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.
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!❤❤❤❤
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.
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. 😂😂
Your content is unique. Nothing like it on UA-cam. 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.
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.
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 UA-cam. 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 ❤️
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!
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.
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.
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 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!
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
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! 🙏❤️🇺🇸
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.
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.
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!!
I giggled at the "oh, maybe we need these plastic and wasteful salsa cups" followed by "olive oil is better in glass, not plastic." Thank you for skipping the single use items. :-)
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.
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.
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.
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.😍
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.
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!
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!
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.
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💜
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.
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
Good Lord!! I remember those days😢😢I had 10 & We would have 3 shopping carts, They are all grown now with their own family. 6kids and 5 grandkids later & Im still shopping like this. But my husband and i absolutely love it!! ❤️🤷🏾♀️💯👍🏾Im having about 22 over for Thanksgiving its a blessing for me to cook for my family 🙏🏾🥳
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!
Speaking of chocolate chips, I've been buying only Ghirardelli brand for a long time now. The ingredients are better and they taste better. Too much wax in the other ones. I am the same with the seed oils, etc. Good for you guys for trying to eat healthy. Not easy these days... You two are SO cute!! LOVE your channel and family...
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.
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.
You should check out Ken and neisha Berry they do keto and carnivore he was a family doctor and she was a labor and delivery nurse now they dedicate their self to helping people with carnivore and keto lifestyle
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
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.
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.
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!❤❤❤❤
I love watching your videos! You two are awesome, now to finish watching.
Thanks so much
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.
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.
Your content is unique. Nothing like it on UA-cam. 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!
Little Evie is SO sweet! I'm amazed at how easy you make this look. Love you guys!
When your avocados hit the perfect ripeness, put them in the fridge. They stay good for a week, at least.
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
Wow!! Amazing organized and informative grocery haul!!
I see God's goodness every time you two post !❤
Haven't you ever seen, "Our tribe of many" on UA-cam? 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
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.
Thanks for sharing your life with us! Appreciate you guys! Love you guys also..God Bless you now!!😊
Nice haul!
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 UA-cam. 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 ❤️
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.
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.
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!
Baby girl is getting big!
Yes she is!
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
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.
scratch and sniff the vine part of the melon to smell for freshness, to keep avacados from ripening to fast store in the refrigerator.
Enjoyed watching! Eye opening how much it takes to feeds big 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!
Thanks for sharing!
Purchase a beef cow up front and get it packaged any way you want. Much cheaper then store bought.
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.
I leave cantelopes sitting on the counter for about 3 days. Then, I cut them, and refrigerate because we like ours cold.
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 the ground brisket choice.
Loved this video! Can’t wait for more 😊
Who watches the kids when you go grocery shopping? I’m wondering if you have extended family who live with you, or close by?
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!
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!
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. 😊
Look at our tribe of many . There are awesome people. Lots of kids and they share their lives
You can buy cases of chicken breasts and thighs at Sam’s and it is cheaper per pound.
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.
You should look into purchasing a whole cow and pig! So much cheaper in the end ❤️
You two are so amazing just love your vlogs xxx
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!
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.
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!
I giggled at the "oh, maybe we need these plastic and wasteful salsa cups" followed by "olive oil is better in glass, not plastic." Thank you for skipping the single use items. :-)
Great point!
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.
I wondered how much is your Total outgoing on food every month .
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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💜
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.
We watch Dr. Berg.
Family of 9 ,7 kids ( boys)
God bless ❤
Love Dr. Berg. Thanks for watching.
Go carnivore 🎉
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
I love those food containers! I use them for some of my flours and oatmeal kitchen storage.
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!
In a way, you want some of your avocados to be hard. It takes a few days for them to ripen. Less chance of them going rotten and unusable.
How about using Hu Dark Chocolate Gems sweetened with dates for chocolate chip cookies. I love that bagged popcorn too!
God bless you all❤watching from Oklahoma!
Good Lord!! I remember those days😢😢I had 10 & We would have 3 shopping carts, They are all grown now with their own family. 6kids and 5 grandkids later & Im still shopping like this. But my husband and i absolutely love it!! ❤️🤷🏾♀️💯👍🏾Im having about 22 over for Thanksgiving its a blessing for me to cook for my family 🙏🏾🥳
I need a Sam's club card? BJ's and Costco are not doing it for me no more 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Enjoyed the video 😊
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
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
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 .
I buy the frozen patties at sams in the blue package. Clean and no added ingredients.
I did not know about the multi sourced oils. Id love recipes. Please tell us more about your eating plan..
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!
Speaking of chocolate chips, I've been buying only Ghirardelli brand for a long time now. The ingredients are better and they taste better. Too much wax in the other ones. I am the same with the seed oils, etc. Good for you guys for trying to eat healthy. Not easy these days... You two are SO cute!! LOVE your channel and family...
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.
Shop at farmers market and support local farmers. Animal based is the best healthiest and nutrient dense food.😍
We agree!
Smell the cantelope. You can tell how tasty they will be by how they smell.
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 scan and go at Sams! Have you tried that? It might be helpful with your big hauls!! 😃
Impressive!! Sorry I missed - how long does this amount of food last?
A week and a half to two weeks. With a couple of trips to Walmart on the side.
you can also get them to cut the pork lions into pork chops so cheaper then buying them already cut .
Hello , Love your content !!New Subscriber Here !
Love the checking of ingredients and staying away from seed oils 🎉
I see a milk cow in your future!!!😉😉 They’re a lot of work but so worth it when there are hungry growing kids to nourish and feed.
I loved the shopping video I hope you do more of them.
Thank you! Will do!
Would love to see some dinner vlogs or cooking vlogs.
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
Good Sunday morning y'all
Good morning!
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.
Azure Standard has a lot of the items that didn't work for you in Sams.
To get good cantaloupe push on the bottom and if it's soft it's ripe
5# meat per meal is what I used for our family of 6 teenage boys and 3 girls plus mom and dad :)
The Sam’s Spaghetti is the absolute best. I am not a big pasta person , but my goodness it is good.
You should check out Ken and neisha Berry they do keto and carnivore he was a family doctor and she was a labor and delivery nurse now they dedicate their self to helping people with carnivore and keto lifestyle
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
Suggest finding a local farmer and buying your meat whole. Would save so much money!
Our family is eating more animals based diet as well. ❤😊 so much better.