Monthly Costco Grocery Haul, Meal Plan, & Prep! Do I Have My Life Together? YeahNo. *With Prices*

hello party people i have my life together for today for right now i went to the grocery store a couple of them went grocery shopping for the next year i feel like so i have a costco grocery haul to share with you guys i went to publix as well there's i'm currently looking at that it's just so sad right it's fine i feel put together just you know on the inside i'm starting to feel a little better which feels so nice so i feel like i'm able to like get stuff done i meal planned who am i i know i'm like really excited about it not only that but like i have so much to share with you i printed out about um 200 recipes most of them are from a meal plan that i subscribe to some of them are from the food network um i don't so i mean there's so many here i couldn't even list off like oh these are the recipes that i have you guys would be bored but to name a few i have pepper steak copycat sticky chicken thingies katsu chicken i don't even know what that is but it looks real good salisbury steak honey glazed pork tenderloin grilled hawaiian pork skewers honey chicken roasted dill potatoes roasted balsamic brussels sprouts i know we're getting fans but also all of these recipes are so simple family friendly and delicious parmesan lemon zucchini ranch roasted potatoes and carrots zucchini corn casserole bacon dijon green salad fettuccine alfredo with a veggie i mean i could go on that's literally only half of them so i picked my favorites i wrote down a grocery list i know i had two separate grocery lists i honestly i couldn't even tell you who i am right now let's just get into the grocery haul all of this is from costco this over here mostly condiments and stuff is from publix i went to staples i'll share more about that in a minute and this is the rest from costco i'm gonna say non-food items but clearly that is food oh my gosh here's something else that made me feel like i had my life together i put all the meats because i go to costco first and then i go to publix so sometimes the meat has to stay in the car i brought this cooler that i have i got it from ikea did i get from my camera did i get it offline either way it is from ikea that is the name right there oh my gosh my thumb i'm so sorry you have to look at that i burned my thumb it's so anyway all the meats are right there but i'm still a mess don't let the illusion fool you floor of my car is still filled with crumbs so so much to the point where you like step in and it's like crunch we'll get to that later okay so let's start with the veggies because that always makes me feel good right veggies always make us feel good about ourselves got a bunch of potatoes i need yukon gold potatoes for something so that's what these are the skins are really thin i don't remember what recipe i need which ingredients but i did need potatoes i'll probably make some mashed potatoes from these can i do yukon gold potatoes make good mashed potatoes we're gonna find out okay what else am i gonna do with them green beans i only grabbed one bag of these i don't know what i was thinking i grabbed some oranges this is a hefty bag of oranges they are smaller than usual but they're the easy peel i mean it's like summertime which i feel like that's when these go out of season it's whatever it's not it's technically still spring i'm gonna try to use my other hand i should get my baby hand out uh everyone eats the snaus out of these great way to get a little bit of uh nutrition and a little snack i got some avocados um avelina really wants to start doing smoothies so she asked for avocados i was like you want to put avocado in your smoothie i don't know i'm sure people do it i'm just not a fan of avocados i also got some mangoes and oh my gosh last time i got mangoes from costco half of them i feel like i cut them open they were still hard as a rock but they were bad inside i don't know so these feel really nice i feel like they're ready to cut and ready to eat so that's kind of exciting for me anyway it's the things we get excited about as adults right and then i grabbed some peppers and multi peppers and i i have something to go with it over there so we'll get there but i like to eat these raw and i need some of them for a dinner dish i also grab some brussels sprouts i have a few recipes for these shred it up and then also wrote i don't know man you guys know my infinite love for sprouties i grabbed this from costco it's the chili this is new they've never had this before never have i ever seen it and it does have cheese but i feel like the cheese is just on the top i don't know it could be like melted in between but i got it and i'm gonna see if it's delicious or not i'm not sure i am a huge fan of chili but you know how some people make chili and it's nasty and something like chilies and you're like oh wow it's the best chili i've ever had ironically wow that is not even sealed on there ironically chili's the restaurant not good chili no beans oh that smells really good actually gosh every time one corner gets down another one pops up moving on to some cauliflower i love i'm showing you i'm the best youtuber in the world cauliflower i love roasting this in the oven and really this doesn't make a lot i feel like i could eat this all like this is one portion of cauliflower oh man it's so good i also like to boil it or steam it even in the microwave whatever and then just add butter and nutmeg oh man that's delicious i got some mushrooms for two different recipes i think the fettuccine alfredo has um and veggies