Should I buy groceries on Amazon?

We have 8 kids.

So we go through groceries at our house. My 2 year old and 3 year old eat from sunup until sundown. Don't ask me how they do it. They weigh 18 and 26 pounds. My oldest is a freshman in high school and she weighs 90 something. All 8 are tiny like their mom. Yet, they eat like NFL linebackers.

So how do we do it? Honestly, I don't know. The grace of God for one. School breakfast and lunch helps us keep our sanity since we aren't fixing 30 meals every day. Even dinner is a challenge. Now, my wife has decided to go vegan so we are fixing carby stuff for the kids, weird vegetarian stuff for my wife, and I am trying to lose weight so low calorie stuff for me (but I gotta have meat with most meals so I can't just eat what my wife is having).

We have not perfected the system of buying groceries from Amazon. For one, you need to be able to plan about a week out on meals and my wife is an impulse eater. I used to fix up a calendar for the month, buy the stuff that was on it, and then every night she would say, "I don't want what's on the calendar for tonight." So, we had something off a different night. Or something not on the calendar. Or we went out because I got mad and refused to cook.

With Amazon, we can buy our favorite things and save a chunk of money. With Amazon Prime, we get our stuff in 2 days. You don't believe you'll save money? If we go to Walmart, we buy off brand cereal for about $2 to $2.50 a box. That's ok. We like off brand cereal, but in our 12 passenger van, we get 14 mpg at $4 a gallon and we live 70 miles from a Supercenter (yeah, we are that far out in the boonies). So instead, we can buy name brand cereal by case (4 boxes to the case) for $7 to $9. Slightly less and we didn't have to drive anywhere to get it. If we are going to drive that far, I'd rather spend my time at the Mongolian BBQ having Kung Pao stir fry than pushing a cart through the store anyway.

You really need to spend some time looking through the groceries Amazon has to offer. When you decide to start buying groceries through Amazon, get an Amazon Prime account so you get free 2 day shipping every time you order something. That way you don't have to order a whole bunch at once. Just load your grocery budget onto an Amazon gift card (see my other hubs) and buy things AS YOU NEED THEM or think of them. You'll feel good about saving money!