HUGE Grocery Haul: A WHOLE month of NEW meals? Watch what I buy to feed my big family!

Trying to get out of my “meal rut” and change things up a bit this month, I decided to make all new, totally different meals this whole month!! I know that its kind of nuts, but my family would tell you, its something I would do. Plus I needed some new meal inspiration. So where did I turn? The internet and Instagram of course. Watch this epic massive grocery haul where I show you all the things I picked up shopping at Aldi and Wegmans. I hope you can use some of these new meal ideas yourself! Websites and channel pages to find the recipes mentioned in the video are listed below.

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– Honey Garlic Butter Shrimp
– Chicken Parmasean Pasta Casserole

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– Creamy Mushroom Pork Chops
– Crockpot Chicken Tacos with Avacado Sauce

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– Street Corn Chicken and Rice Bowl
– Chicken Bacon Ranch Flatbreads

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– Sheet Pan Chicken Schwarma

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– Sheet Pan Honey Garlic Chicken

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– Crockpot French Dip Sandwiches

Sheet Pan Teriyaki Chicken and Pineapple Fried Rice

– Sheet pan Teriyaki Chicken and Pineapple Fried Rice

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– Italian Grinder Sliders

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– The BEST Chocolate Chip Cookies (note I did NOT garnish with salt on top…just saying)

