough and wrinkly while others in the same batch are split open and super soft. You don't run into that?
@@annebean1331 Nope, all look the same. They are soaked and then cooked. They cook consistently. If it goes mushy all of them go mushy. If I cook less then all are undercooked.
@@annebean1331 I have only had that happen when I've bought dried beans from a bulk section with very old stock or have accidentally purchased dried beans that have been irradiated to extend shelf life. This can happen with any bean, not just kidney beans.
Baby carrots are cut from deformed full size carrots and dipped in bleach water during processing. Save your cash and buy regular carrots. Let the kiddos peel them.
I’d love some Anne Bean recipes! That’s my big hold up. I’m good with eating fruits and veggies as snacks but never know what to make for a filling meal.
Legumes taste great as a soup ingredient, if you add salt; especially soy sauce. There must be a vegan type of soy sauce. For a nice tomato soup, for each person... .5 cups of broccoli .5 cups of carrots .5 cups cauliflower .5 cups of legumes [dried split peas have stronger taste than frozen peas; both are good] .5 cups of tomatoes [canned, fresh, paste, and sauce, are all different and good] salt water [enough to make a 3.5 to 4 cup total soup volume]
I just found your channel and have been watching since 6 this morning - so overwhelmed. I am 62 had a heart attack lasy year trying to get healthy and lose 100 lbs. Where do a start, so confused?
Thanks Gloria! Really sorry to hear about your heart attack. I've heard great things about The Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine's starter kit www.pcrm.org/veganstarterkit and the one from Forks Over Knives. www.forksoverknives.com/how-tos/plant-based-primer-beginners-guide-starting-plant-based-diet/ I'd love to hear updates about your progress!
I strongly recommend "How to Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease" by cardiologist Caldwell Esselstyn. The book describes a whole-food plant-based diet specifically tailored to heart disease patients and includes both the science and recipes. I had a heart attack 4 years ago and have been on the diet since then. My angina has 99% disappeared. Weight loss comes naturally with this diet.
The video mentioned wild blackberries. Most places don't have those, but you might find mulberries to harvest at a certain time during the year. I also harvest wild purslane (which I transplanted into my back yard) and lamb's quarters. Be sure to cook those the proper way to remove most oxylates if you are going to eat very many.
I didn’t know that about purslane! Around here, it’s a weed and I’m the only one who occasionally gathers it to eat. What’s the right way to cook it? I’ve been eating it raw.
@@PlantChompers I eat it raw too, but limit the amount. Kind of like spinach. I don't use raw spinach for smoothies for that reason. If you want to eat a lot of purslane, cook it in a lot of water, and drain the water instead of using it in soup, for example.
I love butternut squash, my favourite pumpkin! The cavendish banana however you can scare me with, tastes bland and more like cardboard than anything else… I prefer any of the small varieties, which have a rich, sweet, and lemony taste 😋😅 I also buy cans of beans.. in case of sudden cravings pop one open and done… might finish off with a chip of Vietnamese chocolate though
I hear you on the bananas. The other varieties have much more flavor! I wish they were more available. I read the book entitled Banana years ago, and it was eye-opening how we came to eat a single variety almost exclusively.
@@annebean1331 I've found what helps is to let the bananas become extremely ripe slowly (in a cool place in the house) and then freeze them. This gives them a lot more flavor. You defrost them for a few minutes and can slice them for oats, or you can use them frozen in smoothies. I've tried some other varieties, but it is harder to know when they are ripe.
I didn't see any plantbased milk. I own an almond cow and love it. It allows me to make nut milk with out any added fillers. I usually make cashew coconut and used it primarily to bake or make my overnights oats.
This is pretty amazing! I want so bad to raise my son to choose food to live instead of live to eat. Thank you. I do have a question about lentil. I'm in Oklahoma and I really struggle to find organic bulk lentils. I was told by a nutritionist/dietitian that non organic lentils are grown in dangerous unregulated areas that use toxic water and high levels of metals and pesticides. This individual grew up in India and was witness at a young age how bad these can be for daily consumption. Have you heard anything about this or is this most likely bad info?
Thanks! I have heard about fields in former cotton-growing areas, like Louisiana, that have high arsenic because cotton wasn't considered a food crop so they were able to spray with arsenic and it got in the soil. Brown rice is particularly susceptible to taking on some of that arsenic in the bran, and possibly lentils too. So I think it depends on the origin. I'm not sure about organic versus not. This paper is interesting: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC6602935/
7:59 Despite growing up vegetarian and generally loving vegetables, I never understood why some people think kale is “delicious” when it feels more like an angry wild cousin of spinach. Nutritious sure, but delicious?
I see you guys have the same problem as we have here in Spain: Plastic, plastic, plastic. We go plant-based to make a difference but then we have to contend with all the plastic.
It's amazing what you can buy for so cheap! My husband is not plant based and I have 3 kids that are leaning towards plant based like me and you would not believe how expensive my husband's food is! Even touching and buying it makes me want to vomit. This video had me salivating at the deliciousness!
Yep, very close to what I buy. I buy some eggs and milk for the family members who are not fully PB. I also don’t buy tofu, I don’t like calcium chloride in it. I buy more varieties of vegetables and fruits probably. And walnuts, cashews, almonds and pistachios are always available for snack.
BTW, please stock up heavily on foods to last for 2-3 months as the TP shortage will, in a few months, also happen to food as well. Crops are being deliberately destroyed. Two intuitives i listen to suggest stocking up heavily on grains and beans and I have added in nuts, seeds, nut butters, crackers, pasta, dried fruit etcetera.Right now market shelves seem full, but that will change. Better to be safe than sorry, and your daughter has many mouths to feed. Cheers...
