Class B RV Living | Costco Haul in our Airstream Interstate Sprinter Van

What's up guys? It's Christine with Irene Iron Fitness and today I'm going to show you my Costco haul. All right guys, Costco is my favorite store. I get so excited when we pull up and just because we live in a tiny class B RV doesn't mean we don't buy bulk. In fact, I prefer to buy bulk. It's my number one way to shop and I use the regular grocery store as a supplement to my bulk shopping. So I'm going to walk you through common items that we get and everything I got today. Today was a little bit of a larger haul. We're going through Oregon and we're going into California. We wanted to take advantage of a couple items we could get tax free and stock up. So starting with some things I have down on the floor. I got so much I couldn't even fit it all up here. First, protein powder. We really like this brand. It's no frills. It's cheap and it's a great value. So we alternate between chocolate and vanilla. Sometimes they go on sale for like $10, $15 off and when they do that, I'd probably buy two. Next, powdered peanut butter, which could go in with your protein powder. I actually mix this up and eat it like regular nut butter because I love nut butters, but I just can't mow on it. So I use this to stay a little bit lighter on the calories. Eggs. We eat a lot of eggs. This is organic eggs. They come in these two dozen packages for like $6.40. It's a screaming deal. If you go to the regular grocery store and get organic eggs, they're going to be like five, six bucks for a dozen. So this is a great price. Also in the egg family, egg whites. I eat egg whites a lot and I just feel wasteful if I throw the yolk in the garbage. So I do these. This is also a really good deal. This pack is like $6 and sometimes at the grocery store, these can be like three bucks a pop. This has six containers in it. So this does take up a lot of fridge space, but I work my way through it. I love it that they're individually packaged into six because as I work through them, the space in my fridge alleviates. Other dairy items. We get this goat cheese regularly. We're goat cheese fans. I like the two-pack again because we don't go through it super quick. You can keep one in the back of your fridge, work your way through one and the other one stays fresh. Next, vegetables. I love getting my vegetables here. Common, flares, brussels sprouts. This is a two-pound pack. Snap peas, mini peppers. We really like the snap peas and the mini peppers because they are great raw. They're crunchy, they're satisfying, they're sweet, they're everything you would want in a vegetable. And you know what? If you're trying to eat better raw vegetables, start with these sweet ones and cold and crispy and you'll be amazed how much you like them. Get off of those chips and start eating some veg. Also, bags of greens. You can't beat the prices of things like spinach, kale, romaine. They have so many bagged lettuce and greens in there. You got to do it. Next up is meat. I love to get ground turkey and chicken because they sell organic. $4.99 a pound for chicken breast, chicken tenders, and ground turkey. $4.99 a pound is fantastic. The past few weeks as we were driving down the Oregon coast, we did not have access to bulk shopping because we were limited to Highway 101 grocery stores. So we were shopping at like Fred Meyers, we were shopping at Safeway, and I was limited to getting their meats there. Their organic meats were like $8 a pound. And when you're going through as much protein as Erin and I do, that difference of $3 a pound, $4 a pound, adds up a lot to your monthly budget. So save a dollar a pound here, up to $4 a pound there, and you're going to really slash your grocery bill. Bananas. Bananas are cheap everywhere, but while I'm here, I get them. And they usually have really green bundles here, so I like that because they stay fresher longer. Bubbly water, our little delightful treat that we give ourselves. These were on sale like $1.60 off per case, so I got three of them. We're also completely out right now, so this will last us a while. I don't know how long, but we love bubbly water. And we just buy whatever brand is the cheapest. Boxed wine. Buying boxed wine brings your cost per bottle down from $10 to $15 per bottle, whatever you're buying normally in a bottle, down to $4 or $5 per bottle. That's a huge savings. This Kirkland brand just came out with Cabernet, $12.99 for the box. There's also things like Black Box, Boda Box that are more like $17, $18, $19 per box, but $12.99 for this box. Once we started getting serious about our budget, we switched to boxed wine. And once we lived in a van, we did it for necessity. Also on space saving, you can get, there's like four bottles in this box. Could you imagine four clunky bottles rolling around our top heavy cabinet? It wouldn't be good. So we love the box, not only for the cost savings, but also the ease of storing it in our cabinets and making sure nothing breaks. And corn tortillas. We keep these in the van at all times because tacos are life. We eat corn tortillas a lot because of the propane grill. You can just toast them directly on the flame, get them nice and black and crispy and delicious and smoking. This is in two packs. And Aaron has these every day for breakfast with his eggs. So he has little egg scramble roll-ups. And then every now and then I get down with a taco. And oil spray. Again, something I don't really use very often. It just happens to be that once a year time where I'm going to buy some, this will last us probably a year. I use it once in a while for making eggs or something like that. And Aaron likes to spray it on his popcorn before he puts salt and pepper on it. So this is our last food item that I'm going to share with you today. Kodiak cakes. This has three bags of the Kodiak cakes. We do like these. These are like our guilty pleasure for nights that we feel sick or cruddy or want to snuggle up with a movie and eat something bad. We eat pancakes in bed. This is what we do. I take the pouches out of the box. There's three pouches in here and I'll just squirrel them wherever I can in the pantry. And they last a long time. Once again, because there's multiple packages in here, it's really easy for it to stay fresh in our cabinet no matter how long it's in our van. Other food items that I didn't get today but I normally get at Costco include things like brown rice, jasmine rice, quinoa, and other grains. If you eat a lot of canned legumes, they do have really good deals on like canned black beans, canned refried beans. Non-food items. We get paper plates here. This will last us many months. We just put it in the back of our garage and then stock up here as needed. And finally, I love these face towel lids. Every night I use these to wash my face, take the makeup off before I go to bed. I used to be an avid face washer, but being in a limited tank situation, I just can't wash my face with hot water every night. It's a luxury that I lost. And these do really good. So these also come in little packages so I can squirrel these around the van, ditch the big box, and then keep these around. These are great. Some dry goods that I wish we had space for but we just don't have space for it include paper towels. They have big honkers paper towels that you can't beat the price on. We just don't have space for that. Same with toilet paper. We just don't have space for it. Kleenex. Everyday common household things where if you have a home and you can buy big bulk things, I wish we had space, but they don't make the cut. So this is about it for paper products for us. The plates, the face washes, that's it. Thank you so much for watching. Again, my name is Christine. I'm a certified personal trainer. I offer online coaching programs for fitness and nutrition. We live full-time in our Airstream interstate and operate our business from here as well, and it is just a goal of mine to help others out there, especially fellow RVers, live a healthy lifestyle and shop bulk, eat healthy, save money, find the things that you like, and live as happy as you can in this awesome lifestyle. So catch us next week, every Wednesday for recipes, every Sunday for RV travel. Hit that like button and that subscribe button. Leave a comment below if you have any questions or want to see a topic being covered. Thanks so much for watching.