Speaker 1: Episode four thirty three, Tips for Grocery Shopping on a Budget.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the Frugal Friends podcast, where you'll learn to
Speaker 2: save money, embrace simplicity, and live your life. Here your
Speaker 2: hosts Jen and Jill.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Frugal Friends podcast. My name is Jen,
Speaker 1: my name is Jill, and today we are talking about
Speaker 1: grocery shopping tips. We just recently did an episode about
Speaker 1: meal planning. We try to do a food episode every
Speaker 1: couple weeks so or at least every couple.
Speaker 3: Months, because we're all eating every single every single day,
Speaker 3: and it is an area that if we are able
Speaker 3: to really hone in on our spending, it can make
Speaker 3: a big difference in our financial situation how we can
Speaker 3: allocate money. So it makes sense that you all ask
Speaker 3: about food more than any other thing, and we're down.
Speaker 4: Yes, we like food.
Speaker 1: And it seems redundant. But there's also so many articles
Speaker 1: about grocery shopping and meal planning, and we get to
Speaker 1: cover a new article every time we do a food episode.
Speaker 1: So that's also fun, is getting a peek inside other
Speaker 1: people's strategies and what's really working for them, and not
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Speaker 3: The last day of my thirty fourth year. The next day,
Speaker 3: August twenty first, I turned thirty five, So it's really
Speaker 3: it's going to be a bang.
Speaker 1: The last day of your youth.
Speaker 4: It is.
Speaker 1: I've I've been thirty five for a while now, for
Speaker 1: a few months, and I can tell you youth is gone.
Speaker 1: So let's let's talk about groceries. So a few of
Speaker 1: the more recent episodes we've done specifically on grocery sales,
Speaker 1: where we've covered other articles on the internet. We've got
Speaker 1: episode three ninety one where we talk about the best
Speaker 1: seasonal grocery sales. Episode two ninety six we talk about
Speaker 1: grocery saving strategies that will cut your bill in half.
Speaker 1: That is an interview with Gina Zachariye, who if you
Speaker 1: are on TikTok you will know her as the saving Whiz.
Speaker 1: And then episode two fourteen, how to save money on groceries.
Speaker 1: That is a general one that you will get some
Speaker 1: extra tips on. But this article that we're covering today
Speaker 1: is exciting because it is a mom of five, well
Speaker 1: a mom of three five people. It's her actual strategy
Speaker 1: for keeping her grocery budget to about two one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty dollars a week. And no, it wasn't written
Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen. It was written last year, in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three, so it's still relevant. That's another reason why
Speaker 1: we do these grocery store episodes, because we started this
Speaker 1: podcast in twenty eighteen, and those grocery episodes are different.
Speaker 3: My youth is gone, our youth is over, prices are different.
Speaker 1: Our episodes now are different than the episodes of My Youth.
Speaker 3: We're closing to forty than we've ever been and you
Speaker 3: know we're bringing you real talk, so This article comes
Speaker 3: from BuzzFeed and it is titled Here's how I stretch
Speaker 3: a one hundred and twenty dollars weekly grocery budget to
Speaker 3: feed five people and cover nearly every meal. And I
Speaker 3: will say real talk. A lot of times with the
Speaker 3: articles that we cover, I don't read them thoroughly. I'm
Speaker 3: not line per line. There's a little bit of skimming.
Speaker 3: I'm pulling out the best stuff college taught me well.
Speaker 3: But with this one, I actually I spent I spent
Speaker 3: way too much time preparing for this episode because I
Speaker 3: truly did enjoy both the tips and then her very
Speaker 3: specific meal plan that she gives. And I also love
Speaker 3: this because she talks about every nearly every meal. A
Speaker 3: lot of times when we get meal plans, it'll just
Speaker 3: be for dinner. People will talk about their grocery budget
Speaker 3: as if they're only eating dinner and the rest of
Speaker 3: us are also having breakfast and lunch.
Speaker 1: How do I fit that, I'm intermittent fasting. I only
Speaker 1: eat one meal a day. Kidding No, sorry, No, that's
Speaker 1: how I keep my grocery budgets below. But I didn't
Speaker 1: include that in my article.
Speaker 4: Yeah no, And we don't encourage that either.
Speaker 3: So this feels so realistic and approachable to also be
Speaker 3: able to include all of the breakfasts and lunches and
Speaker 3: all of that. So we're going to first go through
Speaker 3: the tips on how to keep your grocery bill as
Speaker 3: low as possible, and then I want to take some
Speaker 3: time to go through her actual meal plan because I
Speaker 3: feel like there's some fun things to pull out of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think it's important to note that the
Speaker 1: one of the second picture on this article she's talking
Speaker 1: about she is currently a stay at home mom, but
Speaker 1: throughout this she's also been a college student mom and
Speaker 1: a full time working mom. And she has a cute
Speaker 1: little picture of her at her college graduation with the
Speaker 1: sign that says I did it and a small human
Speaker 1: that said I helped. And I will tell you that's
Speaker 1: a complete lie. That child did not help. That child
Speaker 1: did everything they could to not help. I am sure
Speaker 1: so this, and she says that for a long time
Speaker 1: that budget was one hundred dollars per week for groceries,
Speaker 1: but because this is twenty twenty three, that increased to
Speaker 1: one twenty.
Speaker 4: So we'll go.
Speaker 1: We'll start with her first tip, and that is obviously
Speaker 1: to meal plan. We have a ton of meal planning episodes,
Speaker 1: but she meal plans with recipes with ingredients that can
Speaker 1: be used for multiple meals. I love her her tips
Speaker 1: for meal planning. We'll go through all of those, but
Speaker 1: upfront preparation is key, and so we talk a lot
Speaker 1: about meal planning. But I always say that meal planning
Speaker 1: was just like a start for me. I meal planning
Speaker 1: is hit or miss. It's when I meal prep that
Speaker 1: that's when I really am using the groceries that I bought.
