- Happy Jamerrill vlogging
out in the forest day.
I am getting ready to put
in my Walmart grocery order,
this is a freezer-meal grocery haul,
because next week on Monday
and Tuesday in particular,
I'm gonna do a whole lot of freezer meals.
I am particularly cooking
my Large Family Freezer Meals Pack 4,
so I am just gonna go
down this grocery list,
enter it all in and we're
gonna pick it up this evening.
Once we're done with our school
stuff and we have dinner,
we're just gonna zip out
about 25 minutes away,
which is close for us,
pick up these groceries,
and I'll do a haul for you.
Okay friends, little
Jamerrill reality check,
I was getting all happy go lucky
filling in my Walmart grocery
order here on my phone,
which I'm gonna show you.
Travis texted me and said
"Rain's coming your way."
Of course all the kids are
having a glorious time outside,
and I was all set up to put my order in.
Rain sure did come our
way, we're inside now.
What I have found ouch,
is now I got my order in
and they have no more
pickup time slots today.
So moving that plan to
okay we'll pick it up tomorrow morning,
but at least the grocery order is in.
It used to be you had to put your order in
like 24 hours in advance,
and if I can get the
order in in the morning,
we can still pick it up the
same day, and it's awesome.
But shoot, missed it for today.
But I do want to show you this math,
and then the next thing you will see
will be us loading up the groceries.
So everything that I need
to do the 40 freezer meals
from pack four is $257.85.
There were just a few things
from the big batch cooking shopping guide
that I had on hand,
you know sometimes you don't
need every little thing,
sometimes there might be
two or three things you had.
I had all the spices,
and I'm trying to think
what else it was I have.
Oh I have the tomato
sauce and diced tomatoes.
So those aren't added to this list,
but everything else, woo,
so many other things,
all the meat in particular,
that's always the most expensive part,
those are all on here.
So 257 and so for 40 meals,
that makes it $6.42 a meal,
and I say yes and amen to that.
So happy Saturday, it's
gonna happen today,
we're picking up the Walmart
grocery pickup orders.
What I did is I put a
full order in yesterday,
just for food,
and then I put another
order in for household.
So let's pick it all up, get it all home.
This is why we love the
utility floor, we use it hard,
got junk under the seats,
we'll clean out the van another day,
but this is the back of our
van before they load it up.
Of course it has those
gorgeous six-foot ceilings,
so yeah, now we're waiting
for our pickup ordrs.
So now since this grocery pickup order
is also our Saturday morning date,
we're going through Sheetz,
I'm getting myself a big iced coffee,
heavy almond milk, and
we're gonna have our date,
and head back home.
And I got a fun Mom's All That goody bag,
I'll lay this out when we get home too,
and we'll see all that's in it.
Okay, here is a look at the back,
loaded but yay, look at
all that ceiling room.
Our old van things used
to be stuffed to the top,
but yeah, lots going on.
We've got household haul like dog food,
cat food, baby wipes, toiler paper,
but again, I paid for that separately
'cause it just helps me know
what I'm doing in my head.
Let's get it all out
and talk about it all.
OK, so I'm back and my happy
helpers, Zion in particular,
have organized all of this and
I'm gonna show it all to ya
with the price breakdown
including exactly what I spent
and what I got to do those
up to 40 freezer meals
and tons of lunch freezer meals too.
First, let's look in this goody bag.
What did I get?
I haven't gotten one of
these since we first started
doing Wal-Mart grocery pickup.
This is probably for mother's day.
That's the name of our person
to give her a good review.
Oh, I love Pantene products.
Pantene Pro-V, I used to
use this as a teenager.
So yes, I will definitely use those.
Samples and then we got a
sample of these veggie crisps.
Yum.
And then, what is this?
Deer Park sparkling spring water.
Natural pomegranate.
Oh, pomegranate lemonade.
I will definitely try that.
Here you go, Zion.
Do you want hot fudge
sundae or caramel apple?
I'm gonna give, do you want
em both for your stash?
There, there.
That's Zion's payment
for organizing things.
Oh, lots of little Zion
payments, look at this.
Cookies and cream Oreo.
Thank you.
And then, we've got, oh Zion,
this is like snacks.
Lucky Charms, let me
show my online friends
and then you can have this stuff.
Here, this is good stuff.
I'll take the healthy stuff.
OK, then we've got a
little Country Crock clip.
What is this?
Mom's All That.
Oh, we're gonna have some coupons.
