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My oldest boys are just starting to really eat. I know I ain't seen
nothin' yet!
Currently we are going through...
- 5 gallons of milk
- 6 loaves of bread (more if I
bake it) - 10 boxes of cereal
Anyone else want to share their weekly tally? I'm curius what
we're headed for!
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Fruit! I can't even quantify how much of it. If it's here, they eat it. We buy giant quantities at Costco and they don't last more than a couple of day. I'm trying to push the veggies because they really are trying to get their "five-a-day" but if all five of those are fruit, I'm in big trouble!
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We go through:
a gallon of milk per day (That is with me limiting it.)
about two gallons of OJ
4 or 5 loaves of bread
almost 2 dozen eggs
48 cheese sticks (these are limited too!)
as many apples and cans of pineapple that are available
We love Mexican food, so we use about 30 tortillas a week and easily a pound of cheddar cheese.
Their favorite treat is La Creme Yogurt. I buy two 4-packs a week at $1.99 each.
We don't eat much cereal. Breakfast is usually waffles, toast and/or eggs. A box of cereal won't last two days.
Then there is the toilet paper! The kids can go through a roll a day! This is rationed as well. I keep the roll in the medicine cabinet. This makes them stop and think about how much they are using before pulling it off of the roll. Otherwise they will take half the roll and stop up the toilet as well.
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teachingmyown wrote:
Then there is the toilet paper! The kids can go through a roll a
day! This is rationed as well. I keep the roll in the medicine
cabinet. This makes them stop and think about how much they
are using before pulling it off of the roll. Otherwise they will take
half the roll and stop up the toilet as well.
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That is too funny! I remember running out of tp as a kid. Now I
stockpile it like it's gold. My mother laughs but I tell her
some day when there is a great tp shortage she will come
asking me for some and she'll be so grateful that I have so
much. 
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We are at a minimium of:
2 gallons of Milk a day
1 gallon of OJ
Who knows how much Water?
At least 1 loaf of bread 2 if we have french toast for breakfast or sandwiches for lunch
One bag of Apples/Oranges every other day
I can't imagine what we'll be up to when we have more teenagers.
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I would have to second Elizabeth's post and say that fruit is the thing that flies off the shelves here. My children can easily go through two crates of clementines in 24 hours.
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We go through 4 gallons of milk a week
6 loaves of bread (more if ds is home from college) and if Dad makes french toast.
2-lbs of peanut butter
1 box of clementines and 1 bag of apples and 2 bunches of bananas, 6 large cans of fruit
2 lbs carrots
3 heads of romaine lettuce
2-3 lbs of cheese
6 lbs of yogurt
As for toilet paper, my dh's aunt - a nun - used to tell my mil that one whole closet should be filled with nothing but toilet paper. She was the oldest of 11 and also lived in a large convent.
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I am buying 8 gallons of milk a week. But now that my oldest ds is home from his time in Iraq and my 2nd oldest dd will be home soon on spring break, I will easily go thru 12 gallons or more a week.
I belong to a food coop. I buy a 10# block of cheddar cheese there a month. And a 10# block of Pepper jack. And then there's the 8 to 10# of Romano. 25# of carrots a month. Lots of fruit. 50# of potatoes. Cases of yogurt. It will be strange someday when they are all grown to just buy one milk, a few pieces of fruit, etc..
I nursed all of mine and started solids pretty late with all of them. I remember someone telling me that they wouldn't know how to eat if I kept on holding off on the "real food" for so long. Hmmmmm, guess we didn't have this problem after all!
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momtomany wrote:
I nursed all of mine and started solids pretty late with all of them. I remember someone telling me that they wouldn't know how to eat if I kept on holding off on the "real food" for so long. Hmmmmm, guess we didn't have this problem after all! |
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Mine have basically gone from nursing to steak. They will have nothing to do with baby food, they want the real thing.
I wonder how bulk buying from coops compares to bulk buying from Costco or Sams.
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I do the shopping and always buy in bulk. I am so used the amount of food we need that a small purchase surprises me. When friends of ours (who only had one child) were having a difficult time, we organised for a food drop for them. The food providers knew how much a family of that size needed and gave us a collection of items. I thought it wouldn't last more than a day or two.
