Speaker 1: Episode seventy nine, our favorite frugal food blogs and recipes.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Frugal Friends podcast, where you'll learn to
Speaker 1: save money, embrace simplicity, rights, and liver with your life.
Speaker 1: Here your host Jen and Jill m m M. Today
Speaker 1: we have a special special episode. It is our first
Speaker 1: annual two thousand nineteen Frugal Friends Foodie Awards show, first ever,
Speaker 1: probably the last, but who knows, probably an award show. Yes,
Speaker 1: we are walking you down the red carpet of recipes
Speaker 1: and telling you where you should go to find yours,
Speaker 1: to help with your meal planning, your grocery shopping, lowering
Speaker 1: your grocery budget, all that fun stuff, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: tell you why you should love each of our winners.
Speaker 1: So get ready, put on your favorite ball gown, gusty
Speaker 1: yourself up, and welcome to the two thousand nineteen Frugal
Speaker 1: Friends Foodie Awards. But first, a word from our sponsors,
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Speaker 1: Before the Recipe. Do you love finding recipes online and
Speaker 1: can't wait to make that new one you just found?
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Speaker 1: done to me in the path, but it's amazing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: these food bloggers, they got to get their seo juice
Speaker 1: from Google, so they got to write a thousand words
Speaker 1: of useless, not useless, we ve useless. Yeah, we love
Speaker 1: you as people food bloggers, Yes, but nobody loves the scroll.
Speaker 1: I want the recipe. Yeah, so it's a it's a
Speaker 1: love hate relationship with the novel before the recipe. But
Speaker 1: we digress. But before we get too far deep into that,
Speaker 1: it's time for our awards show. Welcome to the two
Speaker 1: thousand nineteen Frugal Friends Foodie Awards. These food bloggers are
Speaker 1: graduating to the next level by being honored by the
Speaker 1: Frugal Friends, whom they've probably never heard of. But anyways,
Speaker 1: we show that this is happening. Eight winners based on
Speaker 1: merit of a particular genre of money saving stuff, all
Speaker 1: for you to be able to help you in your cooking, planning,
Speaker 1: money saving process. So our first category best use of
Speaker 1: minimal ingredients, you have to make a pause the Stone soup.
Speaker 1: So again we've got these linked in our show notes.
Speaker 1: But the Stone soup they give all these recipes have
Speaker 1: six ingredients or less. So you've got your minimalist recipes.
Speaker 1: And I gotta tell you, I'm hungry. I think I'm
Speaker 1: always hungry when we were or I'm just always hungry.
Speaker 1: These pictures, man, they look amazing. She's got some very healthy,
Speaker 1: some low carb options. She's got awesome pictures. You figure
Speaker 1: out what you want to buy. Zucchini tortillas, halloumi and
Speaker 1: cabbage hash Oh goodness, gorgeous green tart. Anyhow, all of
Speaker 1: them have six ingredients or less. So if you're looking
Speaker 1: for some minimalist recipes where you don't have to go
Speaker 1: out and buy a ton of stuff, and we know
Speaker 1: what minimalism means when it comes to recipes. It also
Speaker 1: means less time because that's less that you're chopping, less
Speaker 1: that you're saw telling, less that you're interacting with, more
Speaker 1: that you are just eating. Yes, we love that. Especially
Speaker 1: living in an RV jill you get those healthy six
Speaker 1: ingredient recipes exactly. I've got to have those minimal if
Speaker 1: you're doing Keto on a budget. These are great. So
Speaker 1: thank you the Stone Soup. Your award is not in
Speaker 1: the mail. There isn't one congratulations. There's us listing you
Speaker 1: on our podcast, which actually we might charge you all
Speaker 1: right for our next award best use of a five
Speaker 1: dollar bill. The award goes to five dollar dinners. This
Speaker 1: is a blog and she's got meal plans and freezer
Speaker 1: meals and all that, but what she's really known for
Speaker 1: is recipes that can be made for the whole family.
Speaker 1: And each recipe is five dollars or less. So and
Speaker 1: she's got not just like dinners, but she's got lunches
Speaker 1: and sides and healthy snacks, desserts, breakfasts, beverages, so so
Speaker 1: many things, and you can cook them anyway you want,
Speaker 1: slow cooker, instant, pot, grill, whatever, lots of freezer friendly stuff,
Speaker 1: and everything can be made not just for two people
Speaker 1: for five dollars, but for a family of four. I'm
Speaker 1: assuming that's what a family is, So that's less yeah,
Speaker 1: so will not be four point five. That's all I
Speaker 1: gotta say. That's all I gotta say to so yes.
