Wow, it takes a load of food to feed your family. You two have the sweetest story of how the Lord brought 2 hurting people together, to make a wonderful, blended family for those sweet boys, and now a sweet daughter. God is so good.
We will never again complain about how much time and effort monthly food hauls take for our family of *two* at Sam's Club. Lol! Y'all take the prize. 😂
Love your story and how you met. My husband died of colon cancer at 60 years old 24 years ago. We both came from large families, his 16 and I from13. We were both raised on a farm so we grew large vegetable gardens, planted some fruit trees, had a raspberry and strawberry patch, picked wild blueberries and saskatoons, made some jellies and jams, also homemade pancake syrup. We also canned vegetables and fruits before we own a deepfreeze. We raised our own chickens, eggs from the chickens, milk cows and pork, all organic. We made our own butter, cottage cheese and baked many loaves of bread per week. We sewed our own clothes, cloth diapers etc. The milk was separated. We kept the unpasterized milk for drinking, our cream and sold the extra cream at the creamery to buy 100 lbs of sugar and 100 lbs of flour. Our family laundry was done in a ringer washerr. The clothes was hung out on clothesline to dry.
The amount of food it takes for your family right now, I can’t imagine how much it will take when the boys are all teenagers. Love your videos. You guys have a wonderful family.
Yes, avocados are hard when we buy them. Leave them out until they barely start to soften, then put them in the refrigerator to slow down the ripening process.
Your content is unique. Nothing like it on RUclips. Can easily imagine your subs numbers exceeding 100,000. For viewers who have less than a handful of kids, we just cannot imagine the logistics of everything thing your family does. Love the story of the single-file line by height navigating the busy amusement park.
Thank you for showing this part of your guys’ lives. It’s always so fascinating to me how you guys manages all of it. I know you showed your home school curriculum but I think it would be a fun video to see how it’s all managed while all kids are doing school for one day.
Our 3 youngest boys were 3, 2 & 2 when the family was all putting our groceries away. My husband (who has since passed away) and I caught them grabbing all the newly bought carrots from the bag and putting them all straight in the trash. Our children really like most vegetable, but these three have always hated carrots. I then remembered a time when I knew I had purchased carrots but couldn't find them anywhere so they obviously had used that trick before. 😂😂
Does your Sam’s have scan and go? It’s awesome! Scan while you shop, skip the lines, skip moving all the groceries to the belt, then back in the cart. Just scan, pay, and walk to the door! It saves so much time!
Just found your channel. Family of 7 in a food desert as well. We are 2.5 hours away from our costco. We go every other month and just make it a big field trip! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the info on the beef tenderloin. I will definitely get one for the Christmas holidays. I am also getting the large beef brisket. I have a recipe that I got when we lived in Texas many years ago that we enjoy. I need to know how you make your pork carnitas. I enjoy your videos.
What in heavens name do you guys do for a living? How in the world do you afford to feed all of those kids these healthy meals! Let alone having to prepare everything! I would get to the point I would absolutely hate to go into the kitchen! I will pray for you and your family!❤❤❤❤
Cooking homemade and using simple ingredients is way healthier it's when you buy all the box and bag in all those mixes when it's unhealthy and more expensive
One suggestion...(I love my bread machine and I see practically new ones at the thrift stores all the time)... maybe a great addition for your large family? Very easy and something the teens could do every morning takes about 5 minutes to do and the smell of fresh baking bread...yum.
Check out Zach Bates cooking ideas. He Is 34 and the oldest who comes from a family of 19 kids. His Dad is a Baptist Pastor. Zack Bates passes on his family recipes on RUclips. His family macaroni and cheese is AMAZING. The Bates family had been on UPTV for several years and are well known among Christians.
I live 5 minutes away from the Bates family. I’ve had the privilege to watch them grow up and marry and now have their own families. Gil and Kelly Bates are great Christian people and have done a wonderful job raising their 19 children. I love the Bates family ❤️
I have been following the dietary information shared by Anthony Williams for years with the best success of anything else I have tried. Blessings on your journey!
