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hey guys welcome back to my channel it’s
Lauren today I have a brand new Costco
grocery haul to share with you guys it
has been a while since we did a big
Costco restock on some of our favorite
Staples for our fridge freezer and
Pantry I feel like I’ve been running
there for one or two things at a time
the last couple months and we didn’t do
our regular like every to every other
month full restock and honestly I think
it saves me money when I do it more like
that where I do a big Costco haul every
like 6 to 8 weeks I fill up our freezer
with our Staples like meat and kids
snacks dry goods for the pantry because
then I always have stuff I can pull from
my stock already when I go to make my
meal plan for the week and then I’m less
likely to have to run out to the grocery
store as much my weekly hauls are a lot
smaller it’s just rounding out the
things I already have in my stock for
meals and with the summer coming Lyla I
think only has about 2 and 1/2 more
weeks left of school I just want to make
things simple less runs and errands here
and there there and lots of stuff to
have on hand for easy meals and snacks
for them is always a win when we are
home for the summertime on top of that
I’m actually heading out of town this
coming week for a few days by
myself literally the first time I’ve
traveled alone without Josh or the girls
in years Josh is dading the kids he is
on top of it for all meals and snacks
while I’m gone so I wanted to make sure
he had lots of options here at the house
ready to go so he can do that while also
balancing working from home while while
he’s watching the kids while I’m out of
town for a few days so this haul came
out to right around
$300 until we added of course there’s
always an ad special thing at Costco
right Josh ended up buying me my
Mother’s Day present there it’s
something I’ve been wanting for like
over a year it got really popular and it
was sold out a lot of places but it came
back in stock at Costco so we snatched
it up for a really great price and I’ll
share that with you guys near the end of
the video after we get through the
groceries so let’s get into the grocery
haul from Costco today starting out with
some kids snacks we have Nature Valley
crunchy bars these are also my husband’s
favorite snack to have on hand he’ll
probably bring a bunch of these with to
stock up at his office at work the girls
picked out as Nora calls them bubbles
but they’re bobos these are like a
little oatmeal bite but they’re filled
with either apple or Berry kind of jam
just a great like morning snack option
or every now and then Nora is not like a
go-to big breakfast eater first thing in
the morning she has some milk she likes
to sometimes have a little snack and
then a few hours later have a bigger
breakfast so I was trying to find
something easy for in the house I also
do a lot of meal prepping you guys know
here on my channel so I will meal prep
things like oatmeal mini muffins
homemade granola we always have lots of
fruit on hand for a snack too so lots of
little things like that but this is nice
to have just some grab and go options
too especially in the summer we’d like
to get going and head out to the park as
early as possible cuz it gets so hot
here in Texas so we can grab snacks and
Waters and walk over to the park go get
some energy out first in the morning
before it gets too hot and then do do a
bigger meal when we come back a little
bit later I always have to have plenty
of plain nonfat Greek yogurt in the
house use this for everything it’s what
we use for sour cream I use this to make
frozen yogurt bark for the kids as a fun
summer treat but I end up using this a
lot in like dessert too or I’ll mix it
with some sugar-free Jello-O pudding mix
and make a fruit dip out of it so very
versatile a nice big 2 lb block of
cheddar cheese my kids love cheese I
love cheese we all love cheese so cheese
for fruit I can’t even believe that I
needed fruit on this haul cuz I also
just went to HB a couple days ago to get
us a few things to get through the end
of the week and I restocked on fruit
then I bought a big bag of grapes
probably at least 2 lbs worth um at
least a pound of strawberries I bought a
pine of raspberries and literally the
last of the fruit was finished off today
it is Sunday that was Thursday in 4 days
my family went through all of that fruit
so we got some more fruit when we were
at Costco I have some nice crunchy
looking green grapes and a 2B box of
strawberries these are
so sweet smelling I love strawberry
seasoned is totally in right now here in
Texas um it has been for a while I
remember Georgia before we moved to
Texas this fall we were in the Atlanta
area and we had the best strawberries
right in that April May time frame you
could go pick them at the farm yourself
so these smell so good my girls love
strawberries I grabbed some more avocado
oil spray this is pretty much what I use