has it and then the salisbury steak i grabbed some lemons oh have you guys seen that thing going around where like they make a parmesan salad it's just romaine lettuce with parmesan cheese um lemon and i don't know maybe some seasonings garlic i don't really know what else i wasn't really paying attention but my aunt judy makes this amazing salad does it even have lemon in it what am i even talking about i'm gonna put lemon in it i don't know how she makes hers it is the world's best salad everyone raves about it i don't know she should make a cookbook man do you have that one person in your family that like is the ultimate every single one of their recipes is a home run and you're like man why have you not made a recipe book yet you definitely need to you know if for nothing else to just share it with the rest of your family okay i grab some kiwis slice scoop enjoy i don't scoop mine i peel mine i used to scoop them and then i found that when i peel it with a paring knife peel the skin off because listen i don't eat my kiwis with skin okay i'm a little bit crazy but not a lot crazy but i do find that when you peel it you yield more fruit you yield more what's the stuff inside called i don't know i can't think of the word that i'm trying to think of also my candle is like popping over here whoa meredith got water in it earlier so fun having kids right um okay and then i got these strawberries they did not have a single thing of strawberries at costco so i grabbed the can you hear the candle it's going crazy anyway they didn't have any strawberries at costco so i did grab these from publix they looked okay so this is a little publix uh veggies and then i grabbed one green bell pepper i mean it's massive it's like one pound for one bell pepper and um i grabbed some parsley i don't really know what recipe that's for but i needed it so i grabbed it of course i couldn't leave costco without my hunk of chunks but my heavenly hunkies love they were not on sale which whatever but usually when they're on sale i grabbed two bags everyone loves these they're gluten free they're dairy free they're delicious oatmeal dark chocolate mmm yes please it tastes like cookie dough like an oatmeal cookie dough that's what i feel like it tastes like try it out for yourself and see if you like it okay i also needed some garlic powder oh my gosh should i buy garlic powder twice no that's onion powder okay good job i need some garlic powder some i got some from costco i feel like it's a good price a gooder price there yeah i grabbed some pepperoni this is the ultimate okay you can't beat this price for the amount of pepperoni that you get how many pounds is in here let's see you should be casually dating two pound value pack and it's like 10 bucks okay and if i go to i don't know target publix wherever else they sell you like 0.2 ounces for seventeen dollars not really okay that's an exaggeration calm down i grabbed these and i know they have dairy in them but i wanted them oh oh my gosh i should also say this is not an easter haul i know easter is right around the corner is it this weekend oh my gosh it's easier this weekend like this coming weekend for you i feel like yeah i feel like it is um so i it's weird i'm going to costco on monday to film a shop with me because that's when like the sales flip over i couldn't wait to go grocery shopping another four days hence i went today but then when i'm there i decided oh i'll just pick up some hams and probably mashed potatoes try to make it easy for myself i don't really know but at least the hams is what i'm gonna get so i'll get i don't even know my easter menu i guess i should have planned out easter instead of planning out the next year of meal but i don't know i'm just doing my best over here now i'm second guessing every life choice i've ever made anyway these are so good how much are they i want to say they were nine dollars which is spendy for a little container of potatoes like this okay i feel like they used to be seven dollars and sometimes i would get them on sale for like five bucks you know it is real good they are really i'm gonna make these tonight because i'm like i got that hankering forum you know hank grin where did that word even like originate i don't know that i'm about to blow that candle i was driving me nuts you know how some people get the candles that like oh it's like wood burning it sounds like you're inside a fire no that sounds like my house is about to explode okay thank you calm down hey back to the good stuff oh that candle sweet potato crackers these are amazing they're gluten free they're dairy free they're delicious they're just teeny tiny little round crackers like so they're great for appetizers and i usually serve them with pepperoni and then i cut this cheese up these are really thick slices of cheese and this is a great price for the amount of cheese that you get in here it is extra sharp cheddar cheese but it's so there's 44 slices in here it's so thick that i just cut them into like cubies and then you know people can top their little crackers with some uh pepperoni it's just a nice little treat okay it's not i don't know if it's a treat oh my gosh guess what is a treat this i've never seen it at costco before the gyro slices beef and lamb is from japanese i know it's not gyro agiro hero hero it's so weird every time okay first of all greek food is one of my favorite foods okay i know i don't really have a favorite so that's what i love greek food almost stopped there today because i went to staples over there and there's a greek place it's called it's like a fast food