Massive 2-Week Grocery Haul for Family of 12
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- Welcome to this massive 2-week grocery haul for my family of 12! This shop also includes items for my mothers birthday party that I hosted a couple of days later. Recently, we increased our shopping budget to reflect the reality of grocery price hikes and growing children. I've found that the increase has made shopping a lot easier, and the food is lasting very well for the two weeks without having to purchase much else (we still go back for fresh milk and bananas, for sure!). My grocery budget works out to around $500 per week, including all food, household and toiletry (inc. baby) supplies. For Melbourne, Australia, I think I'm doing pretty good at keeping to such a budget while feeding 12 people hearty and nutritious homecooked (for the most part) meals. We do have take-away once every week or two - it's a break for me (and, frankly, something I enjoy just as much as the kids!).
The total for this grocery haul was $1,077, including extra items for my mothers birthday (other family members contributed food to the party as well). I also purchased some drink to contribute to the party, for an additional $15 (not shown in the video).
My meal plan for the 2 weeks is:
Ricotta and Spinach Agnolotti with homemade tomato sauce
Spaghetti Bolognese X 2 nights
Lamb and vegetable stew on rice
Chicken and vegetable stew/soup with bread
Chicken and vegetable stir-fry on rice
BBQ pulled pork with sides (fried rice, baked red onion, peas)
Fish with salad
Egg, bacon and vegetable bake with salad/veg side
Meat pies, potato gems and peas
Chicken, capsicum, onion and corn burritos with lettuce and avocado
Birthday party food
Join me as I feed my tribe of 12 nutritious and delicious meals, share budgeting tips and large family logistics!
Liana & Anthony
Jack, 16
Ava, 15
Isabelle, 13
Samuel, 12
James, 10
Layla, 8
Josephine, 6
Isaac, 4
Daniel, 2
Isla, 1
Enjoyed your haul
Thank you! Xx
Nice haul.Waiting for your meal prep 😋
Thank you! I promise meal prep is on the way - I have plans for this very week 😁 Xx
Great hall I love how u always say treats for the kids . All the party stuff liked an u must have worked hard to put it all together for ur mom . An hope she had agreat day 🎊🎊🎂🍦🍧👍
She did have a great day, thank you! Other family members contributed food as well, so the workload wasn’t that big - it was lovely to be able to celebrate someone’s birthday with an actual party though - haven’t done that for a while! Xx
I’ve had the same thought about puzzles haha! I always love your videos!! 💖
😆 It’s still sitting there! 🤪 Xx
Happy birthday to your mom 🎈
Thank you! Xx
Hi Liana!!...what a wonderful haul. I love the different varieties of foods and all of the ideas that came flooding in my mind when I go grocery shopping. Ive made ravioli bake, almost like your pasta bake but just using ravioli, and it’s a good way to hide added vegetables in there. All of these ingredients would make a amazing charcuterie board/table. Your haul has made me happy.👍💜🥰
Aww...thank you Theresa, that’s lovely to hear! ☺️ A ravioli bake sounds delicious! I’ll have to keep that in mind, as my kids love ravioli and love lasagne, so that sounds like a mix of the two! Xx
hi there :) i have just discovered your page...Ex Victorian now living in Qld and i have spent the rainy weekend loving and enjoying your posts. Thanks so much for sharing!!!!
🤗 Thank you for introducing yourself, Allison! I’ve been reading about the weather up north - I hope everything is safe where you are? Thank you so much for spending time watching my videos - that is so lovely to hear! Xx
Holy Hannah, that was the never ending grocery haul!! No complaints I love it. Loads of yummy meals coming up!! 😋
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The sponge fingers I've always used them in trifle done it for years you get them in birds trifle box packet of jelly crystal just add water to ,packet birds custard powder, packet of dream topping powered cream just add milk to it and sponge fingers little packet of hundered and thousands chocolate or multi coloured ones depends on which one you pick up am in uk
Sounds lovely! I use the sponge finger biscuits in trifle, too! The packet I had lying around was left over from Christmas 😆 Xx
Happy birthday to your mother!!🎂🎁🎈🎉 Great Grocery Haul!!👍🏻👍🏻 Blessings to u and your beautiful family and have a Great Week Liana!!🙏🙏❤❤🌻🌻
Thank you, thank you Sonia! I wish you a wonderful week, too! ❤️ Xx
I dont no if you have cambells soup in Australia l used tinned chicken or mushroom one straight from tin into my vol-au-vents do them at Christmas or if we ever get back to normal again in uk for partys everyone loves them big hit in my family
We do! Sounds great! I hope you get back to parties there really soon! Xx
I love hauls. I'm a new Subbie ❤️
Welcome 🤗 Thank you for subscribing! Xx
Never apologize for the noise kids make, even the one time I mentioned it, it was just a passing comment, but not to complain. I cannot see how, short of filming in a separate house, you can avoid noise with a large family. Anyone who wants to watch your videos just needs to sit back and enjoy the show.