Speaker 1: And so it doesn't it's not as much of a
Speaker 1: thought when you're buying groceries. But the fewer groceries that
Speaker 1: you throw away is the fewer times you have to
Speaker 1: eat out right. And so maybe meal prepping doesn't save
Speaker 1: you money on your current grocery trip, but it will
Speaker 1: save you money on your next grocery trip, or it
Speaker 1: will save you money in your eating out budget. So
Speaker 1: I just want to preference that with saying like her saying,
Speaker 1: upfront preparation is key. It's not just about the meal planning,
Speaker 1: but it's also about the meal prep and planning things
Speaker 1: that are easier to prep.
Speaker 3: The next tip that she gives is to prioritize what's
Speaker 3: on sale, and this can be found alongside meal planning
Speaker 3: with a quick search to the grocery store that you
Speaker 3: typically shop at if you happen to get circulars in
Speaker 3: the mail. It's a little more old school, but there
Speaker 3: are ways to identify what is the store going to
Speaker 3: have on sale and how can I plan what I'm
Speaker 3: eating around what's on sale. Usually it's going to be
Speaker 3: seasonal produce. It might be meats that they got an
Speaker 3: excess shipment of, and it may mean altering or switching
Speaker 3: out some of your recipes that maybe you would have
Speaker 3: used to opt for something that's a little bit more
Speaker 3: on sale. So she gives an example that instead of
Speaker 3: chicken brash, she used chicken tenders after seeing them on sale.
Speaker 3: She was also able to get ninety nine cent milk
Speaker 3: and berries knocked down from three point fifty to one
Speaker 3: sixty seven. So these types of things now, Okay, a
Speaker 3: dollar here, a dollar day, It doesn't make that much
Speaker 3: of a difference. But I think as we start to
Speaker 3: form habits meal planning, especially utilizing these sales, over time,
Speaker 3: I think we can see a decrease of potentially twenty
Speaker 3: to thirty bucks a week, depending on how we're shopping.
Speaker 3: The fact that we are planning and prioritizing ahead of
Speaker 3: time and over the month and over the year, that
Speaker 3: can really add up to some money that we can
Speaker 3: allocate elsewhere, whether that's for debt payoff or investing. So
Speaker 3: I think when it comes to grocery shopping and eliminating
Speaker 3: little bit by little bit, it's a little It's different
Speaker 3: from just cutting out your coffee daily, because if you
Speaker 3: save a dollar here, a dollar there on fifty items
Speaker 3: that you're getting at the store, that's significant even for
Speaker 3: that one grocery trip.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I jumped the gun on my first one. So
Speaker 1: I want to dive back into it as picking recipes
Speaker 1: with ingredients that can be used for multiple meals. So
Speaker 1: this kind of goes into that prioritize what's on sale,
Speaker 1: find out those things that are on sale, which are
Speaker 1: going to be those things that are in season, which
Speaker 1: we are actually when we give you that free fall
Speaker 1: meal plan at our pre pre order party, it's all
Speaker 1: going to be prioritizing in season produce for the fall,
Speaker 1: which will inevitably be what is on sale. So you
Speaker 1: choose those and you pick recipes based on those that
Speaker 1: you can use you can buy a little bit extra
Speaker 1: of that stuff and use it in multiple meals and
Speaker 1: in multiple wills ways. So getting creative with leftovers. Jill,
Speaker 1: You're so good at getting creative with leftovers. I am
Speaker 1: not as much, but she says, sometimes eating leftovers all
Speaker 1: the time can get old. I try to remember that
Speaker 1: I can always use different components of my leftovers to
Speaker 1: create new meals. So this also means that we don't
Speaker 1: always need to be scared of higher cost items. What
Speaker 1: a concept is that when you can reuse something and
Speaker 1: use all of it, then you can afford maybe to
Speaker 1: get some higher cost items. Yeah, it just means you
Speaker 1: need to be smart and think about how you utilize
Speaker 1: those items to stretch the budget as far as possible.
Speaker 3: I just picked up, for example, tahini this week, which
Speaker 3: is a higher cost item. But I'm going to lean
Speaker 3: into my Middle Eastern Greek recipes. Over the next couple
Speaker 3: of weeks and maybe even months. I'm going to be
Speaker 3: doing hummus. I made a yogurt sauce for a halal
Speaker 3: cauliflower bowl yesterday, So now that I know that I've
Speaker 3: bought this thing, it's not going to go to waste
Speaker 3: and I'm prioritizing around that, but she also gives some
Speaker 3: really great examples. In the second part of the episode,
Speaker 3: we'll talk about how she reuses ingredients. The next tip
Speaker 3: on here is clip your digital coupons. Now you know
Speaker 3: we're not coupon girlies, she.
Speaker 1: Said on the outline. Stay with me, but.
Speaker 3: Hear me out There are some stores that have store
Speaker 3: websites or apps where they do offer digital coupons. So
Speaker 3: while I'm not advocating that we sit around going through
Speaker 3: circulars and physically clipping things out, there could be times
Speaker 3: where if you know you're shopping regularly at a certain
Speaker 3: store they do have an app, there are ways to
Speaker 3: just quickly select as you're shopping. Yep, I'm getting that item,
Speaker 3: You select it, you go up, you scan your phone.
Speaker 3: That could be worth it as well as I think
Speaker 3: for some people this isn't for everybody, but I know
Speaker 3: a lot of people really like fetch an ibota and
Speaker 3: these types of things where you're just you're scanning your
Speaker 3: your grocery receipts and getting some money back that way,
Speaker 3: So it could be well, I think a lot of
Speaker 3: our pushback on couponting is somewhat having to do with
Speaker 3: the ways that it was portrayed to us on TLC
Speaker 3: and like, we'll just take out.
Speaker 1: How much time it takes now exactly, but it's not
Speaker 1: as easy to do. It takes a lot of time
Speaker 1: for not a lot of savings.
