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These look great! We are a family of eight. My kids' favorite weeknight meal is shrimp pasta. I cook a bag of frozen, peeled shrimp in a stick of melted butter with about a tablespoon of Old Bay seasoning. As the shrimp thaws and cooks, the water from the frozen shrimp acts like a seafood stock mixed with the butter and seasoning to make a sauce. Then once the shrimp is done (only takes about ten minutes to go from frozen to cooked) we just put that over any kind of cooked pasta. If I have fresh spinach, I add a few handfuls of that at the end to make it a complete meal. I love that it's done in the same amount of time the pasta cooks and I don't have to remember to defrost anything. It's even faster if the shrimp is already cooked. If I have pre-cooked shrimp, I make the pasta in the Instant Pot and then add the butter, seasoning, and shimp after the pasta is done so I don't have to stand over the stove.

What a blessing!

Everything looked great! I might have added some fruit in with breakfast for dinner but that’s just us.

Loved these ideas! Can't wait to try in my menu plans! 😊

Clearly I can't count because in the video I say I'm sharing 6 dinners but I actually share 7, oops! :)

I'm a new subscriber and

I didn’t know you could scan the app if you forgot your Kroger card. That’s good to know!

I wish we had a Kroger here!

She do to much talking

I just finally was able to read your email. I was sad no meal plan. I love getting those. I'm glad you are all ok with the bad weather. Isn't VBS the best?? When we were in a smaller church my husband and I helped out with VBS and loved it. You are so sweet! I love catching your videos when I can and I enjoy your emails as well. Hope you have a wonderful rest of the week!

I live on the Texas gulf coast. That storm terrified me. We prepare for hurricanes. We know its coming. Tornados we dont. This is foreign to me. Like the freeze of February 2021. High price for a lesson learned. Great haul! Love your grocery hauls! 😊

I enjoy seeing your content! At RBC so long ago you were one of the cool kids to me and now you are one of the cool TH-camrs I watch while I am folding laundry or making dinner 🙌

Wow that is so amazing!

Hi, I came across your website using pinterest. I just want to say thanks so much. I've tried some of your meals already, and it was a big hit with my son and his friends. Thank you for staying true to your purpose and waiting for me to finally find you. You have a new follower!!

It’s so wonderful how God provides!

Would be nice to also talk about the prices relative to income. Was there any offset in income over the same timeframe

What a blessing 🩷 God is good, All the time

When you factor in smaller quantities and going from store to store to save money, prices have doubled. Tell your boss you need a 100% pay raise..LOL I decided to grow a garden this year from seeds in 15 gallon grow bags and I've got cucumbers, tomatoes, okra, egg plant, cantaloupe, strawberries, jalapeños, bell peppers, dill, basil, zucchini, tomatillos, onions and potatoes. Yeah it's a little work but it's fun and it forces me to eat healthy. Now the economics, there is a little upfront cost but once you have the infrastructure in place ,every year your costs go down to almost zero. I will more than breakeven in the first year alone. Quart mason jars are your friend! BTW Native Texan here, I'm trying to learn piano so if you teach lessons I'd be interested ;-)

That is some pretty good multitasking! Good job! 😁 Everything looks delicious!!

Great recipes ! Thank you for sharing 💛

Lady,you are talking about 5 years difference in price. Yes I agree some things are way out of range. Also alot of these people on here have larger families than then. 5 yrs difference in groceries are not going to stay the same. People are having to buy more groceries because they have alot of kids. Also everybody is buying organic. Which is higher. No wonder their grocery bill is high.

Haha Alex!😂

New sub! You had me at Tex- Mex lol. Texas girl here. Enjoyed this video! There's nothing inflation hasn't touched. TFS 😊

Such a great list/meal plan!!

Have you been pleased with the flour at Aldi? I tried it 2 different times, and it was so gritty that I won't buy it anymore. It also just didn't bake up like I was accustomed to, so I just buy flour other places.

Where can I find these delicious recipes?

Love this plan! I have most of these items already so this will be my menu for the week. We have 8 people so I will double each recipe and see how many days we can stretch this to. 💕 Thank you for the link to your blog and lists. So helpful!

All of your meals look delicious! Is an air fryer worth it? I've never gotten one. And yes, those prices are similar to us in Nebraska!

New subscriber from Norway here, and yes the prices has gone up here too. Very interesting to see this kind of comparison. I use coupons and are shopping the sales. I also buy in season and a lot of frozen veggies and berries. I feel I can still get good deals, and I know my prices, but slowly I have had to accept that the cucumbers are over $2 and so on. Cucumbers are never on sale, but say grapes are on sale, but on a higher price than it was as a regular price before. My mental state has shifted and I can say to myself “that was a good price” on something and before I would have thought it was very expensive 😂🤑🫣 I can still find good deals and are glad for that 😊🙏🏼 Thank you for sharing! Love from Johanne, Norway 🇳🇴

In 2019 You got more ounces in the packages than today. So you actually are you paying even more?

I was lose I guessed 25.00

New subbie here. Hello. I enjoyed the video.

Yeah and you know what they did? Kroger went to congress and said buying out other companies would make prices lower and give us less food deserts.

Check the total weight of packaged meat! It's being jacked up to rip us off!

my shopping has trippled in price and we roughly eat the same things.

I can feed myself for a week on roughly £30 in the uk.

Nobody blame the farmers. I dare you.

I’m sorry but what you bout to cook with that cause I don’t want no black beans in my spaghetti 😂

Or Just cut your luxuripus way of living to keep up to cerrain meaninless standards so you don't have to stretch your meat

So crazy the difference! It all adds up.

Our grocery budget has went down in the last 5 years. We shop sales, eat fresh meat, fresh produce, cheese, etc. We don't buy processed, boxed foods... People need to learn HOW to shop and learn wants and needs...

Sounds good. Dont forget potatoes.

New subscriber here! I appreciate these kind of videos. I love shopping Kroger deals and then make my meal plan

In addition to prices going up, food manufacturers are not only decreasing the size of products (shrinkflation), but many of them are also changing the ingredients to cheaper ingredients to cut costs. I was guessing about $150, so that was a nice surprise. Does that seventy some odd dollars include the lettuce you would have bought or was that how much you actually spent? Just curious.

I remember your grocery list from 2019! Your blog always inspired me to make a list before going to the store and shopping at Aldi! But yes prices now are crazy 😭

That was crazy for me to hear the current prices at Aldi! Last time I shopped there was probably 2015, so your 2019 prices sounded like Aldi to me and wow, things have definitely changed!

I had guessed $150 now so I’m glad it hasn’t gone up that much at least! It feels like I’m spending a lot more!

Your baby is so way cute!😊

Izzy and I watched and loved your tips! I’ve been trying to do more of this and plan out my week ahead of time! It helps me not spend as much to just shop once a week too!

Meal planning has definitely changed over time for my family. In our current season keeping it simple is what works best for us. I choose 1 day a week to be more creative in the kitchen and live by the KISS (keep it simple Stacey) method the rest of the week per my families request. They like knowing what to expect. When I tell them we are having goulash they like knowing exactly what they are getting and that they will like it. Not recreating the wheel nightly has been a game changer for us and has eliminated the nightly stress.