Huge Costco Grocery Haul, Weekly Meal Plan, & Food Prep! New Containers & Sourdough Starter!

Hey party people! Thanks so much for hanging out with me while I share with you this new meal plan, grocery haul, and food prep video! I got some new containers for my food prep and I have been enjoying them! They’re kind of like a veggie tray if you will so that’s been great to pull out for the kids whenever it’s time for a snack! I also started a sourdough starter! It’s been…. going. haha I don’t know if it’s been going well or not so well but I’m still doing it so- there’s that. Hope you enjoy the full grocery haul, and meal plan, along with the food prep!

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[Applause] Grocery shopping is always the most exciting day of the week I’m going to meal plan and grocery shop I’ll share with you everything that I get from my hauls I intend to go to Costco and Publix those are my two like main stores that I go to to get everything that I

Need this week I want to film a what’s for dinner video so I plan my meals slightly differently I try to look for like new exciting recipes I think they’re exciting that I think would be like easy convenient I mean like they’re like my normal meals but just a step

Above my normal convenience meals where I like spaghetti chili tacos clearly people are working on the addition always love to hear it but a little more involved than like spaghetti chili tacos that kind of thing so I am armed with everything that I need you guys know I

Love the meal plan I’m subscribed to macro Friendly Foods I’m going to plop it all down I have my printables but then I also have my phone that is charging because I didn’t charge it last night because it got dropped in the bathtub when I was giving the kids a

Bath it’s okay I actually didn’t know about it and then I was looking for my phone sorry I’m a mess and then I was like wait is it in the tub sure enough it was so it wouldn’t charge because it was wet it’s fine okay I have it here

I’m so spoiled I’m like it’s been charging for 3 hours and it’s only at like 65% I literally have all of the knowledge in the entire world in my hand and I’m upset that it’s not f charch what the heck happened here I just got

This I got my pad of paper for my grocery list I’m going to make a new weekly meal plan I always like to put it on this sheet just to give myself a little reminder I don’t necessarily follow Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday meal plan but I’ll look at the sheet and

Decide oh what do I want to make today and then the recipes what’s great about macro Friendly Foods I know I’ve told you about them before but there’s just so much to tell is that she has over I want to say 600 700 recipes on the

Website so when you sign up for the meal plan I do have a code you can get 10% off of your first purchase so if you’ve been waiting on it I buy 3 months at a time and I think it’s like $10 a month but on the meal plan so on the website

Or app where you have access to all of the recipes when you sign up you get a monthly like PDF that you can print out so that’s how I get all of my printables but you have access to all the recipes on here and what’s great is that like I

Made a meal plan already because you can do that on the app and then it’ll just show you I didn’t finish it I think I did Monday through whatever but it’ll just show you all of the recipes that I picked out I think I have five recipes

There and then I don’t know if you can see but it makes the grocery list for you it is such a cool feature and it even has like x marks next to it so as you’re grocery shopping you can X them off it’s fantastic I can’t Rave about it

Enough you guys know I’ve been a part of it for like three years and mostly because I okay so I initially joined for a couple of reasons one of those reasons is because I found myself one overwhelmed with like meal planning and scouring Pinterest and always finding these recipes and sometimes they were

Like just so complicated and I don’t like multistep you know and I also found myself just over complicating meal planning and so this makes it so easy she comes out with new recipes every single month like main courses a dessert and side dishes and stuff so without any

Thought involved at all I can just like print them all out and make those for the week you know and I know they’re going to be familyfriendly I know they’re going to be easy to throw together I know they’re going to be like you know more healthier I know healthy

Means different things to different people but for me that’s what they are and I just love that fact I mean I still over complicate it and I sift through all the 700 recipes and I’m like I but that’s just how I am and I always find stuff and my family is always impressed

With whatever I make from the macro Friendly Foods so and then I also love it because again it’s simple but without staying in a rut like obviously spaghetti is simple and chili is simple do you know what I mean but this these are simple while also being elevated and

Awesome and different and new and exciting and sometimes when I’m meal plan like that’s exciting for me I’m like oh okay something to look forward to you know rather than just the mundane you oh dinner again oh it’s chicken nuggets or whatever my kids actually don’t even like chicken nuggets I’m like