Speaker 3: Yep. However, if you are shopping at similar places, like
Speaker 3: I don't shop at Target, but I know that they
Speaker 3: have something like this where if you're just in the
Speaker 3: app and you can can select it as you're shopping
Speaker 3: and select, it's almost like looking at the circular and
Speaker 3: seeing what's on sale and basing your budget or your
Speaker 3: grocery plan and meal plan around that. It's similar. Again,
Speaker 3: I don't think that this is going to make or
Speaker 3: break you, but if you are looking for that extra
Speaker 3: little bit of ability to save here and there, that
Speaker 3: could be something to consider if your local grocery store
Speaker 3: offers it.
Speaker 1: Her next tip is to buy the cheapest store brand
Speaker 1: most of the time, so she says, unless it's something
Speaker 1: I'm unable to use due to the peanut allergy that
Speaker 1: one of her kids has, or an item I absolutely love,
Speaker 1: or a different brand is on sale than she does
Speaker 1: store brand.
Speaker 3: And we did do an episode on that and pretty
Speaker 3: much found that, yeah, store brands are equivalent yeah, a
Speaker 3: name brand pretty all the time.
Speaker 1: We did a research deep dive into how chefs feel
Speaker 1: about store brand versus name brand, and yes, we found
Speaker 1: out that most of the time, except for like stuff
Speaker 1: like butter and ice cream, everybody preferred the store brand,
Speaker 1: be cause chefs are very They're cognizant of the cost too,
Speaker 1: because they're cooking in a restaurant. So yeah, yeah, butter
Speaker 1: and ice cream. So those dairy cows, you want high
Speaker 1: quality cows.
Speaker 3: The next tip on here, I think has a lot
Speaker 3: to do with meal planning and being able to stick
Speaker 3: to the plan. But she suggests asking your kids to
Speaker 3: help if you have young ones in the house, referencing
Speaker 3: that feeding kids is a challenge. They often change their
Speaker 3: minds constantly. They get new taste buds every day and
Speaker 3: one day they like snack, one snack, the next day
Speaker 3: they hate it. But she tries to ask them to
Speaker 3: pick out recipes, usually by looking at pictures. So showing
Speaker 3: them here's some things that we could be eating this
Speaker 3: week and identifying what they are most excited about trying
Speaker 3: to eat, and also lets them pay out what they
Speaker 3: want for their lunches, snacks, fruit, veggies for the week.
Speaker 3: This I think is going to be hit or miss.
Speaker 3: I think it's going to depend on the child certainly,
Speaker 3: but I think wherever you can get buy in it
Speaker 3: might go smoother more smoothly week to week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you have to expect that it won't work, but
Speaker 1: you still have to try. It's one of those things
Speaker 1: like you go in there, you do it. You do
Speaker 1: not have any expectations for it, but you are presenting
Speaker 1: the option, the lifestyle, the you know, the habit, and
Speaker 1: you go from there.
Speaker 4: That's it.
Speaker 3: I think that's a reason to have backups that you
Speaker 3: know that you do know your kids like they really
Speaker 3: haven't changed their minds on so that if you do
Speaker 3: try something new, you've still got that backup. And I
Speaker 3: think it's a reason to not bulk by as your
Speaker 3: kids are going through the stage of changing their minds.
Speaker 1: I just saw this on Instagram, and I think her
Speaker 1: name's Leanne Braun, and she made a joke about how
Speaker 1: she just like bulk bought her daughter's favorite meal and
Speaker 1: immediately once she bought it, it was not the favorite
Speaker 1: meal anymore. And I was like, and I was like,
Speaker 1: I just did the same thing with tortillas, and literally,
Speaker 1: you know, a week later, Kai decides he no longer
Speaker 1: likes casadillas. Right, so now I have to think of
Speaker 1: some creative wasties tortillas. Thankfully, those are a versatile. Tortilla chips, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was actually I commented that on her reel and
Speaker 1: somebody said tortilla chips. Somebody said, like cinnamon sugar on
Speaker 1: the tortilla. Yeah, there were a few good. Or somebody said,
Speaker 1: make a casidia, but call it a tortilla, and she's
Speaker 1: just call it some different.
Speaker 3: That's so good, and that's probably the best one. Your
Speaker 3: problem is marketing. It's not the food, it's your marketing plan.
Speaker 4: So there there's your tip.
Speaker 1: Next is to shop at the grocery. Okay, this is
Speaker 1: a mantra. Sorry I'm reading it wrong. She says, I
Speaker 1: shop at the grocery store. I am not the grocery store.
Speaker 1: That is a great mindset to have if you are
Speaker 1: feeding children, and she's feeding three of them, she says,
Speaker 1: I don't supply endless options. I'm not going to overbuy
Speaker 1: produce that will end up going bad in the fridge
Speaker 1: without being used. I'm not going to be a vending
Speaker 1: machine for pantry snacks. My kids get to pick what
Speaker 1: they want their non recipe fruits veggie snacks to be
Speaker 1: for the week, and we usually pick two options for
Speaker 1: each category. I think this is an important mantra to
Speaker 1: have because right now we're seeing a lot of social
Speaker 1: media reels where people have these like restocks in their
Speaker 1: fridge and restocks in their pantry, where they look like
Speaker 1: they are the grocery store. In reality, you shop at
Speaker 1: the grocery store, you are not the grocery storing. You
Speaker 1: don't have to be the grocery store for yourself, for
Speaker 1: your kids, for your partner, for anyone. So that's a
Speaker 1: really important mantra. I think that's the most important mantra
Speaker 1: I picked up is that I don't have to provide
Speaker 1: endless or even a lot of options for myself or
Speaker 1: for my children. I just have to include them in
Speaker 1: the decision of what options I will provide.
