Speaker 1: How to save money on organic groceries.
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Speaker 1: Welcome to Frugal Friends podcast. My name is Jen, my
Speaker 1: name is Jill, and today we are focusing in one
Speaker 1: of our money saving grocery episodes on just organics. So
Speaker 1: this is for people who really want to prioritize at
Speaker 1: least that dirty dozen, but potentially maybe all of your
Speaker 1: groceries to being organic.
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Speaker 1: tried and true four step to savings format that we do.
Speaker 1: How can I get it for free, how can I
Speaker 1: get it low cost, how can I get a deal
Speaker 1: on it? And if I can't get any of those,
Speaker 1: how can I buy it at full price?
Speaker 3: Guilt free?
Speaker 1: And So the first is a couple tips for finding
Speaker 1: free specifically organic produce and foods.
Speaker 3: And this one's wild. Be careful, but you can forage
Speaker 3: that is very free, and there are resources to be
Speaker 3: able to do this, like falling Fruit, which is a
Speaker 3: user generated collection of public foraging areas, including dumpster diving,
Speaker 3: if you're into that. We're not saying that you have
Speaker 3: to practice all of these things, but it is an
Speaker 3: option that's available to you. And I will say I
Speaker 3: have foraged, which sounds crazy because I.
Speaker 1: Am dumpster dive.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not a We're not too good.
Speaker 1: We're not saying to do it illegally. But fallingfruit dot com,
Speaker 1: I think it's dot com is definitely good for cities
Speaker 1: if you live in an urban area because it's made
Speaker 1: by foragers for foragers, and there will be little notes
Speaker 1: as to like, oh, this is on private property, so
Speaker 1: like be careful.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, especially in Florida around mango and avocado season,
Speaker 3: that's that's easy to forage and identify what kind of
Speaker 3: fruits those are. We have a mulberry tree in the
Speaker 3: park right next to our property, and so every season
Speaker 3: that the mulberry tree has fruit, there's us and tons
Speaker 3: of neighbors out there with ladders picking the fruit. So yeah,
Speaker 3: there can be in your area ways to not get sick,
Speaker 3: get food for food.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then you're not always going to be guaranteed
Speaker 1: organic foods. Honestly, our friend Laura, she does a lot
Speaker 1: of dumpster diving here, and the smaller, more like sustainable
Speaker 1: focused grocery stores they have the best dumpster diving. So
Speaker 1: definitely check out Falling Through and check out specifically those
Speaker 1: grocery stores because surely there will be notes on those
Speaker 1: grocery stores like what to expect, when to expect it,
Speaker 1: so that you're going there at the right times and
Speaker 1: you know like, Okay, this is what is usually in
Speaker 1: there and this is definitely what I mean, I won't
Speaker 1: find it. Also, next is food swaps with neighbors. So
Speaker 1: maybe you have bought something organic and you're not going
Speaker 1: to be able to use all of it and you
Speaker 1: want to swap it with a neighbor. You can set
Speaker 1: these up. You can find them on Facebook groups, but
Speaker 1: it's probably better to set your own up. I think
Speaker 1: that we really rely on other people to create groups
Speaker 1: for us, thinking that leading a group will be too
Speaker 1: much work. But I think it really does. If this
Speaker 1: is something you want to do, it behooves you to
Speaker 1: start something, whether it's your church, community group, parenting circle, whatever,
Speaker 1: starting something that I usually have some organic produce. I
Speaker 1: value organic and when I have leftovers, I'm going to
Speaker 1: post it here and if you commit to do the same,
Speaker 1: then we can interchange this stuff. And you can find
Speaker 1: some of that in a buy nothing group. But if
Speaker 1: this lifestyle is really important to you, finding other like
Speaker 1: minded individuals can get you just more targeted swapping.
Speaker 3: The other alternative is volunteering at a community garden or
Speaker 3: doing a work show share program at a local farm.
Speaker 3: So with those types of situations you can earn fresh
Speaker 3: organic produce in exchange for helping to maintain the garden.
Speaker 3: And this is very common actually in all kinds of areas,
Speaker 3: rural to urban. This is something that could be found.