greek place it's called um little greek i think it's one of alex and i's favorite little spot and they obviously sell heroes and every time i order one i'm like a falafel please i never know how to say it i always say it different every time and i ask them oh how do you say i just physically like my brain can't make the connection like the synapses in my brain are just like that you know what i mean so i just say gyro that's what i say i say gyro that's probably wrong too because people say it's without the it's a silent g hero i can't but you get it anybody that's the first time i've seen them at costco um someone saw them in my cart and said and like pointed them out and they were like that you're gonna love those so i imagine they liked them too so i was excited about it i'm excited to try them out this was not on the meal plan so i might put them in the freezer for a later date okay moving on i got some powdered cheese up here this is mostly for me you guys know i used to make like pasta and cheap well really i didn't alex did pasta and cheese for my kids it was like one of their favorite meals until we realized oh they're allergic to dairy two out of four of them are anyway so i haven't bought it since but i don't know i feel like i don't know i bought it if i'm making something with it i can separate it and add that to like a little bit of it you know what i mean okay i also got some jiff because choosy moms can you feel me this was actually on sale and that's what it tipped me over um we only have reduced fat peanut butter i don't want to talk about it if you saw my previous vlog you know all about my jiffy reduce fat peanut butter woes but for now this is what we have oh great avelina has a bug a problem that's a good question uh okay anyway she has a frog it's fine um catch and release style actually it's a long story because this morning there was a frog in the car and right when i was dropping them off at dismissal it like started hopping on my dashboard and i was like so she grabbed it and brought it to her class um i mean she let it loose before that but her friends were like why do you have my brother avelina loves creatures of all shapes and sizes i on the other hand uh like to admire them from afar okay anyway choosy mom's choose gif that's what i choose i'm a choose mom okay i saw these and i got so excited i gasped i was real into it and then i realized they're jalapeno miss vicky's costco i feel like last summer sold miss vicki's spicy dill pickle chips those are the ultimate they are supreme they rain supreme over these i would not even i would not even recommend these okay but if you see miss vicky's spicy dill pickle chips get those because obviously i had to crack into them and find so that is my verdict i don't know i mean these are fine i don't know i like the spicy dill pickle ones ten fold i needed some granola bars we're out of granola bars i feel like my kids eat they eat them like they're going out of style i don't even know i can't keep up with it i've been buying the 10 box of cascadian farm ones from target first of all they're pricey and second of all i think these have dairy in them so two of the kids can't eat them but i don't know we're going into the weekend about to have spring break we wait we already had spring break oh that makes me want to cry we're about to have easter it's whatever i don't know anyway um for whatever reason i talked myself into getting those people who come over can eat them and that's the main attraction because the cascadian farm ones are expensive i hear that screaming that means the frog got loose uh so the 64 bars you can't beat that price right okay to feed an army of kids who i'm like why you're probably not even hungry okay you're just bored turkey jerky this was a sample and it got me um avelina likes to put this in her lunch i typically buy the normal beef jerky for her but i had this as a sample and it tasted really nice okay it was it was not as chewy as the beef so i got that for her hey guess what else i got three chickens rotisserie style from costco my kids i swear they have no chill do you see that um they helped me bring all this stuff in and they both have friends over so they were all helping me it took a fraction of the time because most of the time i do it by myself if no one's here you know yeah that was nice anyway i guess they couldn't contain themselves and grabbed a little bite i i definitely know who did it um so i was watching jordan paige and she she said buy one for dinner tonight and then buy two for later peel off get the chicken all done and then put it in the freezer for when you need some chicken you know i said yeah that's a great idea that is great advice so i took it i did it this time i felt kind of weird putting three in my cart but kind of not also how does jordan page feed her family of like i don't know 25 with one rotisserie chicken that eludes me because this feeds us i don't know it's enough for us and most of the time we have a little bit left over unless we have extra people over it it's whatever chicken is delicious i don't know what they pump in this chicken honestly i don't want to know don't tell me it's probably a bunch of sugar probably a bunch of deliciousness so juicy is so succulent that candle is driving me nuts have you seen that thing alex is like obsessed with it it's going around i'm gonna blow this out look at this it's gonna spark a fire i'm gonna what's that song does that have anything to do with fire yeah we can't start a fire something like that okay you're done i'm gonna have to like trim the wick or