Speaker 3: Let's talk about the actual meal plan. So she just
Speaker 3: shows us everything, and it is so helpful. It is
Speaker 3: one of the reasons that I took such a deep
Speaker 3: dive on this particular article. She shows you the receipt,
Speaker 3: a picture of her entire grocery hall, so it all
Speaker 3: came out to one hundred and twenty three dollars and
Speaker 3: ninety three cents. Shows you a picture of everything that
Speaker 3: she bought, and then starts to break it down of
Speaker 3: how she moved through the week. So Monday, she began
Speaker 3: with a rotissory chicken. I love this. First of all,
Speaker 3: side note for the day that you grocery shop planning
Speaker 3: that you're not going to get home, unpack, put everything
Speaker 3: in the fridge, and then cook a wildly complicated meal.
Speaker 3: Plan that the day that you grocery shop is something
Speaker 3: easy to prepare once you get home, and that's where
Speaker 3: a rotissory chicken is the perfect haack for that. So
Speaker 3: she got the rotissory chicken for six bucks and had
Speaker 3: that and then was going to use leftovers, I believe
Speaker 3: for another recipe.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I that's why so many people stoppagepotle on
Speaker 1: the way home from the grocery store because it's a
Speaker 1: lot of work, it's a lot of decisions to make,
Speaker 1: and we have then decision fatigue, and we don't want
Speaker 1: to expend more energy cooking after we've already made many decisions.
Speaker 1: So it's why it's so easy to stop and get
Speaker 1: food after you just bought food, and which is there's
Speaker 1: no shame. There's it's a joke, right that we see
Speaker 1: memes of on social media, but there is an actual
Speaker 1: reason why we do that. So if you can recognize
Speaker 1: that instead of just trying to work against it and
Speaker 1: shame yourself for buying takeout after your grocery shop, understand
Speaker 1: it and just make sure you get something pre prepared
Speaker 1: at the grocery store for grocery shopping day.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So they had burrita bulls that night. Now, I
Speaker 3: will say this woman is kind of doing the most
Speaker 3: home that night. Yeah, at this stage of life.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: She did talk about how she's had different stages of life,
Speaker 3: but right now they went for a walk and then
Speaker 3: she gives it all you got as soon.
Speaker 1: As she gets her groceries delivered, so she'll she probably
Speaker 1: she pays a little bit extra.
Speaker 4: Even for that for that true.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so then she prepped some sour doaugh bread. Now,
Speaker 3: this is where some of your own homemaking DIY can
Speaker 3: come in handy and cutting costs of some of these things,
Speaker 3: like your breakfast items. If you're not buying prepackaged things,
Speaker 3: you can save a little bit, so for her, that's
Speaker 3: one of the ways that she's able to keep her
Speaker 3: cost low. So she prepped bread so that they could
Speaker 3: have that the next morning for breakfast along with hard
Speaker 3: boiled eggs. Then she used some of the leftover rotisserie
Speaker 3: chicken for chicken burritos from the night before. That's Tuesday.
Speaker 3: What did they do Tuesday night? Oh?
Speaker 4: Then she made yogurt.
Speaker 2: That's low.
Speaker 4: That is a little extra I have before.
Speaker 1: I have made yogurt in my Yeah, I've made yogurt before.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of yogurt. And if you have kids
Speaker 1: that love yogurt, it's good. I decided it wasn't worth it.
Speaker 1: Then we see a yummy salad that night.
Speaker 3: Then Wednesday is that yogurt that she made, and then
Speaker 3: more leftovers leftovers of the salad, and then an egg
Speaker 3: salad sandwich, which I do love. Eggs are the vip,
Speaker 3: the oat there everything their breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Oftentimes,
Speaker 3: some of my go to meals do revolve around eggs,
Speaker 3: whether it's a hard boiled egg in the morning, or
Speaker 3: it's egg salad for lunch, or it's egg sandwiches, or
Speaker 3: it's a fried egg on top of a rice bowl,
Speaker 3: you name it. They are I think one of the
Speaker 3: best ingredients that we can get at a low cost
Speaker 3: and super versatile.
Speaker 1: I love eggs.
Speaker 3: If you're looking to dip your toe into the water
Speaker 3: of how do I buy versatile ingredients that I can
Speaker 3: use across meals and it still feel different and interesting?
Speaker 4: Eggs.
Speaker 3: Start with eggs and then you're gonna learn more and
Speaker 3: more from there about how to get creative.
Speaker 1: This is the egg Ellergy podcast. So let's get into
Speaker 1: Are we on Wednesday?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, so we're into Wednesday. So after a nice long
Speaker 1: incubation piece, she finished off her yogurt. I so I
Speaker 1: will just buy a big batch of plain Greek yogurt.
Speaker 1: It's not super expensive, so for me, I don't there's
Speaker 1: just four of us, and you know, I will put
Speaker 1: some protein powder in that yogurt to sweeten it up
Speaker 1: and then top it with some granola. It's so so good.
Speaker 1: But if you have kids that are eating more yogurt,
Speaker 1: then by all means, make your own yogurt. But she's
Speaker 1: moving on. After the yogurt, some citrus salad. So but
Speaker 1: needed something additional since the chicken was gone from the night.
Speaker 4: Before so.
Speaker 1: Hard used the hard boiled eggs that she had meal prepped.
Speaker 1: Again another advocate advocation for meal prepping. And then she
Speaker 1: just made her own version of an egg salad sandwich.
Speaker 1: So this is another key to saving on groceries and
Speaker 1: saving on food in general. To not follow recipes directly.
Speaker 4: Don't do it, say it again, give them permission.