Purchasing first half cow and whole pig this summer this summer. I can't wait. Just me and my dog . Ii think that will last us bout year and a half or two, can't wait.
Thanks for sharing! We have 11 children, so I feel you on the big grocery haul 😃 Club pick up has become my friend. We also dabble in an animal based diet.
I love how realistic you both are! Yes, ideally we would all love to be 100% all in to whatever way we choose to eat, But just because we can’t , we still try to do our best. Plus, you are laying the foundation for healthy, eating habits for your children.Much love and blessings to you and your beautiful family💜
Yall should watch Our tribe of many. They have a family the same size and are very strong Christians. And she does monthly shopping hauls on a budget. It’s very helpful.
I love the healthy eating tips, and no seed oils! I use butter and ghee. I avoid dyes, gluten due to celiac disease. Crazy how toxins are allowed in our foods. Love your videos and updates! 🙏❤️🇺🇸
I live in Arizona and the Avocado growers say too freeze them and take them out a half hour before you want to eat/use them run uner warm water and wait 30 minutes and then use as you normally would I have tried it and it does work.
Ya'll should get about 50 laying hens and 3 roosters let one or 2 hens go broody once a year (to replace any that might not live throughout the year, and collect the eggs from the rest. (Any roosters that hatch go into a grow out pen for processing when they're big enough. Then you have chicken and eggs.
I went to Kroger last week and with one cart I spent $608. In our part of the country if you go to Kroger after 8 PM, you can get all the markdown meat for a fraction of the cost which we do and then we immediately freeze it. #familyof11
Thank you for this haul! I have a family of 8 and my husband is gong crazy everytime we grocery Shop! But I do want to suggest something that helps us pay less. We order curbside weekly and we spend less than going inside the store. ❤GOD BLESS!
Excited to hear all about your Carnivore journey…with fruit😊 My husband and I are 5 weeks Carnivore now with some berries and Romaine or asparagus occasionally, like once a week. We are feeling amazing and inflammation is way down! I could say so much about it but I would love to hear more about your new journey and how it is going with the fruit add in.
2 things...I also live in a food desert..but in eastern oregon...no sams club but 45 mins away is a costco...closerby is a walmart which happens to be pretty mediocre..always out of tons of stuff etc, and there is also a fred meyer right near that...but thats it....for being localish....secondly....for having so many kids and mainly boys etc..im extremely impressed on what you buy...i dont see you spending endless dollars on processed junk food and im so glad to see that!
Trick for cantaloupe. Scratch the stem and smell it. If it smells sweet and like cantaloupe, it is ripe. You can buy cases of the meats and get more of a discount on the meat.
Wow! We were a combined family with 5 kids and I would get a lot of food from Costco. This reminds me of those days. $1200 for groceries. Wowsers! Thank God for provision of jobs and so forth!!
Have you guys seen that grocery commodity that you order and then meet up with them at a date and load your groceries? They have lots of "raw milk" cheeses and just good ingredients. Azure Standard is what I think it is called.
Hey thanks for the tips on the meats & how them. I wanted to share that you can buy a healthier chocolate chips. It's the Enjoy Life brand. Not sure if Sam's has them but I know Walmart carries them. Here's the description. Semi sweet chocolate chips that are free from 14 common allergens. A couple more brands to compare are Lily's and Hu. Hope this helps.
Sam's also sells Parmigiano Reggiano which is raw too. We buy that and the Gruyere as well. We order raw cheddar from Azure, and we make our own raw mozzarella from our dairy cow. Thanks for the brisket grinding tip. Totally going to do that!
I’m New and Thank you for Sharing and We are Neighbors I’m From Texas and Me and My Daughter Use To Live In Fort Smith years and years ago But my Daughter Nana still lives there
Do you all have containers stackable containers so that when you go shopping you can just put them in your van and then when you get finished you can stack them up or they go up under the seat? Just an idea and it'll help you out a little bit
What a wonderful video I loved watching this this was the first video I’ve seen on your channel but it definitely will not be the last I love your channel and content
Agree, smell where the stem was. If it smells like cantelope, it should be nice and sweet. Holy cow, I will stop complaining about my trips grocery shopping. I can't imagine shopping or cooking for 14 on a daily basis.