Speaker 1: Congratulations Aaron Chase on winning this year's Frugal Foodie Award
Speaker 1: for best use of a five dollar bill our only year.
Speaker 1: And up next we've got best use of numbers budget
Speaker 1: bites dot Com. So if you like numbers and your
Speaker 1: calculator makes you happy, this one's for you. Every recipe
Speaker 1: comes with a price per serving, so you can see
Speaker 1: where it fits in your budget. Also, what's need about
Speaker 1: this is you can figure out whether how many servings
Speaker 1: you want to make. So if you do have six
Speaker 1: people in your family and you're not the traditional four
Speaker 1: person family, good for you. You're breaking out of the box.
Speaker 1: Do whatever you can figure out how much is this
Speaker 1: going to cost per person? Therefore, which recipe do I
Speaker 1: want to choose? So that's a fun one. And then
Speaker 1: you can all sit around the dinner table and be
Speaker 1: like Ronnie, this me'll only cost me two dollars and
Speaker 1: fifty four cents per person. Uh, And that's super fun
Speaker 1: when you can compare that to what you might have
Speaker 1: spent per person at a restaurant. So also your conversation
Speaker 1: with Ronnie, I don't know, I don't know, Ronnie. Uh sorry, Ronnie,
Speaker 1: I love budget bites. I have been following her for
Speaker 1: years and every time I make one of her recipes
Speaker 1: is always spot on delicious, because you can have a
Speaker 1: cheap recipe, but you've got to make it delicious to
Speaker 1: be on the list. And girl nails it all right.
Speaker 1: Our next award Best Use of Freezer Meals and the
Speaker 1: two thousand nineteen Frugal Foodie Award goes to the Family Freezer,
Speaker 1: mostly because I just found her recently on Instagram and uh,
Speaker 1: she has freezer meal plans. She got paid one, she
Speaker 1: got free ones, and I have a list of her
Speaker 1: freezer meal recipes waiting to be made as soon as
Speaker 1: all this book stuff dies down. I am so excited.
Speaker 1: They look so good. And she does her freezer meals,
Speaker 1: she can do like twenty of them ninety minutes. I'm
Speaker 1: not that good, but she's got healthy freezer meals, camping meals,
Speaker 1: crop pot meals, thrilling, like everything can be put in
Speaker 1: the freezer, and you need freezer meals for those nights
Speaker 1: that you just cannot make dinner and you just want
Speaker 1: to have defrosh something in the morning with really for
Speaker 1: work through it in the instant pot or whatever and
Speaker 1: and have dinner later that night. It's great for people
Speaker 1: that are on the go and for those who constantly
Speaker 1: have the excuse of I don't have time or life
Speaker 1: is so sporadic that I don't know if I'm going
Speaker 1: to be home and able to cook. So freezer meals
Speaker 1: are great because if you do find yourself at home
Speaker 1: but no food in the fridge, pull it out of
Speaker 1: the freezer. And this is something that can be made
Speaker 1: in bulk and stacked away for those times when life
Speaker 1: is really busy. So carve out a Saturday or Sunday.
Speaker 1: Check out this website and get at it. Get to it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all of her blog posts. It's not just one freezer meal,
Speaker 1: it's like twelve twenty. It's usually twelve seventeen. So it's
Speaker 1: like all numbers, like doable numbers for you to do
Speaker 1: in bulk. And yeah, that's how you do it. You
Speaker 1: carve them all out in one day and then you
Speaker 1: don't have to eat out for the month. Perfect. Yes,
Speaker 1: thank you, family, freezer, Thank you. And up next. Our
Speaker 1: next category is best use of meal planning, and the
Speaker 1: two thousand nineteen Frugal Friends Frugal Foodie Award goes to
Speaker 1: He's changing good cheap eats. So all of her recipes
Speaker 1: are designed to be a part of a frugal meal plan.
Speaker 1: So this is for all the people who have difficulty
Speaker 1: prepping ahead of time, not knowing oh what am I
Speaker 1: going to make this week? That can be a big
Speaker 1: barrier in and of itself. And you've heard us talk
Speaker 1: about cook smarts and all these different types of resources,
Speaker 1: but definitely check this article out as well. Uh and
Speaker 1: be able to plan not just okay, I've got a
Speaker 1: plan set in place, but is it frugal? Is it
Speaker 1: nice on your wallet? Is it budget friendly? And are
Speaker 1: you utilizing all of the ingredients to their max capacity?
