Speaker 1: Episode three ninety one Best Seasonal Grocery Sales.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the Frugal Friends podcast, where you'll learn to
Speaker 2: save money, embrace simplicity, and liver your life. Here your
Speaker 2: hosts Jen and Jill.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Frugal Friends podcast. My name is Jen, my
Speaker 1: name is Jill, and today we are talking about seasonal
Speaker 1: grocery sale cycles and anytime you can buy in season
Speaker 1: or take advantage of a seasonal or holiday themed sale
Speaker 1: is great. Obviously, we don't want to be prone to
Speaker 1: these sales and just shop because they are sales, because remember,
Speaker 1: sales are marketing. They are for the store, not you.
Speaker 1: If they saved you too much money, the store would
Speaker 1: not do them. But if there are things you need,
Speaker 1: like food, you might as well shop within the sale
Speaker 1: cycle so that you can save money on things you
Speaker 1: would buy anyway.
Speaker 3: We get the most questions about saving on food and
Speaker 3: groceries because it usually is one of our biggest expenses
Speaker 3: that can shift week to week, month to month. And
Speaker 3: there's a lot of ways and tips we can give
Speaker 3: to you, and this is one of them about what's
Speaker 3: on sale, what's seasonal that I think for a lot
Speaker 3: of us we're not completely aware of. Oh, there's actually
Speaker 3: sales cycles that grocery stores go through pretty much every
Speaker 3: groceries or including all the so kind of becoming aware
Speaker 3: of and planning around that can also be helpful for
Speaker 3: our monthly grocery budget.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and a lot of you. When we did Know
Speaker 1: Spend January, we asked you what the hardest thing was,
Speaker 1: and you said missing out on sales, the FOMO of
Speaker 1: after holiday sales, And so I think this is also
Speaker 1: going to be a good one for you. While we're
Speaker 1: sticking primary to groceries. It's going to help you put
Speaker 1: into perspective that groceries and products pretty much the same.
Speaker 1: If you see a sale in January, I guarantee it's
Speaker 1: coming around again in several weeks or months. So it
Speaker 1: can put into perspective and help you limit some of
Speaker 1: that sale insighted impulse by.
Speaker 4: Always something on sale.
Speaker 3: But when you said that, that also made me think,
Speaker 3: but if you're doing an O Spend Challenge month, you're
Speaker 3: probably still buying food, So then just shift your get
Speaker 3: what's on sale to the food that you buy sale.
Speaker 1: Yes, some people just love the thrill of the hunt
Speaker 1: for sales, and so you could.
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Speaker 3: episode two ninety six Grocery Saving Strategies that will cut
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Speaker 3: an interview that we do so we get even more
Speaker 3: perspective on this topic. But let's get into this episode
Speaker 3: about what we can know and understand about seasonal grocery
Speaker 3: sale cycles. And we're going to start it off with
Speaker 3: this first one from All Recipes, All Recipes.
Speaker 1: Brand, yeah, all blog posts too.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So the title of this article is why do items
Speaker 3: go on sale at the grocery store and should you
Speaker 3: buy them? A spoiler alert, the should you buy them?
Speaker 3: It's the same answer for every single one of them.
Speaker 3: Don't buy it unless you need it and you're going
Speaker 3: to use it.
Speaker 4: So yeah, that's what that is. But we will go
Speaker 4: through all five.
Speaker 3: So the first one is things will go on sale
Speaker 3: at the grocery store if a holiday is approaching.
Speaker 4: I don't know that I really realize this.
Speaker 3: I think I always thought, oh, people are trying to
Speaker 3: make the most money now because a holiday is upcoming,
Speaker 3: and so things are going.
Speaker 4: To be more expensive.
Speaker 3: They because they know you're going to buy them. But
Speaker 3: trends show that these manufacturers want to get their product
Speaker 3: out in front of you and want you to buy
Speaker 3: the thing that you want to buy, and so they
Speaker 3: will discount them. So keeping this in mind not just
Speaker 3: a holiday, but also kind of like seasonal type thing.
