Check out the products I purchased at Costco and Trader Joe’s to get our family of 4 set-up for the 2nd half of the school year. Prices below.
Costco
Seasoned drumsticks 24.01
Beef sausage 17.80
Organic Blues 10.99
Keto cereal 10.99
Sliced Tillamook cheese 10.99
Croissants 5.99
Pizza kit 9.99
Bell peppers 8.99
Pot pie 20.99
Bananas 2.29
Belvita Cookies 14.49 (-3.00)
Spaghetti squash 5.99
Avacados (5 count) 8.99
Ground beef 24.99
Broccoli 5.49
Turkey lunch meat 11.79
Rotisserie chicken 4.99
Mini cucumbers 5.99
Frosted mini wheats 9.99
Oikos yogurt 13.39
Honey bunches of oats 7.89
Refried beans 8.99
Cliff bar 22.99
Chicken stock 9.99
Cauliflower 6.49
Grape tomatoes 6.79
Carrots 5.49
Pesto 9.49
Peaches 12.89
Grapes 8.99
Mediterranean salad kit 8.99
Cottage cheese 4.89
Greek yogurt 5.99
Cashews 12.49
Queso crunch salad 6.99
Goat cheese 7.69
Butter 13.69
Trail mix 12.49
Feta 7.79
Cream cheese 11.69
Probiotic 19.99 (-4.00)
Chicken sausage 14.99
Trader Joe’s
Gyro meat 4.69 per box
Thin mini crackers 3.49
Vegi sticks 2.79
Jalepeno .79
Cabbage 1.99
Hand soap 2.99
Pie crusts 4.49
Candle 3.99
Pinto beans 1.09
Kalamata olives 2.99
Tomato soup 3.49
Artichoke 2.99
Pizza sauce 2.29
Corn .99
Tzaziki sauce 3.99
Green chilis 1.29
Hash browns 2.79
Gnocchi 1.99
Flat bread 2.49
Sparkling water 3.49
Hey everybody welcome back to my Channel today I have a Costco haul as well as a small Trader Joe’s haul um kind of at the end here I’ll talked about that stuff I got at Trader Joe’s but it is January 11th and I had to go to Costco
Just to stock up on some stuff um the kids started back at school this week from Christmas break and my husband and I start back next week so just needed to get us set up for some easy dinners and um lunches and that kind of thing since
I’ll be bringing lunch again to work for my husband and I and um the springtime it just seems like it’s the or spring semester I guess seems like it’s kind of our busiest time of year with sports starting up for the kids and um just different activities so let’s get into
The haul if you’re new I’d love to have you subscribe and stick around and if you’re interested in the prices of anything I will have it listed below in the information session uh section underneath the video so we got this Mediterranean crunch chopped salad kit um this is really good I love
That it came started coming in the smaller bag so instead of one big bag you get two smaller ones which is great for just a side with dinner some bell peppers I’ll chop these up and um dip them in ranch maybe make fajitas one night um lots that we can do with
Those some cauliflower again just to in ranch bring to lunch for a snack dip it in hummus that kind of thing uh broccoli for the same reason I made some broccoli cheddar soup last weekend that was really good so I might do that again in um a couple weeks this
Catalina Crunch cereal I love this cereal just for like if you need something sweet and you want something crunchy or you’re craving cereal um for a snack or for breakfast at any point the crunch with the cereal is super satisfying and um there is no sugar in that cereal so it’s a great
Alternative I got this popcorn I’ve never seen this brand at Costco before it is lesser evil is what it’s called um so it says it’s got coconut oil and Himalayan salt here are the ingredients if you’re interested so anyway it look like a good popcorn got some of this turkey um I
Actually had to send my husband to Costco the other night um and asked him to get turkey and he got the other like thicker cut turkey which is really good but our boys like this one so I wanted to pick some of this up some what are these called croissants
Um they just looked good I figured I’ll make maybe this weekend croissant sandwiches for lunch or maybe like breakfast sandwiches or something um um over the next few days so that’s what we’ll do with those some till milk cheese we always have this on hand some
Cucumbers I’m going to make um Euros for dinner one of the nights in the next couple probably in the next week so cucumbers for that as well as just dipping in humus and Ranch some blueberries we love just eating these and also putting them in oatmeal baby
Tomatoes some bananas I tried to grab a green bunch to give us more time to eat them avocados um we sometimes do avocado toast this is really good for bua bowls which I’m making for dinner tonight which is like rice chicken avocado jalapeno um yum sauce which you can get
From Walmart has it um and I’m trying to think oh pinto beans also goes in it so that’s what we’ll have for dinner tonight and then we’ll have we’ll probably use one of these avocados for that and have the rest left over um this pot pie will be for dinner some night next
Week um rotisserie chicken I’m going to take this chicken off the bone and use it in our budha bowls and then have it for like a salad or something this weekend these chicken drumsticks these are so good and we haven’t had them in a long time um you bake them in the oven
And I usually make the quinoa brown rice packets to go on the side as well as some sort of like roasted vegetable and it makes a really yummy semi-quick homemade dinner um butter we went through all of our butter at during the holidays with all of our baking and stuff this oos
Trip zero yogurt there’s 15 gram of protein per cup and there’re strawberry mixed berry and vanilla we got some of these breakfast Belita crunchy cookies occasionally my boys will have these for breakfast just on the go and they really enjoyed dipping them in milk so they’ll
Do that um let’s see where was I I did this stuff back over here so we have Honey Bunches of Oats and Frosted Mini Wheats those are our go-to cereals and we always just keep um extra in the garage so we can keep refilling our pantry the boys have cereal for
Breakfast occasionally or just sometimes for like a snack um sliced peaches these are great for a side with dinner and um we keep them in the pantry some pesto we love this on tortillini or um you can make pizzas with pesto um yeah pesto is just delicious some of these chicken apple
Sausages love to have those on hand for a quick dinner or throw them in eggs for breakfast I also got this women’s daily probiotic um I’ve been needing to start a probiotic so I’ll try that one if you know a good one let me know below thisen