Speaker 3: Of course, there'd be a lot of seasonality to this,
Speaker 3: especially for our friends in the north, but still a
Speaker 3: really cool option for you a couple months out of
Speaker 3: the year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely. And then also you can check community fridges
Speaker 1: for organics. Some stock donations from local farms, co ops
Speaker 1: grocery stores can contain organic You are not guaranteed that
Speaker 1: it will, but you can check Frege fr e Edge
Speaker 1: or Little Free Pantry. Those are two sites that will
Speaker 1: link you to community fridges that you can check to
Speaker 1: see if they have organics.
Speaker 3: Moving on to our next category of how can I
Speaker 3: get organic groceries at low costs? And our first recommendation
Speaker 3: is to shop farmers markets towards closing time. So the
Speaker 3: vendors at farmers' markets will often sell some of their
Speaker 3: leftover organic produce up to half off or more because
Speaker 3: they'd rather just get rid of it for at least
Speaker 3: some money than haul it back home with them. So
Speaker 3: it might be a bit picked over, it might not be,
Speaker 3: you know, your nicest pick of the litter, but you
Speaker 3: could get it inexpensively this way.
Speaker 1: And this will happen at any farm that's only open
Speaker 1: on the weekends too. My father in law his you
Speaker 1: pick and they have they bring in produce from local
Speaker 1: farms just to make it a more like easy shopping experience,
Speaker 1: so you can pick your own produce that's there, but
Speaker 1: then you can also pick up some produce that is
Speaker 1: not grown on the farm. But they are only open Friday,
Speaker 1: Saturday and Sunday, so Sunday evening, whatever is left they
Speaker 1: do want to get rid of because then they're gonna
Speaker 1: either use it themselves and if they can't use it
Speaker 1: all like the other. A few weeks ago, when I
Speaker 1: was up there for some reason, somebody had a like
Speaker 1: big bins of spaghetti squash. He had more spaghetti squash
Speaker 1: than I had ever seen in my life, yikes. And
Speaker 1: he was telling me like, please take spaghetti squash, like
Speaker 1: we will never eat this much. So that that happens
Speaker 1: at these local farms, maybe not a market, but a
Speaker 1: farm that's only open, you know, on the weekends, going
Speaker 1: on a Sunday right before closing time and seeing what
Speaker 1: you can get. You can also split a CSA box
Speaker 1: with a friend, so community supported agriculture shares are less
Speaker 1: expensive in bulk. And again this is the thing where
Speaker 1: creating your own group of like minded friends can benefit you,
Speaker 1: not just in the sharing, but also splitting costs. For
Speaker 1: a bulk CSA box, you could save up to fifty
Speaker 1: percent or more on the overall cost. And then having that,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe you get it one week and another
Speaker 1: friend gets it another week, or you split it weekly
Speaker 1: between people. It's really you don't have to be best
Speaker 1: friends with these people, but if you share similar values
Speaker 1: on one thing, you can use that to save money.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, this would be even something I think would be
Speaker 3: good with a coworker.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, yes, exactly, you don't have to be best friends
Speaker 1: with your coworker, but they could help you save money
Speaker 1: in this way.
Speaker 3: Next, as far as low cost ways to get organic,
Speaker 3: you could buy expiration organic goods, so you can get
Speaker 3: great deals on this type of stuff, even you know,
Speaker 3: organic canned goods, organic bags of rice, whatever it may
Speaker 3: be that's still safe to eat, it's just coming up
Speaker 3: on its almost expired time. And so that would be
Speaker 3: something that you know could be marked down at the
Speaker 3: grocery store. But you can also find deals on sites
Speaker 3: like flash food, So that's an app jen you've used
Speaker 3: this with great success.
Speaker 1: I love flash food for me get I get it
Speaker 1: from Dashmart, which is a grocery store that door dash
Speaker 1: uses like they don't have people going into publics or Walmart.
Speaker 1: They have their own private grocery store, so people are
Speaker 1: not just going to go in there and pick up
Speaker 1: the deals they put near expiration foods on flash food.
Speaker 1: And I have gotten so many great things. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: have that I wouldn't have otherwise gotten for a really
Speaker 1: low price, and like it's marked up on door Dash obviously,
Speaker 1: but I'll compare the prices when I'm looking at flash Food,
Speaker 1: I'll compare them to Walmart where usually at my groceries,
Speaker 1: or even Costco if it's something I'd get there nine
Speaker 1: times out of ten less expensive and it's the brand
Speaker 1: name version. So I love flash Food.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Too Good to Go as an option, although that
Speaker 3: is primarily more your cafes and restaurants still really great
Speaker 3: to get low.