Speaker 3: So definitely think holidays, but for those in the US
Speaker 3: football season pretty much the rest of the world soccer
Speaker 3: or the true true football throughout summer when everybody wants
Speaker 3: to be outdoors grilling, they want the fresh stuff. These
Speaker 3: are the types of things that will kind of mean
Speaker 3: things that are going on sale and you can kind
Speaker 3: of keep that in mind with your shopping and planning.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a caveat to this is sometimes and we see
Speaker 1: this on Black Friday. Retailers will artificially inflate a price
Speaker 1: before Black Friday so that they can put it on
Speaker 1: sale for the holiday and it is the same price
Speaker 1: as it was before. So it would if it is
Speaker 1: something you need and you should only buy it if
Speaker 1: you need it, then I would put this is products.
Speaker 1: I know this is a grocery store, but put it
Speaker 1: on a watch. If it's on Amazon, you could do
Speaker 1: I think Honey or c net shopping and do a
Speaker 1: price history search like you can do on c net
Speaker 1: or Camel Camel Camel, but look at the price history
Speaker 1: because again, you can get a good deal on a holiday,
Speaker 1: but you want to make sure that you're getting a deal,
Speaker 1: not an artificial sale. This happens less often with food.
Speaker 1: But if you can wait, shopping the day after a
Speaker 1: holiday will get you those even better prices. So if
Speaker 1: you're a teacher looking for treats for your classroom and
Speaker 1: you're shopping day after Valentine's Day, fantastic fifty percent off
Speaker 1: deals on valentine treats. So stuff like that, it has
Speaker 1: to be stuff that you already use regularly. Don't impulse
Speaker 1: by just because candy is fifty percent off. The second
Speaker 1: is because an item isn't selling. So when a store
Speaker 1: isn't selling much of an item, they will put it
Speaker 1: on clearance. This will also happen if a brand changes
Speaker 1: its packaging. So when you're seeing these ads for things
Speaker 1: like Misfits Market and every every other thing like it,
Speaker 1: a lot of times that's when like brand names are
Speaker 1: changing their packaging or something about their product, and they'll
Speaker 1: sell the old packaging, all that extra stock to Misfits Market,
Speaker 1: and then just the grocery store will get the new packaging.
Speaker 1: So that also may be a way to save. Again,
Speaker 1: that's if you are already if that is a brand name,
Speaker 1: you are already purchasing and committed to purchasing, not because
Speaker 1: you're not. You are going to spend more than just
Speaker 1: buying the generic version. But there are some things where
Speaker 1: we just we buy the brand name because we like them,
Speaker 1: and that's fine, So you can check those websites to
Speaker 1: see if you can find that at a lower price.
Speaker 1: But otherwise, if it's not a packaging thing, then it
Speaker 1: could just be in the clearance section of your grocery
Speaker 1: or your grocerer does have a clearance section, Yes it does.
Speaker 1: It might be just a little pop out in the
Speaker 1: in a corner an.
Speaker 3: Endpap or it could be back by the bathrooms.
Speaker 1: And it's a good thing. Like if something is there
Speaker 1: and you think you can use that as like a
Speaker 1: dinner or a side or something, and it's less expensive
Speaker 1: than this thing you would buy as a generic, it's
Speaker 1: already on your list, like I need to buy a
Speaker 1: side to go with this dinner, then that could be
Speaker 1: a good place to check.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was able to take advantage of this one
Speaker 3: an item not selling recently, so the I do a
Speaker 3: lot of my shopping at Walmart. Honestly it's helpful for me.
Speaker 3: But in the coffee aisle, I am a coffee snob.
Speaker 3: I like I will spend money on good quality coffee
Speaker 3: because I'm making it all and entirely at home. And
Speaker 3: there was this brand called stump Town, which I love,
Speaker 3: typically very expensive, like eighteen to twenty five dollars a bag,
Speaker 3: and it was on sale because it wasn't selling because
Speaker 3: the Walmart I go to isn't necessarily in like an
Speaker 3: affluent neighborhood.
Speaker 4: Who would value this level.
Speaker 1: Of twenty dollars coffee to buy.
