 did not get a new Honda CR-V. Unfortunately, someday I'm gonna get a new car. This is my mom's car as I mentioned in yesterday's vlog when we had the Ross Hall and the date night. My mom is in New York. So I'm gonna fire it up to make sure the battery doesn't die while she's traveling visiting family in New York. Love you family in New York in case you're watching. Here we go. But I just remembered the male keys are on my other keys. Whoo! Glad I remembered that. Holy smokes. That would have been sad. Alright, let's go get the key. Something arrived in the mail. I'm not gonna open it yet. Gonna go home open it with true love. Here we are. True love. Rocked it today at Trader Joe's and we were talking last night or the day before that every family for their shopping has to figure out what works for them. And that includes the grocery store and the most important part of shopping eating what results is the eating. So you went to Trader Joe's and you're gonna give some tips. Yes. Right? I'm just kind of explaining what we get and why. What's going on here. And just a quick quick clarifier. We have our all of our meat. We buy our meat at Costco. But go check out this vlog. We got a fourth of a cow for free. A fourth of a cow? A fourth of a fourth. A fourth of an eighth. No, no. An eighth of a fourth. An eighth of a fourth of a cow. We got a lot of meat. Got a lot of meat. And so we just I've been able to buy a lot more fun stuff with that extra 15 bucks every week. That's awesome. And what we do is we budget $100 per week for our family. So which would include me and normally I do 85 at Trader Joe's and $15 at Costco. Yeah. Okay so just to give you a little thing. The first thing I will share with you was the thing I was most excited about because I already broke into it and made it for lunch for everybody. But it's this sliced French Friage bread. Oh. And their black forest ham. Which normally I don't ever buy their lunch meat. It's like per ounce not as cheap as Costco. But they had this sample last year when they were doing this. And then Swiss cheese. And you make your own to die for grilled cheese. Oh my gosh. So you we actually made you one in sestadash and ate yours. He really did. That boy doesn't eat. I knew you would be okay with it. I'm gonna make you another one. So that and also for lunch we had these nacho with their Dorito version of chips. Doritos are my favorite. They are. Oh I had some. Right. Don't they taste like Doritos? Yeah. So this was the first time we've ever had that. Got it. Okay some other things we got for the fall. The apple cider. And it's very good. Plain cold or heated up. So once a week I do this little tea time with kids. And I thought I would do this with heat this up. And then we always have some yummy cookies. So this is part of their pumpkin. Nice. Months of stuff. And then I got we've had these before they're delicious. So I got another box because we're taking dinner over to some friends of ours who just had twin boys. And then this is gonna be their dessert. Love you Josh and Maggie. Yeah. So precious. Okay I don't know if you've ever tried their soups. Soups in a box. Obviously it's a soup in a box. But their soups in a box are amazing. The real deal. And I got this to eat with the grilled cheese but I forgot about it. So we grilled cheese and tomato soup is basically one of my favorite meals. My too. Remember our first date? Yes. With pickles. That's another story for another day. But this is the real deal. And they also have another flavor with red pepper. It's good. Okay fritos, schnitos. Get your fritos out of your house and get yourself to Trader Joe's because it's their version of fritos. Don't you think these are like 10 times better than the fritos? They're just thicker. Yeah. They're thicker and they're so good with anything. But this is the new dip for the week. And we've had this before and this is really good on sandwiches or to dip your chips into. Cilantro and chive yogurt dip. Yes. And then just a dozen eggs. As you all know, you always gotta check your eggs. Boom. Good looking eggs. I know. Normally I'd just buy the cheapie dollar eggs. But lately I've been able to taste the difference now that I'm pregnant between good and you know organic Sunday we might have chickens. Oh, that's fun. I didn't get to shoot. Sorry. Honey, crisp apples. We'll tell you these are a dollar 29 per apple. And as you know, I think per pound, they're normally really expensive. And we think each of these might be a pound. They're so big. Well, maybe we'll weigh it in film. And you can pick everything sold individually. So like bananas are 19 cents each. Yeah. Piece of produce. But then you can go in and pick the biggest ones. But these we got these last week and they were just yeah, divine. And watching the vlog for a while, you know that we are on a budget all the time. And but if you're new, welcome, which there's a bunch of you folks. Yeah, I mean, there's like a bunch of you coming on board. I don't want to. So one second. So the reason we're on a budget and we're able to stay on budget is because of a tip and trick from true love that centers around these two pieces of paper. So maybe explain this. Okay, so I always before I go, I always mail plan and I always check what I have on hand to use like not forgetting the good needs we have. But especially since I go to trade goes every single week, I really just started to pay attention to what the prices are and how much everything costs. So before I go, I write down everything I need plus how much my guess is that it's going to cost. And that way I know I'm going to stay under budget. Now, then when I get back home, and also you get up to the cash register, you know, and can they see that the price on that was $98? You have to wait one minute. $98.75. So when I get back home, I just quickly scan through this make sure I wasn't double charged, which has only happened twice in my life. A trader Joe can happen though. Yeah, I can. And there was one, two, three, four items that I was wrong on three of them. I was budgeted over like this guy because I never bought it before. And then one I was under. So now looking at that comparing it back here, I crossed off and now I'm going to pitch this. But now I know spices basically are two bucks at trader Joe. So it just helps me know in my mind how much I can get for the money in the cash in my wallet. Crushed it. And that's our trader Joe. Thank you everybody for partaking. Oh, the day is not done. By the way, this is a blog. We did forget one. Oh, what did we forget? One more thing. So the kids today, we love I'm kind of like buying all sorts of stuff and everybody because I want it to because I'm pregnant. But they asked for this Halloween trader Joe's Oreos. And we said, yes, and they had it with their tea today. And they did you guys like it? Yeah. Yeah, they love it. Let's focus on my action. Okay, tell us when to cut. You look so good. Okay, cut. Yeah, that sounds right.