Speaker 1: So this blogger has some excellent ideas as far as
Speaker 1: planning and prepping for what you're gonna do, how you
Speaker 1: can use different ingredients throughout the week. So check her
Speaker 1: out for meal planning. Our next award as best use
Speaker 1: of leftovers Because who likes to eat the same thing
Speaker 1: five days in a row? And right? Not my husband? No, nope, nobody,
Speaker 1: Well some people maybe some people don't mind. In I
Speaker 1: really admire those people who just have peanut, butter and
Speaker 1: jelly every single day of their lives. But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: not do so for the award. The two nineteen Frugal
Speaker 1: Friends Foodie Award for Best Use of Leftovers goes to
Speaker 1: cook Smarts and they're special infographic on sixteen creative ways
Speaker 1: to use leftovers. This infographic has been a life saver
Speaker 1: for me. It's literally so if you if you like charts,
Speaker 1: like like numbers and stuff like paint my numbers, then
Speaker 1: you're gonna like this infographic because it lists out all
Speaker 1: of the things you could have left over, like beef, chicken, veggies, beans, whatever,
Speaker 1: and then and it gives you essentially like formulas to
Speaker 1: make things together. So if you want to make a
Speaker 1: fried rice, you add eggs, rice, soy sauce, frozen veggies,
Speaker 1: and then you add your leftovers to those things, and
Speaker 1: then you've got a fried rice or like a salad,
Speaker 1: all your greens, nuts of vinigarette, and then these are
Speaker 1: the leftover things you can add to like add to it.
Speaker 1: So it's got like a base of staples that you
Speaker 1: need and then it shows you how to incorporate your
Speaker 1: leftovers into each thing. It is great. That's amazing because
Speaker 1: there's been times where I've wished that I could have
Speaker 1: a chef on call. Well for multiple reasons. I mean,
Speaker 1: if they could just come cook for me, that'd be great.
Speaker 1: Even to be able to say, all, right, here's what
Speaker 1: I have. Yeah, I've got a tomato, a half of
Speaker 1: an onion, a jar of this, blah blah blah, what
Speaker 1: can I do? And this kind of provides that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not a personal chef that you have on call,
Speaker 1: because that probably wouldn't be very frugal, but to be
Speaker 1: able to look at this and say what do I
Speaker 1: have and get the creative juices flowing on how you
Speaker 1: can utilize that to cook at home. Yeah, and it's
Speaker 1: even got at the bottom, so not just leftover foods,
Speaker 1: but like five ways you can use leftover herbs and
Speaker 1: fruits too, so you can infuse them in an herb sauce,
Speaker 1: a pesto, an herb butter. And it shows you what
Speaker 1: herbs will go and what and how to do all
Speaker 1: these things. So it really is this infographic is just everything.
Speaker 1: And while the recipes on cook smarts aren't free, you
Speaker 1: can sign up for cook smarts and get thirty days
Speaker 1: free off paid plans by visiting cook smarts dot com
Speaker 1: slash cs and using the code frugal we Love cook Smarts.
Speaker 1: I'm a cook Smarts user. With an infant, I just
Speaker 1: couldn't do meal planning like I used to. I love
Speaker 1: meal planning, wrote a book about it, but I just
Speaker 1: don't have I don't have the time. Um, and it
Speaker 1: was honestly from someone who even wrote a book on it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and cook Smarts has helped me use up some of
Speaker 1: the ingredients in my palm tree and experiment with things
Speaker 1: that I wouldn't have, like recipes I would not have
Speaker 1: chosen if I was picking my own recipes. So we
Speaker 1: highly recommend cook Smarts. I just couldn't live without them
Speaker 1: right now. I love it. Also up next best use
Speaker 1: of budget friendly vegan recipes. It's a very specific category,
Speaker 1: and the winner of the Frugal Friends Foodie Award goes
Speaker 1: to plant based on a budget. I would have thought
Speaker 1: so I didn't know how to make that one vague
Speaker 1: likes use of vegans No, Yeah, I'm glad the title
Speaker 1: you went with is good. So on this site, all
Speaker 1: of the recipes are vegan and all of the recipes
Speaker 1: are budget friendly, so if you are on a vegan diet,
Speaker 1: this one is a must see, must use blog because
Speaker 1: they give some really excellent recipes that won't break the bank,
Speaker 1: and that can be some of the biggest issues if
Speaker 1: you are vegetarian, pescterian, vegan, keto, gluten free, you name it.