Can you be a can we be a mac and cheese and chicken nugget family that would be so easy right they’re spoiled I’ve spoiled them anyway what are your go-to uh dinners for meal planning and obviously there are es and flows to this depending on what season of life you’re

In I’m in a busy season I’m not I don’t think I’m in the busiest season I don’t know that’s subjective like when I had a newborn I felt so overwhelmed and I just thought I I how how can I even get dinner and that’s when freezer meals

Were my best friend and even though like I made some amazing freezer meals even from uh the macro Friendly Foods I just even if it wasn’t like a slow cooker meal I just threw it all together and like made it one you know what I mean that’s the beauty of dinners and stuff

You can kind of adjust it to your liking and to whatever whatever the heck fits your lifestyle the best and that’s what I like I mean I rarely have all of the ingredients for something even though I’m making a grocery list and stuff if I’m thinking okay if this is the only

Recipe that calls for that I’m probably not going to buy it unless it’s something that is going to make or break the dish you know like five spice that spice will make or break a dish so that is worth it if you come across recipe

With that get it that is one of the most amazing spices I’ve ever had in my life amazing and I don’t use it enough I only use it in like two recipes but anyway if it’s something like that but I always adjust to whatever I have on hand a lot

Of the times so don’t be afraid to do that too use what you have that’s what I always like to go by all right and there’s my meal plan very simple also slow cooker meals so get pumped about the what’s for dinner that’s to come

Hey all right here it is my meal plan that I came up with you know when I do these um like what’s for dinner videos it it’s proving to be more difficult because I’ve shared so many good recipes with you so anyway here’s what I came up with sheet pan chicken nachos slow

Cooker beef tips and gravy slow cooker chili pork ver slow cooker chicken fajitas chicken curry soup slow cooker chili mac and then slow cooker teriyaki chicken um slow cooker was the theme okay because quick easy that’s my life and uh throw it in dump and go and all

That good stuff let’s head to the grocery store bye okay I made it home from the grocery stores and then I we had some stuff to do so it’s actually been a while all this stuff’s been sitting on my counter I don’t think I

Got any ice cream but if I did it would be melted so I’m going to show you everything that I got from Costco and Publix I was able to run to both the stores I already feel like I got my stuff together this is the haul as a

Whole not my largest haul but I still got a lot of stuff and then I have more over here and even more if you look past the dirty dishes over there I have my Public’s haul in this little nook and cranny so I always like to start with

The produce get you guys excited about eating something healthy I started out actually when we got home I started out with my Publix’s finds and I was going to make like this semi-healthy and add a bunch of grapes here but then yeah I told you a bunch of stuff happened and

It’s a long story and I’m not going to tell it here but I we did have some popcorn shrimp not shrimp that’s just chicken the chicken of the sea if you will and then some of this potato fries these are my favorite oh my gosh they’re

Heavenly and above all of that a little Pub sub happening over here a nice Pub sub I should actually show you what the Public Sub looks like because these things I tell you this is what dreams are made out of this is I mean there’s a reason why there’s a cult following with

This stuff I mean listen I always get the classic Italian with onions bell peppers banana peppers and uh I don’t really know what else lettuce of course salt and pepper oil and vinegar that is the most amazing thing you’re ever going to eat your entire freaking life I love

A good Pub sub so that’s what we did for like after school snack okay and then I got some grapes here that’s what I was going to put on the board these are like dreamy supry grapes they’re crunchy and delicious I’m trying to get this the kids have already gotten into them I

Just didn’t get a chance to put them on the board you know what I mean that’s life and then I got some strawberries these are actually really great even though they’re not in season is anything in season these days or is everything just GMO pretty sure it’s all fake we

All live in a simulation it’s just wild and crazy out here okay I also got mushrooms this is for I don’t really remember I think think the beef tips and gravy pretty sure there’s mushrooms in that some kind of slow cooker meal that I added to the meal plan and then I want

To put together some like veggie trays and fruit trays cuz I got some trays from Amazon that I’ve been wanting for a really long time so I finally just bought them because I saw an old video of someone else had them and I was like