something okay so what's that audio on instagram that's going around alex just repeats it i'm gonna have to call him and see it's like you why are you so why did god make you so okay go something along the lines of what was god thinking when he made you so thick so scrim niddly i'm just and then something about a pancake i don't know it's so funny um anyway at least i think it's wow what were you talking about chicken i also grabbed these praline pecans alex seems to really enjoy these he takes them to his little hideaway and basically eats all of them with his buddies and i don't know i eat a couple and it satisfies me i don't need too many of them it's really easy to make these praline pecans it really is simple and probably you know i would like to say cost effective but also pecans are expensive and if you don't have time because it takes like two hours if you don't have time i'll also you can make it in a crock pot i feel like i've shared both ways anyway convenience sometimes wins i also need some honey we're running low on honey so i grabbed some honey broccoli florets gotta love them i love having these in my freezer ready to eat ready to cook up especially those week nights where i'm like oh what's a vegetable and then there it is broccoli hey guess what else they had as a sample so random and weird you just eat that whole container of raspberries okay so they had bread as a sample and they had the best sample guy you know you know you know how there's some sample people who are like i enjoy and then there's some that are like fresh bread made this morning the butter on here is so creamy and delicious you know what i mean that he was one of those people and i just adored him and i said you made a sale okay i don't know if he gets any profit from that also i feel like carbs right now my best friend absolutely six dollars for two loaves like one in the freezer yes and then when you're ready to cook it maybe cut it in half i don't know if how many how much you're gonna eat at one time but when you're ready take it out put it in the toaster oven a low temperature for i don't know about 10 minutes or so that's my hack from my oma she gets chicago rolls or rolls fresh bread and that's how she makes them every morning she puts them in her freezer and it's like fresh bread every morning she wants to eat it so it's fantastic and that's what i'm gonna do actually i just poked a dang hole in it hate that okay i needed some oil so i grabbed the oil i needed a lot of oil i guess or i just felt like i needed a lifetime supply there it is madras lentils you guys know my kids adore this it's a great after-school snack for them it's a great snack that they can make by themselves it comes in a little pouch you just rip it open a little bit on the top throw it in the microwave for 60 seconds just one minute and then we typically always have rice in the fridge they just mix it together and they have lunch sometimes even for dinner i'll make this i'll mix in cauliflower with the rice and it's just a great like easy simple literally like throw together in five minutes dinner and it satisfies everyone the flavors are great madras lentils delish love that okay i grabbed some bacon bacon and eggs and bacon oh my gosh that reminds me of like chitty chitty bang bang what's that i don't know what he's actually saying or supposed to be saying but he do you know do you know what i'm talking about eggs and bacon what is he actually supposed to be saying because that's not it he just like it's two people and one person keeps misinterpreting what they're saying oh i can't remember that was one of my favorite movies growing up man chitty chitty bang bang is the ultimate share it with your kids i bet they'll love it too chitty chitty bang bang we love you and chitty chitty bang bang chitty chitty bang bang loves you eggs i only grabbed one i feel like we have a couple in the fridge outside and also i made boiled eggs the other day oh delicious i almost bought boiled eggs and i was like kim you can make them yourself okay and then i grabbed this oh gosh you know what i didn't even check the if it has butter i bet it does um i typically get the not colonel popcorn hot hot kernel it's not kernel it is kettle kettle corn for eleanor and it's the oh gosh i don't know the brand i'll try to put it over here a picture of it or something that's what i get for eleanor she's dairy free for everyone else they always ask for popcorn and i typically make it i have the kernels i have the salts and stuff but sometimes especially the past four months i have not felt like making anything getting up to do anything so this is just a really quick easy way that they could just do it themselves or it's just convenience right and the price of this for 44 bags it's unbeatable and i grabbed some mini tacos these are fantastic mostly for me i love to make taco salads oh my gosh i forgot to buy romaine lettuce oh man it's fine i have three hearts in the fridge so that'll last me three days mini tacos chicken and cheese these are delicious they have a nice like kind of spicy flavor so one of my kids doesn't like them because they're too spicy but everyone else does she's really sensitive eleanor can't even eat pizza rolls because she says they're too spicy back when she could eat them yeah pepperoni she's not a huge fan she's very sensitive to the spice yeah mini little tacos i love to make these throw them in the airfryer if it's just a quick lunch and then i just put on a bed of lettuce and what i use is my dressing to be slightly embarrassing but this is what i use for the dressing it is so