Speaker 1: Anything that is specialty can be where we have difficulty
Speaker 1: with the budget of how do I get all of
Speaker 1: the nutrients that I need in my diet. Uh, still
Speaker 1: eat well, but yet not break a bank every single month.
Speaker 1: So this is really helpful to give some budget friendly
Speaker 1: ideas recipes that taste good. Right, somebody else has already
Speaker 1: tried it out for you. You're not just making this
Speaker 1: up in your own kitchen and showing you that it
Speaker 1: can be done on a budget. If this is a
Speaker 1: diet that you're going for, so definitely check them out. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I found that when I didn't eat meat, I could
Speaker 1: get away with eating like the cheap, unhealthy stuff and
Speaker 1: it be really really cheap, inexpensive, but not pal But
Speaker 1: if I was trying to do vegan, then that was
Speaker 1: a lot harder. You take away all of the tasty
Speaker 1: cheap stuff except bread. Bread is still good for everybody. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you could eat French fries all day and a vegan
Speaker 1: you can, but if you want to not shove your
Speaker 1: body with French fries all day and yet still be
Speaker 1: on a budget. Here you go. If I had a
Speaker 1: blog called plant based on a Budget, it would definitely
Speaker 1: just say eat French fries, and that would just it
Speaker 1: would be one landing page, eat French fries, and that's it,
Speaker 1: and it would take you to my book, my cookbook,
Speaker 1: and the cookbook would also just say eat French fries.
Speaker 1: And you'd probably get tons of visitors to your website
Speaker 1: and ton of purchases on your book. Yeah. I know,
Speaker 1: the less you work, the more successful you are. All right.
Speaker 1: The last award is we haven't saved the best for last,
Speaker 1: because all eight of these are the best. But our
Speaker 1: last sword is best use of pantry staples. Pantry staples,
Speaker 1: they forget it. They get forgotten a lot, and I
Speaker 1: forgot it until the very end of the list. So
Speaker 1: that's why this award is so special. So, without further ado,
Speaker 1: the two thousand nineteen Frugal Friends Foodie Award for Best
Speaker 1: Use of pantry staples goes to Don't Waste the Crumbs
Speaker 1: dot com. This site has plenty of sauces, mixed recipes,
Speaker 1: all kinds of things that help you use up random
Speaker 1: ingredients sitting in your pantry perfectly, And she just has
Speaker 1: some delicious recipes on here too, like halapeno cheddar biscuits. Seriously,
Speaker 1: thank you. She's got a lot of breads, dry onion
Speaker 1: soup mix, Like, how many you have like dried onion
Speaker 1: powder sitting in your pantry? Me? That's me all kinds
Speaker 1: of things. That's a good one for That would be
Speaker 1: another one that I'd want to use when I'd want
Speaker 1: to contact my personal chef. But then I realized I
Speaker 1: don't have one. This would be perfect for me to say,
Speaker 1: what do I do with that extra catchup packet that
Speaker 1: Travis stole for me from McDonald's. Yeah, like, what do
Speaker 1: you do? Eat French Fries? Purchase my book at Eat
Speaker 1: French Fries. I thought I told you this Eat French
Speaker 1: Fries dot com. Yeah, this is this is a great one.
Speaker 1: That's the best. You know what else is the best?
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Speaker 1: I wanted to share my bill of the week. I
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Speaker 1: frugal friends, because if so, that's the greatest thing I've
Speaker 1: ever heard, like turning it into like like a birthday
Speaker 1: greeting or something, just happy frugal friends. Friday to read
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Speaker 1: what I'm doing. But also good work on negotiating. That
Speaker 1: is our jam. I can't believe that they wanted to
Speaker 1: double it. My jaw literally from thinking, you know, we
Speaker 1: have done the same exertion thing. They wanted to double
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Speaker 1: that works with. So many people are just probably like whatever, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I said, I told Rob in our interview every time,
Speaker 1: I'm going to do it different. So here we go
Speaker 1: try and we are getting close to Halloween, and that
Speaker 1: was an appropriate intrail. So get scared. You didn't hope
Speaker 1: you I hope you didn't pee your pants. I didn't,
Speaker 1: but I was worried. You've had a baby. Now you
Speaker 1: gotta watch it. I know, well c section, Okay, too
Speaker 1: much biology, we're gonna speaking of we're going to make
Speaker 1: a seamless move from gross things into food because those
Speaker 1: things always go to other. We want to talk about
Speaker 1: our favorite recipes from the cook at Home Challenge that
Speaker 1: we are getting towards the end of. But you can
Speaker 1: do at any point in life. So a recipe that
Speaker 1: I recently made, and I will say with the two
Speaker 1: that I'm about to share, I made my own changes
Speaker 1: to these recipes, so know that you have freedom depending
Speaker 1: on the ingredients that you have. But this one comes
Speaker 1: from delish dot com and it is a bruschetta recipe,
Speaker 1: so your your standard tomato bruschetta. I made it with
Speaker 1: a baguette that I sliced up. I put some melted
Speaker 1: butter on it. They use olive oil. You could go
Speaker 1: whatever I did butter because you know me, but I
Speaker 1: love butter. So melted butter. Toasted that right up a bit,
Speaker 1: put that bruschetta on it, did a cheese board with
Speaker 1: the rest of it. Uh, that was a fantastic meal
Speaker 1: again for me. Please, I will absolutely make that you guys.