I still want those real bad so I ordered them and um they’re going to be in any second now along with I’m waiting I’m actually waiting on an Amazon order I ordered all the teacher gift gift cards and uh that’s a lot okay so I’m really

Waiting on that anyway so I grabbed some broccoli and cauliflower to put inside of like the veggie trays and stuff can’t keep the little hands away come on open it oh you got one yeah make sure to wash that off make Dad happy about it okay oh

There you go washing it off okay I also got so I talked about broccoli the cauliflower too man you guys when’s the last time you had raw broccoli and raw cauliflower you know there’s something to be said about raw veget vegetables and our body like likes them you know I

Guess we get more nutrients from it it’s not always the best but when you drench it in ranch dip and I don’t mean like ranch dressing no there’s like ranch dip I got it from Publix you guys know hus is like okay but the ranch dip that’s

The best okay so that’s what I’m planning on doing and then I also got some melons these are cantaloupe they didn’t have honey any honeydew at Costco fear not my friends because I definitely got honeydew from Club Pub because I just think honeydew tastes so much better I’m going to have another taste

Test cuz we’re going to cut them both up here and then I got some avocados These are nice I figured I haven’t got them in a while so I just grabbed some for the the people in our house who liked it definitely not me but oh my gosh are

They stuck I think my hand is stuck in there no they’re not stuck they’re just really heavy that’s a hefty pile of avocados right there actually our neighbor has an avocado tree it’s been planted for like 10 years and it’s finally producing fruit so I’m really

Excited about that it only has like six on there right now but come next year I feel like we’re going to have an abundance of avocados I also got little baby oranges hi honey hand mini hand you SC Not The Claw so I grabbed some more oranges

Nothing too exciting we’re just out of oranges and we like the little ones something cute if you want to do for Halloween just make a little Jack O’Lantern face on there and your kids will love it except for if they don’t like the face and then they refuse to

Eat the orange because that particular face is on that orange oh my heck speaking from experience okay all right moving on to the berries I grabbed some blueberries and I ate some of these on the way home yes I know I wash them in my mouth don’t worry about it it’s like

Pesticides what you know what I mean it’s keeping me alive in here uh These are nice crunchy blueberries so delicious I’m salivating because they’re just so good who can pass up you know what I’m trying to I’m trying it’s not really working out uh yet I have yet to actually

Implement it but I am trying to eat a better breakfast so like normally I’ll just eat a bunch of garbage and it’s I used to have a great routine where I would like wake up and eat a banana or wake up and eat a yogurt but now I wake

Up and I eat a quesson or I wake up and scour the pantry for like candy not the best not the worst I guess I could be eating Doritos straight when I wake up and I always eventually end up eating something healthy it’s just that initial

Like and I always feel guilty too I’m like this is the first thing I’m putting in my body like that’s kind of messed up you know what I mean anyway so I want to start you know getting back into a routine of breakfast I just I don’t know

Why breakfast is so hard for me it just is speaking of um I don’t have it in this hole but I did get the SV egg bites they’re in here they’re actually behind this I got a bunch of the svie egg bites Elanor loves them the baby loves them I

Like them but I just don’t make them for myself so there’s that I also grabbed some raspberries these were a screaming deal $2.99 last time I went to Costco I did get a couple of containers and they’re already devoured and you know what’s going to happen to these they’re

Going to go moldy exactly because that’s Newton’s law okay that’s the gr that’s Public’s law what kind of law that’s Costco law who’s the founder of Costco we got to name that kind of law you know okay anyway I have these garlic things the garlic in the knobs in the bulb

Because last time I got them like peeled and whatever it’s just not the same something about something about getting the garlic straight from the bulb it’s just so much fresher it has so much more flavor so I just went back to my roots blame it all on my roots and then I got

A couple bundles of bananas just these are getting eaten like I don’t even know what to say I don’t know the proper analogy for this but they are getting eaten and eaten and none of them are going bad no banana bread around here my friends and then over here I got a salad

Kit it reminds me of Summer I feel like during the summertime especially the beach house we had Caesar salad every single dang night and before that I never had Caesar salad and I forgot just how much I love Caesar salad and the kids love Caesar salad so I figured I