I was gonna say, what will this have?
So, I will definitely look into those.
Some wipes, oh yeah, that's helpful.
Those'll go right in my purse and then,
what else did they give me?
Oh, wonderful, some more lotion.
Excellent, you'll see in
my haul, I got some today.
Thank you Wal-Mart for the goody bag.
So I'm going to start with the
household haul side of things.
So, we have recently
been through two sagas.
We have run out of hand
soap for the last two days
and we've run out of
conditioner and shampoo.
So, whenever that happens, I
always stock up a little extra.
Now, when I do my household
hauls, I try to get what we need
plus a little more and
we don't always need
the same things every month
because we can have extra.
So again, this is just
what was needed this month.
So I got four of the soap refills.
This should last us
probably up to three months.
I got four because we have
four sinks in the house.
That way, under every sink,
we can have a soap refill.
The kids use the Suave
shampoo and conditioner
and I thought why are
all these conditioners?
But no, I ordered six of
I love the strawberry.
I've always used that on the kids.
It's also great with if you
do the curly girl method
of if you look into that,
the strawberry conditioner
is recommended for
certain ways you can do it
and definitely Naomi has a
lot of naturally curly hair.
Even though we're not 100% curly girl,
we're getting there.
So, all that to say, I
ordered six of the strawberry
shampoo and conditioner.
Parentheses, I know you're not
using shampoo on curly girl.
I just feel like I've gotta say
that to all the professional
curly girls out there.
But anyway, OK, TMI Jamerrill.
So I ordered six strawberry shampoos,
six strawberry conditioners,
all in the Great Value family size.
They were like $1.94 each.
Out of that, I only got
three of the strawberry conditioners.
They had to then replace the
rest with tropical coconut
which is the next one that I would buy.
So we've got three
strawberry, three coconut
and then all the shampoos are the coconut.
It's fine, we'll have shampoo.
I got one pack of razors,
one bottle of peroxide.
This is just always
something in my Mama homemade
first aid arsenal.
A pack of guys deodorant
and then you all tell me.
So, I got some funky lookin' legs.
You wanna talk about that?
Got some funky lookin' Mama chicken legs,
some interesting spots, marks, and bruises
that definitely came about
during my pregnancy with Daniel.
Little bit more, so with
my pregnancy with Benjamin.
And I still like to wear shorts.
So I was looking for, this
says fair to medium skin tones.
I was looking for, I don't
know, kinda some of that
self tanning lotion.
I think that's what this is.
Yes, I could read you the whole bottle.
Maybe I will.
"For best results, use
daily as your body lotion.
"Smooth on evenly and completely.
"Use sparingly on
elbows, knees and ankles.
"Allow a few minutes to
dry prior to dressing.
"Wash your hands.
"You will begin to see a
subtle development of color
"within several days.
"If color change is not
noticeable as desired,
"apply more frequently."
So yeah, I've never used
anything like this but I just
wanted to help these
Mama chicken legs out.
All of you mama's who
know more about this,
please tell me what to do.
Four of the Ziploc gallon bags.
These'll last me many months.
Yeah, I do get questions
about reusing them.
I do reuse them except when
I've had like meat products
in them, so it's always
nice to have a stash.
As far as box tops because
I get questions about those,
our homeschool group collects
box tops for sports equipment
and then I got one box of sandwich bags
and then I got a ginormous thing.
This is 84, size 3T-4T of pull-ups.
These were only 33 cents a
pull up, so that's great.
Got a big ol thing of baby
wipes and then two ginormous
things of toilet paper.
Yes, before our pickup today,
we were down to one roll
of toilet paper.
So I will probably get some more later
to build our stash back up.
So, it may not seem like a lot.
There was also like a
52 pound bag of dog food
and then a 16 pound bag of cat food.
There's also some vinegar.
That probably, the vinegar, I use that,
like I classify that as cleaning.
I see it, it's out there
in my grocery haul.
The total of this household portion of our
super mega large family
grocery haul was $265.17.
So, what I do is every
month, I budget up to $300
for what I call our household haul.
I can come in anywhere
between 200 and 300.
And it's for stuff like this.
Shampoo, toilet paper, diapers, wipes.
I got a big stash of size
six diapers right now
so I didn't need any more of those.
Have a lot of other cleaning products,
but was totally out of soap.
We have like dish soap, dishwasher soap.
So, we don't always need everything,
but it's always a good
mix and it always comes in
in between that 200 and
300 dollar every month
with our large family grocery budget.
