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Speaker 1: one interview with the One, the Only Laura Peterson. She's
Speaker 1: an LA based lifestyle expert and is better known as
Speaker 1: Laura Fied to her audience of one point seven million
Speaker 1: followers on Instagram. Across her platform, Laura equips her followers
Speaker 1: with home ech hacks, easy recipes, tips on savvy shopping,
Speaker 1: and dupes right love that term, Here's Here's another dupe,
Speaker 1: lifestyle and home decor inspo, and so much more. Invented
Speaker 1: your own language, just love that. She is an Emmy
Speaker 1: Award winning TV journalist and a former network news correspondent
Speaker 1: with decades of experience. She created Laura Fied to help
Speaker 1: elevate your everyday life with tips and tricks that anyone
Speaker 1: can do. And I got to tell you, I spent
Speaker 1: an hour last night watching the videos on her Instagram
Speaker 1: page and it was just too much fun. My wife
Speaker 1: was like, what are you doing? And I because I'm
Speaker 1: never like, you know, on the phone too long doing
Speaker 1: like nothing things, and that to me was just like
Speaker 1: that was so much fun. So welcome back another episode
Speaker 1: of Luke Steiner. Today we're going to get into it
Speaker 1: with Laura Peterson. Let's go back to the start. Laura,
Speaker 1: you said you began your career first at McDonald's, and
Speaker 1: then you moved on to become a flight attendant, and
Speaker 1: then you were a journalist, all before your career in
Speaker 1: social media.
Speaker 2: Social media just happened during the end of COVID twenty one, right,
Speaker 2: Oh really not fast that I had a whole life
Speaker 2: before this, a whole life with kids and dogs and
Speaker 2: a traveling husband. And you know, I'm married to Scott Peterson,
Speaker 2: so you know I've your name and his name are
Speaker 2: so close. I was laughing this morning with my followers.
Speaker 2: I was like, I'm going to talk with Scott Patterson.
Speaker 2: I'm married to Scott Peterson. Don't want to confuse the two.
Speaker 2: So it's like I've had a whole, big life of
Speaker 2: just lifing, right, And I think that's what helped the hacks, right.
Speaker 2: I think just being the baby of nine, having kids,
Speaker 2: trying to make it happen, handbills, putting food on the table,
Speaker 2: you'll learn learn a couple of shortcuts. And my old
Speaker 2: my oldest daughter, was like, you got to put this
Speaker 2: out there, and I'm like, no one's going to watch.
Speaker 2: She's like, nobody had home ech of her generation. And
Speaker 2: that's kind of how it all started, when I realized
Speaker 2: there was this whole generation you and I had homech right.
Speaker 2: I learned a couple of things, could so a button,
Speaker 2: we could boil blah blah blah. There's a whole bunch
Speaker 2: of kids out there who are now adults who don't
Speaker 2: know how to do any of that. And that's kind
Speaker 2: of how it started. Just like, how can I be
Speaker 2: you know, useful because you're giving me forty seconds to
Speaker 2: a minute of your life and I don't want you
Speaker 2: to waste it. I don't want you to waste it.
Speaker 2: I want you to walk away, smile and go, oh
Speaker 2: my gosh, I learned something. I can save some money there.
Speaker 2: I can do that. I don't need I don't need
Speaker 2: to go buy anything. It's actionable right now in my
Speaker 2: own house. So that's it.
Speaker 1: In a nutshell, that's so great. Who does all the editing?
Speaker 1: Do you do? All those videos? You set up the shots,
Speaker 1: you do the editing as well and add the little
Speaker 1: do you have sound effects in there too? You have
Speaker 1: all these great little sound effects.
Speaker 2: Okay, so this is funny. This is inside baseball. I
Speaker 2: know you're a big baseball person. So I do all
Speaker 2: my ending, all of it, all the editing, all the
Speaker 2: sound effects, everything. And I was super lucky in the
Speaker 2: news business. I was always in the union shop, so
Speaker 2: I was never allowed to touch edit equipment. I was
Speaker 2: never allowed to shoot anything, or light myself for that matter.
Speaker 2: So when I started this, I had to learn everything.
Speaker 2: I had to figure out how to light this thing?