😆 I do try to let people know I’m filming, but the younger children quickly forget (or don’t care 🤣). It’s true - the noise is part of the show ☺️ Xx
@@feedatribe I would say they do not care, haha, they are kids. My 3 are all set to turn 26, ,24 and 20, they still do not care. Lol
Love watching your videos....you are truly amazing and blessed. Take care! 😍
Thank you so much Clair! I am definitely blessed and grateful beyond words Xx
Love all the meals that you are having for your beautiful family great grocery haul 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Thank you Cathy! 🤗 Xx
I hope you mom has a wonderful birthday full of love ❤️ 🎂
Thank you - she did, and it was lovely to celebrate a birthday with an actual party - it’s been a while! 😆 Xx
Enjoyed your video as always. Hope your mom had a great birthday!
Thank you Treena - she had a lovely birthday ☺️ Xx
Hi Leanna can’t wait for your recipe, loved the big shopping haul and I think it’s terrific that you are going to dye your hair. Thank you again❤️💖💓
Thank you Maggie! 🤗 Xx
Would you please mind explaining what tea time is and what you and your children do during that time? my daughter asked me but she forgot lol
Sure! Well, when I refer to ‘morning tea’ or ‘afternoon tea’, I simply mean the snack between breakfast and lunch, or between lunch and dinner. So if it’s just us, it’s usually a matter of the kids having a piece of fruit or some yoghurt. If I invite someone over for afternoon tea though, then I will provide some sweet and savoury foods (usually I’ll bake a cake to put a little effort in!), and we’d set the table with these things, to have with our coffee or tea. I grew up calling dinner ‘tea’, and so did most people my age or older...many families here in Australia still call dinner ‘tea’, it’s just many of us have dropped the British word for the American word, calling it dinner. I hope I didn’t just confuse things 😆 Xx
I enjoy your hauls.
Thank you Cynthia! Xx
I love hearing you use the term “fore or fort night” it reminds me of “Game of Thrones”! Enjoy hearing your voice and videos! 😊😂
‘Fortnight’ = 2 weeks ☺️ Thank you! Xx
I couldn’t imagine putting all that away
It’s a bit of a commitment, that’s for sure 😆 When I think of the hours meal planning, list writing, online shopping, sorting everything for the video, making the video, and putting it all away....it’s probably a part-time job before I even cook the food 🤣 Xx
Looking forward to your first instant pot recipe
😁 I’m really looking forward to sharing it! Xx
As someone who also lives in Victoria, I think you're doing incredibly week on the budget, I have also recently had to increase my shopping budget since it was becoming too much of a struggle. prices just keep going up
They really have, haven’t they?! I’ve heard some prices will go down later in the year, so hopefully that’s the case 🤞 Xx
Do you feel like the increase in prices is related to the pandemic or is this natural in your country?
It’s so nice to see UTube from all over the world many blessings from America 🇺🇸
Thank you! Xx
Love these hauls! Also, you used to show us cooking videos of what you made for dinner. I miss seeing those. However, I know how busy you are at this stage of life! I follow you also on Instagram and get to see a lot of your completed meals.
I do have a couple of meals to share, which I’ll be filming this week. The issue there was that I only share recipes that I’ve ‘invented’, and I have been less creative the last couple of months, with Christmas/holidays/start of school, I just did a lot of easy things 😆 I also get really bad at filming during that Summer holiday season....but I’m really happy to get started with the recipes again! Also a bit of meal prep-ahead is coming up. Xx
@@feedatribe I think you should write a cookbook! Your meals always look so lovely! And when you set a table for a party, nothing can beat it!