Speaker 1: It's so easy. I just sliced up a tomato, did
Speaker 1: a little bit of leftover onion that I had garlic, olive, oil, salt, pepper,
Speaker 1: a little bit of balsamic done. It was so good.
Speaker 1: And then on bread, and then on some buttered bread
Speaker 1: butter that bread, butter butter, It buttery, toasted warm bread.
Speaker 1: How if you're not hungry? Now, how do I follow that? Um?
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna follow with a salad? Yeah right, but
Speaker 1: this one's from Budget Bites. And because it's autumn, it's
Speaker 1: an autumn kale and apple salad. And if you know me,
Speaker 1: you know I love my kale. I love massaging it
Speaker 1: and making it all deep green and delicious and then
Speaker 1: throwing some apples on it. And she put blue cheese,
Speaker 1: but I'm not a blue cheeser, so some goat cheese
Speaker 1: is really where it's at for me. Got it? And
Speaker 1: then just diving in, Maybe have some grilled chicken on
Speaker 1: the side and yeah, doing it, or maybe even a
Speaker 1: rotisserie chicken that I got for five dollars from Lucky's.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have that this week. We love food. We
Speaker 1: might soon just become a food podcast apparently, but you
Speaker 1: know what, our listeners love it too. So we're going
Speaker 1: where you guys go, or you're going where we go.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure who's leading who, but it's I think
Speaker 1: we all love it and we're all on board. Blind
Speaker 1: fleeting the blind, finding the hungry. You'd think that at
Speaker 1: some point, with all of our taco food, we wouldn't
Speaker 1: be hungry anymore. But I think it's just it's like
Speaker 1: food begets food, and you'd constantly need it. So in
Speaker 1: sleep training they say sleep but gets sleep. Yeah. Yeah. Also,
Speaker 1: I have this other chicken sheep pan recipe that I
Speaker 1: recently made. It's super simple. It's one sheet pan that
Speaker 1: you get to throw in the oven, so it's breading
Speaker 1: the chicken. You dip the chicken a little bit of egg,
Speaker 1: dip it in some bread crumbs, put that on the pan,
Speaker 1: maybe put some parmesan cheese on top of it, and
Speaker 1: then some chopped up tomatoes and whatever other veggies you've got,
Speaker 1: olive oil through the whole thing in the oven boom.
Speaker 1: It literally takes I don't know, ten minutes of actual
Speaker 1: active time, maybe a half an hour in the oven.
Speaker 1: Super simple, loved it, tasted great good as leftovers. You
Speaker 1: can throw all that on top of a salad the
Speaker 1: next day. Yes, I am trying this week. A baked
Speaker 1: chicken corn on blue because that's the cook Smarts meal plan,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna live up some almond meal. I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna like pulse some almonds in the blender and I'm
Speaker 1: going to do that instead of bread crumbs. So I'm
Speaker 1: very excited to see how that goes. Nice. Yeah, report back. Yes,
Speaker 1: this next one, I actually haven't made it yet, but
Speaker 1: it's so interesting that I had to include it before
Speaker 1: I made it. But I will report back with its
Speaker 1: efficacy in in meeting my fall needs. Perfect. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I use that word right, says
Speaker 1: the writer. Um, it's from cheap recipe blog dot com
Speaker 1: and it is a pumpkin spice dessert pizza. I almost
Speaker 1: made a category in the awards for best use of
Speaker 1: pumpkin spice because I really wanted to give this recipe
Speaker 1: and award. So but you haven't even tried it yet,
Speaker 1: and he just feels it's already award worthy. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: it is like pumpkin spice lattees, pumpkin spice bread, pumpkin
Speaker 1: spice blah blah blah, but like pumpkin spice dessert pizza.