Give him a little treat and uh give him some Caesar salad underneath the Caesar kit I have some cucumbers these are always a win Elanor loves them in her lunch box so I’ll like cut one up and she just she eat it like that just fresh cucumber but also whenever I make a

Salad for dinner I just throw cucumber on it and my kids love it just even if I just cut up cucumber and put it with that um Olive Garden Italian dressing they love it just like that they love it plain they love it with the dressing they just love okay cucumber nothing

More delicious than a cucumber hey I pulled out my juicer the other day and I’m kind kind of um inspired to do celery juicing I’m just kidding I’m not going to juice this although I could I don’t think I would enjoy that but I could juice it I need this for a couple

Of recipes and then I also just like gnawing on some cucumber Wolf Gang loves cucumber and it’s just so fragrant delicious I always forget how much I love cucumber until I start eating it again this is the shud board that I put together is probably the most nutritious

Board I’ve ever made in my life I’m just going to eat that I also grabbed some salsa cuz I I’m needing some salsa so I grabbed some Jack’s organic salsa from Costco rather than just get I mean this is listen I’ll let you know how I feel

About it this used to be my ultimate favorite it’s I don’t when I was pregnant I ate it and I was like this is the worst thing I’ve ever had in my entire life so I haven’t bought it since then it’s been like 2 years okay which

Seems like such a long time holy cow have you been here that long it just blows my mind have you been my friend that long I don’t even understand how but I do appreciate okay appreciate you also do you like Jack’s organic salsa and based off my recommend did you eat

It and then think that’s the most disgusting thing I’ve ever have I used to love this stuff it’s like so fresh but somehow not you know what I mean anyway I also got some string cheese I just throw it in the kids lunches every day it’s just quick easy protein to

Throw in their lunch and they eat it or at least it doesn’t come home so I think they eat it make it festive you throw some eyeballs on there make it look like a ghost hey I grabbed this I don’t know what we’re going to eat with it but I

Saw this on someone’s Instagram like a Costco account that I follow and it is loaded M what is it loaded mashed potatoes so Costco so convenient that they sell mashed potatoes um but this is like loaded so it’s got green onions in there and bacon and I don’t know what

Else so I’m going to try that out and let you know how I feel about it and then I saw this for the first time and I was like w w who what the apple blossoms the crumble crunch Apple Blossom is my favorite and then you know what got me ready in 50

Seconds now that’s dangerous okay I don’t know you know but I do think it’s going to be a hit so I’m kind of scared to eat those I love when people say that I’m so scared right now like you’re scared to put blush on your face okay

I’m mostly afraid to eat them because I think if I eat one then I’ll Devour the entire box and that’s what I’m afraid of okay 12 come in a box and uh fears you know fears unlocked am I going to eat one or am I going to eat all 12 TBD all

Right I grabbed some flower tortillas and these are just great to have on hand we had taco night the other night and here’s the thing Okay taco night used to be easy used to be simple make some tacos lay out some autra malls some lettuce some cheese whatever the heck

Some tortillas and it done easy nope not my family uh nope stop it right there you better stop in the Name of Love before you eat some tacos cuz my family loves chimmy chongas so then I have to get out the gfg which is over there and it’s just a

Whole Todo and then it’s like okay what do you want on yours what do you want on yours I got sour cream I got beans I got rice I got taco meat and I got everything cilantro it became a whole thing so like whatever you know oh gosh taco

Night try to make things easy and then all of a sudden if you got a 100 Mouse to feed it’s not so easy all right I got some turkey breast o wow some turkey some turkey breast it’s oven roasted turkey it’s turkey breast oven roasted that is the jingle for turkey breast

Right there Kirkland hit me up I also got the cheese because this is the level of life that I’m out right now after school snack cheese and crackers lunch cheese and crackers breakfast cheese and crackers snack before bed cheese and you guested crackers except for I didn’t get any Triscuits or whole

What are those like square ones the wheat wheat thins oh man those are my favorite I meant to get that but I didn’t add it to my grocery list so I totally forgot hey speaking of something I didn’t add to my grocery list the real