Speaker 2: How do I bury the camera at Home Goods in
Speaker 2: their pasta section without somebody coming by? I wondering what
Speaker 2: I'm doing? Right, So I will. I will be at
Speaker 2: a store that have my phone buried in something on
Speaker 2: the ground, talking into it. Luckily, in La As you know,
Speaker 2: nobody thinks twice I like it. Another person talking about
Speaker 2: at home Goods. It's just another one. So we're lucky
Speaker 2: to be in Los Angeles because nobody blinks an eye
Speaker 2: when I run through Trader Joe's at a shopping cart, right,
Speaker 2: nobody thinks what she doing in the shopping cart and
Speaker 2: the dollar Tree. I think that's the beauty of LA
Speaker 2: because you can kind of be your own self. So
Speaker 2: I just started doing it. I just started doing it,
Speaker 2: and the editing was real, by the way, the editing
Speaker 2: curve was real. But thank you for noticing the sound effects.
Speaker 2: They give me so much joy.
Speaker 1: You know. It's those little things that just make it
Speaker 1: so much fun. So tell me how many takes do
Speaker 1: you How do you do it? Do you edit it
Speaker 1: right on your phone? No?
Speaker 2: I edit on it.
Speaker 1: I've had Okay, all right, good, Yeah, give me the
Speaker 1: top three hacks that people tell you that make the
Speaker 1: biggest impact on their lives.
Speaker 2: It has to be the mashed potato hack has to
Speaker 2: be you take the baking rack. It's like there's no feeling,
Speaker 2: there's no feeling, there's no money. It's just it's crazy.
Speaker 2: I mean, that is just crazy. I think when it
Speaker 2: comes to money saving, people love the dupes because, let's
Speaker 2: be honest, nobody, are you really getting exponential ninety percent
Speaker 2: more for that product you're buying it? So for versus
Speaker 2: the sunscreen at Trader Joe's, No, the sunscreen Trader Joe's
Speaker 2: is phenomenal. So I spend a lot of time on
Speaker 2: the dupes as well, because the money savers are are real.
Speaker 2: I just think just in general, anything that saves folks
Speaker 2: time they're blown away by because it's it's cooking is something.
Speaker 2: It's a luxury. If you have time to cook, that
Speaker 2: is a luxury. Luxury is the biggest Time is the
Speaker 2: biggest luxury at him is what I should say. The
Speaker 2: older I get, the more I realize that, and I
Speaker 2: want to get folks back time. So that's what these
Speaker 2: hacks are doing. Let's get the food on the table
Speaker 2: so you can go to the couch and watch to
Speaker 2: get more Girl reruns. Right, that's what we want to do.
Speaker 2: We want to spend less time lifing. So any hack
Speaker 2: that helps folks do that, I would say. The grill hacks.
Speaker 2: The grill hacks are big this time of year. My
Speaker 2: s'mores hacks. Those were big. Dipping the you know, the
Speaker 2: Reese's peanut butter cup and the fluff and barbecuing it delicious, delicious.
Speaker 1: Right, you know, I have to tell you have a
Speaker 1: real sense of where to put the camera. Just on
Speaker 1: the mashed potato hack. It's like all these different angles
Speaker 1: and so I was getting an overhead shot. I was
Speaker 1: getting under an overha. I mean, you know you could
Speaker 1: direct the film one day.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you're so sweet, I mean you would
Speaker 2: laugh at the things the way I dary rig especially
Speaker 2: in the refrigerator with tape and rubber bands. I mean
Speaker 2: I can't. One time, I even cellophane wrapped the toilet
Speaker 2: h so that if the phone fell, because I really
Speaker 2: wanted this shot badly. I mean I've put I put
Speaker 2: my phone on the laundry machine, I put it everywhere,
Speaker 2: and I will do things to protect the phone. Because
Speaker 2: one time I was shooting in the toilet and I
Speaker 2: was like, oh my word, if this goes, all of
Speaker 2: my video's done because it lives on your phone, right.
Speaker 2: I don't have a backup. It's in the cloud, but
Speaker 2: it's on your phone. So here I'm cellophane wrapping the
Speaker 2: toilet and my husband's like, what in God's green earth
Speaker 2: are you doing? And I'm like, it's very important that
Speaker 2: I'm talking to the toilet. It's very important. And he's like,
Speaker 2: nobody cares. Nobody cares, and I was like, everybody cares.