good is the taco bell hot sauce okay and to go with the ghee rose actually initially i just i don't even know if we can make a gyro with this little pita what kind of bread do we use i don't know it'll work initially i got this for meredith because she loves to just eat these she is my curb girl so i got them for her crispy chicken strips i just grabbed a bag of these again for convenience okay moving over here finishing up the costco bit i grabbed a kitchen scale i blame elise ellis okay that's who i blame never in my life have i ever wanted a kitchen scale or thought that i would ever buy one but here i am a lot of her recipes are by weight and i just most of the time i either guess or i google like what the weight is equivalent to cups or whatever but i thought i don't know i thought i'll just buy one but i think because it was on sale it like tipped me over the breaking point and i said fine i'll do it plus i've been watching i think his name's like jonathan something on youtube and he is like a gourmet chef and he weighs everything too so i was like you know what and plus sourdough starters they weigh everything i'm like i don't have them it seems like everything these days needs to be weighed out so i finally caved in i was like you got me 20 22 you got me hey this was a pretty good deal for almost 200 band-aids and i feel like we always need band-aids in our house it's like crazy um hey this was on sale too which is so crazy it was literally the last one left and i had been eyeing it for quite some time do we need more food prep containers i don't know is this plastic oh i thought it was glass oh see uh yeah they're plastic food storage but it also comes with reusable bags which got me which i feel like the reusable bags is what i like what i would have paid just for the reusable bags let alone the four divided containers i can use these for the kids lunches and then there's condiment containers in there too oh here's another here is a better view of it for you maybe a better view i don't know so i thought that was a decent deal and then i ended up getting a bunch of pants for alex they're not pants they're shorts so so whenever like people come over and they're like going in the lake they ask for shorts to borrow from alex but then they like leave with them and they i don't know don't bring them back so he's like just buy me some shorts i don't even care so these were around ten to twelve dollars each so i got um some black ones some khaki ones and i don't know some of them are nicer than others i was all i got one two three four five pairs so that's a decent little array of uh shorts for him and grab some sun chips for the kids well mostly for me oh my gosh i forgot to check in publix i see i didn't write on my grocery list so i forgot about it that i've been craving the harvest cheddar i guess this one bag will be satisfy my craving maybe two bags okay not even gonna lie oh and there's ten bags of those delicious i've been craving the harvest cheddar sun chips and i haven't had them so today's the day okay i'm going to crack into those scrum diddly i'm just hey this is i'm going to make a recipe book just for me like all the recipes that i printed out went to staples you guys voted this was the binder that won um okay it's just a one inch binder i grabbed some hand sanitizer if you don't know this is the best smelling hand sanitizer i've ever smelled used to use it when i worked at cvs and it smells really good it smells really good um so eleanor for whatever reason the kids do acting class and they always get scripts and they always need a three-hole punch which is someone at my door knock three times on the ceiling if you want me anyway we always need this don't have it and it was on sale today at staples it's normally 18 so says at staples anyway and i got it for 12. i actually went to target almost added one to my cart but they were like 22 bucks and none of them were in store they were like all online anyway um i also did not buy sheet protectors from staples because they were like crazy expensive so i have to add those to my target cart don't let me forget and then i love these i used to use these in college in high school they're pocket divide so they're dividers but they each have a pocket on them so if you're just in a rush adding so if i have a recipe to add and i don't feel like putting it in the binder all the way with a sheet protector whatever i can just slide it in here or if i want to test a recipe out i don't know if i want to keep it for the rest of my life um that's where i can put it that's where i can store it so that's really nice i did buy a turkey i don't don't ask me man easter is a ham holiday if you ask me but one of our neighbors really wants to make us a turkey i guess so i bought a turkey for him to make i don't it's weird don't ask me about it okay i told you alex is the one who deals with all that he's the social butterfly i just follow the rules i'm a rule follower moving over here oh look at this i need to get these in the freezer slash in my mouth you guys know i don't even like ice cream i don't even like it oh oh i need a spoon but for whatever reason it's like such a cliche pregnancy craving right here it is this is butter pecan none of the kids none of the kids will eat this anyway because it's a butter pecan oh gosh i don't know how you people do it ice cream is so cold yeah i don't know if i can do that i have to take like the smallest bites at a time i'm just not a huge ice cream fan for whatever reason i'm craving it so i got butter pecan and then coffee i'm probably gonna mix these