Speaker 3: Coffee at this price, so they just happened to have it,
Speaker 3: but it was on sale for like fourteen fifteen dollars,
Speaker 3: still more expensive than your regular coffee, but is a
Speaker 3: coffee brand that we drink and we're not so bougie
Speaker 3: with it that I that I won't like freeze my
Speaker 3: coffee bags. I will do that. So I bought a
Speaker 3: bunch and just put them in the freezer and it's
Speaker 3: not going to go to waste. So yeah, sometime sometimes
Speaker 3: you get lucky and you get a good sale on
Speaker 3: an item not selling if you know you're going to
Speaker 3: use it, and if it's on these pantry staples that
Speaker 3: are going to be long lasting, then that's incredible. Number
Speaker 3: three on here is that an item will often go
Speaker 3: on sale just before it's expired. Now, of course you
Speaker 3: have to be ready and willing to make that item
Speaker 3: almost immediately. We really don't want to be stocking up
Speaker 3: on these things that are almost going to waste and
Speaker 3: then being responsible for its waste. So this is many
Speaker 3: many grocery stores with bakeries are going to have your
Speaker 3: like day old whatever, and that's great. If you do
Speaker 3: eat a lot of bake goods, or you're about to
Speaker 3: go to a party and you can kind of take
Speaker 3: a tray of doughnuts or cookies or whatever.
Speaker 1: It may be frozen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, or it's bread.
Speaker 3: I will definitely take advantage of the day old breads
Speaker 3: because I will freeze my breads. That's no problem for me.
Speaker 3: I'll take it back out and it's as good as new.
Speaker 3: But at anything else, whether it's canned goods or even
Speaker 3: your dairy, your meats, whatever, as it's about and if
Speaker 3: you even catch that it's almost going to expire, you
Speaker 3: can ask up at the register like, hey, this is
Speaker 3: today is the sell by date? Or this is about
Speaker 3: to expire? What can you do for me? It is
Speaker 3: advantageous to the store to get their money for that thing,
Speaker 3: otherwise they're gonna waste it and lose out entirely. So
Speaker 3: I think that's something you can try asking about. But
Speaker 3: then again be ready to make that food or freeze
Speaker 3: it if that's possible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I see this with meat, especially at Sam's Club.
Speaker 1: I'll go in and I will let Sam's Club tell
Speaker 1: me what meat to get by getting the one that's
Speaker 1: about to expire, and I'll buy those up and I'll
Speaker 1: throw them right into the freezer. So that's usually then
Speaker 1: I can afford to get the nicer chicken, more pampered,
Speaker 1: a more kind chicken. Yes, the next one is a
Speaker 1: holiday's over. We already talked about that one, so I'll
Speaker 1: do the last one on the list. An item is
Speaker 1: in season, so we all know this, and this is
Speaker 1: where we're going to spend most of our time in
Speaker 1: the next article. But again, produce goes on sale due
Speaker 1: to seasonality when you have and so I was talking
Speaker 1: to someone who was saying they might go pick at
Speaker 1: my in laws farm near the end of the season.
Speaker 3: That was me, that was you, yeah, oh yeah, and
Speaker 3: it's better to go at peak season, right, I know,
Speaker 3: I didn't know that you can.
Speaker 1: Get I mean, they're just giving it away because it
Speaker 1: is advantageous to them to get rid of all of
Speaker 1: the fresh strawberries because those growing strawberries need more nutrients
Speaker 1: in order to grow, and they don't get as much
Speaker 1: if the you know, the Biggins are taking it. So
Speaker 1: there is so much leeway with what you can get
Speaker 1: when you are shopping at peak peak season. So finding
Speaker 1: out what's in season in your area and that is
Speaker 1: when you were going to get the best deals. Normally,
Speaker 1: for products, it's shoulder season, but for produce its peak season.
Speaker 3: And another thing I wouldn't have totally thought about, but
Speaker 3: it makes sense because it's what's in abundance and it's
Speaker 3: easily accessible. So yeah, strawberries for us, and I mean
Speaker 3: we get two strawberry seasons here in Florida, So strawberries
Speaker 3: in February are very affordable just because all the farms
Speaker 3: around here are producing them and it's accessible. So that's
Speaker 3: something to keep in mind. So this next article is
Speaker 3: now going to go through the best times to buy
Speaker 3: all of these things. If you're wondering, okay, but how
Speaker 3: do I know what's in season, We're going to kind
Speaker 3: of give you a rundown, but also be aware that
Speaker 3: your grocery store circulars are going to tell you. If
Speaker 3: you are not living in nineteen eighty two and you
Speaker 3: don't get a grocery store circular, you can definitely search
Speaker 3: the website of the grocery store that you regularly purchase at.