Cantaloupe… if you smell the stem end it will taste like it smells. If no smell it’s not ripe and will taste like nothing. The sweeter and better it smells the sweeter and better the taste.
We love the carnivore diet and do it too. Lost 16 lbs in the first month. Strickly high fat meat, butter, salt and water. Honey and fruits actually takes you out of ketosis. Hope it works for y'all too.
Try and find a local rancher to buy your meat you will never go back. Not online ranches but you should be able to find one close to home. Grass finished beef. the ranchers are so delicious and you will save money. I didn't realize you lived in a food desert. You may have to purchase online. With your large family buy half a cow and you will be set. You can have the meat cut anyway you want.😍
I love watching big family grocery hauls, lots of hungry kids to feed, you are eating quality food and it's great for growing kids
Wow, it takes a load of food to feed your family. You two have the sweetest story of how the Lord brought 2 hurting people together, to make a wonderful, blended family for those sweet boys, and now a sweet daughter. God is so good.
We will never again complain about how much time and effort monthly food hauls take for our family of *two* at Sam's Club. Lol! Y'all take the prize. 😂
Haha! Thanks for watching.
You two are amazing rising to the challenges of providing for a large family. I think it’s beautiful how God brought you all together.
I love watching your videos! You two are awesome, now to finish watching.
Thanks so much
Little Evie is SO sweet! I'm amazed at how easy you make this look. Love you guys!
I can see him are very responsible father for his family n her wife.. God blessed you.
Love your story and how you met. My husband died of colon cancer at 60 years old 24 years ago. We both came from large families, his 16 and I from13. We were both raised on a farm so we grew large vegetable gardens, planted some fruit trees, had a raspberry and strawberry patch, picked wild blueberries and saskatoons, made some jellies and jams, also homemade pancake syrup. We also canned vegetables and fruits before we own a deepfreeze. We raised our own chickens, eggs from the chickens, milk cows and pork, all organic. We made our own butter, cottage cheese and baked many loaves of bread per week. We sewed our own clothes, cloth diapers etc. The milk was separated. We kept the unpasterized milk for drinking, our cream and sold the extra cream at the creamery to buy 100 lbs of sugar and 100 lbs of flour. Our family laundry was done in a ringer washerr. The clothes was hung out on clothesline to dry.
I cry when I spend over a 100 bucks on my bi-weekly grocery haul and it is just for me. I applaud you all. Good job.
The amount of food it takes for your family right now, I can’t imagine how much it will take when the boys are all teenagers. Love your videos. You guys have a wonderful family.
Can't take my eyes off that super cute baby❤ thanks for sharing your shopping with us 😊
On the potatoes get them out of the bag. Place them on counter for 24 hrs flip at least once. Store in a cardboard box extends the lif.
I never knew that
When your avocados hit the perfect ripeness, put them in the fridge. They stay good for a week, at least.
Yes, avocados are hard when we buy them. Leave them out until they barely start to soften, then put them in the refrigerator to slow down the ripening process.
Your content is unique. Nothing like it on RUclips. Can easily imagine your subs numbers exceeding 100,000. For viewers who have less than a handful of kids, we just cannot imagine the logistics of everything thing your family does. Love the story of the single-file line by height navigating the busy amusement park.
Wow, thank you for that and for following our journey. We are glad you are here!
Wow!! Amazing organized and informative grocery haul!!
I see God's goodness every time you two post !❤
Thank you for the ground brisket choice.
Haven't you ever seen, "Our tribe of many" on RUclips? Sara has great food ideas for big family cooking
I love Sarah and Solo. I’m sooo happy they FINALLY got to move into their MANSION
scratch and sniff the vine part of the melon to smell for freshness, to keep avacados from ripening to fast store in the refrigerator.
Thank you for showing this part of your guys’ lives. It’s always so fascinating to me how you guys manages all of it. I know you showed your home school curriculum but I think it would be a fun video to see how it’s all managed while all kids are doing school for one day.