Good is good is real good this hand is giving Thriller is Thriller aona I nailed that 18 bacon wrap stuffed jalapenos I figure hey every weekend we’re watching football and can you watch football without a BAC and wrap stuffed jalapeno uh yes you can but you

Know do you want to sometimes I also grabbed these flas and they looked really good sometimes they have flas and they’re like Southwest and those are good semi spicy I don’t know about these These are chicken and cheese avalina loves stuff like this that it’s like independent eating she can just throw it

In the air fryer and be good to go and then also like great after school snack and stuff so anyway those will be great for munching and eating and then I saw this and I didn’t get bread and I don’t even know what the heck I was thinking

But this is dipping oils three of them so we have Italian and Herb Greek something Greek herbs and then garlic parmesan somebody get me a loaf of bread okay and then I’m going to spend the rest of the night with just me and those oils and that Loa of Brit I also grabbed

These yogurt smoothie melts these are fantastic I get them from Wolf Gang not from I get them for him and there are four packs in here for this price is a great deal and they are dairyfree so they’re made with like coconut milk and he loves them it’s just a quick easy

Snack if I’m on the go I always throw some in my purse or whatever you know okay and then I got these for just everyone else the Z Bars I also last time I went grabbed the granola bar bars the Kirkland gr brand granola bars it’s like 5 cents per bar it’s

Insanity but my kids love them and I just again easy to throw in their lunch boxes every day I’m throwing in a z bar or a granola bar from Kirkland and then I did end up getting some uh crackers so these are the rich crackers not my

Favorite I’m still waiting for the sweet potato crackers to come back to Costco come back Costco I mean sweet potato crackers I really really like them my kids like them too they’re gluten-free and everything but anyway I haven’t seen them in forever I see them on other

People’s shop with MES and I’m like so jealous the Green With Envy comes on out hey you know what um it’s flu season and stuff so we’ve been using toilet paper as tissues and well we had a couple boxes of tissues and then that ran out

And I was like you know what I should be an adult and get some tissues and these happen to be on sale today so I said you know what today’s the day it’s now or never hey speaking of Halloween I got these they’re on sale no one comes to

Our house during Halloween it’s actually pretty sad but like I get it no one wants to walk all the way down the lane understood more candy for us I guess and um I take advantage of these sales because this one was on mega sale I think it was cheaper than these two but

I grabbed or maybe these were cheaper I can’t remember one was cheaper than the other and I’ll put the yellow box price here and the blue box price here so you can compare and contrast and um well I guess you can’t really see what’s in either one

So I get these mostly for the movie room and obviously I’m not going to like put them all up there at one time I’m going to store them away I’m just taking advantage of the deal so here’s everything in the blue box you got kid Kat Hershey Reese’s and more Hershey’s

Oh some with almonds and then over here I think this is the box I got last time Snickers Twix Milky Way M&M’s with peanuts and without and you guys Smash Hit among friends and family over here I did get some chocolates because I need to put uh together some teacher gifts

Hence the Amazon gift cards but I always like to give them something just tangible that they could enjoy in the moment and so I got these like little pumpkins and I don’t even know who the heck I am I just want to show the teachers that I appreciate them and like

I just like truly I wish I could do more for them like they’re incredible amazing they they’re the backbone of our society can we please just give teachers a raise can we pay them what they’re worth if we pay teachers like we pay the people in the

NFL I mean could you imagine I couldn’t how many people are in the NFL compared to teachers that’s probably why we can’t do it all right anyway entertainment always uh makes more money is that what they say newella be ready I almost didn’t get these but

They were a decent price and Elanor has been asking for them for a really long time so I did it and then avalina came back from her hiking trip her her big like week long not hike like camping trip and um they bought like nut bars

For all the other students well well not all the other most of the other students but avalina is allergic to like every nut except for peanuts so they got neutr grain bars instead other kids ate them too but anyway she came home and was raving about them she’s like oh they had

These bars and blah blah blah so she was with me at Costco and she said this is it so anyway these are so messy I can’t explain I tried to give one to Wolf Gang also they have a lot of extra sugar in them like a lot of added sugar so let’s