Speaker 1: But there are some like eco friendly restaurants and cafes
Speaker 1: that will put their stuff up and that's a great way.
Speaker 1: Like if there is an organic restaurant that you're interested in,
Speaker 1: they might be on there. Or to just browse the
Speaker 1: organic cafes. There are a couple on are Too Good
Speaker 1: to Go and again love that app as well.
Speaker 3: Or you can check out Misfits marked It, which I
Speaker 3: have not used, but either I get ads for them.
Speaker 3: Believe that they're a bit more subscription based, but I
Speaker 3: have had friends use them and they've they've been pleased.
Speaker 1: I'm willing to be spa answered by them in order
Speaker 1: to find it.
Speaker 3: We'd love to try it out.
Speaker 1: I'd love to try it out. Clearance produce bins. So again,
Speaker 1: natural grocery stores, they will mark down ripe fruits, veggies,
Speaker 1: they'll just you know, mark down not just fruits and veggies,
Speaker 1: really anything that's nearing its expiration date. So you can
Speaker 1: get those things at low cost. But especially fruits and
Speaker 1: veggies I think are where you're going to find your
Speaker 1: best low cost. Otherwise you're looking in deal territory, which
Speaker 1: is maybe ten to twenty percent off.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So when we now get to this next category
Speaker 3: of trying to find a deal on organic produce, you
Speaker 3: can consider buying the seconds or the ugly produce. So
Speaker 3: we kind of talked about this already a bit. But
Speaker 3: asking farmers' markets or local grocers for bruised or misshapen produce.
Speaker 3: So this doesn't mean that you necessarily have to wait
Speaker 3: till the near closing time at a farmer's market. It's
Speaker 3: more so, hey, what do you have that doesn't look
Speaker 3: so good that you might not be able to spell
Speaker 3: put out? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I feel like this is more misfits market might be.
Speaker 3: I could be yeah, well this is what they do.
Speaker 1: If they give me money, I'll find out huh exactly.
Speaker 1: Then also stock up during in season times and freeze.
Speaker 1: The freezer is your best friend. Super cubes that have
Speaker 1: like preportioned bigger sizes than ice cubes are so great
Speaker 1: for like proportioning out smaller, like buying it in bulk
Speaker 1: and getting the savings and then freezing it in small
Speaker 1: portions so that you don't have to take the whole
Speaker 1: gallon sized bag of uh, like blueberries out or something
Speaker 1: you can just take like a pre portioned two cup
Speaker 1: like size of it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love those things. I love them too. I
Speaker 3: don't have any, but I do with just complete envy.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're definitely more for like liquidy things. So
Speaker 1: maybe blueberries weren't the best because you could just do
Speaker 1: those in a bag, but I do. I love those
Speaker 1: like freezing, like buying in bulk and freezing in small
Speaker 1: portions is fantastic and you save a lot of money.
Speaker 1: And then also I added this one at the end, Costco.
Speaker 1: So if you remember we did an episode on Sam's
Speaker 1: Club versus Costco and where I took it upon myself
Speaker 1: or wasn't.
Speaker 3: It grocery stores versus warehouse savings?
Speaker 1: Oh maybe it was? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, But
Speaker 1: I also pitted Sam's Club against Costco in the episode,
Speaker 1: and I went out into the field as a reporter
Speaker 1: to report back and found, well, I forget my findings,
Speaker 1: but I still do compare between grocery store and warehouse.
Speaker 1: Whenever I'm trying to buy something with Sam's Club, I
Speaker 1: found that most of the time Walmart was cheaper, right,
Speaker 1: so it wasn't worth it, except when I got that
Speaker 1: deal on the I didn't renew, But then I got
Speaker 1: a deal on a Costco membership and I was like, well,
Speaker 1: it's time to test Costco. And what I have found
Speaker 1: is that they too are more expensive than Walmart. But
Speaker 1: it's because all of their things are organic. You cannot
Speaker 1: find regular blueberry, frozen blueberries, regular frozen strawberries, like regular
Speaker 1: frozen whatever. It is all organic, h And that's how
Speaker 1: they do it. So they, yeah, are a little more expensive,
Speaker 1: and so I still buy most of myself at the
Speaker 1: grocery store. But if you are somebody who values organic,
Speaker 1: Costco Costco's word definitely would be the way to go.