Speaker 3: Maybe they've even got an app. I don't know, but
Speaker 3: you can ask them what's on sale, what's in season?
Speaker 3: You can google it, but here a little bit of
Speaker 3: our rundown Jen and I will go back and forth.
Speaker 1: Yeah quarterly. Yes, So first I want to say that
Speaker 1: we will go through this article, but you can go
Speaker 1: to seasonalfoodguide dot org. This is a fantastic website where
Speaker 1: you can input your state, the month and whether you
Speaker 1: want to look at specific you know, fruits and vegetables
Speaker 1: like artichokes or just any produce, and it will tell
Speaker 1: you what's in season near you. So that's gonna be
Speaker 1: your best bet for get finding your peak season sales
Speaker 1: on produce. Again, this I always air on the side
Speaker 1: of buying frozen like that's you know, that's just where
Speaker 1: I air. But it is nice to have some fresh
Speaker 1: produce every once in a while. And if you're somebody
Speaker 1: who just prefers to eat things raw, then this is
Speaker 1: gonna be even better for you. But seasonal food Guide
Speaker 1: dot org fantastic resource. But I'll go through this one.
Speaker 1: So in January, this one actually it gives you products
Speaker 1: on sale and food. We're just gonna go through food,
Speaker 1: So grocery sales in January, oatmeal products because January is
Speaker 1: National Oatmeal Month, so oatmeal products like granola bars, instant oatmeal,
Speaker 1: oat cereal. This is also a good time to use
Speaker 1: your apps like Fetch and Ibota. They're not our favorite
Speaker 1: ways to save money, but you know, Quaker is going
Speaker 1: to be running promos during National Oatmeal Month. So if
Speaker 1: that is something that you can get on the sale
Speaker 1: and maybe a rebate or a coupon, you know, double
Speaker 1: dip when you can party foods. So towards the end
Speaker 1: of January, you've got Super Bowl, you know, foods getting better,
Speaker 1: getting more on sale, and then in season produce, you
Speaker 1: got stuff like like apples, grapefruits, Kiwis, Lemons, Clemon. Time's
Speaker 1: all your winter produce. In February, obviously, we have chocolate
Speaker 1: heavily discounted after Valentine's Day. Don't buy it before Valentine's Day,
Speaker 1: because chocolate keeps, you know, for at least a month.
Speaker 4: And going in the fridge, it keeps.
Speaker 1: For oh in the fridge, it keeps for forever. If
Speaker 1: you are some you know, a psychopath like Jill who
Speaker 1: can actually keep it in your fridge.
Speaker 4: I do, I just take a little bite.
Speaker 1: She's crazy.
Speaker 4: Whenever I want, I apologize for her.
Speaker 1: February National Canned Food Month, So you're gonna see retailers,
Speaker 1: you know, like cambells and canned food people. If there
Speaker 1: is a specialty something that you like in a can
Speaker 1: that you can't get generic, this might be the time
Speaker 1: to stock up. And then you've got your seasonal again,
Speaker 1: more winter produce, sparagus, broccoli, carrots, stuff like that. And
Speaker 1: then in March we have got for foods. Natural Frozen
Speaker 1: Food Month is in March, so you're going to see
Speaker 1: a lot of frozen food deals. And this is actually
Speaker 1: something you can take advantage of, right because frozen foods keep.
Speaker 1: So if something you like is on sale in March
Speaker 1: for Frozen Food Month, you can stock up. Breakfast cereals now,
Speaker 1: March seventh is National Cereal Day, so you might see
Speaker 1: a coupon or a rebate for cereal. And then you
Speaker 1: you're starting to get into some spring produce, but still
Speaker 1: on the tail end of winter. So this is when
Speaker 1: we start to see the strawberries come in and yeah
Speaker 1: take it away, Jill.
Speaker 3: So getting into the second quarter, the second quarter of
Speaker 3: the fiscal calendar. In April, ham just ham if you
Speaker 3: want to have ham, if that's the meat you like,
Speaker 3: it's Easter, Yeah, so ham, mom, I know ham mom,
Speaker 3: especially after Easter, you're gonna see your deals on ham.