Check this out I can’t even see I think it says 12 G of extra sugar it’s just Insanity I don’t even know but I did it for her because I love her you know what I mean I aim to please and then I got these for just after school just weekend

When the kids are like I’m hungry I’m like I am clocking out for a couple of hours you go ahead and make yourself a pizza and then I got chicken these are chicken thighs I always like to have these in the freezer and then I got ground beef always like to have have

This in the freezer I portion it up oh my heck The Grapes touching the raw meat down there actually it wasn’t touching it cuz it’s in plastic but you get what I’m saying this is the stew meat for the beef tips and graa and then over here

Don’t worry about that it’s like I just have to clean you know and then the stuffing it really got me because there’s three recipes on the back and there’s three packs please make me make every single one of these otherwise I end up donating them or like giving them to other people I

Well I guess like it’s not the worst thing that could happen but they could go bad but I always buy this and then I always only make one and I’m like why did I buy that okay and then I grabbed this this was a screaming deal it was on

Sale it was like $7 for 2 468 cans and one can alone at Publix it’s like four bucks so scream and deal on that and then a lot of the recipes that I’m making um the the curry for instance I think calls for two cans of evaporated

Milk and then also it’s baking season and so like pumpkin pie and stuff like that calls for evaporated milk rumballs I need evaporated milk for that man I can’t wait to make rum balls I was dreaming about it last night I was like it’s rumball season everybody and then I

Got these uh gloves for everyone these were on sale and a decent price and my kids are needing gloves I know it’s so cold in Florida but the they have grown out of their gloves I hope I got the right size for everyone so I’m going to

Make sure and I recently got avalina some gloves off of am Amazon and I got I ordered them a little late right before her trip and they were way too big for her um they were for her hiking trip and so she definitely needs a pair of gloves

That fit her not that like it’s super cold but some days it is super cold and they’re outside a lot cuz it’s Florida so even during school like they play outside a lot anyway so gloves are nice to have okay so this is my Publix’s haul

Over here I did get some normal flour um this is actually good flour oh crap did I get the right stuff yeah unbleach because because you guys have you been watching Instagram I have been making come on that’s my strong hand I’ve been making sourdough everybody hands up you guys I

Don’t know who’s been lying to us but sourdough smells so bad it smells so bad I just opened that no oh my gosh close it immediately this smells so it just smells so bad oh man it’s horrible okay and so I need that for the the sour

Dough man I don’t know am I doing it right it smells real bad okay onion soup mix this is for the beef tips and Grava and then I my kids are always asking for gravy so I guess one packet is what I thought Oh no I got two okay good for

You Kim and then I needed some corn so I always get the frozen corn I feel like that’s the best I got some beef broth and then uh noodles for the chili mac over here this is the best ranch dip I get it in the produce section and I mean

Just it’s great for vegetables and stuff that’s the brand marz something and then the this is for the taco salad that I didn’t put on my grocery list but I always like to have these on hand whether I’m making tacos or taco salad it’s whatever I throw those on them I

Got a nice little honeydew thank you so much I got bread to make samies I got salami because we have a nephew who just eats salami by the pound and then I got a lot of canned food so I have beans in here I could not find tomatillos nope not in

My grocery store but I do have black beans and I have tomatoes fire roasted and diced with chilies and all kinds of stuff in there oh oh and then back here I needed green uh salsa verde for salsa verde pork and then I got apple cider vinegar and then I got some Worster

Sheere and I grabbed some liquid smoke because it was right next to the werer sauce and I figured well I’m out of liquid smoke and I always like to have it on hand for whenever I make my famous uh ribs so there’s that you guys know my famous rib

Recipe I don’t have one by the way I they’re actually not that hard to make if you make them in the oven Alex and I have tried to make them on the grill and it is a mess and a half I might just succumb and use the oven method I

Actually found some at Costco while I was shopping around and I almost gave into it it was I don’t know a couple stacks of ribs which probably was only I am mortified because I was watching Alex like play with the kids you know how dads play with kids not like moms I’m

Going to just say that he was doing something I would have never done but I mean obviously he was being safe but in my heart of hearts I was like the everyone is in trouble you know doomsday so anyway that was my face I just had to