Speaker 2: So I get hell bent on these these notions got
Speaker 2: like to your point as a as a director in
Speaker 2: my head, like I'm doing a shoot after I'm done
Speaker 2: talking with you today, and I've been thinking about it
Speaker 2: all night. I woke up in the middle of the
Speaker 2: night last night like what the opening shot here? What's
Speaker 2: the right? And then the reel that went up today.
Speaker 2: I was up late last night because I just I
Speaker 2: wasn't feeling it, and I was like, what's my opening?
Speaker 2: You know when the music, you know does it? What
Speaker 2: is my opening? So I've turned out to love it.
Speaker 2: I really love the creative side. I'm a creative. I'm
Speaker 2: not a numbers person, so don't ask me to do math.
Speaker 2: But I'm a creative. Right. Are you a creative or
Speaker 2: more of a numbers person? You have to be creative,
Speaker 2: right both? Oh my god, you're You're like a unicorn.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm as obsessed with numbers. I love them, but
Speaker 1: I'm also very creative.
Speaker 2: You are very lucky.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I bet you were good in college. I bet you were.
Speaker 2: I bet you were an excellent student.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good. That's okay. Do you have an actual
Speaker 1: shot list that you make up, like we've got to
Speaker 1: get these shots or do you do it on the fly?
Speaker 1: You do how you feel? Well?
Speaker 2: Well, I do how I feel. And it's funny. A
Speaker 2: lot of stuff ends up on the cutting room floor.
Speaker 2: A lot of today's reel didn't see the light of day.
Speaker 2: But I was in Walmart and I was like, this
Speaker 2: is going to be great. I'm going to hop in
Speaker 2: here and I'm going to do this and I'm going
Speaker 2: to do that, and it's like, I get how when
Speaker 2: I start editing it, I'm like, none of.
Speaker 1: That makes sense. You understand pacing, you understand camera angles.
Speaker 1: It's just it's it's they're very cinematic. They're very short,
Speaker 1: but they're cinematic and they're fun.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: All right. So look, according to your social media, it
Speaker 1: looks like you know your way around Costco a little bit.
Speaker 1: And I think laurel Ion Rory would love Costco. They
Speaker 1: would love the food Core, the giant snacks. What snacks
Speaker 1: do you find irresistible and served in bulk at Costco
Speaker 1: that you think laurel Ion Rory would buy. The Red Vines, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the red not the Twizzlers. The red Vine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the really gigantic one. We can't even make it
Speaker 2: through our family till they get really hard. I think
Speaker 2: they I think they blow through those at night. The
Speaker 2: red vines are are a.
Speaker 1: Great uh huh. So okay, so my character Luke, all right,
Speaker 1: I don't think he would enjoy Costco as much. Really,
Speaker 1: So what are your Costco hacks on how to spend
Speaker 1: his little money and as little time as you can
Speaker 1: in that store?
Speaker 2: Well, Costco, So you're the point you just made was
Speaker 2: a good one. The longer you're in Costco, the more
Speaker 2: you're going to spend. And I don't mean that in
Speaker 2: a trait like, oh that makes sense, No, no, no, The
Speaker 2: Costco has this down to a science. You spend the
Speaker 2: every minute you're in Costco, they know exactly how much
Speaker 2: you're spending. So the longer you're in Costco, that's really
Speaker 2: the problem for your budget. If you don't hit Costco
Speaker 2: with the list, you're going to be screwed. I'm going
Speaker 2: to be honest. Do not try the samples. Don't try
Speaker 2: the samples. If you take a sample on site, you
Speaker 2: were up to sixty eighty percent more likely to buy
Speaker 2: it that day. Walk past the samples although they look great. Okay,
Speaker 2: So that is the biggest one, because I do get
Speaker 2: home with one or two things and I'm like, what
Speaker 2: was I thinking? Like it just happened. Happened last time.
Speaker 2: That even happens to me because Costco is an experience.
Speaker 2: It's kind of like Disneyland in a way. They've figured
Speaker 2: out they keep stuff moving. They're constantly moving stuff, so
Speaker 2: you kind of need to be on a mission. So
Speaker 2: your oat milk that Luke might have needed for the diner,
Speaker 2: you seem healthier than you know, Laura, l and Rory.
Speaker 2: It's in a different spot this week than it was
Speaker 2: last week. And I think those are the things to know.
Speaker 2: They are constantly they Costco is your friend. It is
Speaker 2: a good deal that they're gaming you. Costco is a game.