all the time when I’m cooking if I need
to grease like a pan for baking if I
just need a little spray of o oil before
cooking in a sauté pan this is this is
it if I need to coat my veggies before
popping them in the air fryer this is
our All Purpose we just use sprays of
avocado oil we also got a restock on
maple syrup this is great for when the
girls want waffles or pancakes but also
I love to use this when I’m making
homemade granola I’m going to share my
new um sourdough discard homemade
granola recipe that I’ve been making the
last week I’ve kind of been testing out
a recipe in it and it’s so good we all
love it um I’ll share that in an
upcoming sourdough video for my
sourdough playlist but we also love
maple syrup as a sweetener I’ll replace
some of the white refined sugar in
recipes especially baking just with
maple syrup or honey I don’t know for me
it seems healthier a big jug of white
distilled vinegar I mostly use this for
cleaning like my sink and then also
cleaning all of my fruit I pour a little
bit of white distilled vinegar into cool
water I’ll rinse all of my fruit in
there really well and then strain it and
let it dry in colanders and then store
it in my like fruit up containers and it
helps keep my fruit fresh until my kids
finish it which I mean to be honest
isn’t that many days as I mentioned but
it does do the job of making sure none
of our fruit goes bad this is a quick
dinner option I’m sure Josh and the
girls will have this while I’m gone but
what we’ll do is it’s a double pack and
I will cut one of these off and put it
in the freezer and then one will keep in
the fridge for them for dinner this week
and these are chicken and cheese flas
these are delicious in the air fryer
they’re nice and soft cheesy chickeny on
the inside but the outside has like the
perfect buttery crusty tortilla they’re
super delicious everyone in my family
loves it so it’s an easy family night
dinner um so we’ll do these and then on
the side we normally use some Greek
yogurt for sour cream to dip them in and
black beans on the side so easy
delicious family dinner night I have a
two pack of the serly artisano bread I
said I was going to make some homemade
sandwich bread guys and I still haven’t
gotten to it I don’t know why I make
other kinds of sour dough bread all all
the time I just still have not tried
making sandwich loaf we don’t go through
that as often some weeks we’ll do
sandwiches for lunches other weeks I do
more of a meal prep style and we’re not
using just like regular sandwich bread a
lot um especially if I make homemade
sourdough we’ll use that instead for
like toasts on the side with some salad
and things like that but I get them from
Costco that way I can pop them in the
freezer and I just pull a sleeve out
when we need one um cuz that is the kind
of bread my girls like peanut butter and
jellis on or toast for breakfast
sometimes I’m bringing you guys down for
this one so I don’t have to hold them up
in the air but I got a large pack of
chicken breasts these are boneless
skinless chicken breasts these were
£2.99 a pound so 2685 for this 8 almost
9 lb package which I thought was pretty
good cuz I think my local HB I’ve seen
chicken um for over $3 recently so
pretty good deal and I love that they’re
packaged like this already they’re in
little like individual packets that you
can just use a scissors and cut them so
they can stack well in the freezer each
packet contains two chicken breasts and
then I also have this large packet of
ground beef Costco does an 8812 beef
which I really like for cooking it makes
Juicy Burgers but they’re a little bit
on the leaner side the beef was going
for $429 a pound today which I thought
was a pretty good price for this lean of
a cut this one’s not as easy as my
chicken I am going to have to do some
prep work with this I like to divide
mine into one lb portions and then I put
them in a freezer gallon Ziploc bag to
store in the freezer I love using a
rolling pin or just flattening them
really flat with my hand cuz then they
thaw super quickly from the freezer
because I don’t know about you guys but
that is one thing I’m totally guilty of
is forgetting to take my meat out of the
freezer in time so it defrosts and thaws
properly for me to use for dinner that
night so doing the ground beef like
pressed really thin in a Ziploc bag has
helped me significantly not forget and
not have enough time to thaw meat for
the meal that I planned that night and
then just have to plan something else
real quick or something that wasn’t on
my meal plan and go off go off the book
on that also bought some more crusty
light and fluffy buttermilk baking mix
we for pancakes and waffles that’s one
of my favorite freezer meal preps with
the kids it’s so nice to have your own
homemade freezer waffles that you can
just take out in the morning pop them in
the toaster I like to mix in things like
chia seeds or flax seed get my kids some
extra fiber or protein going in their