So, we got a whole lot going
down food wise as always.
Now, if you're new here, Jamerrill,
why do you buy so much food?
Fair enough question.
Well, we're a family of 10.
Not the biggest family in
the world by a long shot.
Not the smallest family
in the world either.
We work from home, we school from home.
All of you who've been watching for years
can say this.
We've got lots of new
folks here coming so,
we work full-time from home.
My husband and I both.
And our kids school full-time from home.
So that's 90 meals and
60 plus snacks for 10.
Ya know, every month, all day every day.
It's a lot of food going down.
OK, here we are.
All the way down here.
Yes.
Let's just start with the
important things in life.
I got 10, 10, is that,
two, four, six, eight, 10, yes.
10 containers of Halo Top.
The peanut butter cup and the
chocolate chip cookie dough,
they are life.
Besides those two, my next favorite flavor
is oatmeal cookie.
No guilt, it might be my lunch
or it might be my breakfast.
Mama don't care.
I like it, yay.
Then I've got two containers of whole milk
because we are going to
make homemade yogurt.
I'm going to do an updated
video where I do yogurt
in the slow cooker and
yogurt in the instant pot,
an electric pressure cooker
just to show the process on both.
I've gotten tons of questions about it.
That's what these milks are for.
Then we have 12 more milks.
Now, the date on these are May 23rd.
Today is May 11th.
Yes, 10 people, we basically
go through a gallon
or half a gallon a day.
When we need more milk,
we go back for more.
For my 40 freezer meals that I'm making,
basically half of the cost of this haul
is the freezer meals.
So, I got, I needed like
22 pounds of ground beef.
Needed 10 pounds of chicken.
That's what I got.
I needed some butter, cream cheese.
Got three packs of cream
cheese and then for turkey,
I needed, I believe it
was five pounds of turkey.
Each one of these is a
pound and it's so cute.
Like look how little that is.
I'm not used to this but it was
the way that they had turkey
for sale online.
So that is six pounds.
And then these pork tenderloins.
I was looking for the pork packaged
a little bit differently.
I needed a total of four pounds
of pork and so, together,
both of these is four pounds of pork.
I don't know, what is
it that's bothering me?
This is 1.84, this is 2.35, so yeah.
Oh, I guess this is it.
The price per pound, 3.88.
I don't normally spend that much on pork.
But with their online
options, I couldn't find
the pork tenderloin.
I guess it would be generic
where this is Smithfield.
I don't know, anywho, this
is for two of my meals.
Look for a better pork deal
than what I got on this today.
Then we got the pre-cooked Kielbasa.
I need this for some freezer meals.
I got two things of
vanilla yogurt just to have
for some smoothies and
to be my starter yogurt
'cause I don't have any
right now for the homemade.
Two packs of string cheese.
The singles, so yes, these
were in my last grocery haul
because I was gonna do like
200 freezer sandwiches.
Never got around to it.
Yes, we just made sandwiches
as the month rolled on,
but let me tell ya, every morning,
so look at talking hand,
this is like serious
talking hand business.
Every time, we had to
go and make sandwiches,
I was like, "My goodness,"
see this is passionate.
If these were pre-done, we would
just be grabbing and going.
Instead, we're here making
and I don't like that.
Talking hand is gettin' the head snap.
OK, two things of ricotta cheese
and then yes, whole lotta lotta.
I've got two, four, six
packs of shredded cheese.
I had ordered two of
the big five pound bags
and they replaced it with
these fine sharp cheddar.
Six one way, half dozen another.
Fine with me and yes, 24 loaves of bread.
Yes, half of this will
be made into sandwiches.
The other half will go in the freezer
and we will use it.
Dun dun dun.
Next, we have 50 pounds of potatoes.
I love having twice baked
potatoes in the freezer
ready to go.
We will use those for like
fun little side dishes,
for up to three months.
Naomi and I did this
maybe eight months ago,
maybe a year ago now.
We had an evening where we did a ton of
twice baked potatoes and it was,
it's just fun to make
em, fun to freeze em,
definitely fun to have em
in the freezer ready to go.
But it takes doing em one time.
So, we're gonna do em.
Then I have some condiments that I needed.
This is also largely for freezer meals.
Needed some more mustard.
We're gonna do sloppy
joes for the slow cooker.
Always love having that on hand.
So we got some more mustard for that.
More shaky cheese.