Greek yogurt we use Greek yogurt in place of sour cream um we’ll also make like yogurt parfaits for breakfast and um yeah it’s just a really really great thing to have on hand is Greek yogurt a three pack of this organic ground beef and I’ll cut those uh apart
And put them in the freezer they defrost really easily in a bowl of water some strawberry jam some goat cheese I have been craving a salad with like beets and goat cheese and nuts and Chicken on just like a bed of grains it’s so good with like a balsamic um or
Some sort of just like olive oil and vinegarette or you know olive oil and um balsamic vinegar so and then Craisins are good on that salad too so anyway got some gois some cashews Z Bars our boys love these as either breakfast or a snack some red grapes I got let’s
See these are kobasa sausages looks like there’s eight of them I figured I would try some sort of recipe on the crock pot with these and like peppers onions potatoes and just cook them and see how it does I think it’ll make a quick easy dinner um lasagna this is the Italian
Sausage lasagna there’s two packs in here again really easy meals for a couple nights over the next month or so a two pack of the Kirkland peanut butter we love this peanut butter some cottage cheese this just makes a great snack but I also recently saw somebody talk about blending this up
In a blender with ranch seasoning and making like a ranch dip that is higher in protein um for veggies so I’m going to give that a try this pizza starter kit this is good till April so I’m going to just put this in our garage and we’ll do pizza night
Some at some point so there’s that um let’s see reff fried beans I keep those on hand for taco night some cream cheese my boys have been loving bagels and cream cheese for breakfast so we’ll stick those out in the garage fridge these spaghetti squashes these are great with just like spaghetti sauce
Like Grill up some burger throw some sauce in a pan with some garlic and onions that kind of thing um and it’s really tasty with the spaghetti squash I’ve also had it with like chicken and fetuccini or not fetuccini um alfredo sauce and then last year we made a
Cashew sauce so again with these cashews I might do um it’s like nutritional yeast cashews um and maybe just water I don’t remember the liquid I used I’ll have to find the recipe again but it made a really tasty healthy sauce and we had it on spaghetti squash and that was really
Good so I’ll probably do that again some carrots and the last thing from Costco were these baked lays um it’s there’s 30 bags in here and it looks like there’s the regular the barbecue the um cheddar the hot Cheetos and just the regular Cheetos and then from Trader Joe’s I got two um
Eight packs of their sparkling water I love their sparkling water this is the cranberry Clementine and then the blueberry lemonade these are really good these are the lamb slices that I use for euros I think I talk about these a lot um when I talk about Costco hauls and making
Dinner but you just heat them up and they’re fully cooked you heat them up and then we put them on I’ll show you the bread when I get there but um I got some cans of corn cuz they were like a dollar a piece so a few
Of those just to have in the pantry some pizza sauce to stock the pantry with some veggie sticks for snacks for the boys I also got some trail mix where was that did I show you guys the trail mix um anyway my boys have been loving bringing the Costco tril mix to school
For snacks um in a little zip lock so I figured we’d give this a try to mix it up um more of the Corn some pinto beans for those Boodles as well as I’m going to make some chili this weekend um dice green chilies for my
Chili that I’m going to make this is the bread that we put the Euros or the Lamb on so Middle Eastern flatbread with the lamb and then you make a Greek salad with just like chopped up lettuce red onion feta tomatoes calamada olives and cucumbers and we use this suziki sauce
Creamy garlic cucumber you get this at Trader Joe’s as well so really easy quick dinner so good um and then I typically make a vinegarette to go on the salad um on the side or you can again put the salad onto the Euro and have it with hummus too so such a good
Dinner my 8-year-old’s like favorite dinner and um I don’t know I would say we have it at least once a month um in the summer we might have it more than that I also got this almond vanilla hand soap from Trader Joe’s it just looked
Like I wanted to try it um a jalapeno for the boot BS tonight these hash browns are really good they stay in the freezer and then we just heat them up in our toaster oven um it makes again for a quick breakfast for the boys with like some eggs this
Noi I got two packs of the noi I have been making sheet pan recipes with noi so like noi cut up sausages and some sort of roasted vegetable with some olive oil and I think it’s like 375 or 400 for like 20 minutes and it’s really
Tasty so a quick dinner um I also found a recipe that I’m going to try soon where you cook up some Italian sausage which I have and then boiled in Yi toss it with um some sauteed spinach and then some sort of sauce so I’m going to give
That a try these crackers are really tasty and the serving size is like 38 so this is great to eat with tuna fish some shredded cabbage for our Buddha Bowls tonight the Trader Joe’s pie crusts are the best this is a two pack um you can
Freeze them and then just leave them out for an hour or so before you’re going to use them I make kesas out of these typically but it’s the best pre-made pie crust I’ve ever had so if you’ve never tried the Trader Joe’s pie crust you should give those a try four of these
Tomato soups my boys love grilled cheese and tomato soup so these will just go in the pantry and they’ll make some great dinners over the next few months some marinated artichokes I figured for either pizza night or salads the calamada olives for the euros and then Trader Joe’s had this candle which
Smells super good it’s a chocolate croissant candle and um so I picked that up so that’s what we got um to get us going on the second half of the school year again I’d love to have you subscribe and stick around and I’ll see you in my next video bye
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Yes, i make the cottage cheese ranch veggie dip. i love it.