Thanks for watching!
Our 3 youngest boys were 3, 2 & 2 when the family was all putting our groceries away. My husband (who has since passed away) and I caught them grabbing all the newly bought carrots from the bag and putting them all straight in the trash. Our children really like most vegetable, but these three have always hated carrots. I then remembered a time when I knew I had purchased carrots but couldn't find them anywhere so they obviously had used that trick before. 😂😂
So funny about the carrots.
Does your Sam’s have scan and go? It’s awesome! Scan while you shop, skip the lines, skip moving all the groceries to the belt, then back in the cart. Just scan, pay, and walk to the door! It saves so much time!
I said the same thing. It’s awesome.
Just found your channel. Family of 7 in a food desert as well. We are 2.5 hours away from our costco. We go every other month and just make it a big field trip! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the info on the beef tenderloin. I will definitely get one for the Christmas holidays. I am also getting the large beef brisket. I have a recipe that I got when we lived in Texas many years ago that we enjoy. I need to know how you make your pork carnitas. I enjoy your videos.
That’s a big grocery haul,WOW ❤
Yes it was
Baby girl is getting big!
Yes she is!
Thanks for sharing your life with us! Appreciate you guys! Love you guys also..God Bless you now!!😊
Nice haul!
Enjoyed watching! Eye opening how much it takes to feeds big family! 🥰
What in heavens name do you guys do for a living? How in the world do you afford to feed all of those kids these healthy meals! Let alone having to prepare everything! I would get to the point I would absolutely hate to go into the kitchen! I will pray for you and your family!❤❤❤❤
Cooking homemade and using simple ingredients is way healthier it's when you buy all the box and bag in all those mixes when it's unhealthy and more expensive
Love you two!! God bless you richly I pray. Thank you for the videos. I enjoy seeing you “Doin’ it with a Dozen”. ♥️ From Tennessee
Thanks so much!
I leave cantelopes sitting on the counter for about 3 days. Then, I cut them, and refrigerate because we like ours cold.
I enjoyed grocery shopping 🛒🛒 with you guys!🎉🎉
Have you ever considered on buying a whole beef or pig? That way you can get it the way you want and you know what's in it.
You two are so amazing just love your vlogs xxx
One suggestion...(I love my bread machine and I see practically new ones at the thrift stores all the time)... maybe a great addition for your large family? Very easy and something the teens could do every morning takes about 5 minutes to do and the smell of fresh baking bread...yum.
Love the video but after watching I was wondering if you could change the name to Doin It With A Bakers Dozen and add me to the shopping list. 😊
Check out Zach Bates cooking ideas. He Is 34 and the oldest who comes from a family of 19 kids. His Dad is a Baptist Pastor. Zack Bates passes on his family recipes on RUclips. His family macaroni and cheese is AMAZING. The Bates family had been on UPTV for several years and are well known among Christians.
I live 5 minutes away from the Bates family. I’ve had the privilege to watch them grow up and marry and now have their own families. Gil and Kelly Bates are great Christian people and have done a wonderful job raising their 19 children. I love the Bates family ❤️
Look at our tribe of many . There are awesome people. Lots of kids and they share their lives
I have been following the dietary information shared by Anthony Williams for years with the best success of anything else I have tried. Blessings on your journey!
Thanks for sharing!
Purchase a beef cow up front and get it packaged any way you want. Much cheaper then store bought.
Purchasing first half cow and whole pig this summer this summer. I can't wait. Just me and my dog . Ii think that will last us bout year and a half or two, can't wait.
Thanks for sharing! We have 11 children, so I feel you on the big grocery haul 😃 Club pick up has become my friend. We also dabble in an animal based diet.
That is awesome! Thanks for sharing!
I love how realistic you both are! Yes, ideally we would all love to be 100% all in to whatever way we choose to eat, But just because we can’t , we still try to do our best. Plus, you are laying the foundation for healthy, eating habits for your children.Much love and blessings to you and your beautiful family💜
Yall should watch Our tribe of many. They have a family the same size and are very strong Christians. And she does monthly shopping hauls on a budget. It’s very helpful.