Speaker 3: I will also add Aldi has some good organic selection
Speaker 3: at some good prices, so let's not sleep on al D.
Speaker 3: My friends is sleeping on aldi. Hopefully no one anymore,
Speaker 3: but I still will get the straggler who's like, I
Speaker 3: don't know, it's small, I have to bring a quarter.
Speaker 3: I don't get it. I went to the.
Speaker 1: Dog park yesterday and this, uh there is this like
Speaker 1: ragtag bunch of people with their dogs at this dog park.
Speaker 1: I love it. And one of the ladies was making
Speaker 1: fun of one of the guys and she's like, I'll
Speaker 1: throw my ald quarter at you. And I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: These are my people. I understand that joke. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: how much sleep? How much it's really going to cost
Speaker 3: her to throw that at I know she was a
Speaker 3: big deal.
Speaker 1: That's how you know. I'm really mad and.
Speaker 3: Loses corter over it.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. It was a who These people are
Speaker 1: a riot.
Speaker 3: And if we've gone through this whole filter and to
Speaker 3: no avail, we're still looking for other ways to get
Speaker 3: organic groceries. Let's do it guilt free, then, friends, And
Speaker 3: the best way to do it guilt free is to
Speaker 3: buy local, sustainable, values driven and aligned And one of
Speaker 3: the best ways to do that is to purchase your
Speaker 3: organic produce from local farms and co ops. So being
Speaker 3: able to support all of your local organic farmers reduce
Speaker 3: your carbon footprint. Buying directly from them is excellent. So
Speaker 3: you can look for farmers' markets, co ops, farm stands,
Speaker 3: wherever you can find fresh, sustainably grown organic produce. A
Speaker 3: good resource you can utilize to find that is local harvest.
Speaker 3: But also just drive around, like there are farm stands everywhere.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that just because it's a farm stand or
Speaker 1: local farm doesn't guarantee it's organic. Sure, like my father
Speaker 1: and lost farm, it's not organic, but it.
Speaker 3: Does pretty much guarantee that it's going to be better
Speaker 3: than whatever you're getting from Walmart.
Speaker 1: True, this is so true. So small farms for sure
Speaker 1: will use fewer pesticides just naturally they bylock can't use
Speaker 1: like the most natural pesticides. They have to actually use
Speaker 1: certain insecticides. But yeah, they will be better than farms
Speaker 1: that are maybe ten times their size and have more
Speaker 1: pest problems. So that's definitely true. You can also buy
Speaker 1: certified organic from ethical brands that you see in the
Speaker 1: grocery store. Remember, not everything that is green is ethical
Speaker 1: or sustainable. There is so much greenwashing from and brands
Speaker 1: that may have at once been defined as this but
Speaker 1: have been bought up larger companies and are no more
Speaker 1: so every couple of years. It's definitely beneficial to check
Speaker 1: if something that you get at the grocery store to
Speaker 1: make sure that it's still independently owned operated, or at
Speaker 1: least ethically owned and operated in whatever that is for you.
Speaker 1: So a widely available online option is Thrive Market. But again,
Speaker 1: smaller grocery stores that are maybe two to three locations
Speaker 1: versus your hundreds of locations, those are going to be
Speaker 1: more reliable. Anything smaller, honestly is better.
