Meet the Mom-Daughter Duo Reviewing Costco and Quick-Meals Favorites (Unique)

The truth that Meg Antonelli by no means actually thought of herself a “foodie” is no less than a bit of ironic, contemplating the Florida mother of three — alongside along with her daughter, Maddie — now counts greater than 865,000 followers among the many followers of her TikTok account, floridamomof3.

It was December 2020 when Meg, 51, and Maddie, 20, posted their first video on TikTok.

Meg and her husband had simply moved to Florida, the place Maddie was visiting on a break from school.

Each had just lately downloaded the TikTok app and Maddie seen that another customers had been reviewing grocery-store objects. When the 2 took a fast purchasing journey to Costco, she thought, “Perhaps we must always strive making a video.”

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That is how their first meals evaluation video — wherein they pattern Costco’s trio of hummus dips — was born.

Nevertheless it wasn’t till every week after it was posted that they realized it had resonated with a wider viewers.

“I did not even know how you can examine views,” Meg laughs, “However my different daughter, Avery, noticed it and stated it blew up. I feel we had 11,000 views.”

Nonetheless, Meg and Maddie weren’t satisfied they’d make any others, till Avery made an informal remark that “everyone will get no less than one video that blows up,” Maddie says.

“We checked out one another and thought, ‘Sport on,’ ” Meg says.

The subsequent day, the mother-daughter crew made one other video. After which one other shortly after that. To this point, they’ve posted tons of of movies on each Instagram and TikTok, wherein they evaluation all the things from pre-packaged, frozen gelato cups to pickle-flavored jelly beans.

Extra just lately, they’ve expanded to reviewing restaurant objects, too, from each native sandwich retailers close to their properties in Bradenton, Florida, to fast-food dishes from the likes of Taco Bell.

Now a school graduate, Maddie focuses full-time on the movies, spending her off-hours tending to the handfuls of animals she shares along with her boyfriend on their six acres of land.

Meg, in the meantime, additionally focuses on the movies in addition to elevating her youngsters (along with Maddie, she and her husband have a 20-year-old daughter and 16-year-old son) — and gifting each them, and her neighbors, the numerous leftovers that always accumulate.

“If we’re reviewing a cake, we do not eat the complete factor,” Meg says. “We’re taking a chunk.”

They do admit, nevertheless, that their viral movies have made eating out and purchasing at Costco a bit of extra attention-grabbing.

“There was a man — he needed to be in his 70s — who got here as much as us the opposite day, and he was so excited to fulfill us,” Meg says. “And even 15-year-old ladies will come up and say hello.”

Maddie concurs: “Our following varies from folks of their teenagers to their 70s. We’ve got loads of followers in all ages vary.”

That they shoot all their movies in a single take — and by no means edit out their response to the preliminary chunk, regardless of how adverse it is perhaps — resonates with their followers.

“Individuals like that we’re trustworthy and real about our critiques,” Meg says, mentioning that they each agree on the worst factor they’ve ever drained (“The squid from Costco, no query,” Maddie says).

However as Maddie notes, the mother-daughter relationship additionally attracts in viewers. “Individuals ask me for tips about elevating their daughters — that is flattering to me.”

“I do not prepare dinner. We have all the time appreciated meals however to not the extent of the place we’re at now,” Meg continues. “Now, going purchasing at Costco with Maddie — it is like a scavenger hunt. What have not we tried? What might we make a video about? We’ve got a lot enjoyable.”