together i love coffee i don't drink coffee but i love the taste of coffee i needed some ginger paste so i grabbed some ginger paste needed some pineapple juice so i grabbed some pineapple juice needed some tezaki so so i grabbed some tetsaki sauce needed some ranch dip and i grabbed some ranch dip i needed some dill veggie dip so i grabbed some do it okay it hurts my throat what if i did the entire grocery haul like that was it just one day i should do it like that right that would man that would be so funny oh i'm gonna do it one day with my baby hand hold on let's try it out let's try it out over here these were actually buy one get one free and i said you know what since this buy one get one free i'll try the dill i've never had that before but i am craving just oh my gosh veggies and ranch dip because it's different than ranch dressing i was eating carrots and ranch dressing the other day it made me want to vomit it was so disgusting never again in my life but the ranch dip there's something special to it okay all right so let's try this out here i need it i can't do it i grab some pasta can't do it on cue okay grab some pasta needed some gluten-free pasta for a meal probably the fettuccine wait is it fettuccine whatever it is i don't know uh one of the meals i need power cakes this is the kodiaq buttermilk waffle and flapjack mix i needed some tomato paste so i grabbed some small paste other than some beef broth so i got some beef broth i needed some spices so i got mustard i got onion rice vinegar cocoa mino sweet chili sauce what's this balsamic vinegar and red wine vinegar then i grab some pea milk good and creamy and then i grab some good and creamy oat milk then i grab some jasmine rice it's a good time favorite oh is that everything good we got we're just in time for everyone to leave and then oh my grabbed look at my kid did someone bite into that or was that me i did eat one on the way home these cuisines so i couldn't keep my hands off of them they're just so buttery okay and scrum diddley umptuous and then i grabbed some onions oh my word i almost forgot to share you share with you what's inside of the cooler i grabbed some pork tenderloins these are such a great price at costco and really all the meat prices have gone up i grabbed ooh flank steak i think yeah never i don't think i've ever had that chicken tendees chicken tenderloins some salmon yes i can say shmams and some ground beef down there so that is a lot of meat right loaded up so this is the next day much to my surprise i didn't get as much done as i actually thought that i would well filming wise anyway so the day i went grocery shopping i don't know i'm always tuckered out by the end of the day and it's like these days i am coming out of my morning sickness and i'm feeling a lot better but there are still like evening nausea evening morning sickness is that thing because i still definitely have that i i also feel like i'm semi coming out of that as well but baby steps okay i'm just whoa my printer is making crazy noises over here okay so um needless to say i did not get all the groceries put away the day of which is fine like the stuff that needs to go in the refrigerator in the freezer for the most part i get them all in okay like the brussels sprouts and stuff should they have gone in yeah but whatever they didn't make their way in but they're still good so now i'm just putting whatever i can away and do you guys do this too where you would rather like rip your skin apart with this orange netting that they have it's the same with the oranges and the onions and you know that netting material you guys like rips my fingers off but still for whatever reason i would rather open it with my fingers than spend the 10 seconds it takes to go get some scissors or a knife to help me oh there's something wrong with me does anyone else do that or am i just ridiculous anyway this is my fruit bowl hey good news i was about to open that banana and put it in the freezer and then i was like maybe one more day good news is i'm going to film today for the next vlog that you will see maybe whatever whatever vlog is next and i'm finally going to share with you my banana bread recipe not that i haven't shared it before but it's been years and well for i think i'm just excited because i haven't made it in a while and it's delicious like i think after 2020 we all made so much banana bread we were kind of over it you know we were kind of banana breaded out and now i'm ready for it again i'm definitely gonna add nuts to it which means uh my oldest can't eat it but it's fine anyway it'll have gluten anyway i needed to share with you i said come on here one of our neighbors brought us a key lime pie so nice so gracious wow so neighborly but it leaked all over my freshly cleaned perfect fridge if you saw my last vlog i cleaned out the fridge and it was disgusting because at one point i had left you know ground beef in there that was like leaking the juices and whatever you know so i cleaned it up and then i put this key lime pie in there and it just started leaking all over tarnation and i was like are you kidding like the day after i clean it you know what i mean it's like surely i can have a clean fridge for at least a couple of days before something leaks out and happens to it right oh this watermelon you guys sad story oh isn't there always a story i tried it get i bought it i paid an arm and a leg because you know it's like pre-cut kind you know they charge you five times as more and when they just cut two knife cuts in it and quarter it up do you know what i mean it's so ridiculous