Speaker 3: Which is like this final tip within this category of
Speaker 3: supporting eco conscious grocery stores. So this is going to
Speaker 3: be a lot of your more natural grocery stores. Certainly
Speaker 3: they're going to have higher ticket prices, but generally their
Speaker 3: practices and their values are aligned with sustainable ability practices,
Speaker 3: and they're probably locally owned. So if this is a
Speaker 3: high value for you, then we say find ways to
Speaker 3: be able to spend here and if needed, cut in
Speaker 3: other areas that aren't as valuable to you. I mean,
Speaker 3: we have to eat every single day. Yes, it is
Speaker 3: where we spend a lot of money, so we might
Speaker 3: as well feel really good about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's also the option of if this is something
Speaker 1: that's really important to you, but you find yourself eating
Speaker 1: out a lot, so you would ideally like to buy
Speaker 1: organic groceries, but you'll buy them and it's hard to
Speaker 1: use them. So you're eating out at these really expensive
Speaker 1: cafes that are good every once in a while, that
Speaker 1: are not sustainable frequently. Check into meal kits like Purple Carrot,
Speaker 1: not sponsored by them, haven't used them, would love to be,
Speaker 1: but would love to have their money. But something that
Speaker 1: is pre prepared, that is somewhere that is in the
Speaker 1: radical middle. Right, it's not as inexpensive as buying the
Speaker 1: organic produce and doing it yourself, but it's not as
Speaker 1: expensive as what you have been doing. It's in the middle,
Speaker 1: and it's a good kind of thing to get you
Speaker 1: over the hump of living values aligned, saving a little
Speaker 1: bit of money, and then eventually we want to work
Speaker 1: towards more DIY. But you don't have to skip straight
Speaker 1: from eating out five times a week to eating out
Speaker 1: zero times a week. Let's find something that's going to
Speaker 1: get you over that hump that's a in the radical middle,
Speaker 1: a little easier to jump to before you get to
Speaker 1: that attainable, like that DIY lifestyle that you are truly
Speaker 1: going for.
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Speaker 1: All right, if you can only buy one thing organic
Speaker 1: for the rest of the year, what would it be, Jill?
Speaker 1: How much organic do you purchase?
Speaker 3: Here's the funny thing, jen me, buying organic goes based
Speaker 3: on how tight or not tight my spending plan feels.
Speaker 3: So like, sometimes I'm at the grocery store and it's
Speaker 3: like all organic, even the canned stuff. Yeah, I can
Speaker 3: afford it. And then other times I'm like, ah, who
Speaker 3: fucking cares? This doesn't mean anything? Wow, No it is.
Speaker 3: It's very connected to my moon ring, honestly.
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Speaker 3: What feels to you like the most important thing too?
Speaker 3: By organic? If you were that person.
Speaker 1: I would say berry's, I would I. I think I'm
Speaker 1: just a little biased. Well maybe not, I don't know.
Speaker 3: And leafy greens. I know we only said one, but
Speaker 3: for me, berries and leafy greens and now berries, if
Speaker 3: it's too expensive, then I just I'll either do organic
Speaker 3: or I won't do them at all. Like there is
Speaker 3: no radical metal for me typically, but I'm buying leafy
Speaker 3: greens every single week and that thankfully that's not too
Speaker 3: expensive organic. Yes, that is what I'll do. Changing my answer, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I buy avocado oil for cooking, and I think that's organic.
Speaker 1: I don't think they make regular probably not. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: maybe that's avocado oil. You're just like already it's already organic. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think my extra version all of oil might be organic,
Speaker 1: but it's just because that's the one I purchased.
Speaker 3: Anything you buy from Costco.
Speaker 1: Anything, yeah, which I don't do a lot from Costco.
Speaker 3: There's your question, if you could only buy one thing
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Speaker 3: it be?
Speaker 1: Oh, I know what your answer would be?
Speaker 3: Fine? Cool, because I don't know.
Speaker 1: The hot dog? Ah yeah, book. Okay, we just went
Speaker 1: to Costco on Sunday and okay, let's let's go through
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Speaker 1: there are quite a few things that I buy frequently
Speaker 1: at Costco, but I think I want to choose one
Speaker 1: that I can only get at Costco.
Speaker 3: Uh So, I think, yeah, that's a good call.
Speaker 1: There's these things called Heavenly hunks. They're like oatmeal bites.
Speaker 3: Those are so good.
Speaker 1: My kids are obsessed with them. We cannot keep them.
Speaker 1: But they're so expensive. They are not it's ten bucks.
Speaker 3: For a bag, you know what, My energy bites that
Speaker 3: I make That recipe.