Speaker 3: So if your particular regularly drawn to some ham, and
Speaker 3: it can be an expensive meat, and there's a lot
Speaker 3: of stuff that you can do.
Speaker 5: With a big old Ham hawk also so takes the ak,
Speaker 5: put it into like a split piece soup or a
Speaker 5: lentil soup like that's you know, if you're looking looking
Speaker 5: for a hawk for your.
Speaker 4: Soup, always out here going over a hawk.
Speaker 3: Okay, baking items, so you can actually usually find some
Speaker 3: really good deals on some baking items which is really
Speaker 3: relatively shelf stable as well. So if you are one
Speaker 3: who's making a lot of breads or pastries or cookies
Speaker 3: or baked items, this is something that you could relatively
Speaker 3: stock up on. Not don't go overboard, but I know
Speaker 3: for me, I'm blowing through flour now that I'm in
Speaker 3: my sour dough era, So this is good news for
Speaker 3: me that I can really just get all the flour
Speaker 3: that I need. Of course, you've got your Easter candy
Speaker 3: after the holiday if you are a big candy person,
Speaker 3: and then your in season produce in April is going
Speaker 3: to be your artichokes, beat zucchini, peas peas for your
Speaker 3: split piece soup, the hamhok mushrooms on yon avocado mangoes. Again,
Speaker 3: see what's in season near you as well.
Speaker 1: Because mangoes are not in season in April in Florida,
Speaker 1: that's July.
Speaker 4: And then in May.
Speaker 3: May brings US Cinco de Mayo, so lots of celebrations
Speaker 3: we can be looking out for. Maybe some of those
Speaker 3: sales deals on salsa, tortillas, other Mexican foods, which is
Speaker 3: a regular part of my plant meal plan. Honestly, we
Speaker 3: love ourselves a lot of rice and beans and tortillas
Speaker 3: and quesadillas and fijidos and tequilos, and I could keep going.
Speaker 3: Brilling is beginning in many parts of the US too,
Speaker 3: may bring some warm weather.
Speaker 4: So you're also going to find some good.
Speaker 3: Deals on your hot dogs, your condiments.
Speaker 4: Just all love hot dogs. I can love that hot dogs.
Speaker 3: And then very similar things to what's in season in April,
Speaker 3: adding in some carrots, canalope, radishes. I love using some
Speaker 3: radishes in some creative.
Speaker 1: Ways, underrated for sure, and watermelon.
Speaker 3: And then June, this is an interesting one. June is
Speaker 3: National dairy Month, so it's gonna bring some deals on
Speaker 3: all things dairy, milk, yogurt, eggs, ice cream, cheese. This
Speaker 3: would be a cool one to even look into your
Speaker 3: local spots, like if you have a local creamery or
Speaker 3: a cheese shop, see if they're doing any deals or
Speaker 3: fun events even around this National Dairy Month.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because if you're gonna buy something, brand name, dairy
Speaker 1: is usually where it's at, where it's better than generic
Speaker 1: your ice cream, because we went through that generic versus
Speaker 1: name brand. We did an episode on it, and the
Speaker 1: chefs were pretty much using generic for most things. The
Speaker 1: number one thing that they did brand name was ice cream.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and this is when your good fruits stone fruits
Speaker 3: are coming in. You got your apricots, peaches, strawberries, watermelon, corn, cucumbers.
Speaker 3: I mean, no one's complaining about cooking in June, honestly,
Speaker 3: there's so much good stuff.
Speaker 1: Oh, we're back to me word of the third quarter already. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, we're coming up into July. So July is
Speaker 1: actually National ice Cream Month, so this might be a
Speaker 1: place where you can get some more great deals on
Speaker 1: ice cream, which is every chef's favorite thing to buy
Speaker 1: brand name, and then Jill's favorite holiday, National hot dog month.
Speaker 1: So again, these are gonna be things. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you're going to get better deals doing these brand
Speaker 1: name things, but I think on things like hot hot
Speaker 1: dogs and ice cream, those are a couple things that
Speaker 1: people tend to prefer brand name. So definitely be checking
Speaker 1: your rebate apps, be checking coupons in your circulars. When
Speaker 1: do we ever tell you to check for coupons, Not often, but.
Speaker 3: Well, when you can stack it on top of encason stuff,
Speaker 3: that can really mean a decent amount of savings.