I’m about to head out at my big Aldi monthly grocery haul I have been in a little bit of a meal rot lately I admit meaning I have not been planning very well and I go to the freezer or fridge and then I’m running through my mental inventory of meals I normally make and you know nothing’s really hitting me oh yeah I want to make that cuz I’m just sort of getting bored I guess of the things that I normally make and I think my family is getting bored too so I was watching some Instagram videos about the Aldi meals of the week lately and probably you’ve seen those and they kind of inspired me because they look easy they look inexpensive they look like things that I’d want to make so I thought I’m going to write some of these down and you know mix those in well instead of mixing them in some reason I wrote down like 20 different meals and I just I guess I’m going to just make almost all new things this month that I’ve never made before um somehow that happened I don’t know it doesn’t make any sense really because normally you just try a few new things right but I’m trying this and we’ll see how it goes it won’t be boring that’s for sure so I’m going to get going to Aldi now and pick up the ingredients that I need for these meals I’m really excited to have a plan this month I’m really excited to be trying different things and I’m hoping that this is going to be better on my budget we will see and I will be sharing this haul with you so these are the items that I picked up at Aldi today and this is my monthly haul you can see I also got some items I put over there and and I also got some items over there so first of all I got some extra large white eggs they’re for my son who doesn’t like the brown eggs then I got two bags of mozzarella these are all going to be for these meals that I looked up on Instagram and found people making from Aldi so I tried to get it to be less expensive than normal but it was only a tiny bit less expensive so everything’s going up in price so much I got some pepperoni going to be making the Italian um style grinder sandwiches that you might have seen online I got two of these top ster loins that I’m going to make a like a beef and broccoli in the slow cooker I got two no three of these thick sliced bacon from Aldi those were actually a good deal I mean when I say a good deal maybe $3.99 a pack and that means they really haven’t gone up that much with inflation whereas some things like I’ll show you my olive oil later um have gone up so much the chuck roast I got two of these this is for like a french dip sandwiches in the slow cooker recipe that I found from the internet then chicken breasts you know I don’t normally get these at Wegman’s 249 a pound that’s a pretty good deal and they’re really nice quality chicken breast so I got the big pack but I got a lot of big packs because I went through all the recipes I’m going to be making and added up how much chicken I was going to need for each one so I ended up getting one two 3 four five six seven packs and they’re each about 4 lb so that’d be almost 30 lb then I got these chicken thighs one two three packs of the chicken thighs and they are 2.99 a pound almost 3 lb each so that’s going to be um a total of about oh not quite 10 lb of chicken thighs those are for some recipes I’m going to make I got this mild poultry Italian sausage that’s $55.99 a pound there’s about six in each pack for $7 each um let’s see I got one two three four of those plus I got some of the same thing the mild poultry Italian sausage but these are the patties so it can be broken apart easily for like recipes that I’m going to be doing then I got a gallon of milk and some a bag of cherries a lot of you are realizing like me that cherries are so expensive these were I think maybe $3 a pound at Aldi they’re expensive but I figure this is cherry season so we’re not we never buy them throughout the year um there’s half and half I think of that to go back over here and I got two of these packs of the sliced provolone cheese I’m going to be using that for those sliders and I can’t even think right now about a bunch of other recipes I found I know there was at least one other recipe that called for it it might have been I don’t think it was the French tip uh then I got some salami that’s for the sliders some breakfast sausage I told you I’m trying the um once a month or not once a month once a week on a Saturday morning we’re trying to do like a big family breakfast together so everybody knows and last week I made homemade cinnamon rolls not the kind from the can but like real homemade ones so you have to let rise and all that so the week before that I made blueberry scones so it’s been going kind of fun and nice and I like it it’s been going well and I I wanted to pick up some bacon and sausage and stuff just to have it around so when I figure out what I’m making every on the Saturday um a thing of sour cream this thing of ricotta one thing I’m going to make is several different kinds of flatbreads are a couple of the recipes I have so the ricot is for one of those I got this K CA cheese I’ve never bought it before but I’ve seen a lot of people using it for recipes and I have a recipe for some chicken tacos that calls for that this recipe turned out really good we all loved it and I’m definitely making it again then I got some Greek yogurt I’m going to be doing like a sheet pan chicken schwarma recipe ree that I found online and I got some just a little bit of lunch me this time honey ham this ham is going to go with the salami and the pepperoni to make those Italian grinder sandwiches some ham slices for breakfast and got one two three bags of frozen shrimp that’s for another recipe that I found online that’s I