4, just 4 grey hair?? I had 4... now I don’t even know how many millions I have. I gave up leave it natural. I’m over 50. Great haul. Would love the recipe for your Mums birthday cake! God bless
😆 I think 2020 brought on the greys for me 😜 Mind you, I turned 40, so maybe that was the switch 🤣 I will definitely be making that cake again, it was sooo good! Not my recipe, but I’ll make it in a vlog one day (we have lots of birthdays in May!). Xx
Happy birthday to,your mother! I have to do a shopping run very soon as I Ghent done it in a while, I tend to send hubby to the store as I have a 9 min5h old and it’s just hard to get out sometimes as well as work from home. Love your grocery hauls, you do a great job. ❤️
Thank you! Shopping is very time-consuming, I completely understand how difficult it can be to get to the store! Have you tried shopping online? Xx
Happy Belated Birthday to your Mom. Looks like some great dinners and hope you will share some of the recipes with us. Looking forward to your new hair color. Good luck with Isla and the pretty bottles. Take care.
Thank you Betty! I will share a couple of recipes this coming week ☺️ Isla is enjoying a few sips from her new bottles, but so far no less obsessed with me 🤪....I know I shouldn’t complain, this too shall pass, and she is a lovely baby. Xx
I really enjoyed your video & seeing the different products. Love from the USA!! ❌⭕️
Thank you Susan! Xx
I fink I’ll complete the jigsaw between the 2 of u. It may take time tho. We use olive oil spread as well as it’s healthier. Not all cheese is vegetarian cos it depends wat cheese cultures are in the cheese. Not cool that u hot ripped off wiv the nectarines. I love spinach and rocket. I love kale chips. I onli buy conference pears. Those orange drinks reminds me of britix juices we have in the U.K. im not always sure of wat we have wen shopping. I onli buy raw nuts. We get tomoto paste in tubes. Sorry I can’t spell. I stopped dying my hair and will probably come back to it. I stopped cos I wanted to save time.
That’s true about cheese, I’d forgotten that! I bet there are plenty of vegetarians out there eating all the cheeses! I’ve seen the tubes of tomato paste...do you also call it ‘tomato purée’? I’d go through lots of tubes, because I use a lot of it! 😆 Xx
@@feedatribe we call it tomoto purée
Nice haul, Tfs.
Thank you Debora! Xx
Did you say Where's Waldo? The guy with the red striped hat?
☺️ Where’s Wally (but it is known as ‘Where’s Waldo’ in North America).
Can I ask why you homeschool? Not judging just interested/curious as it is not that common here in Australia :)
I suppose an array of reasons that just tipped the scales in favour for us. I’ve homeschooled in the past, when I wasn’t happy with a particular school. Then we tried another school, but had been wanting to homeschool again for a while. However, it never seemed like the ‘right time’ to pull them out of school...someone was always starting school/year 7, etc. Then when we were in lockdown, I couldn’t stand the remote learning. So it was an opportunity to take the plunge again. The reasons vary per child...but all-up, we like the fact that we can focus directly on each child and exactly where they are at. That just cannot be achieved in the school institution. Some kids/families thrive in the school environment (and my husband is a school teacher, so we don’t have anything against school....we follow the general Vic curriculum but in our own way), but we were mostly feeling frustration. Added to that, I’m really into the idea of family as an autonomous unit, and homeschool supports that philosophy. I also home birth (again, I’m a midwife, but I’m just not into the institutionalisation of a normal life event, or the false authority that takes away from what it’s all about). Homeschooling has become a lot more popular since lockdown and remote learning, as parents became aware of issues firsthand. My eldest son has just started VCE, and was perfectly happy in the school environment, so he still attends school. 🙂 Xx
@@feedatribe Thanks for the detailed reply :)
Greeting from Nebraska USA. Enjoy your videos. What kind of meat does the meat pies have? Blessings to you all
Thank you! They are beef mince pies - just beef and gravy - very yummy! I should try making homemade but have only made chicken and vegetable pies. Xx
@@feedatribe I make a tradional French Canadian pie known as Tourtiere. Usually made with beef and pork but I've just used beef lots of times. It really good!!
That sounds very similar - great comfort food! ☺️ Xx