Thanks for the tip. I’ve enjoyed and watched them for years.
Caleb
I love the healthy eating tips, and no seed oils! I use butter and ghee. I avoid dyes, gluten due to celiac disease. Crazy how toxins are allowed in our foods. Love your videos and updates! 🙏❤️🇺🇸
When Trump wins, Bobby Kennedy will clean up all our food and make our food healthy again!
@@mindypatriotangel6064 That's what I'm hoping! I love RFK, Jr....which is why I voted for Trump/Vance.
the softer the button of the cantalope the riper it is and if you smell them they should smell sweet. not to sweet but sweet.
How about using Hu Dark Chocolate Gems sweetened with dates for chocolate chip cookies. I love that bagged popcorn too!
I live in Arizona and the Avocado growers say too freeze them and take them out a half hour before you want to eat/use them run uner warm water and wait 30 minutes and then use as you normally would I have tried it and it does work.
This is the first time I’ve watched one of your videos. I highly recommend you open your videos by telling us who you are and what your story is.
Good idea. Thanks!
God bless you all❤watching from Oklahoma!
We need to see prices as u go
Tip for buying at Sam's Club is if you buy a whole case they will give you a discount. Some stores require advance notice so definately ask.
Ya'll should get about 50 laying hens and 3 roosters let one or 2 hens go broody once a year (to replace any that might not live throughout the year, and collect the eggs from the rest. (Any roosters that hatch go into a grow out pen for processing when they're big enough. Then you have chicken and eggs.
We love scan and go at Sams! Have you tried that? It might be helpful with your big hauls!! 😃
Loved it
I love those food containers! I use them for some of my flours and oatmeal kitchen storage.
I went to Kroger last week and with one cart I spent $608. In our part of the country if you go to Kroger after 8 PM, you can get all the markdown meat for a fraction of the cost which we do and then we immediately freeze it. #familyof11
Thank you for this haul! I have a family of 8 and my husband is gong crazy everytime we grocery Shop! But I do want to suggest something that helps us pay less. We order curbside weekly and we spend less than going inside the store. ❤GOD BLESS!
I buy the frozen patties at sams in the blue package. Clean and no added ingredients.
Loved this video! Can’t wait for more 😊
Excited to hear all about your Carnivore journey…with fruit😊 My husband and I are 5 weeks Carnivore now with some berries and Romaine or asparagus occasionally, like once a week. We are feeling amazing and inflammation is way down! I could say so much about it but I would love to hear more about your new journey and how it is going with the fruit add in.
I did not know about the multi sourced oils. Id love recipes. Please tell us more about your eating plan..
2 things...I also live in a food desert..but in eastern oregon...no sams club but 45 mins away is a costco...closerby is a walmart which happens to be pretty mediocre..always out of tons of stuff etc, and there is also a fred meyer right near that...but thats it....for being localish....secondly....for having so many kids and mainly boys etc..im extremely impressed on what you buy...i dont see you spending endless dollars on processed junk food and im so glad to see that!
This my first time watching. Curious if there's a local farm near you where you buy a half or whole cow at a better price.
As a Chef your Avocados keep them in a container filled with water lid on an keep in the fridge they stay fresh for weeks
I wondered how much is your Total outgoing on food every month .
Avocado oil for cooking? Which one of you decided to be on the animal based diet and plz explain what it does it do to help ones health? ty
Who watches the kids when you go grocery shopping? I’m wondering if you have extended family who live with you, or close by?
You guys seem such positive and pleasant people. Can’t imagine how you manage a large family. I can barely keep up with 2 kids 😅.
With the Lord’s help!
Trick for cantaloupe. Scratch the stem and smell it. If it smells sweet and like cantaloupe, it is ripe. You can buy cases of the meats and get more of a discount on the meat.
Wow! We were a combined family with 5 kids and I would get a lot of food from Costco. This reminds me of those days. $1200 for groceries. Wowsers! Thank God for provision of jobs and so forth!!
Amen! Thanks for watching!