think it’s like honey garlic maybe shrimp and that looks kind of good um then I got one two three four boxes of butter I stacked up on some baking supplies over there I’ll show you I didn’t suck up too much but I mean I got refills for everything because we have been baking a bunch I found these really good chocolate chip cookie recipe that um we made and it was so good and I just loved the way they looked too and I might do a video on it sometime I found it online and you know how like you try different ones and sometimes they’re like okay this is all right but it’s not going to replace my normal one well this one I think it really will replace my normal one cuz it was so good um American Cheese Slices for like cheeseburgers a big thing of H CAD Frozen CAD wild C from Al and those I again are individually wrapped so I really like that um bag of lemons I’ve been using a lot of lemons in cooking lately this is a bag of cilantro and another bag of cilantro one was from Aldi one was from wiem Men’s have you ever tried this from Aldi it’s F in the fresh section it’s really good my kids really like that when whenever I get it and just to eat with chips and stuff and then a thing of broccoli I’m growing broccoli in my garden as well so I only got one head of it but a lot of my recipes called for broccol broccoli and the we’ve been getting a lot of that broccoli out of my garden it’s been really nice but um you know it’s kind of getting past its peak so I thought I would get some and I got this big bag of avocados you can see in there I got a lot they were like 69 cents each at ald it’s funny how some things are so high price now and some things are like lower so I got a bag of red onions I had like four recipes that called for red onion a bag of romae Hearts I’m also growing lettuce in my garden right now but it’s starting to go past this peak as well so I’m still buying a little bit uh had of cauliflower I’m going to make some kind of roasted cauliflower with that it was so good the last time I did it I did it with some different spices I put like some cumin and smoked paprika on it and it was really good um two of these cucumbers to make I’m going to make put some Suzuki sauce and stuff and um some salads when I do the chicken schwarma sheet pan chicken schwarma and then I got some limes a bunch of bananas a bag of tomatoes for some recipes strawberries just because we need some fresh fruit around here although we live in the country and we have blueberries in our backyard growing we have black raspberries all over the edges of the woods and we have a patch of red raspberries so there’s just a lot of fruit we also have a peach tree out back that every other year gives us peaches about and last year we didn’t get any and we noticed this year there’s a lot of peaches on it so it’s exciting that next month we’re going to be having like a 100 peaches all at once but we’ll probably make a lot of peach cobbler and just a lot of different Peach things maybe give some away to our family and stuff and then there’s one two three brownie mixes that we got cuz I just like the brownie mix from Aldi breadcrumbs Italian style for recipes this Jello-O double chocolate cheesecake we made this one time and we really liked it um I got this I never get these but the other day I bought some we went on a camping overnight thing when we went kaying and I brought these because it’s so easy you just heat up water and pour it in when you’re camping and my one daughter really lik liked him a lot so I just got him for the house and it’s just like an a pinch somebody wants to make lunch in the summer and grab one of those and we don’t have something else we’re doing two of these bags of peppers that’s another thing I feel like so many recipes I found called for peppers and I am growing them in the garden but we looked and they’re just itty bitty right now they’re like they’re like teeny so it’s going to be a little r before we get those the bag of fresh spinach for recipes cherry tomatoes iceberg lettuce I got three things of mushrooms this time not as many parmesan shredded parmesan cheese and then I also got a couple of these big parmesan Shaker cheeses now this is the big shock to me the olive oil that I buy at Aldi it’s not even the extra virgin olive oil was just the basic one I think I used to pay like $250 for this not that long ago and it was $5 for the most cheapest basic what size is this 16 oz bottle are you guys shocked at olive oil price I’m going to have to find see if they can find it in bulk for any cheaper or not but Tiki Masala I like this from Aldi I know I’ve made it from scratch as well but I don’t mind the one that’s Jarred either some teriyaki sauce and then I got this other kind of teriyaki sauce um I’m going to make this sheet pan chicken teriyaki they just called for just getting sauce so I just bought the sauce and figured I tried two different ones and then I got some honey CU we’re making some um garlic honey chicken and I don’t think I have enough honey I’m trying this goou Chang I’ve seen this on a lot of cooking shows it’s fermented spicy red chili paste I’m just going to try adding it to like a stir fry sauce I’ve seen it so many places that I’m thinking maybe it’s really good vanilla goes along with my baking stuff that I needed to replenish garlic powder I was all out of that and a lot of the things I saw call for that I’m going to I only got one because I’m going to buy the large bottle it’s like the size of something like this um I think I’m going to be in a little town tomorrow that has the large bottles at the Giant Store so I’m probably just going to go get that um did I really buy another teriyaki sauce I guess I bought this one at Aldi then I