Yearly Grocery Haul in Juneau Alaska | Traveling in Rural Alaska | Costco Haul | Weekly Vlog 

It happens! There is always something that you slap your forehead about on the trip home. Lol!

Or like me after a grocery haul (weekly) "there's nothing for dinner!!"

You be making a list and checking it 10 times twice.lol

Lol

yeah or i really want something different for dinner

It is definitely a different way of life! Thank you for watching ❤️

Me too!

Same

Thank you for watching! We all complain every once in a while :)

That’s if you live remote. My family lives in Wasilla and is 20 minutes from 2 grocery stores and a hour from Costco.

I am glad you get it! :)

Same. We are from The Bahamas and has to fly to the US to do the same!

what so how much does it cost to fly? also how much does it cost for the air cargo?

Hahaha. For real!

@@LewisFamilyVlogAlaska 😄

@@LewisFamilyVlogAlaska do you have a small store for milk and vegetables.?

It was sooo much work, but I am glad I was able to do it. Thank you! She was having a ton of fun with her Grandma. Not sure she really noticed I was gone. They just tried not to say momma.

Same! I realize I’m spoiled by being able to eat whatever, whenever...I’d save so much 💰 if I did this smh...off to Chipotle I go 😂

Lol. It can always be harder or worse. I am glad we can afford to do this. Thank you so much.

I live in Birmingham U.K. I too want to live there I’m hoping to go to Alaska to studie animal behaviours

I had the same "whaaaat?" feeling when I realized 24 hr walmart was no longer gonna be. They used at 8pm and I remember it being so bothersome since I was used to going to the store at 10, 11, midnight because that was my prized "ME" time away from my kids and their noisy chaos...and the 'Rona took that one special thing away! Took a few times of actually driving to the store and realizing it was closed in order for my brain to click! Hahaha! We definitely get used to stuff like that and get spoiled.

Hi, I am glad you enjoyed it. Hopefully you will get a chance to watch other vlogs in the future.

Same here! This video was suggested and I thought it looked interesting, and it was! Already suscbribed and I think I'll binge watch some more videos 😁

Yeah I second that! I think its because my phone knows buying Alaska was on in the background ... 👀

Thank you ❤️

Thank you for watching. We all have something we don’t enjoy lol. Happy holidays!

I believe its so expensive some items Re government subsidised

Thank you so much.

Well I am glad you found us!

lol when we lived in Juneau for college. I loved going to Costco. I am sorry you do not enjoy it. Maybe as time goes on it will grow on you. Think about all the good deals :D

Right?! I am literally 10 minutes away from Costco and complain that I have to deal with parking, etc. Not going to complain again...lol

Maybe it varies location to location but I have not noticed Costco having good deals at all. We save enough on the dog food to about break even.

@@LewisFamilyVlogAlaska how long did the ferry ride take? I would have loved a video of you loading your groceries-you know how people film then fast forward to shorten it?

I am so glad you found us!

Awe. Welcome to our RU-vid Family! Thank you. We love gathering and hunting for as much as we can ourselves.

Awe, thank you so much. That is very sweet.

To put my comment into more perspective, my closest Cosco is about an hour's drive from me 🤦‍♀️

Thank you ❤️

Thank you so much. It is so fun that she has red hair like mom and dad.

Awe, thank you so much. Its always a crazy time when shopping that much, but its a great feeling to get it done. Oh man, you have so many options. Do you go to each for the best deals or just like to shop at all of them? Have a great ladies night! Tell everyone we said Hi :)

Welcome to our RU-vid Family! So glad you found us as well.

Of course, thank you for watching!

Thank you so much for watching. It is definitely a different way of life, but it also allows us to live in a beautiful place surrounded by nature!

Thats great. I hope he likes it there. You can help him out on what to expect lol :)

We actually use Amazon a lot. Its hard to get food or cleaning supplies off of there. It also takes 2 to 3 weeks to get our packages. So we have to plan ahead for Holidays.

Oh man, I love Target. I miss that store. No problem, thank you for watching!

Where in Southeast did you live. Glad you get to enjoy the warmth now.

@@LewisFamilyVlogAlaska 10 years in Juneau, 2 years in Sitka. I did enjoy the hunting & fishing, it was fantastic, but got tired of the rain & isolation, wanted to live where I could drive as far as I wanted...

I am one block from the Chicago border-it literally starts at the end of my block. I am six blocks from a major supermarket. Even with essentially being in a major city, near to what we need, we keep a full pantry for the winter months. When we get snowy, freezing winters here it is just terrible. No one wants to go out for necessities.

Thank you so much for watching!

I was close to a panic attack once I saw how much stuff we had. I just had to hope it would all work out.

Alaskans are wonderful about helping each other out. You have to be a hearty soul to live and survive here.

It's all about each situation. When we lived in Juneau we complained about having to drive like 10 miles to get downtown lol. We rarely went. Thanks for watching!