Speaker 4: And we're not.
Speaker 3: Talking coupons in the way of you've got a lot
Speaker 3: of paper in front of you're going to pull out
Speaker 3: your scissors. There's ways to get coupons, just digitally, simply
Speaker 3: and effectively.
Speaker 1: Yeah, check your favorite brand social media because they might
Speaker 1: also be like in tune to some offers or have
Speaker 1: some specials. This goes for like restaurants too, So in
Speaker 1: may Sinco de Mayo, be looking at your local Mexican
Speaker 1: restaurants and see what their offers are. August so we're
Speaker 1: in the height of summer breakfast foods. The first school
Speaker 1: will be starting soon, so seasonal sales cycles typically include
Speaker 1: deals on easy foods for parents, and kids. Breakfast inns
Speaker 1: are just one of those items. We'll see, cereal juice,
Speaker 1: frozen waffles. You'll see obviously you're back to school supplies
Speaker 1: to your cold lunch foods, so you know, bread, cold
Speaker 1: cutch lunchables, crackers, peanut butters, a lot of stuff that
Speaker 1: you can actually stock up on for a few months.
Speaker 1: And then we've got more watermelon, We've got some raspberries, tomatoes, zucchini, peppers,
Speaker 1: still in your summer produce era. And then last last
Speaker 1: for me in my second quarter, third quarter is September.
Speaker 1: So September can't soup for some reason, I guess because
Speaker 1: fall is just around the corner, so markdowns on fall
Speaker 1: comfort foods such as canned soups. And then not a
Speaker 1: lot on sale, not a lot of foods on sale
Speaker 1: in September. You'll just have your late summer produce so apples,
Speaker 1: green beans, cantalopes, beets, cauliflower, onion, tomatoes, pears.
Speaker 3: I guess that's good to be aware of, to kind
Speaker 3: of prepare through the summer, maybe even stash up your
Speaker 3: freezer through the summer for fall, knowing that there may
Speaker 3: be a dip in some of these sales and what
Speaker 3: you can find available.
Speaker 1: That sounds very like traditional, like old fashion.
Speaker 4: You know, why not stock up in the summer.
Speaker 1: We're getting back to our roots. Are stocking up during
Speaker 1: the harvest time?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah they are. You've got a little bit
Speaker 3: more discretionary time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and not in Florida, and Florida everything dies in
Speaker 1: the summer.
Speaker 4: All right, I'm rounding us out.
Speaker 3: I'm rounding out the year in the fourth quarter, bringing
Speaker 3: it at home with some winners. So in October seafood.
Speaker 3: National Seafood Month is in October, and grocers will often
Speaker 3: offer sales on seafood through the month to celebrate. So
Speaker 3: if you are a lover of things the sea, this
Speaker 3: is something to keep in mind, Like the Little Mermaid,
Speaker 3: especially good seafood is usually pretty expensive. Like, I enjoy seafood,
Speaker 3: but it's hard to.
Speaker 1: Get fine not something we get often because it's just
Speaker 1: more expensive. And I like other things just as much,
Speaker 1: so I'll spend less. But this can be a good time.
Speaker 1: If you're a seafood lover who doesn't get seafood.
Speaker 3: Much because of the cost, October is your month sober
Speaker 3: that's when you should do it, and then you can
Speaker 3: freeze it and then you've got another round of baking
Speaker 3: sales happening in preparation for the holidays.
Speaker 4: So this is when you can be planning.
Speaker 3: To get of course, your canned pumpkin, chocolate chips, evaporated milk,
Speaker 3: some of your more peripheral types of baking items, as
Speaker 3: well as your flour and show hook. And then we're
Speaker 3: getting into some really nice fall like in season produce again.
Speaker 3: You've got your apples, potatoes, cranberries, grapes, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, brocoli, cabbage.
Speaker 3: It's all the things that are traditional, at least in
Speaker 3: the States, that Thanksgiving meals incorporate, so kind of think
Speaker 3: those things. Of course, obviously do your research too, but
Speaker 3: begin incorporating that into your food that you're making that month.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll try for my baking stuff, I'll try to
Speaker 1: use up all my baking stuff by September October from
Speaker 1: the year prior so that I can restock on the
Speaker 1: sales in October because I don't do a lot of baking,
Speaker 1: so I'll.