Speaker 1: Follow recipes directly. Instead, learn a about like the purpose
Speaker 1: of different ingredients in recipes. So if there is a
Speaker 1: spice in a recipe that you don't have, google it
Speaker 1: and see what its most common role is in recipes,
Speaker 1: what are common substitutions, so that you can be figure
Speaker 1: out if you need that substitution or how you can
Speaker 1: substitute it. So, like my husband doesn't like cuman, I
Speaker 1: like human, so we kind of alternate. Sometimes I'll put
Speaker 1: human in a recipe, sometimes I won't. But if he
Speaker 1: had his way, it would just never be there and
Speaker 1: we would not own a bottle of human, And if
Speaker 1: there was a recipe that called for it, we would
Speaker 1: just leave it out. So stuff like that. So she
Speaker 1: made an egg salad sandwich, but she did not buy
Speaker 1: extra ingredients to use it because she knows these are
Speaker 1: the ingredients that my family likes and they eat constantly, regularly, consistently,
Speaker 1: and very rarely do we buy specialty items unless we
Speaker 1: know we're going to be able to use it over
Speaker 1: and over.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: She moves on to stuffed potatoes cop potatooes, which potatoes
Speaker 3: are another MVP.
Speaker 1: Jill loves potato. I love tacos. You can put you
Speaker 1: can make anything, taco, taco, salad, taco like pastado, taco potato.
Speaker 1: I just made a coppy cat. We talked about this
Speaker 1: on a recent podcast, A copy cat. Uh Taco bell
Speaker 1: Fiesta potatoes. Yes, yeah, yeah yeah, And I've been drapped
Speaker 1: about the steak and just some regular Queso Greek yoga.
Speaker 3: I love loaded potatoes. That is to me, that's a
Speaker 3: great weeknight if you're tired. You don't have to do anything.
Speaker 3: You just heat up a potato and you throw whatever
Speaker 3: the heck you have on it in the fridge on
Speaker 3: top of it. So that's a good and usually a
Speaker 3: crowd pleaser because everybody gets to pick what they end
Speaker 3: up putting on top of their potato.
Speaker 4: So love that one too. This is just inspiration for me,
Speaker 4: be really.
Speaker 1: She also made some homemade granola for her homemade yogurt
Speaker 1: again stay at home mom. But it doesn't. I mean
Speaker 1: it takes five minutes actually to make granola, so she
Speaker 1: and she has a recipe for vanilla granola she says
Speaker 1: is a slam dung.
Speaker 3: One of the things that stood out to me about
Speaker 3: this too, as we're just adding our commentary to it,
Speaker 3: are the habits that are formed around this, right, the
Speaker 3: habit of meal planning and the habit of meal prepping.
Speaker 3: This won't necessarily be for everybody, but she has formed
Speaker 3: a habit of using ten fifteen minutes of her week
Speaker 3: night after the kids are in bed to prep something,
Speaker 3: whether it's breakfast or lunch for the next day. And yeah,
Speaker 3: that can be a bit of a sacrifice. You might
Speaker 3: be more tired than the ability to do that if
Speaker 3: you're also thinking about doing the bedtime routine and dishes.
Speaker 3: But if able to stack some of these things, or
Speaker 3: you've got another adult in the house and there can
Speaker 3: be some division of labor, it's something to consider as
Speaker 3: really being able to help the grocery budget of do
Speaker 3: you have ten fifteen minutes to prep a loaf of
Speaker 3: bread or to throw yogurt into the instant pot or
Speaker 3: to prep the granola like she's doing, or whatever else
Speaker 3: works for you. Maybe it's muff and tins of eggs
Speaker 3: that you're baking really quickly, or breakfast wraps that you're making,
Speaker 3: or sausage that you're preheating so that they can be
Speaker 3: quickly reheated in the toaster oven, whatever it is. What's
Speaker 3: one thing that you can do before you go to
Speaker 3: bed that's going to make the next day or the
Speaker 3: next two days easier.
Speaker 1: Or what's one thing you can do when you get
Speaker 1: home from work that will make dinner easier later. There's
Speaker 1: just so many ways to look at it. One thing
Speaker 1: that's helped me in doing in crossing the barrier to
Speaker 1: do that one thing is to set a timer. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when you set a ten minute timer and this goes.
Speaker 1: This is mostly like seen with a ten minute clean, right.
Speaker 1: We set it ten minute timer, clean what we can
Speaker 1: in ten minutes and then be done, and that makes
Speaker 1: it less overwhelming. We could do the same thing for
Speaker 1: meal prepping, so we do what we can in ten
Speaker 1: minutes when there's a timer going. I also work faster,
Speaker 1: which is a fun which a fun revelation I've had.
Speaker 1: What can I do in ten minutes and then once
Speaker 1: the timer off, I don't do anything else. So that
Speaker 1: is a really easy way to get over the barrier
Speaker 1: of like I just I don't have the energy to
Speaker 1: meal prep. And some of you have reached out to
Speaker 1: us whether you have like some kind of like physical
Speaker 1: like impairment or difficulty saying like I can't you know,
Speaker 1: have a meal prep Sunday where I'm on my feet
Speaker 1: for hours meal prepping and we're saying you don't have to.
Speaker 1: She doesn't that this author doesn't. She's literally just doing
Speaker 1: like one thing a day that takes ten minutes so
Speaker 1: that she can. Because granola is a big way to
Speaker 1: save money, Like if you're eating granola every week, you
Speaker 1: can save a lot of money by making your own.
Speaker 1: So it's also thinking of what is something that I
Speaker 1: have a lot and how can I cut costs on
Speaker 1: that versus like if it's something I don't have a lot,
Speaker 1: maybe I just buy it. Maybe I buy it. But
Speaker 1: if it's something I am consistently consuming, can.
Speaker 4: I make it? Mm hm oh I like that. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So Thursday was the granola. Then tacos showed up again.
