ANY parent will know how much money is spent on snacks during the school holidays.
But it’s even more of a budget buster for mom-of-10 Alicia Dougherty, who shared a look inside her family’s pantry in a video on her TikTok page.
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“Summer snack restock,” she wrote at the top of the clip, which showed her organizing all the cereal, cookies, chips, candy, and snacks she needs to buy for her brood.
As soon as he finished, everything was piled up on the shelves, with nothing on the floor.
In addition to the food she needs for her children, she also needs to buy a lot of drinks – 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 the amount of food involved, with many of them asking the same thing – namely how they manage to afford it all.
“So basically you’re rich, rich!” one wrote.
“How can you afford this?” another added.
“It better last all summer!!” a third commented.
As others have admitted, they mistook the pantry for a supermarket aisle.
“I thought it was a supermarket aisle!” one wrote.
“I thought it was a store,” added another.
“That’s a whole Aldi aisle, ma’am!” a third laughed.
“OMG, for a second I thought it was a supermarket,” wrote another person.
“But that’s a whole supermarket!” another pointed out.
“This is like a grocery store,” said someone else.
Alicia, from Pittsford, New York, adopted six of her children and regularly posts updates about them on her popular Instagram pages.
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In a 2018 interview with PeopleAlicia and her husband Josh explained that all six of their adopted children have behavioral issues and suffer from Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) – making family life a little more challenging.
Although they didn’t know it when they adopted their first child, Alex – who was four years old at the time, the parents dedicated themselves to helping him – and went on to help other children with “difficult behaviors”.
“We became known as the parents who could handle difficult behavior,” Alicia said, and now, the powerhouse duo shares insights into their busy family lives on TikTok and Instagram.
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