Speaker 1: So if you're wondering what's on it. It's like a
Speaker 1: strusl topping with some icing, and uh, since this is
Speaker 1: cheap recipe blog dot com, they say, use a whole pumpkin,
Speaker 1: and since I'm gin, I'm like, I'm using canned But
Speaker 1: I am so interested in trying this and it makes
Speaker 1: more icing than the recipe needs and they say it
Speaker 1: freeze as well, so I'm very interested in. And then
Speaker 1: pizza obviously, and we don't need to say anything else, right, Sure,
Speaker 1: I would be upset with you for trying to make
Speaker 1: me eat all the sugar, but you did also give
Speaker 1: us a kale recipe, so I guess the good altwaighs
Speaker 1: the bad. Yeah. See, you gave an appetizer, I gave
Speaker 1: us salad, you gave an entree, and then I gave
Speaker 1: a dessert. We did not plan that. We did not
Speaker 1: even plan that. I will say, though, what is your appetizer?
Speaker 1: Is my meal? So I mean, but for the general
Speaker 1: public too. But you could eat all these things together,
Speaker 1: and that's true, so there you go, just meal. Well,
Speaker 1: you don't have to eat the whole bread, the whole
Speaker 1: loaf of bread, but I will because it's buttered. That
Speaker 1: bread is buttered, so you know, you know, you got
Speaker 1: to eat the rest of that. Yeah. So that was
Speaker 1: our That was our recipes and our awards. We hope
Speaker 1: that you loved them as much as we did. So
Speaker 1: we're going to recap the winners of our Frugal Friends
Speaker 1: Food Awards for Best use of minimal ingredients The Stone
Speaker 1: Soup dot com. Best use of a five dollar bill
Speaker 1: five dollar dinners, Best use of numbers, budget bites dot com.
Speaker 1: Best use of freezer meals The Family Freezer dot com.
Speaker 1: Best use of meal planning Good sheep Eats dot com,
Speaker 1: Best use of leftovers, cook smarts dot com, Best use
Speaker 1: of budget friendly vegan recipes, Plant based on a Budget
Speaker 1: dot com. Best use of pantry staples, Don't Waste the
Speaker 1: Crumbs dot com. So congratulations to all of our winners.
Speaker 1: You're so proud. You're so proud. We're so thankful, and
Speaker 1: we are also thankful for our Frugal Friends Book Club. Yes,
Speaker 1: this month, we are wrapping up retire before Mom and
Speaker 1: Dad by Rob Burger or Burger. We're not sure it
Speaker 1: Burger is? We are You're sure? Okay. I live in
Speaker 1: a community where a lot of people have this last
Speaker 1: name and they pronounce it Burger. But oh well, maybe
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Speaker 1: come across some really great literature on the reviews sites,
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Jen and Jill for your energy
Speaker 1: and enthusiasm for personal finance. You have been an inspiration
Speaker 1: as I work to dig out of student loan debt.
Speaker 1: Along with focusing on spending money more wisely on experiences
Speaker 1: that truly serve me. I appreciate your realistic approach and
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Speaker 1: help manage money and time. Good luck digging yourself out
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Speaker 1: you slid that one in there. You're so good. I'm
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Speaker 1: Slope to Financial Freed. I am so hungry. I so
Speaker 1: it's lunchtime here, and um, I'm gonna make b L
Speaker 1: T s with Chipotle Ranch mayo or something Chipotle. I'll
Speaker 1: have to throw an avocado on there. That's a good idea.
Speaker 1: Avocados make me throw up. It's like this weird allergic reaction,
Speaker 1: which stinks because I do like avocado. It's just that
Speaker 1: I vomit. But I'll also do like a fried sometimes
Speaker 1: I've I've done fried eggs, but I've also done hard
Speaker 1: boiled eggs. Both are fantastic. Okay, little little extra extra
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Speaker 1: vori a little extra protein. I hope you enjoying your baalty.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I haven't picked up my groceries yet.
Speaker 1: Today you're so hungry. I am so hungry. And and
Speaker 1: once I pick up my groceries, I won't be hungry anymore. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: this grocery shopping online thing has really changed my life.
Speaker 1: And uh it's it's good. I'm excited to do that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, bye bye