Speaker 2: So if you hit Costco and you kind of tell yourself,
Speaker 2: I'm going to beat him at this game this week,
Speaker 2: then you're good. So I kind of see it like
Speaker 2: a game. I mean, we go in, we go in
Speaker 2: and we're on a mission. We are on a mission,
Speaker 2: and do you really need the whole thing of chips?
Speaker 2: Are you going to eat those in time? It's like
Speaker 2: so we've really had to have conversations where I say
Speaker 2: we me and my family because my second daughter is
Speaker 2: a fantastic consumer. She loves loves buying, and it's just
Speaker 2: very they set things in the right spot. What you know.
Speaker 2: I love Costco because they like to act like they're
Speaker 2: all cool, right, that's the vision they give you, like
Speaker 2: everyone wants to belong to Costco. They're pretty sneaky. Costco
Speaker 2: is incredibly sneaky and they get you to open that wallet.
Speaker 2: So I would say the Costco brands are amazing. Costco
Speaker 2: brands are almost always made by a bigger name brand, right,
Speaker 2: whether it's shampoo, diapers, those are two huge ones. Huge.
Speaker 2: They never want to come out and say it. Their
Speaker 2: coffee is a home run. Used to have a deal
Speaker 2: with Starbucks. That deal has gone away. They still offer
Speaker 2: Starbucks coffee and then you might care about this because
Speaker 2: of your coffee business. But they are now paired up
Speaker 2: with the folks that are kind of the clearing house,
Speaker 2: if you will, for the peats like the higher end.
Speaker 2: So if anything, the coffee Costco has has gotten better.
Speaker 2: So the bottom line with Costco is by the Kirkland brand.
Speaker 2: It's surely made by someone pretty high up.
Speaker 1: I actually like the Kirkland golf balls.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you do. I'm sure they're made. I'm sure
Speaker 2: I've not looked into this, but I bet they're titleist.
Speaker 1: They're not bad, They're good.
Speaker 3: I'm telling you, yes.
Speaker 2: I know their vodka. Their vodka is like, why would
Speaker 2: you spend the money on, you know, the gray Goose
Speaker 2: when you go buy their American vodka? Right, that's what
Speaker 2: they call it, American vodka.
Speaker 1: All right? So all right, if you were to give
Speaker 1: Luke some of your lurified advice, what would you suggest
Speaker 1: when it comes to food prep, shortcuts or must have
Speaker 1: ingredients given the diner menu?
Speaker 2: Well, I would say on the ingredients, just keep it simple.
Speaker 2: Salt and pepper. There's nothing sexier than salt and pepper
Speaker 2: in a little bit of garlic. And I think Luke
Speaker 2: has nailed that right. I don't think you have to
Speaker 2: get all all, you know, tied up. My dad owned
Speaker 2: a chain of restaurants, and first thing they would do
Speaker 2: in those restaurants before the burgers hit the grill, salt
Speaker 2: and pepper, the grill boom, meat goes down, right, That's
Speaker 2: how these season the meat. So any home home cook,
Speaker 2: that's kind of the secret. There's nothing fancy going on.
Speaker 2: Just salt, pepper the grill, then throw your meat down.
Speaker 2: But Luke's already got that down. I feel confident about it.
Speaker 2: I think another thing would be don't don't on the
Speaker 2: bread front, right, I think a lot of folks don't
Speaker 2: know you can freeze bread. Really, I don't have any
Speaker 2: bread I I you maybe might know, but I don't
Speaker 2: have any bread in my house that isn't frozen. The
Speaker 2: minute I buy it and get it home, I will
Speaker 2: double wrap it, just make sure it's protected by two layers,
Speaker 2: and then I freeze it. And I freeze it. You
Speaker 2: pull that puppy out within thirty minutes. The bread is
Speaker 2: as fresh as the day about it. So that's another
Speaker 2: great tip for Luke, so you're not toss and bread.
Speaker 3: I like that, Yes, like that.
Speaker 2: And some studies have shown I'm not a doctor. I'm
Speaker 2: not a doctor. Some studies have shown if you freeze
Speaker 2: the bread then thought it has a lower glycemic index.
Speaker 2: And if you go on to toast that frozen bread
Speaker 2: even lower glacemicgan Wow, that salt pepper frozen bread.