Speaker 1: Similar, very similar, because I was like, I'm going to
Speaker 1: have to get a recipe for this because they're too much,
Speaker 1: and they love them. JoJo's dark chocolate with the like
Speaker 1: nuts and like stachios and dried cranberries. Those are a
Speaker 1: good sweet treat, healthy sweet treat. And Ellie likes these
Speaker 1: jerky treats and then dried liver treats. They're actually very
Speaker 1: affordable at costco versus if I was to get them
Speaker 1: at like pet Smart or something, So I feel like
Speaker 1: if I had to choose one, I would have to
Speaker 1: choose the Heavenly Hunks or they also have a vanilla yogurt.
Speaker 1: I think it's a goat milk yogurt. That stuff is
Speaker 1: delicious and I've never seen it anywhere else.
Speaker 3: I would probably choose something from their frozen section. Their
Speaker 3: frozen foods save me so much. They are my emergency
Speaker 3: emergency freezer meals. Yes, so I love stocking up on
Speaker 3: stuff like that from COSTCA.
Speaker 1: Have you tried the pre cooked surloin. No, that's just
Speaker 1: in the refrigerated section. No, that sounds crazy. It is good.
Speaker 1: I've been doing steak salads with it and so just cold. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's pre cooked, it's refrigerated. Comes in two packages, so
Speaker 1: I froze one and I've been eating the other. One
Speaker 1: package will get me like three salads.
Speaker 3: Okay, and this is.
Speaker 1: My first time trying it because it's not cheap. It's
Speaker 1: like twenty four bucks. WHOA for all that? Yeah, but
Speaker 1: it has saved me several times in the past week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like last night we got home really late and I
Speaker 1: hadn't eaten, and instead of going for something unhealthy, I
Speaker 1: was able to do a really healthy steak salad.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So that's another thing like going in radical middle, Like
Speaker 1: has you more healthy too. It's not the worst thing
Speaker 1: I could have. It's not the best thing I can have,
Speaker 1: but it's quick and it's easy and it's pretty healthy.
Speaker 3: I love that. Well, you've hacked life.
Speaker 1: I have not hacked life. I'm for you to say
Speaker 1: that and know where I'm at and life is an
Speaker 1: inside joke. But here we are.
Speaker 3: I'm in your YouTube video coming out with some unhinged comments.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's good though, Yeah it'll be good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: tell us what you want what you buy at Costco.
Speaker 3: I'm saying the freezer section, what would be my favorite thing?
Speaker 3: We were really enjoying those chicken corn on blue things.
Speaker 3: Definitely not the most healthy, yeah, but easy to eat
Speaker 3: for We.
Speaker 1: Had to take a break from them. We were buying
Speaker 1: them so much.
Speaker 3: Costco has the best bacon, real good bacon, real good bacon.
Speaker 3: I would probably, though, have to say, and I'm not
Speaker 3: going to remember the specific name of it, but they've
Speaker 3: got like prepackaged like burritos or Chimmi changa things that
Speaker 3: are some really good go to lunches for us.
Speaker 1: I take everything back the Costco white chocolate raspberry cake.
Speaker 3: That we would live off of.
Speaker 1: That I would live off of that.
Speaker 3: That's right. You have made statements like this before, like
Speaker 3: you could live off of That's what episode this would
Speaker 3: have been so long ago, probably where that was our
Speaker 3: lightning round question of what food could you live off of?
Speaker 3: And I took it literally. I was like bread, wine,
Speaker 3: and apples, like I think it has everything that I need.
Speaker 3: And you were like Tira, missu, and I'm like no, Jen,
Speaker 3: you're not understanding the assignment, like we can't live off
Speaker 3: a Tierra Missu. And you dug in, like heels in.
Speaker 3: You doubled down so I can breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Speaker 3: every every little bit, a little.
Speaker 1: Bit for every meal, not too much.
Speaker 3: And here you are again. I'm like, I think I
Speaker 3: could sustain off of like burritos with like beans and
Speaker 3: meat and veggies inside of it. And you're like the
Speaker 3: raspberry cake.
Speaker 1: It's so good. Hey, first I said, steak salad, I
Speaker 1: want to put that out there, and.
Speaker 3: Then you were like, no, let me change my answer.
Speaker 3: I'm coming out of the radical middle and going to
Speaker 3: an extreme up. Yeah. Wow, there we are. This after
Speaker 3: show has been longer than the episode itself, but.
Speaker 1: It's been important.
Speaker 3: People need her to hear this.
Speaker 1: People really needed that