bought those so I think I got enough teriyaki sauce now um this was interesting this is new with Aldi Ginger stiring paste I want to try that put it in the fridge just squirt it in I love fresh ginger we usually keep the root the ginger root in our freezer and then just gr it when we need to use it for like Asian cooking but that just would be so handy kind of like these this minc garlic in olive oil I usually like buying this cuz you can just teaspoon it out when you need garlic cloves and it’s better than just using garlic powder it’s so much more convenient than trying to just Smash Up the fresh garlic although I know my son would argue that the fresh garlic is no comparison um chicken better than bullion I love this stuff I love this so much for like when you just need like maybe a cup or two of chicken broth and you just don’t want to open a big carton or something and it’s it tastes really good so I got that it was out of it this pesto sauce I got two of these from Aldi one of them is for like a chicken pesto flatbread and then there was like a pasta dish that also called for p Pasto so hopefully that that is good pesto I don’t know um an onion soup mix this was I think we going to be using the French dip beef a taco seasoning packet was called for in one of the recipes some chocolate chip granola bars I didn’t buy any snacks I bought pretty much just ingredients for cooking these meals so that’s like one exception right there I don’t know how many other things I bought for snacks not much bacon bits was for the chicken bacon ranch flat breads granola another snack I bought vanilla almond granola it looks so good doesn’t it it was good we tried it last time baking soda I needed more raw almonds peans pistachio kernels I love this mix I really love this mix this is good in the morning at breakfast if you’re if you saw my breakfast video I did about the different options that I choose from one of them is um um just like if I’m on the go just some nuts and chocolate chips mixed together and I love those and I also love putting them on the um cereal that I eat sometimes corn starch needed it for recipes and I’m almost out Mixed Nuts we love those and they’re so good for snacking or for breakfast um jasmine rice here’s the King Arthur allpurpose Flower I’m trying by the King Arthur because somebody that I know was saying that the other flower has something to do with the brominated flower and it caused inflammation with their husband and they went off of it and only used this now and it went away so I don’t know I’m somebody who sometimes feels like I get inflamed when I eat um flowery based products so I just thought I would try using that there’s some sugar we got brown sugar and confectionary sugar cuz we’re running kind of low we’ve been baking more especially my daughters love to bake some zi for one of the recipes two boxes I got four of these marinaras from Aldi a lot of the recipes I’m trying are not supposed to be Gourmet they’re supposed to be just quick easy efficient and I’m excited about that I just want to do something that’s simple cuz honestly I have other things I want to do this summer besides just spending all day in the kitchen um so even though I like to cook and I know my kids all want to eat I just want to make filling yummy things that are quick ranch dressing Italian dressing and some pineapple chunks one of the things I’m making is that sheep pan chicken teriyaki with pineapple fried rice it looked interesting but that’s something I would not have even thought of doing is pineapple fried rice and it’s going to be like surprising everyone like hey this is what we’re making this is what we’re having for dinner tonight it’s totally different than normal uh medium salsa that’s just for some recipes and this sesame oil this was expensive cuz it’s a big one it’s like 15 bucks but guess what the price per ounce was like half the price of the small one so I couldn’t do I couldn’t get the small one when I saw how much better of a deal that was um so here is the mayonnaise it’s just a generic I got two of those are you like me where in the summertime you use so much more mayonnaise because we’re always making like potato salad or macaroni salad or tonight or today my daughter made chicken salad from chicken we had semisweet chocolate chips we got four bags why would we want to bake in the summer right it’s so hot but the thing is I don’t buy a lot of snacky things like I don’t buy a lot of cookies or or candy or stuff so I think that when the kids are wanting something sweet sometimes then they just are they’re like well we got to go bake something two of these bags of semisweet Belgian chocolate chunks these are the big chunks they’re really good sometimes it’s fun to have cookies that just have like these big chunks in them and I like those from Aldi then I got two cartons of this chicken broth I’m making this sausage tuskin soup it’s supposed to be like a copycat of something from Olive Garden and it looks really good so I needed more chicken broth Italian dressing this is the generic that’s supposed to be like the Olive Garden dressing I’ve had it before from Aldi and it’s really good you like it a lot I just wish they would when they package it that they would put the little top on that doesn’t only lets a little come out instead of this whole thing open because you know so easy to just glug it out on accident spaghetti angel hair pasta and then remember last time I bought [Applause] these the seven grains they had a couple of these they only had a couple but I love it that they have seven organic grains and lentils it’s really filling what I did this month is a couple times I would make this it’s the 92nd one I don’t love doing