Speaker 1: I love it all right. Summer's coming, okay, and I
Speaker 1: know I'm going to be spending plenty of time outside grilling,
Speaker 1: you know, from the family and my friends. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about how barbecue. How to barbecue on a budget. How
Speaker 1: do you do it?
Speaker 2: Well, we did a great piece on this last year
Speaker 2: at Trader Joe's eight people, sixty bucks hot dogs, hamburgers, salad, dessert.
Speaker 2: You have to figure out what really does cost you
Speaker 2: less to buy it, right, So we did the numbers
Speaker 2: on the potato salad time money ingredients on the potato salad,
Speaker 2: which take a lot of wacky ingredients you may not
Speaker 2: have like celler receied or dill or something like that
Speaker 2: cheaper to buy it. So you just need to kind
Speaker 2: of figure out what you're going to buy and what
Speaker 2: you actually want to make. We made the salad obviously
Speaker 2: formed our own burgers, spiralized the hot dogs. You can
Speaker 2: take a don't want to say cheap. You can take
Speaker 2: a budget friendly hot dog, cut that in a spiral shape,
Speaker 2: skewer it and it grills up so great. If you've
Speaker 2: not done that, have you done that where you've stuck
Speaker 2: your hot dog and a skewer then cut it in
Speaker 2: a spiral. Oh my word, it changes and changes any
Speaker 2: hot dog on the grill, any hot dog.
Speaker 1: I am going to do that, and I am going
Speaker 1: to give you the credit.
Speaker 2: Well, when you put your ketchup mustard, relish whatever. Then
Speaker 2: it stays in the little grooves of the hot dog. Say,
Speaker 2: it's not slid en off. So it's actually makes it
Speaker 2: taste better because you get better coverage of the grill.
Speaker 2: But then you also have the little the little things.
Speaker 2: But I'd say when you're doing a budget, just assess
Speaker 2: what is cheaper to actually pick up, like a thing
Speaker 2: of a thing of cupcakes, a sheep cake from Walmart,
Speaker 2: cheaper than probably trying to whip that up. Right, focus
Speaker 2: on the things. People come to the grill for the meats. Okay,
Speaker 2: you know, Brian, Brian, your chicken and pickle juice, right right,
Speaker 2: that's a big one. That's cheap, it's easy. It's going
Speaker 2: to make your chicken taste delicious, especially if you've got
Speaker 2: especially if your wife or someone in the family likes
Speaker 2: the no skin boneless. Okay, So we do tons and
Speaker 2: tons of chicken cutlets. Weird And when I say we
Speaker 2: meet my Scott and myself, we are done with trying
Speaker 2: to barbecue that the full breast. We always cut them
Speaker 2: in half, marinate them. They cook quick and evenly, and
Speaker 2: they taste delicious.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm tired of that too. I gotta tell you
Speaker 1: it's Yeah.
Speaker 2: We love cutlets as well, and they're always moist right.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you can't overcook them. Yes, it didn't take
Speaker 1: that long. All right. Last question? Ready, ready? If you
Speaker 1: were to come into Luke's diner, Okay, what would you order?
Speaker 1: Where would you sit?
Speaker 2: I'm sitting at the counter, nundred percent. I'm setting at
Speaker 2: your covet encounter, not going behind it, Luke. I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna get behind it. But I'm said at the counter, Scott,
Speaker 2: So you know what I actually the question for you.
Speaker 2: I'd never noticed biscuits and gravy on your menu.
Speaker 1: Oh really, I didn't.
Speaker 2: Notice biscuits and gravy. I would do biscuits and gravy ash
Speaker 2: browns on the side of ham. I know my diner order.
Speaker 2: I ate it almost every day growing up. Wow, okay
Speaker 2: in Kansas, thank you?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: At the counter?
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: Let's do a hack together, please?
Speaker 2: I would love it.
Speaker 1: I want to. I want to be in a dupe
Speaker 1: or a hack.
Speaker 2: Okay, game on, I love it.
Speaker 1: You think how to do it? You think how to
Speaker 1: do it? Ill tell me when and where I'll show up.
Speaker 1: We'll do a hack. It'll be fun, yes, it will.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 1: I gotta be in a hack.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's do this.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 2: I think it's fantastic. Made my day. Honestly, it just
Speaker 2: made my day.
Speaker 1: You were a joy. Please come back and keep us
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