The family received the food and were amazed at how much there was! It lasted several weeks!
Meanwhile, I tend to buy dozen and bulk lots and think nothing of it. Our monthly supermarket bill is $500 - $700. I was reviewing our costs and commented our food bill went up, despite buying better. Lana reminded me that the children have grown up and eat more!
Hmmm. Forgot about that.
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Bridget wrote:
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You have to comparison shop. Some things are a better deal in Sam's; others are better with the food coop. For certain specialty items, such as organic whole wheat flour, the food coop is definitely the better deal when I buy the 50# bags. I shop at Sam's (no Costco around here yet) the regular grocery store, the farmer's market in season, plus we have a large vegetable garden in the summer.
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WE just purchased a food plan from a company that delivers the food once every six months. It is meat, basic groceries and two cases of toilet paper. I thought it was hilarious that they thought two cases would last me six months. Six weeks would be a way better estimate.
It does not save too much money but the meat is much nicer that that which I was getting at the butcher and it is nice to always have something in the freezer to cook. I also received frozen veggies and some cleaning stuff and soap.
I still need to buy the perishables like milk, fruit, fresh veggies and snacks bread and baking supplies too.
All in all I think it was a good idea for me. I am not sure it is everyone's cup of tea but it works for us.
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hey Mary Ann, great to see you here!!! i miss our food co-op with angie where we got to split tons of produce. i've only got one teen right now so food doesn't disappear as fast (yet), but i'm getting there.... need to upgrade to 6 or 8 loaves everytime i bake, right now i'm baking every day or every other day and it's starting to tire me out! 
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We go through about 3-4 gallons of milk per week, cereal goes fast but I buy a limited amount. It's so expensive! I would rather they eat oats, pancakes, eggs, etc. which we do often. Cereal is just so nice to have around on those busy mornings. We get a late enough start as it is, sometimes I just can't get around to cooking breakfast. We eat a lot of meat and my children love it as well as dh so we have been buying it by the cow. It's raised locally, grain fed and butchered to our request and actually cheaper by the pound than store bought meat. We go through so much produce, eggs and bread too. I make most things that I can from scratch but that takes so much time too. Feeding our family is one of the most time consuming jobs I have!
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Hi Stef!!!! I miss that co-op too. I loved the produce!! I can't wait for the garden season!!
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Hi Stef!!!! I miss that co-op too. I loved the produce!! I can't wait for the garden season!![/QUOTE]
I have a garden every year, but never too big. This is the first spring/summer in this house I won't be pregnant or nursing so I am going to be a little more ambitious in my garden.
What do you guys grow and how much of it? I seem to always make the mistake of planting too many tomatoes and not enough other stuff. Also how do you keep critters away? Last year the squirrels and raccoons were feasting constantly. The guy at the garden center told me tht squirrels won't et your cucumbers and tomotatoes. I invited him to come watch them every morning at my house. They also dug up and ate about $25 worth of tulip bulbs.
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Our garden is 40 x 70. It doesn't seem that big at first, but by the end of the season, when it is so weedy that it is making me feel guilty, then it seems huge!
Last year I tried black paper mulch on a couple of the rows. What a difference! It looked nice and weedfree and the black must have warmed the soil because those rows of peppers and tomatoes were earlier and much more prolific. So I invested this year in a huge roll of the stuff and plan to do as much of the garden with it as possible. As for critters eating the stuff, we invested in a pretty high metal fence. And then lined the bottom inside the garden with 3 ft chicken wire, with half of it bent to go on the ground. Then I covered that part with rocks, which by the way, are my garden's best crop! It works pretty well to keep out the woodchucks which will eat anything!
We grow tomatoes, peppers, green and wax beans, lettuce, swiss chard, kale, spinach, zuchinni, winter squash, cucumbers, leeks, and onions. I tried brussel sprouts last year, but a woodchuck got in and got them.  We also fool around with growing gourds, pumpkins and Indian corn. And of course flowers and herbs.
Deer are a big problem here but they mostly go for young trees and ornamentals. Then we also have bears, which have destroyed my dh's behives for the last two years!
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