We will try to add that into a vlog soon!

Thank you. It was a lot of work. But a relief once I got home.

Thank you for watching. I slept in the next day and Joe put everything away. He forgot to video it. We will try to do a tour of where we keep it all :)

We might have to add that to our next vlog! It definitely looks like an explosion until everything gets put away.

Please do. When I was young(50)years ago. I would go with my grandparents to the store 2 and a half hours away and shop for a month. We would fill up the trunk the back seat and every inch of free space even granma and my lap. We had 3 gardens and canned everything we could. What you have to do seems perfectly normal to me.

There is so much land. They can have a minimart room in their house.

Used to buy many items in one year batches. No Costco, then. Veggie went on sale in fall (4)16oz cans for $1. I would buy 5 cases each (12cans) of peas, green beans, carrots and corn. Frozen broccoli florets on sale in 3 month amounts (12-16 bags). Chicken (.79) and beef ($1-2) in 3-6 month amounts. Pork/bacon in 3-6 month amounts. Whole Turkeys (4) at 35-39 cents a lb. November/December stock up on baking supplies. I cooked from scratch so no cream of soups or Alfredo sauce. When cheese was $2lb, I would buy 15-20 lbs to freeze. Brown rice .79 lb. Beans were in cans at .30-50 cents. These items were usually bought in different weeks. Milk, eggs and bread as needed. Though I would freeze bread. Spaghetti sauce was usually free to .25 cents a 32oz jar between sales and double coupons. Usually 6-8 jars at a time. Pasta was 4lbs for $1. But one year, pasta was free with sale and coupons. Frozen food in upright freezer, one month of food in closet food pantry. Rest stacked in large, airy, well lit basement. Two cats patrolled there daily and never saw a mouse or even mouse droppings. No bugs either. 2009, I got 120 boxes of Kellogg’s Raisin Bran Free plus $40 in Catalina’s. I gave 70 boxes to the food bank. 120 cereal boxes were to much to store. It would take 2 yrs, 4 mos to each it all. I admit I over did it but it was free plus $3 in Catalina’s each time, no limit. When the pasta was free, I donated 120lbs to the food bank.

We do have a very large pantry.

That was so sweet. I do miss that little baby. She is such a grown up now lol. I have to remind myself that she is still little.

This was our biggest but for the year because we where able to take it back on the ferry. When we travel ( if ever since covid) we will take a tote and get smaller things here and there if needed. Joe put everything away while I slept in. It was great! I probably would have bought more stuff if I would have know the ferry would work out so well. 🤷‍♀️

That is so awesome. My mom moved to Kake to teach and then lived and taught her for 30 years.

Thank you for watching! We love living here even though its kind crazy. Keep watching and I am sure you well get a peak into what we use it for. Sadly and thankfully, Joe put everything away while I was asleep and forgot to taken a video. Maybe when things get more organized I will go through and show all our cubby holes!

Oh man. I love that guy. He actually did not say that to me while I was there lol. Missed his chance. Thank you for watching!

I am glad you where able to see your home town. Hopefully we can start traveling again soon and show you more adventures in Juneau.

Welcome to our RU-vid Family! Where do you live?

@@LewisFamilyVlogAlaska I live in New Jersey USA! ❤️

Thats awesome. Joe and I traveled there before having Bonnie.

Thank you. It is a lot of work, but also second nature at this point.

So glad you found us!

Me too!!

In other parts of Alaska groceries can cost much much more then in southeast Alaska.

When I take a 20 minute drive to the Bread outlet I try to combine it with other errands along the way. Oh, and I pick up 4 loaves at a time. Enough for more than a month

@@jillygirl2024 how in the world does that last you a month 😂. I grab four for a week and a half.

Yes! We order to much on Amazon. I could not find spam while I was in Juneau. So I ended up ordering on Amazon lol. They have everything.

Next time try the convenient stores. They sell spam if you want it. Just a thought 😁

Juneau was all out of it when I was there. I am pretty sure Kake was too. I tried lol.

Thanks for saying 'cenral Washington'. Im tired of people calling it 'eastern Washington'.

@@sweatheart61 Sometimes I just say east of the mountains!! I live in Western WA now and find that many people just don't understand Central WA much less if I say North Central Washington! Of course, talking to people who don't know Washington at all, think it rains here all the time, etc., I tell them that 3/4 of the state used to be mostly desert! They really only think of Washington as being Seattle. That bothers me!

We are not that extremely isolated. We still have a grocery store, its just more expensive. Im glad I do not have that pressure.

That sort of shopping would stress me out, double or triple checking everything on my list to make sure I had everything.

Yes. Some stuff will last the year, but others will not. The ferry will only allow so much, so its hard to keep buying when I am not sure if I can get it home or not.

Thank you so much for watching!

We have produce sent in on the plane around once a month.

Thank you for watching! It was a fun, crazy trip. If you enjoy seeing Alaska or our silly girl you will love our videos.