but it's worth it for me because i get to see the inside and i feel like every time i buy a watermelon i do all the tricks i've tried them all for whatever reason it just doesn't work out this was a delicious watermelon it was crisp it you know what it didn't have a ton of flavor i will say that but it wasn't mushy it wasn't moldy it wasn't disgusting so for me that's a win these days and so i was feeling pretty good about it like oh yeah i finally got a good watermelon there look at that decent so i put it out for the kids to eat they ate a little bit of it then everyone went to the outside so then meredith took it upon herself to bring the container outside because surely everyone needs the snack outside since everyone is there right so gracious of her except for she tripped and of course the watermelon went all up in the grass i was like that's five dollars ah we tried to wash it off it worked for some of the pieces but anyway this is speaking of waste this poor pineapple because like i said the past few months i haven't been feeling well so last time i went grocery shopping i didn't meal prep everything i left one pineapple out this one and i just never got around to it you know i was like it's just too much work you know what i mean like sometimes it's the last thing you want to do is cut up some fruit that's why prepping is so important for me because when it's prepped and ready to eat it gets eaten otherwise it doesn't so um i cut into the pineapple and finally i was just like i can't like what am i gonna get two pieces out of here love the slo-mo's every single time i clean my produce with people think it's dish soap which technically it is i guess it's all kinds of soap you guys have heard me talk about it before it's the dr bronner's castile soap you can use it on i don't know dogs birds if it's good for them it's good for us it's edible you can use it on yourself you can use it on i don't know your kitchen you can it's literally like a soap for all and it even says you can wash your vegetables with it so it's not like i'm doing something crazy so that's what i use it for just to wash the veggies it doesn't leave a weird taste or residue so i quite enjoy it and that bottle lasts me forever literally years because i just use a little bit and i find that sometimes it does foam up but this time i use the method of filling the water up and then squirting some in and it didn't get agitated around so it didn't foam up this time you know with all the suds because sometimes that that's annoying so i'm cleaning all these deliciously crunchy grapes you guys it is is it grape season i got these grapes from publix oh they were so good the ones at costco not good i don't know if i mentioned that but they weren't good so i grabbed some from publix whenever i went the day before or whenever had them needed to wash them so we could eat them and i mean it's probably it's days later five days at least and they are still crunchy still delicious i like how now that i'm agitating the water you can see all the suds and stuff but i like how my fruit stays fresher longer i feel like when i wash it and get it all prepped and stuff oh so beautiful doesn't just the side of that make you want to like eat something healthy it does that for me anyway so all the close-up shots okay so i'm cutting some grapes because i plan on making a oh gosh what is it called i should get the recipe because i am going to share it with you it is like a chicken tarragon lemon pasta salad something along those lines i'll get the actual recipe when it's time for me to share it but right now i'm just sitting cozy i'm cutting i think i needed two cups and i kept looking at it trying to get to the two cup measuring line like i actually followed directions and then i just kept cutting and i was like kim who do you think you are because i cooked more pasta than the recipe called for so i was like why am i like i'll just cut some more grape i don't know anyway so i'm just cutting up some grapes and then i'm putting the rest in with the other grapes so let me go grab that recipe and then i'll share that with you asap life is a winding road no telling where it goes driving through days and nights won't stop for traffic lights goes even if i'm falling down i will keep on searching for my eyes you can say i lost my mind i will keep on holding my head high even the sky is falling down jumping from cliffs so high trust in our wings to fly sometimes we're crashing down but we get up and start from the ground and i really want to know if i figure out where the road goes even if i'm falling down i will keep on searching for my eyes you can say i lost my mind i will keep on holding my head high even if the sky is falling down even if the sky is falling down that was even if the sky is falling down by i don't know candle lion is that about right sure why not and i'm ryan seacrest welcome so you just saw me cutting up some celery steaks i needed some for the pasta salad also love to have some on hand dip it in hummus dip it in the ranch dressing not the dressing the ranch dip there's a big difference okay the recipe called for some as the zest of two limes lemons and this gmo gargantuan lemon got me so much dang zest and it called for about one tablespoon i feel like that's what you would what you would get from two lemons but this thing was so dang huge um and of course i had to put the essential oils on my wrist because why waste it natural perfume delicious one time someone was like you're rubbing it on your nasty wrist i should have put it on my neck on my nest and neck put it on behind