Noticed you purchased peppercorn w/grinder . I found its cheaper to buy peppercorns and use a refillable grinder .
OMGOODNESS!! How many freezers and refrigerators do you guys have???
3 deep freezers and two refrigerators (so far) ;)
Love this content and love the way you seem both so chill about everything and just enjoying life ❤
Thanks. God is good. We are tired every night, but it’s a good kind of tired! Appreciate you being here.
We watch Dr. Berg.
Family of 9 ,7 kids ( boys)
God bless ❤
Love Dr. Berg. Thanks for watching.
Go carnivore 🎉
If you smell the stem end of a cantaloupe, it will taste just like it smells! I always do it and it’s never been wrong!
Enjoyed the video 😊
Have you guys seen that grocery commodity that you order and then meet up with them at a date and load your groceries? They have lots of "raw milk" cheeses and just good ingredients. Azure Standard is what I think it is called.
Hey thanks for the tips on the meats & how them. I wanted to share that you can buy a healthier chocolate chips. It's the Enjoy Life brand. Not sure if Sam's has them but I know Walmart carries them. Here's the description. Semi sweet chocolate chips that are free from 14 common allergens. A couple more brands to compare are Lily's and Hu. Hope this helps.
Sam's also sells Parmigiano Reggiano which is raw too. We buy that and the Gruyere as well. We order raw cheddar from Azure, and we make our own raw mozzarella from our dairy cow. Thanks for the brisket grinding tip. Totally going to do that!
you can also get them to cut the pork lions into pork chops so cheaper then buying them already cut .
I’m New and Thank you for Sharing and We are Neighbors I’m From Texas and Me and My Daughter Use To Live In Fort Smith years and years ago But my Daughter Nana still lives there
Do you all have containers stackable containers so that when you go shopping you can just put them in your van and then when you get finished you can stack them up or they go up under the seat? Just an idea and it'll help you out a little bit
Awe! So nice you guys doing carnivore! Next video, what you eat in a day
Good idea
What a wonderful video I loved watching this this was the first video I’ve seen on your channel but it definitely will not be the last I love your channel and content
Thanks for being here!
love you guys. would love to see how you cook the brisket
I love to smoke it, but we also love to make it in the oven for tacos.
- Caleb
Blessings to your family that you can provide for them but good to see you comparison shop and not put everything in your cart that you notice.
We will always shop around! It’s in my blood to find the deals!!!
Caleb
Hello , Love your content !!New Subscriber Here !
New subscriber from AZ
Welcome!!
Cantaloupe picking down south in Mississippi I always smell mine.
Agree, smell where the stem was. If it smells like cantelope, it should be nice and sweet. Holy cow, I will stop complaining about my trips grocery shopping. I can't imagine shopping or cooking for 14 on a daily basis.
You should look into purchasing a whole cow and pig! So much cheaper in the end ❤️
To get good cantaloupe push on the bottom and if it's soft it's ripe
Love you guys 😊
I would place all the food on the cart more carefully. Fruit in particular is easily damaged and will ripen or rot more quickly.
Smell the cantaloupe at the button where it attaches to the plant and it should smell sweet that will be a good pick .
Cantaloupe… if you smell the stem end it will taste like it smells. If no smell it’s not ripe and will taste like nothing. The sweeter and better it smells the sweeter and better the taste.
I smell the cantaloupe. If there's no cantaloupe smell , there's usually no taste to it. I also look at where the stem was, I don't get if it's green.
We love the carnivore diet and do it too. Lost 16 lbs in the first month. Strickly high fat meat, butter, salt and water. Honey and fruits actually takes you out of ketosis. Hope it works for y'all too.
You should do scan and go. Avoiding the checkout saves so much yime.
Try and find a local rancher to buy your meat you will never go back. Not online ranches but you should be able to find one close to home. Grass finished beef. the ranchers are so delicious and you will save money. I didn't realize you lived in a food desert. You may have to purchase online. With your large family buy half a cow and you will be set. You can have the meat cut anyway you want.😍
Thanks for the ideas!
Good Sunday morning y'all
Good morning!