ANY parents will know just how much money is spent on snacks over the school holidays.
But it’s even more of a budget buster for mum-of-10 Alicia Dougherty, who shared a look inside her family’s pantry in a video on her TikTok page.
“Summer snack restock,” she wrote over the top of the clip, which showed her organising all of the cereals, biscuits, crisps, sweets and snacks she has to buy in for her brood.
Once she was finished, everything was piled up on the shelves, with nothing on the floor.
As well as the food she has to get for her kids, she has to buy in loads of drinks too – including bottled water, juice and energy drinks.
“We’re ready for summer!” Alicia captioned the TikTok video.
But people in the comments section were quick to share their shock at just how much food was involved, with many of them asking the same thing – namely how they manage to afford it all.
“So basically you are rich rich!” one wrote.
“How do y’all afford this?” another added.
“This better last the whole summer!!” a third commented.
As others admitted they’d mistaken the pantry for a supermarket aisle.
“I thought it was a supermarket aisle!” one wrote.
“I thought this was a store,” another added.
“That’s a whole aldi aisle ma’am!” a third laughed.
“Omg for a sec I thought it was a supermarket,” someone else wrote.
“But that’s a whole supermarket!” another pointed out.
“This is like, a grocery store,” someone else said.
Alicia, from Pittsford, New York, adopted six of her children and regularly posts updates on them on her popular Instagram pages.
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In a 2018 interview with People, Alicia and her husband Josh explained that all six of their adopted kids have behavioural issues and suffer from Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) – making family life a little more challenging.
Although they weren’t aware of this when adopting their first son Alex – who was four at the time, the parents threw themselves into helping him – and went on to help other kids with “difficult behaviours.”
“We became known as the parents who could handle the difficult behaviours,” Alicia said, and now, the power duo share insight into their hectic family life in TikTok and Instagram.