Speaker 4: Usually Yeah, just try one could carry you to the next.
Speaker 4: You kind of know what do I buy.
Speaker 3: The most of and when is this in season? Yeah,
Speaker 3: November is again canned foods, so a lot of pantry staples,
Speaker 3: especially those that might be used in a Thanksgiving meal.
Speaker 3: This is your cranberry sauces, your pumpkin again, sweet and
Speaker 3: condensed milk, canned veggies, so again these are pantry staples.
Speaker 3: You don't just have to think what am I cooking
Speaker 3: for the holiday meal? But what do I make throughout
Speaker 3: the year? And are there things that I want to
Speaker 3: stock up on? This would be the time, And that.
Speaker 1: Way you're not falling prey to the other sales throughout
Speaker 1: the year that are probably good, but they're probably.
Speaker 4: Not as good good.
Speaker 1: So when you can stock up once a year instead
Speaker 1: of not being intentional and just kind of picking up
Speaker 1: one is just because you see it's on sale and
Speaker 1: you forget you have two more at home. Then you know,
Speaker 1: just be intentional with your sale shopping.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and of course you've got your Halloween candy. So
Speaker 3: when you're in November, we're past Halloween. So if you're
Speaker 3: jones in for some candy, scoop up the stuff that
Speaker 3: has Halloween themed pictures on them. Who cares, it's not
Speaker 3: that all they'll be yummy.
Speaker 1: Still give it for Christmas. All of our holiday all
Speaker 1: of our Christmas candies Halloween themed.
Speaker 3: I would not be too good to like unwrap the
Speaker 3: candy and then put it into a little Christmas themed
Speaker 3: bag as almost a little candy checks mix that no
Speaker 3: one will know.
Speaker 1: No one's gonna how are they gonna know.
Speaker 4: They're not gonna know. They're never gonna find out.
Speaker 1: In black and skeleton, you know, but like, who's gonna know?
Speaker 3: No, But I'm thinking like the Snickers or the milky
Speaker 3: way that the wrapper has, you know, a pictures on it,
Speaker 3: but the actual candy itself is the same.
Speaker 4: They're not gonna know it's from Halloween, especially like EM and.
Speaker 5: M's yeah, oh yeah, yeah, that's a good guy.
Speaker 1: And you know what you could you could eat all
Speaker 1: the blue and the orange and just leave the red
Speaker 1: and the green and that way you get a little something.
Speaker 4: Hey, this is why you tune in.
Speaker 3: And then the produce, you know, if you're not eating
Speaker 3: up all the candy you were Back to our beats, broccoli, pears,
Speaker 3: Brussels sprouts, carrots, Kiwi's oranges, back to the oranges and
Speaker 3: tips though on that one, and my chocolate, back to
Speaker 3: that chocolate that was on sale. Oranges and chocolate and
Speaker 3: chocolate is such a good. I mean, I'll just slice
Speaker 3: up an orange and then just have my like chocolate bar.
Speaker 3: My favorite is the lint milk chocolate and I'll just
Speaker 3: like eat a bite of chocolate, have a sliver of
Speaker 3: an orange.
Speaker 4: You're a welcome.
Speaker 1: I was watching a YouTube video the other day and
Speaker 1: the guy was like, dip me in chocolate and call
Speaker 1: me a strawberry. And I was like, I want to
Speaker 1: use that for the rest of my life.
Speaker 4: Like not anything else, the strawberry.
Speaker 1: He was just exclaiming how good something was that he
Speaker 1: was eating. And he's like, tip me in chocolate and
Speaker 1: call me a strawberry.
Speaker 3: Anything dipped in chocolate is good. You just dipped in
Speaker 3: chocolate is good. Doesn't even matter what you are. Okay, December, December,
Speaker 3: we're here. We are baked baked baking goods again, but
Speaker 3: now another genre of it. So still flour and sugar,
Speaker 3: but now we're all talking high cruss whipped cream. So
Speaker 3: just be aware that kind of as you need these things,
Speaker 3: they will come up on sale. So if you know
Speaker 3: you're in December and you're going to be making these
Speaker 3: things and you don't quite see a sale yet, hold tight.
Speaker 4: It's coming.