all these really fast things sometimes but sometimes I do there’s those nights where it’s like oh I got to quickly get dinner together fast and um the other night my son came in and was like Mom what’s for dinner and it was early and he said well I’ve got to leave and go somewhere and I said said oh I don’t have anything ready but and then I thought well I guess I could just quickly whip this stuff up so I really fast made this and what I really like doing is you cook it up for 1 and a half minutes in the microwave and then I let it cooled down and put some Italian dressing with it and made it like a salad with cucumber and tomato dice up in it it was really good if you like like rice salad and it’s so healthy because it’s got all of the yummy grains and quoa and things that have like a lot of fiber so I got two of those and I got two of these long green and wild rice 92 and I don’t think I showed you the potatoes back here two bags two five pump bags of white potatoes for recipes then over here I put all my my bread and stuff I got some hamburger buns some tortilla wraps I needed for taco night a taco um recipe I found and it looks really good cuz even though I of course I’ve made lots of tacos before it’s for chicken tacos but it has um in the recipe it was for it has like a um avocado cream sauce like an lime avocado sauce that you make up and it just looked really good never made it before so I thought it’d be interesting then I got these Brios rolls I think these ones I’m going to use for the French dips and when you get this much bread at once for a monthly haul I’m going to have to figure out which of these things I can freeze because there’s in the summer especially these things don’t keep that long so I think I’m going to freeze these flat breads I got these have a two pack in them so I figured we’ll have to have two of the two packs for each dinner I wasn’t even sure if that would be enough so I got another um flat bread for cross I think I overdid that a little but I’m you know we’re not we’re not feeding just a family of four we’ve got um eight of us including my mom that I bring dinner to and she lives next door so it’s not a big deal uh then I got some hot dog buns just for maybe sausages or something these Hawaiian sweet rolls are for the Italian grinder sandwiches and then I got some white bread for those who love white bread in my family and some 12 gra bread for those most of us like that and then over here I picked up some coffee I really wanted this doughnut shop blend I like that from the w wigman’s we have and then this Maple pean my daughter who is 15 has been making some coffee lately for herself once in a while like iced coffee and I smelled it the other day and I said oh what kind did you take it smells so good she took the last of the maple peon and it smelled good so I made sure I got more there then I got two more boxes here of the radiator I love this little shape for pasta salad and it’s so easy to make pasta salad I see a lot of people buying those kits but all you do is buy something like this and throw just plain old Italian dressing in it with a few veggies if you want to and you got pasta salad and you can cut up hunks of cheese if you want you can put in pepperoni but and then there’s Great Grains crunchy pecan my favorite cereal I bought that we already had some generic Frosted Flakes left that my son likes but most of us don’t really eat a lot of cereal I guess I got a box of frozen waffles just because we used to eat these all the time at least the kids did all the time then it got old but we haven’t I haven’t bought them in so long so I just bought a box randomly to say hey remember these then I got some potato Puffs I have a recipe um for like a breakfast casserole that I might make sometime on my Saturday big breakfast day that um calls for like diced up potatoes you can use these little hash brown potatoes they fall apart and they look like when they fall apart they look like tiny little cubes of potatoes it’s really cute and so I like using those in it and lastly I got a couple of these big packs of uh sparkling water a lemon and a ginger and that is 12 bottle uh liter size bottles of sparkling water and I love to put these drops in them I got grape and fruit punch from Aldi three of each just my personal thing my kids can just drink the salts or the the flavored water by itself and but to me I like a little Sweetness in it I know it’s horrible because I’m the adult right but these just have Stevia or no sucralose I guess they’re just sweetened with sucralose they don’t really have sugar and I don’t know there’s nothing like a big glass full of ice with some fizzy flavored water in it so parchment paper plastic wrap aluminum foil I got this big thing of paper towels I and then 20 rolls of toilet paper um Pantene conditioner we needed conditioner and shampoo was starting to get low upstairs I got some feminine products here and I almost forgot I got some frozen chopped Teel peas and carrots for the fried rice and broccoli fettes I had those stuck in the freezer real quick because they were thawing out but this was the haul today and it was quite a big one I am very excited about trying out all these new recipes and my receipts show from Aldi oops from Aldi it was 43087 and from Wagman’s it was 359 31 so that I will post the grand total on the screen I tried to save money I tried so hard but with inflation it’s really hard 430 + 359 I will post it on the screen it’s going to be not just a bit under $800 this time but I did get a lot so let me know if you’re trying out new recipes especially ones you find on the internet too I’m just curious and thank you 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