Speaker 3: Although this is I'm pulling out so many tips from
Speaker 3: what she gave it was a DIY taco for lunch
Speaker 3: for the kids' school and for herself. So tacos again,
Speaker 3: but I think some of the presentation of it, if
Speaker 3: you're someone who needs variety or kids kind of need
Speaker 3: it to look a little bit different or whatever the
Speaker 3: case may be, just presenting it a little bit different
Speaker 3: or substituting out a couple of ingredients so that it
Speaker 3: doesn't look like the same exact thing showing up again. So, yes,
Speaker 3: it's tacos again, but it looks different. Some of the
Speaker 3: ingredients are a bit different, and the presentation is a
Speaker 3: bit different. Again, that's just a marketing thing. If you're
Speaker 3: a mom who just needs to be a good marketer
Speaker 3: to her child, there you go.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a little tip.
Speaker 1: My kid would eat mac and cheese every single day.
Speaker 1: So sometimes consistency is key, and sometimes you need to
Speaker 1: serve the same thing with different names or different presentation.
Speaker 1: It just depends. But so it was chicken kebabs Greek Friday, yes,
Speaker 1: which I mean. She recently got the cookbook Meal Prep
Speaker 1: Magic by Catherine McCord, So if you're looking for a
Speaker 1: book on meal prepping, a that's one that she recommends,
Speaker 1: and she made a recipe for leftover rice pudding, so
Speaker 1: she had leftover rice and then she made a rice
Speaker 1: pudding out of it.
Speaker 3: Which I love that rice pudding is so good. My
Speaker 3: mother in law made that for us recently and that's
Speaker 3: a great way to use that leftover rice. Then it
Speaker 3: was a throw together leftovers of the Greek kebab for
Speaker 3: her own lunch. She was even able to make an
Speaker 3: orange Julia snack Listen, we all don't have to go
Speaker 3: above and beyond like that, but it does look yummy.
Speaker 3: She made some biscuits, sheet pan eggs. Girl had some
Speaker 3: eggs short time on Friday apparently. But then dinner was
Speaker 3: simple because she did prep some of the snacks and
Speaker 3: breakfast items for the weekend. So it was just pasta
Speaker 3: with some sauce for Friday night. And I love that
Speaker 3: make it simple.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And so I think this is an example of
Speaker 1: like doing this is one hundred percent week, right, We
Speaker 1: don't always have one hundred percent weeks. We should make
Speaker 1: it a goal to have one hundred percent week, maybe
Speaker 1: like every other month or every month. If you're if
Speaker 1: you're really working toward an audacious goal, then make it
Speaker 1: your goal. To have one of these one hundred percent
Speaker 1: weeks once a month. Yeah, if you're in a season
Speaker 1: that's difficult, exhausting, whatever, maybe it's your goal to have
Speaker 1: one of these weeks every quarter.
Speaker 4: So it's up to you.
Speaker 1: But we don't have to have We don't have to
Speaker 1: be one hundred percent one hundred percent of the time.
Speaker 4: Or flip side.
Speaker 3: It could be one hundred percent because you made the
Speaker 3: plan for it. Like your one hundred percent could include
Speaker 3: two frozen dinners that week, one takeout.
Speaker 4: One dying out.
Speaker 3: Like, whatever you plan and however you plan to spend
Speaker 3: on it, you can do and still hit your plan well,
Speaker 3: as long as you're being realistic about your actual timing,
Speaker 3: your energy levels, and your money.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I so I would I point some of
Speaker 1: this has kind of inspired me for my meal plan
Speaker 1: for next week. But so I want to point out
Speaker 1: some of the places where she reused things. So she
Speaker 1: made several loaves of sour dough, and she used different
Speaker 1: ingredients inside the sour doughs. Who she was making different
Speaker 1: types of bread that were the same thing, but reuse
Speaker 1: different ingredients. She has so like dried cranberries. They love
Speaker 1: dried cranberries. She used some of it in a sour dough,
Speaker 1: she's some of it in her granola, some of it
Speaker 1: in her yogurt. They obviously had chicken quite a bit.
Speaker 1: I don't see. I didn't see any other meats mentioned
Speaker 1: the meat.
Speaker 4: Sorry, beef she had on top of the potatoes.
Speaker 1: Okay, so the beef. So it was a predominantly like
Speaker 1: eighty percent chicken week and one beef dish, and but
Speaker 1: she did have some vegetarian dishes with the spaghetti was
Speaker 1: not even a red sauce, so she didn't have to
Speaker 1: buy an extra marenera. She kind of just made her
Speaker 1: own sauce with olive oil and lemon zea.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 1: So so a key thing that stuck out to me
Speaker 1: was that I think maybe like four meals were chicken,
Speaker 1: two meals were vegetarian, one meal was beef. Yeah, that's seven,
Speaker 1: and then she had all of her breakfast were vegetarian,
Speaker 1: and then don't I don't think her lunches were pretty
Speaker 1: much just a new like variation of leftovers. So that
Speaker 1: was kind of what I got from it time and
Speaker 1: time again, Like meatless meals will save you the most money, man,
Speaker 1: if you're concerned with saving money, on groceries. Go vegetarian
Speaker 1: like that is. I mean, that's just the It's not
Speaker 1: for everyone, but it just will save you the maximum
Speaker 1: amount of money, or at least if you can't go
Speaker 1: one hundred percent, go twenty percent.
Speaker 4: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you'll still have to have your sights
Speaker 3: on where you're getting your protein. You might need to
Speaker 3: get proteins upplements, eggs, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, eggs.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry reusing ingredients, having a plan, sticking to that
Speaker 3: plan as much as possible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she used raspberries in her yogurt bowls and her
Speaker 1: rice pudding. I did mention she the rice pudding she
Speaker 1: made she used for breakfast. So they're living rice on
Speaker 1: some days for dinner and then the leftover rice was
Speaker 1: rice pudding for breakfast. They used like a lot of.
Speaker 4: Like the same.