Put blinders on and say okay they’re having a good time like that’s fine they’re safe and and do what I had to do but anyway what was I saying okay ribs I found some at Costco and I want to say it was like $25 for a couple of stacks

Not like humongo but they were seasoned and I don’t know I just felt like well that I don’t think that’ll feed my family so I didn’t get it and also it’s probably much more affordable to do it on your own and it’s really simple to make ribs actually you just have to like

Peel the skin off I don’t oh oh um a and I were talking about working out body combat stuff anyway I took her to a class one time and uh and that’s what we were talking about um so the ribs really easy you just like peel that skin off of

It and then rub it with some seasonings throw it in the oven just do it in the oven who cares no one’s going to judge you and they might taste better on the grill but I don’t know not ours they burnt on the outside and Raw on the

Inside anyway so while I was putting groceries away I am trying my best you guys I’m trying it’s been a few times and I don’t even know why this is one of my goals I just want my kids to have a really magical childhood and I’m just

Doing my best you know it’s my it’s my duty to make sure that that their childhood is magical and also this is the first time I’m living my life like I want my life to be magical too so I’m trying to put on Halloween movies because it’s almost Halloween I know

It’s wild and crazy it’s actually almost Christmas okay let me just say that right now it’s like 60 days till Christmas or something crazy maybe less than that at this point so I’ve been trying to put on Halloween movies I just want the like theme I don’t want them I

Don’t know I have a lot of thoughts about it so I put on Casper to kick things off we have actually watched a couple before this Hocus Pocus 2 by the way I rewatched it I think I shared on Instagram my thoughts about it you know what way better this second time around

When I was much less sleep deprived it was actually I liked it I know there a lot of people had thoughts I hated it the first time I really loved the beginning part hated the rest of the movie those little girls as you know Sanderson sisters as they were younger

Amazing they deserve Grammys for their performances or Oscars whatever okay and then um Casper you guys how is that a kids movie they say the b word they said like they were they were being mean in certain parts it’s like home alone when you watch it as an adult you’re thinking

Oh my gosh they’re so mean they’re bullies it’s horrible so like certain parts of older movies Alex and I look at each other and we’re like nowadays that would never fly okay so we watch Casper couple curse words later and I was like how is this a kids movie I don’t know

It’s it is a trip if you’re looking for a movie to watch it was actually like I liked it maybe it’s more of an adult movie but the Nostalgia part of me like I watched it as a child you know what I mean but the movies I watch as a child I

Would you know some of them I would never let my kids watch like how did my parents let me watch The Shining when I was four I mean obviously it wasn’t four but that’s how I felt actually I should add The Shining to our Halloween movie

Man I’m just kidding um but Casper I really enjoyed it and also the who’s that like boy actor oh my gosh first crush ever like what amazing when he turns into a boy can I keep you like what does that even mean yes yes you can

Can I keep you and why was he only allowed to be a boy for like 3 minutes the angel came down the mom angel came down and she was like you have until 10 p.m. and he was like come on Cinderella till midnight and she’s all 1: p.m. Cinderella wasn’t 12 actually Cinderella

Was probably like 16 and also 10 p.m. was like one song later one song in dance later like come on at least give him two songs and then he had turned back into a ghost in front of everybody he was all Boo and then they all ran out

And also how did she host a party she didn’t clean her house she didn’t bring out any snacks she literally opened the door she’s holding the Casper juice in her hand and she’s like oh be right back and then runs away uh and then her dad dies like what

The heck man spoiler alert if you haven’t seen it watch it watch it as an adult and then give me give me your feedback I need I need to discuss this with someone okay and then I thought well we need an actual like familyfriendly Halloween movie so I

Turned on Halloween Town and I haven’t seen that I saw it growing up I know some people love it it it wasn’t never my favorite uh but we turned it on the kids enjoyed it so that was fun and then right after that we had a movie marathon

Going so I turned on number two I was out for the night so I didn’t catch it but the kids watched a little bit of it and I don’t I asked them how they felt about it they said they liked it so there’s the Halloween uh Town review I’m

Going to have to because apparently there’s like four of them it’s like halloweent toown goes to college or something so she’s like 18 when the second movie comes on anyway so I’m going to have to rewatch those but those are good ones so a couple of things that I wanted to

