Large Family Discount Grocery Outlet Haul (only $90 for hundreds of dollars worth of food!)
I’ve mentioned in my large family grocery budget breakdown and other places that I just love, love, love a little grocery outlet called Sharp Shopper. It’s my favorite. Last week I had to run several errands and decided since I *only* had three children with me I’d swing into our local Sharp Shopper. As always I wasn’t disappointed!
6//9/16 UPDATE: This haul always gets a lot of complaints and flack. I just wanted to share a quick update that this was just a quick haul, during a busy move. If you’d like to see our healthy weekly large family grocery hauls and doable meal plans you can find those here. Here’s my most recent *regular* haul Large Family Grocery Haul and Meal Plan: $170 {$18.88 per person!} for our Family of Nine.
I stocked up on tons of 4/$1 yogurt.
And even found cases of 6/$1 yogurt.
There were bagels galore (be still my heart!)
And even eggs were only $1.59 for 2 1/2 dozen! Naturally, I snagged 10 dozen!
I also picked up some junk like Twizzlers, cake mix, and marshmallows. Hey, we still have lots of moving projects and it’s nice for the kids and hubby to have a few treats now and then. 😉
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Amazing job! I love grocery outlet because you never know what you will find 🙂
I wish we had a Smart Shopper in Ohio! Love watching your vlogs! We have had good luck deterring black ants with cinnamon or spraying water with peppermint essential oil around the house and doorways and Windows. Those also smell great so that’s a plus!
Those are great ideas on the ants – thanks!
Jamerrill,don’t worry about the haters. I understand what you are doing. My mom and dad shopped like that too. They had 5 kids. I only had two kids,but they were both male and ate a lot. I shopped like that also because whIle we raisING them we lived in 65 miles from the nearest store and in the winter we got snowed in a lot. I just wanted to tell you that you are doing a fantastic job.
Oh my! I saw this on Facebook and could not believe the nastiness! I’m going to try to extend the grace to them that they forgot to extend to you! I think that people with smaller families can’t quite grasp how much food it takes to feed large family. A few treats and “get us by” meals for a large family looks completely different that a few compromises for a small or average sized family. If people don’t agrees with your food choices they don’t have to watch (or comment!)
We have a large family too so I completely understand. :). I did have two questions for you. First, I don’t have s smart shopper store so I’m wondering – are their products “scratch and dent” or close to expiration? I know, for example, that yogurt is still FDA safe for a few weeks after best by date. The only outlet type store we have closeby sells yogurt that is within a day or two of best by date – or sometimes ones that are a week past best by date. That’s how they sell for such great prices. I’d this your stores case? And, #2 – are you breaking from THM while selling in from your move? Or are the bagels, pasta, etc for the family and you still doing THM? I promise I’m not judging either way. :). I’m just curious because I’m trying to figure out the best way to make THM work for our family. If it’s just me and hubby on plan and the kids with healthier choices (but still keeping some of their favorites like bagels and once a week pasta) or how to afford getting us all on board. You and your videos amaze me. Thanks so much for sharing!!!
