Stocking up is one thing. This time I think I might have gone just a tiny bit crazy. Are you ready to see all the groceries I thought I surely must have to help us survive the beginning of the school year?
Oh, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
I have decided that I got into this crazy BUY ALL THE FOOD mode for three reasons:
- My boys had been at church camps or mission trips a good part of the summer and I had not purchased many groceries for the past three months. I was making up for lost time, perhaps? Or maybe I had gone through withdrawal and needed a bulk grocery fix.
- I had a chance to go to Lincoln where there is an Aldi. I had to stock up on all my Aldi favorites to help get me through until the next time I have a chance to go there.
- I seem to think that if I can have every single food item in stock at my house, I can more easily get through the first couple of weeks of school. Apparently Geometry is more fun when there is plenty of spaghetti sauce in the house.
Most of my thinking is logical, I believe. I have been doing this Fall Semester thing for how many years now? Sixteen? The fall doesn’t just bring the start of school. It also brings soccer season in which my husband is gone much of the time because he is assistant coach of our local college team. The older boys ref games, and our youngest plays on two teams. The fall is simply BUSY and if I can just have enough tuna on hand, then all of life will be easier.
Sure, I live five minutes from a grocery store. But I live three seconds from my storage room that houses all the tuna, so I’d rather go there on a busy day.
Well, speaking of tuna, I bought 24 cans. But after all the buying and loading and unloading, I found myself not particularly excited about setting up a tuna photo-shoot. I think we can all agree that tuna stacked on a table is not terribly thrilling to see. So I left them in the bags under the bagels. Be amazed.
If you think 24 cans of tuna is excessive (it’s not), you might be even more impressed that I got 24 packages of cream cheese. Dude, I was at Aldi and they were only $0.79 each. I will likely not make it back to Aldi for a couple of months, so I filled a cooler. With cream cheese. Who wants to be my best friend now?
The most fun grocery event of this month was definitely the day my Amazon Subscribe and Save order arrived. The bill for this order was not pretty, though I did get good deals on each case I ordered.
Pasta for days. And also Kleenex.
Here’s what I got this time around:
- Bearitos Organic Tortilla Chips
- Individual Nut Pouches
- Muir Glen Pizza Sauce
- Stubbs BBQ Sauce
- Delallo Whole Wheat Pasta – Gemelli, Spaghetti noodles, and Elbows
- Walnut Acres Baked Beans
- Nature’s Gate Natural Toothpaste
- 2 Cases of Kleenex (there’s a coupon!)
- Case of Quilted Northern TP
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If you’re hungry and you know it, clap your hands. I think it is clear that no one will starve at our house during the next few weeks, though you can be sure that we will go through this food faster than one thinks should be reasonable.
Your Turn! Tell me about the crazy things you do before a school year starts!
I love photos of grocery trips! I bought cream cheese , too, and now I have to decide what I’m using it for .
Oh, you must make this to go with your cream cheese: https://www.heavenlyhomemakers.com/low-sugar-strawberry-cheesecake-parfait-go-option It’s my favorite!!
My 8 year old will thank you ! ! :)
I bookmarked your pumpkin cream cheese muffins last night . We still have a couple of cans from last Nov .
Thanks for photographing and posting! It’s always fun to see what other people buy!
We use aldi often. and that is where we buy our tuna. it’s less than 79 cents/can though. we just buy chunk light. i think ours is 65 or 68 cents. i love aldi for their tuna, and other items of course. last time i went to aldi, we picked up 48 cans…an entire box (case) worth. we were all out!!! ha! tuna! looks like you had fun!
I see you like Stubb’s BBQ sauce! We love it, too! You’re welcome from Texas :)
I wish we had an Aldi’s :) They seem to have awesome deals! Quick question, do you ever freeze your cream cheese? And if you do, what kind of recipes do you use it in afterwards? I am just always worried that I won’t use up the cream cheese before the date on the package so I don’t stock up as much as I could. Any input is appreciated:)
I don’t like to freeze cream cheese because it changes the texture too much. We go through it pretty quickly, and I’ve found that typically the expiration date is a couple months out so I just store it in the fridge!
Thank you!! :) That helps a ton.