Mention one my sourdough don’t let me forget to talk about it and then two this container that I recently got from Amazon I think I I talked about it somewhere I don’t know maybe on my in I don’t remember where it was maybe in this grocery haul but I have been

Wanting this these containers they are smaller than I thought so there’s that but somehow the perfect size so obviously they won’t facilitate an entire carton of strawberries cut up or an entire carton of blueberries or whatever but it is great for when you’re for like me if I’m putting together a

Snack board for the kids after school or which is what I did I was putting one fruits and one veggie together it definitely didn’t hold an entire pineapple and I wanted to keep the top to uh try to grow another one try as I may you guys my mango tree died out

There oh my gosh we had all kinds of stuff mango avocado we had some kind of Plum they’re all dying starfruit tree is thriving mostly cuz I put it in the ground the other ones I was trying to find a spot and then never put them in the ground I

Digress so these containers they were great I got them from Amazon I’ve been wanting them for a really long time and so I finally bought them and I you know mixed review I thought oh I wish these were a little bigger but also they’re a great size I pulled them out for dinner

Yesterday too because sometimes I know whatever I make like the it might not be everyone’s favorite so I I try to pull out fruits and veggies and this was great cuz they were already prepped and ready to go and they had an assortment right there so there was a pro and the

Sourdough okay couple things I did talk about already that like why is it so stinky why does no one ever talk about just how disgusting it smells which is fine I guess but also did I screw it up because I realize I did have a starter

So I bought a starter not like a liquid starter I know some people told me I think it’s King Arthur or some some brand sells a liquid starter that you can buy um I don’t have that I do have a family member who has a three-year-old mature sourdough who told me that they

Would give me some so maybe that will be my Christmas gift this year but I got the like freeze-dried starter okay and then I had I guess I have to like living it up so it comes with directions which I lost by the way uh found them I lost

Them only for a day but then found them and I think things are going well but then I realized I was using the wrong flow I think it was bread flour don’t judge me I was doing my best I thought it was the unbleached like I thought it

Was the flower that I bought specifically for it uh but apparently that was years ago and I used it all up I don’t know so it had baking powder in it I mean I I’m just guessing it’s bread flour so I’m assuming it had something

Extra in it so I don’t know did I mess it up is it going to be fine I think I’m on like six which I don’t I don’t know why did I think that I could do this why did I think that I could add one more

Thing to my life I barely have time to shave my legs and I realize it’s just like what is it 5 Seconds of your whole day I think it’s the mental load of remembering to do it I even set an alarm one day forgot whoops so there’s that

I’m doing my best to have sourdough starter and then there’s the um the fruit trays fruit and veggie trays I actually really like them and I like that they’re Square they take up less room in my fridge very compact uh and all that good stuff and then this is the

Water that was uh used to wash the fruits and vegetables and all that dirt so I thought you would uh like to see that and watch how satisfying that is to see all the crap that came off of the fruit that I watched and then I’m

Portioning out the meat I always do this and I always think oh I should buy more ground beef because we go through like one bag is one meal so if I’m making you know four meals anyway I try to stock up and I probably should have bought two of

These but it’s fine um you’ll you’re going to see I pull out a scale cuz normally I just do it by how it feels and I knew one bag was heavier than the others so I tried to like take a little bit out and put it in but then I thought

Well it’s fine just one bag is heavier than the others the others feel normal so I said you know what would be fun pulling out the scale you always know I like to do this just for fun to see how accurate I am and surprisingly I’m like

Right on the nose it’s pretty awesome except for that one bag that I knew was heavier I thought it would be a little more heavier than what it was it was only like 4 oz off or something but I’m pretty impressed with myself but that’s

How I store the ground beef I just smash it down like that so it’s easily um stored in my freezer and it doesn’t all stick together and it’s really nice so the this is me weighing everything out at 1 Point what was that 1. 68 1.7 like

Crazy it’s almost exactly on the nose I’m always impressed with myself when I can do little things like this that absolutely don’t matter to anyone else oh what was that one point uh I don’t know well that is it thank you guys so much for watching and hanging out with

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