waffles so it’s nice to be able to mix
up your own I have done protein powder
in the pancakes as well and this mix is
really nice it you usually can’t taste
like a chalky protein flavor when I mix
it in and make the batter out of it we
have some or organic fortilla chips just
for snacking my girls also really love
making nachos for a snack with some
shredded cheddar cheese and Greek yogurt
for dipping these were a find that I
wanted to try for myself for lunches
these are seasoned turkey burgers
they’re thir lb patties and they have 30
g of protein per serving so I was
thinking these would be really great for
a lunch option to pack a lot of protein
something quick that I can just pop in
the air fryer or in the microwave and
another new item I’m trying I love the
purita veggies you guys have seen me try
multiple of their Blends they just came
out at least in our Costco this is new
they’re the fajitas blend so it’s bell
peppers and onions it has some spices to
it and a little bit of olive oil but
these are so nice to have on hand where
you can just grab a portion of them to
throw in with eggs and make like a
veggie Bowl in the morning I’m going to
try using these as like a bed to put a
turkey burger on and eating that for
lunch I’m really trying to focus on
higher protein this month for myself
I’ve kind of slipped on that and I know
I feel better and I reach my health
goals better when I’m focusing on just
more protein um so that’s like a nice
fast lunch option for me we also got
some more just bare lightly breaded
chicken breast chunks these are our
favorite chicken nuggets another go-to
Frozen veggie the Kirkland organic
broccoli fettes we love this pack it
comes with four 1 lb broccoli fuette
packages and they’re ready for the
microwave so super quick and easy side
dish for family dinners and then a four
pack of the Kirkland cheese pizzas for
the freezer we like these cuz our girls
still love cheese pizza for the most
part but then um Josh and I can add
whatever we want to our side we can add
some turkey pepperoni I could add some
veggies if I want um yeah and just do uh
DIY our own pizza night usually we’ll
serve a salad on the side and now you
guys have been waiting what is my
Mother’s Day
present I finally got one this is the
new ninja creamy deluxe version they had
it at Costco it was
$179 oh my gosh the creamy had been
selling out everywhere since it was last
spring that everything went so viral
with being able to make like protein ice
cream in the creamy by using protein
shakes which is totally in my game plan
for it but also the girls were just
super excited that we can make up our
own ice cream at home and it was kind of
like a fun family activity we can use it
over the summer I fully plan on trying
to use some of the Premier proteins I
still have from my last Costco haul that
I drank um in the pantry and it’s the
cafe latte flavor and I’m going to make
some coffee flavored ice cream that’s
going to be one of the first things I
try cuz that sounds delicious I love
coffee ice cream what’s cool about this
one is so it comes with like the motor
base it comes with three 24 oz creamy
Deluxe pints with storage lids and then
like the outer bowl and lid the paddle
and a recipe guide but this one has more
functions than some of the previous
versions so before you could do like ice
cream light ice cream and sorbet maybe
some others depending on the version you
got this one does ice cream light ice
cream which is what they suggest the
setting you use for when you’re making
protein ice cream out of protein shakes
um sorbet gelato frozen yogurt a creamy
Chino which is like making your own
Frappuccinos out of coffee at home
frozen drinks I guess like margaritas
milkshakes Italian ice so and I also
feel like if we do like the sorbet or
Italian ice we can then put them in like
a popsicle mold maybe in like a silicone
popsicle mold and in the freezer so this
just me I feel like this is going to be
all sorts of Summer fun for us so I’m
excited this is my Mother’s Day gift and
I will for sure be sharing recipes on
this guy as we try them out anyway I’m
going to get putting all this stuff away
before my Frozen stuff uh starts to thaw
that will be a difficulty here in Texas
I can already tell this summer is how to
get anything Frozen from the grocery
store home and away before it totally
melts sorry for the lighting in this
video guys it is so dark and stormy out
it looks like nighttime it is actually
uh 1:00 in the afternoon my daughter is
down napping Lyla and Josh I think are
watching a show and it is just been like
thunderstorming on and off all day so
it’s super dark outside so sorry for the
lighting anyway that’s what I got at
Costco this week guys let me know if
there’s anything new at Costco you guys
have tried lately thank you so much for
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fool but if I
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