Real grocery hauls from a Connecticut family of six: what we bought, where we shopped, and the meals we planned around it.
What’s in the Cart This Week If you’ve followed this blog for any length of time, you know Sunday afternoons around here mean one thing — a full cart at BJ’s or Costco and a trunk that barely closes on the drive home. This week was no different. Six people, four growing boys ranging from
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What’s in the Cart This Week If you’ve been following along here for a while, you know that feeding four growing boys — ages 6 to 15 — in Connecticut means grocery runs that are part strategy, part prayer, and part “let’s see what’s on sale.” This week’s haul came together really well, and I’m
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Another Week, Another Mission to Feed Four Growing Boys If you’ve been following along here for a while, you know that feeding four boys between the ages of 6 and 15 is basically a full-time job on top of a full-time job. Every Sunday, I do a grocery run that has to check a lot
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What’s in the Cart This Week Every Sunday after church, I do the same thing I’ve been doing for years — swing by the store with my list, load up the cart, and try to set this family up for a week of real meals instead of chaos. With four boys ranging from six to
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A Saturday Morning at Big Y — With Four Hungry Boys on My Mind There’s something almost meditative about Saturday morning grocery runs before the rest of the house wakes up. I had my list, my reusable bags, and about forty-five minutes before the texts from my oldest started rolling in asking what we had
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The Cart That Feeds a Small Army If you’ve ever pushed a grocery cart through the store with a six-year-old hanging off the side and a teenager quietly dropping extra cereal boxes in when he thinks you’re not looking, you know exactly what my Saturday mornings look like. This week’s haul was a good one
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Another Saturday, Another Cart Full of Good Food If you’ve followed this blog for any length of time, you know Saturday morning usually means two things in our house: church prep and grocery runs. This week I made the trip to BJ’s and came home with a cart stacked high enough that our six-year-old thought
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This Week’s Haul Had One Goal: Keep Four Hungry Boys Happy Without Wrecking Our Health Goals If you’ve been following along here for a while, you already know that feeding four boys between the ages of 6 and 15 is basically a full-time job on top of the actual full-time job. This week I rolled
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Another Saturday, Another Cart Full of Real Food Saturday morning I loaded all four boys into the car and we made our weekly run to Costco. If you’ve never taken four boys between the ages of 6 and 15 to a warehouse store on a weekend morning, I’ll just say it’s an adventure in patience
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