Hi there! Let me get to your questions. #1 their products seem to be those that aren’t sold at other department stores within a certain time frame. Like the big cases of Granola Bars at Costco, they have a whole row just of those. The date might have 3 months of so on them. And yes, the yogurts might be within two weeks or so of the date. My kids can clean those out in a week, so I’ve never worried about the date. I don’t usually see boxes or items that are “damaged goods.” They also have 25 .lb bags of brown rice and 25 .lb bags of old fashioned oats for around $16. I get two of those and for $32 we have rice and oatmeal for several months. 🙂
And #2 the kids and hubby are not 100% THM. I feed them THM style meals, but adapt them. For instance when we do our weekly taco night I can have taco salad without the shells. The kids and hubby have the shells. If I do meat loaf I will just have meat loaf and maybe green beans. If I’m staying in an “S meal,” I won’t also have brown rice, but the kids and hubby will have the rice. If I make them french toast on the weekend I will also make myself french toast using Ezekiel Bread. This week we had our homeschool group and the kids had PBJs and fruit. I took an avocado cut up in a bowl and opened/dumped a can of tuna on it. My biggest suggestion is to just start with one meal a day as your goal to be “on plan,” then slowly add from there. My hubby and kids benefit from what I’ve learned from THM, but I focus on making my portions and meals “on plan” for me. And YES, during this move I haven’t stayed on plan. As I’ve suggested for you to start out, I’ve tried to have one or two meals a day on plan for now. I’m not losing weight at the moment, but I’m not gaining either. My breakfasts have been on plan with either two eggs on one slice of Ezekiel Bread (that’s more of a cross over) or oatmeal. But maybe (and this has happened several times) we’re working hard at our other property and end up picking up 4 $5 pizzas from Little Casears, or picking up $5 meatball subs. When I’m exhausted, and I’ve been working like a horse with this move, some meals I just give myself total grace and am thankful to eat and that I don’t have to cook that night, lol!
I’m sure you understand! My goal right now is to start working in more THM meals for myself until I’m fully back on plan again.
Thanks so much for following along and taking the time to comment. xoxo
Oh my goodness! What a wonderful haul! We’re in VA, but closer to Richmond, so no Sharp Shoppers near us 🙁
Oh my goodness! What a wonderful haul!
We’re in VA but closer to Richmond, so no Sharp Shoppers near us 🙁 sure wish they did open up a location in the Richmond area!
Karen, you know we have family who live in Hampton Roads. When they’re up this way they make a special trip by Sharp Shopper. Maybe you guys can take a field trip! 😉 xoxo
I just might have to give that some serious consideration! ?
Where do you buy your oats in bulk? I dont see any cost effective bags on amazon.
I get a 25 .lb bag at the Sharp Shopper store for about $16.
we have a sharp shopper a few miles from our home (we’re also blessed to have grocery outlet a few miles the opposite direction). both have excellent prices and really help me stay on track with my grocery budget. i’m so thankful for them. we have another amish grocery store a bit further away that sells lots of dented or broken packaging (smooshed corners of the box, etc). i love scoring big at those places! once in a while we find a good deal like the oikos triple zero yogurts for 25 cents each!! this past week was the anniversary sale week at sharp shopper and i was able to get strawberries for $1/lb. the only challenge to shopping at places like these is that some of the items are hit or miss- no guarantee that just because they’ve had something in stock the past two or three months when i didn’t need it, it’ll be there now when i do.
Hi Jamerrill, been watching your you tube channel off n on for a bit. I am a momma of 8 kiddos ages ranging from 17 to 14.5 months. (Oldest 3 boys next 4 girls and then the youngest a rainbow baby…(both my youngest are rainbows)……I know you do a lot of pre-prepared meals and such, but what other ways do you go about saving? And I am gonna try again but it wont let me sign up for anything.
This haul was awhile ago during our move, so just know it’s not my norm. When I had a smaller grocery budget, and up to 5 kiddos without teens etc, I could feed our family super frugal for about $300-$400 a month. Fast forward several years later and our grocery budget has at least doubled. Plus we’ve hit teen years for several, I buy lots of fruits/veggies, and we eat all our meals at home etc (hubby isn’t eating lunch out, he’s home too). Now I focus more on how to save time and energy. I also naturally shop more store brands, shop in bulk, shop only 1-2 times a month, and meal plan for the month. I like to stick within the range of $100/per month per family member which breaks down to about $25 per person per week. You can further drill that down to $3.57 per family member each day. There are lots of additional ways to save money on groceries. I know moms who garden and homestead heavy. I also know moms who couple heavy. There’s a trade-off in that for the weekly hours those activities take. Here is the new Ultimate List Of Tips And Tricks For Large Family Grocery Shopping located here https://largefamilytable.com/ultimate-list-tips-tricks-large-family-grocery-shopping/