I checked out Amazon prime once. Our family sizes are very different, so while Amazon Prime may not be ideal for me it may work out wonderfully for you. You’ve got a total of 5 mouths to feed! Amazon prime seemed like a good deal for dry, non-perishable, processed or canned foods in large packs. While it didn’t really sell anything I need in bulk (I don’t eat much cereal, tuna, or processed foods), you might need a lot of those things for your family.

Their prices for name-brand cereals and canned fish looked good. If your little ones eat a lot of pasta, cereal, PB&J and tuna fish sandwiches I think you could save some serious cash on with Amazon. However I look a look at their meat section, it looked like they were just re-selling for companies like Omaha Steaks. For meat I think fresh-direct or costo is more reliable.

I haven’t used Amazon for non-food items, but whatever I can’t find at my local K mart I just order from Drugstore.com. We buy soap, prevacid, sonicare toothbrush heads, deodarant, etc. from them.

Fairway opened up a grocery store on the upper east side, it tends to be middle priced but they have good deals on produce and meat. I’m not sure which neighborhood you’re moving to, but i wanted to mention Fairway in case you move near one of them.