Speaker 1: I think she used her yogurt to make it to
Speaker 1: Zeki for the Greek chicken. That's what it looks like. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so just like a lot of re use, a lot
Speaker 1: of tomatoes I'm seeing every single day, and guacamole I'm
Speaker 1: seeing every single day. I'm definitely seeing the oranges on
Speaker 1: the citrus salad that also showed up in the Orange Julius.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think this is one of those situations where
Speaker 3: following someone almost replicating what they're doing and just getting
Speaker 3: your bearings with that and then begin to branch out
Speaker 3: with your own creativity. But it's also okay to just
Speaker 3: get a meal plan from somebody else, look at exactly
Speaker 3: what they did, replicate it, and then refine it from there.
Speaker 3: And one of the ways that you can do that
Speaker 3: is by getting our ninety day fall meal.
Speaker 4: Plan for free. When you come to the party, you
Speaker 4: just have to.
Speaker 1: The only way you don't have to get the meal plan,
Speaker 1: just get just to show up live to the party.
Speaker 1: And I think something that that what you just said
Speaker 1: that stuck with me when we had Nicole john z
Speaker 1: Burke from Gardenery, where she said, when you are starting out,
Speaker 1: or if you don't feel confident in something, you follow
Speaker 1: one teacher and you do exactly what they do until
Speaker 1: you feel confident enough to branch out. It's it's so
Speaker 1: good and so necessary to take the perspectives from multiple
Speaker 1: experts so that you can customize a plan for your life.
Speaker 1: But when you are first starting out, or if maybe
Speaker 1: you're restarting, or maybe you just hit this place where
Speaker 1: I've been doing this a while, and I'm I don't
Speaker 1: feel confident right now in this season to choose one
Speaker 1: person follow them religiously for lack of a better term,
Speaker 1: until you gain that confidence or regain that confidence.
Speaker 3: That's what Instagram I think is good for, is like
Speaker 3: finding your people that are going to inspire you towards
Speaker 3: the habits and patterns that are helpful, not necessarily all
Speaker 3: this impulse spending that they can influence you towards. But
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Speaker 1: Yes, Judy, my girl. A bill you are happy to
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Speaker 3: Because this is such a good example, I love that
Speaker 3: you use the phrase investing in your health because I
Speaker 3: think we all need to be reminded that this is
Speaker 3: important when it comes to spending, well allocating our resource
Speaker 3: as well in ourselves our health. It's so important, and
Speaker 3: also the reminder that our spending on our health is
Speaker 3: not always going to be long term. We can invest
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Speaker 1: How often do you go grocery shopping? And Jill and
Speaker 1: I are very different because Jill doesn't eat much and
Speaker 1: my family, yeah, we have many people who drink and
Speaker 1: eat a lot, so Jill.
Speaker 3: I go every two weeks. But I'm getting better at
Speaker 3: eating more food.
Speaker 1: I don't it's not bad. I'm not saying it's a
Speaker 1: bad thing.
Speaker 3: Well, I did realize recently because I've been thinking about
Speaker 3: everyone's talking about protein right like getting blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: But that, along with kind of everything else, it made
Speaker 3: me think like, oh, how much food should you be
Speaker 3: getting in a day, and how much protein and where
Speaker 3: where do we kind of line up with this? And
Speaker 3: we were pretty far off to an alarming point. I
Speaker 3: feel okay, but I need to be eating so much
Speaker 3: more than I'm eating.
Speaker 4: So I'm trying. We're getting there, but.
Speaker 3: I'm still only shopping every two weeks and planning around that.
Speaker 3: But just like trying to incorporate a lot more calories every.
Speaker 1: Day, well, I'm trying to do the opposite.
Speaker 3: The average person supposed to have two thousand calories a day.
Speaker 1: That is an average.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's been hard to like that feels like
Speaker 3: a full time job.
Speaker 4: It's been hard to figure out. I know how to
Speaker 4: do this.
Speaker 1: Yes, I am in the same boat. Actually I had to.
Speaker 1: This is embarrassing. I recently had to set alarms on
Speaker 1: my phone and two hours to remind myself to eat.
Speaker 3: I believe that because you wor here when we were
Speaker 3: writing the book together. There were many days that we
Speaker 3: co worked together at my house and I typically, since
Speaker 3: I'm just accustomer working from home, I do I break
Speaker 3: for lunch. I get hungry and I make lunch for
Speaker 3: myself and Eric usually, and when Jen was here, like
Speaker 3: I would make food for you and you. There were
Speaker 3: times where I'd get up, make lunch, bring it over
Speaker 3: to you, sit it next to you. You wouldn't notice
Speaker 3: it for like a full forty five minutes, and I'd
Speaker 3: be like, I made you lunch.
Speaker 4: It's right there, be like, oh my gosh, I didn't
Speaker 4: even notice.
Speaker 3: So, yeah, there are people like you who also get
Speaker 3: like really zoned.
Speaker 4: IM zone in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have. I don't know if that's like an
Speaker 1: ADHD thing. I'm not diagnosed with the ADHD, but like
Speaker 1: for some reason, when I start working, I don't stop
Speaker 1: until like five hours have passed.
Speaker 4: A hyper focus.
Speaker 1: I think hyper focus.
Speaker 4: There's some really great pros to that. The is you
Speaker 4: need an.
Speaker 1: Alarm, might for the business, for the book, for the listeners.
Speaker 1: That's great for me, not as much.
Speaker 4: Okay, so how often do you go grocery shoping?
Speaker 1: I go grocery sipping shopping maybe one and a half
Speaker 1: times a week. So usually it's once a week, but
Speaker 1: maybe every other week I will have to go twice.
Speaker 1: I have a one year old who drinks a lot
Speaker 1: of milk, and when we have milk in the house,
Speaker 1: everybody else drinks it too, so sometimes I'll have to
Speaker 1: make like an extra I try to always have two
Speaker 1: gallons on hand. But if for some reason, I just
Speaker 1: haven't gone through the other food in my house, like
Speaker 1: I might run short on milk, so I'll have to
Speaker 1: go get like more milk and then end up I'll
Speaker 1: just you know, kind of look at my list and
Speaker 1: like replenish as needed. So I will. Usually I go
Speaker 1: at least once a week.