More minced garlic 'cause
I've got about a fourth left
but I use it a lot.
Only one thing of jelly.
I do have some jelly but again,
I like to have extra on hand.
One thing of ketchup, what was I thinking?
Two things of King
Arthur whole wheat flour
because I wanna get my bread machines out
when I do freezer cooking
this week and do banana bread,
blueberry bread, ya know, all
my different fruit breads.
So you may not know this about me but
I am the maker of bread
machine drama, apparently.
Some people have used
my bread machine recipes
and love them.
And then, when they don't
like em and when they flop,
they flop hard.
So, I apologize for that.
I'm going to share my
bread machine recipes again
and just try to get
every single little step.
Maybe I didn't do that last time.
I don't know.
It's always hard when ya
share recipes because if
one little thing's off, the whole thing,
it could be a brick.
We haven't had it be a brick.
The only time we had
trouble, it's in one of my
freezer cooking videos
is when I didn't give it
that little extra stir
around the edge that I do
and then, I even showed it in the video,
it was a big, big mess.
Anywho, more bread
machine recipes coming up.
So, two dozen total of the eggs and then,
glory hallelujah, it's that time of year.
Sometimes, OK, so this is the
budget saver sugar free pops
in the different flavors.
This is 12.
Sometimes I can get em in the 24
but I ordered eight of the 12.
They didn't have the 24 available.
And so, yeah, so two twin pops.
That's what we got.
Got eight of those and yes,
I'm sure we'll be done
with those in a month.
There ya go, like it or
not, that's what we got.
My standard 12 things of
unsweetened applesauce.
Now, fruit and veggie wise, I
got some fruits and veggies,
but as you may know, I
just got back from Utah
and honestly, we've got a
variety of fruits and veggies
already that need to be used up.
So I only got things
that obviously we didn't
already have on hand and things to add to.
So, I got some fresh spinach for salads.
These four peppers are for freezer meals.
I feel like I ordered more corn.
I think I only got 12 ears.
So I need to look at my
phone and look at that.
Yeah, so anyway, this corn'll just be like
a fun little thing for one meal.
I do my corn in the
electric pressure cooker.
I'll link my recipe down below for that
if you're interested.
It just takes a few minutes
where if you're doing
fresh corn and you're boiling it,
I mean, it can be an hour process.
It takes a long time.
At least, it always has
for me to do my corn.
But the pressure cooker
makes it fast, quick,
and in a hurry which I appreciate.
Two things of iceberg
lettuce, four cantaloupes,
two cabbages, yay!
Two watermelon, one bag
of broccoli that's also
for a freezer meal.
Just two packs of taco seasoning.
Two packs of semisweet chocolate chips
just for more recipes that are coming up.
Four big things of peanut butter.
Two of those I figured
are for different recipes
and two are for the house.
Then for more freezer
meals, we've got four packs
of these jumbo shells because we will be
making stuffed shells.
Two packs of fettuccine,
that's to go for a
pork ragu to go over and then,
we've got five boxes of bowties and then,
six containers of beef broth.
And then, there's my vinegar
that's really part of my
household haul.
$279 here is for the making
of the 40 freezer meals,
which breaks down to
just a little over $6.50,
under $7 per meal for a family of 10
and then everything else
is other grocery fill-ins
and for lunch freezer meals
and breads and other things
we're gonna stock the freezer with.
That does not mean that we
eat all of that in one month.
Many of these meals will
spread out up to three months.
I just have in my Mama
head keeping things stashed
and built up and ready to go.
That way, if we have a dinner
where I have a low carb
meatloaf in the slow cooker
and we have some twice
baked potatoes for those who want those.
Then I can put my time
that afternoon into making
a huge salad 'cause I'm all
about putting big salads
on top of and with everything.
So, the total of this big
super mega large family
grocery shopping haul was $517.
I usually grocery budget
about $1,000 to 1200 a month
for our family of 10, which
you can divide on down,
ya know, per week, per
person, per day, per meal
makes it well less than a dollar per meal.
This is not going to be our
only grocery haul for May
I will go back in about two to three weeks
and that haul will probably
be like an Aldi haul
which will be heavy on refilling
all of fruits, vegetables,
other things that we need
and I have this playlist
right here of some of my super
mega grocery shopping hauls.
I mean, hauls much bigger than this.
So click on this and keep on watching
and I will see you next time
with another brand new video
and be chattin' with all my friends
down in the comments below.
Bye bye.