my nasty ears i could go on all right i'll stop my wrists are clean it's fine okay oh gosh what else do you need for the recipe let's do this you need one tablespoon of sugar half a teaspoon of onion powder half a teaspoon of salt two tablespoons of honey of course i just eyeballed most of it and then i'm oh and i thought yeah that's not enough i'm adding more because more is more you need half a cup of milk i used oat milk and then of course i'm pretty sure i add a little bit more of everything and then one and a quarter cup plain greek yogurt i just had three of these cups i'm pretty sure there's like half a cup in each one so it's like a cup and a half i you know what take measurements for what they are unless you're counting macros and actually need it this recipe by the way is from elise ellis i adore her she i get her meal plans from macro friendly foods she has an instagram she has shared this recipe on her instagram that's why i feel comfortable sharing it here and she's just i mean she comes up with the most delicious recipes so this is lemon tarragon chicken pasta salad i'm getting the lime why do i keep calling it lime i'm getting the juice from the lemon and i actually cut up a second one and get cause i thought more is more okay welcome to america so i got the juice from two lemons and then i toss some other stuff together but anyway so elise has this meal plan and she shares a ton of recipes on her instagram and she it's like my favorite account honestly and i wish she did more live videos where she cooked the recipes because those are my absolute faves she's just like the woman across the room from me she's truly a wonderful human being and i don't know i love her recipes this one was special and i'll tell you why in just a second let me assemble the pasta part of the salad so i cooked up two boxes of pasta we were going to a little get-together little uh festivity if you will so i thought oh for the adults i'll make a fun pasta salad because i feel like this is like adulty right i mean kids could eat it too but let me share okay it does not look pretty i just love when the mison plus is all ready to go so pasta and then we're gonna add in some grapes two cups i did more and then one cup diced celery half a cup diced green onion half a cup slivered almonds and the original recipe called for cooked diced chicken um i left it out because some of our friends are vegetarians and now i'm mentally thinking oh gosh did i add chicken stock to anything yes i did cook the noodles in chicken stock but it's fine i'm just kidding i cooked it in water i you know mistakes happen okay the yogurt oh god they're not they're vegetarians okay but they do dairy so get off my back golly i shouldn't have even said anything whoops forgot the chicken left it out because i didn't i didn't have any okay seriously it's fine um and then the tarragon you guys have you ever had tarragon before it is an herb that i'm unfamiliar with now i'm very familiar with it i smelled it you need two tablespoons of fresh tarragon and wow is this what they make licorice out of because that's what it smells like i had no idea i'm not even sure i added two tablespoons because of the scent but i will say at i mean there's probably two tablespoons there adding it to the pasta salad eating it i thought it added a delicious flavor it was like something different for me i quite enjoyed it alex not a huge fan he's like what is that ah i don't know he thought there was too many textures and the grape and the the nut in there i quite enjoyed it because i like that texture combination in my foods what does bobby flay call it or what a flavor city what does he call it it's not i don't i don't remember i don't watch them that much anymore but anyway um i liked the different texture i liked the flavors i thought it was something new and exciting and i personally thought it was delicious um but i just thought that was worth mentioning if you're not into tarragon maybe leave it out and it would still be a great pasta salad and if you don't like um yogurt or don't have it you can obviously substitute mayonnaise but yeah i mean i i enjoyed it and she has multiple pasta salad recipes on her channel i wrote a lot down and printed some out and not channel sorry instagram um because summertime is coming up and pasta salad is such a staple during the summer time and her recipes make you know keep them a bit healthier macro friendly i don't count macros like but just knowing that her recipes are simple and delicious and just a little something different that's what i enjoy about it i'm cutting up the mango prepping that and i think this is the last thing that i prep and it always just feels good i didn't cut the last two and off i honestly i should have because this got eaten up like quickly my kids love mangoes and these were like the perfect consistency so that's all i prepped and i thought is this it but that's what i did anything is better than nothing and that is it that's the entire grocery haul hope you guys enjoyed it hope i was able to get some meal prep done for you guys not meal prep but like an ingredient prep oh i forgot i'm wearing these earrings aren't they so adorable so adorable uh okay now it's time for me to eat something don't know what i'm gonna eat because really i want to eat everything that i just bought okay thanks so much for hanging out if you want to subscribe put a little happy in your day and i'll see you next time bye

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Length: 50min 43sec (3043 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 12 2022