Speaker 3: I think that's reasonable, especially like with having kids and
Speaker 3: some of your rhythm and routine. Part of my only
Speaker 3: going every two weeks is because I just don't get
Speaker 3: out of the house.
Speaker 1: But I meanwhile, she thought we were going to record
Speaker 1: this episode separately, and I'm like, please let me come
Speaker 1: over to your house please.
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Speaker 3: Jen Speaking of grocery shopping and speaking of getting older,
Speaker 3: did I talk about that on this yes, speaking of
Speaker 3: my youth being over pretty much. This weekend, Eric and
Speaker 3: I checked out a new grocery store that's twenty five
Speaker 3: minutes away.
Speaker 4: We drove twenty five minutes to check out a cool
Speaker 4: new new to us.
Speaker 1: You didn't just drive over a bridge.
Speaker 4: You drove over the bridge, the big bridge.
Speaker 3: Yes, this bridge, it's called the Skyway. It's big enough
Speaker 3: and tall enough for cruise ships to fit under it.
Speaker 1: That is the point of it being so big is
Speaker 1: so that the cruise ships can go under it.
Speaker 3: It's it's a trip, very fun though honestly, the trip
Speaker 3: goes by so fast because it's so amazing. Don't want
Speaker 3: to be up there on a windy day.
Speaker 4: Though.
Speaker 3: We crossed the bridge to go to this grocery store
Speaker 3: because again we're closer to forty than we've ever been
Speaker 3: and going to a cool grocery store on the weekend
Speaker 3: is what we do.
Speaker 1: That sounds so fun. I wish I was at a
Speaker 1: point in my life where I could have fun.
Speaker 3: It was exhilarating and I'm so sorry. You can go
Speaker 3: to grocery stores too. You should go to grocery stores.
Speaker 3: It was called Dettwilers in case there's any local people,
Speaker 3: which side note happens to be owned by people who
Speaker 3: lived five minutes from both Eric and I growing up
Speaker 3: in Franconia, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: So Rancho shout out to Franconia over I'm going, Yeah,
Speaker 1: whoa a very very small suburb of Philly.
Speaker 3: If you're there, vow it would not feel like a
Speaker 3: suburb of Philly anyways, I digress. And they had an
Speaker 3: abundance of produce for amazing prices, but also random produce
Speaker 3: like jackfruit and other things that I couldn't pronounce that
Speaker 3: usually you can only find at specialty grocery stores, and
Speaker 3: just every herb, every fruit, every veggie that you could
Speaker 3: possibly want, at really amazing prices for and very high
Speaker 3: quality like organic. They're all of their meats. They pride
Speaker 3: themselves on how quality their meats are, great prices, their bakery.
Speaker 3: The perimeter of the store is where it's at. The
Speaker 3: best part is that they would make announcements consistently throughout
Speaker 3: the time that we were there, maybe there for an hour,
Speaker 3: and they'd come on and be like, go get your
Speaker 3: mama this homemade bread from the bakery. Thanks for coming
Speaker 3: to debt Wiler's.
Speaker 2: Whooo.
Speaker 4: Every announcement would end with a whoo.
Speaker 1: Sounds like something you'd find in Texas, not Brainton.
Speaker 4: Well it is still the South, I guess. But yeah,
Speaker 4: by that nor conversation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I do feel yeah on that, but maybe I'm
Speaker 3: adding the twang and that wasn't entirely there, but it
Speaker 3: felt it felt invigorating, and it felt like where I
Speaker 3: wanted to be. And so, but to link this into
Speaker 3: a bit of our podcast episode and a bit of
Speaker 3: the tips, I do talk about this a lot. But
Speaker 3: one of the things that keeps me inspired to keep mail, planning,
Speaker 3: keep cooking is trying new places out and getting some
Speaker 3: different ingredients and just making the whole experience a bit
Speaker 3: more live.
Speaker 4: Woo.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I feel like I got some different cuts
Speaker 3: of meat than I would normally get, and a few
Speaker 3: different types of produce and some baked goods that were
Speaker 3: new to me. And all at a reasonable price. So yeah,
Speaker 3: it's one of those things I'm like, oh, I could
Speaker 3: maybe come here like every other month because it's really
Speaker 3: good prices on meat. That's something that I think some
Speaker 3: people will hack, is like I go here for my
Speaker 3: meet I go here for my produce, and I'm not
Speaker 3: down to have to drive to a ton of different places.
Speaker 3: Like if it's just better to make it convenient and
Speaker 3: go to one spot, that's great. But if it happens
Speaker 3: to work out for me where you know, quarterly, I
Speaker 3: go and I stock up on meat at this one place.
Speaker 3: It's a little bit further, but it makes sense and
Speaker 3: I can throw it in the freezer. Those types of
Speaker 3: things I have found helpful. So one of the things
Speaker 3: that helps me to only shop every two weeks is
Speaker 3: I'm I will usually get meat for like two months.
Speaker 3: I will just stock up on meat and I won't
Speaker 3: need to do another meat run for like two months.
Speaker 1: How many freezers do you actually?
Speaker 3: There is a discount home Depot store I probably talked
Speaker 3: about in the past near us. So all the things
Speaker 3: at home Depot sells they sell at fifty percent off.
Speaker 3: And we got a small freezer like it looks like
Speaker 3: a mini fridge that you'd have in your college dorm room.
Speaker 3: But it's that size of a freezer. So I do
Speaker 3: have an extra one in my garage now so that
Speaker 3: I can just so it doesn't take a ton of
Speaker 3: energy to run because it's really small.
Speaker 4: We got it at a steep discount and it does.
Speaker 1: It helps on Facebook marketplace at the time too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's lovely.
Speaker 1: Det Wilder's woo woo