Speaker 3: Also your party food, so even some of your convenience
Speaker 3: items like your pre prepared veggie trays, crackers, and dips,
Speaker 3: these will also start becoming on sale as well. So
Speaker 3: if you also love convenience, give yourself a gift. This
Speaker 3: is when you can take advantage of that. And then again,
Speaker 3: you're in season produce. You've heard us talk about all
Speaker 3: of these already, but they did then add spinach to
Speaker 3: the list beyond the cauliflower, grapefruit, orange with celeryous spinach.
Speaker 1: And you may be like, but Jen and Jill, these
Speaker 1: things are on sale other times of year.
Speaker 4: Two.
Speaker 1: Again, they might be on sale other times a year,
Speaker 1: but these are the months they're going to be on
Speaker 1: the best sale. And when you know what is on
Speaker 1: the best sale each month, you can also avoid the
Speaker 1: other items that are on sale because their best sale
Speaker 1: month is not today, It's in a few months or
Speaker 1: six months, and you can wait.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think one of my biggest takeaways just with
Speaker 3: having this knowledge that grocery stores have sales cycles. In
Speaker 3: season produce is going to be the least expensive when
Speaker 3: it's in season. It is helping me to be able
Speaker 3: to then plan what I'm going to make I know,
Speaker 3: I hear, and I even see a lot of friends
Speaker 3: online just like I'm in a dinner slump?
Speaker 4: What should I do?
Speaker 3: I think this can help narrow down. Sometimes those boundaries
Speaker 3: that happen for us can be really helpful guides that
Speaker 3: these boundary lines are helping me define what I'm going
Speaker 3: to do, make eat, and then can narrow down the
Speaker 3: types of searches that we're doing. So even being able
Speaker 3: to look up what you know in season dinner recipes
Speaker 3: December and see what looks good, because not only are
Speaker 3: you going to get to try new things and have
Speaker 3: a meal plan, but you're also going to be helping
Speaker 3: your wallets in buying the things that are in season,
Speaker 3: and then of course all the other things of knowing
Speaker 3: you're gonna make it, knowing you're gonna actually eat it.
Speaker 3: So this to me helps in my preparing just knowing
Speaker 3: that these things go on sale and they can help me,
Speaker 3: and knowing what I'm gonna eat week to week.
Speaker 4: You can help variety.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can also compare the sales between stores without
Speaker 1: actually getting all the circulars and going to all the stores.
Speaker 1: Tell us how so you can go to flip dot
Speaker 1: com f l i pp dot com and enter in
Speaker 1: your zip code, and it's going to show you. It's
Speaker 1: going to show you weekly ads for like all the
Speaker 1: stores near you, but you can filter it out just
Speaker 1: for groceries and you can look at all the weekly
Speaker 1: ads from all the grocery stores near you, the ones
Speaker 1: that are upcoming and current and past. So it's gonna
Speaker 1: first show you all the ones that are current, but
Speaker 1: I would encourage you to look at if you can
Speaker 1: look at past ads. It might take a little bit
Speaker 1: of extra research, but see what the sales were earlier,
Speaker 1: see if there are any different some of these sales,
Speaker 1: you know, like the baking stuff might have a similar
Speaker 1: sale elsewhere. But for stuff like the baking stuff, you
Speaker 1: are going to see good sales on the generic versions
Speaker 1: of these things. And that's another reason we go with
Speaker 1: these national like months like canned food, frozen all that,
Speaker 1: because you're gonna actually see sales on the generic versions
Speaker 1: for most of these two So that that's what we
Speaker 1: really We want to get as many sales on the
Speaker 1: generic versions and then capitalize on those brand names that
Speaker 1: we like. But yeah, flip dot com to compare sales
Speaker 1: between local grocery stores.
Speaker 3: Love that can help me know where I'm gonna go
Speaker 3: to week tweek. You know what also helps me week
Speaker 3: to week that I love? Yeah, so convenient.
Speaker 1: No need to compare.
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Speaker 7: Hi, Jen and Jill. My name is Claire and I'm
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Speaker 7: very happy that I'm able to share this bill and
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Speaker 1: Oh, Claire, that's so sweet of you to gift that
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Speaker 3: You know some some insurance companies will do this.
Speaker 4: Workplaces will do this. I know.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I know that is the thing. That's the piece.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, we've got more.
Speaker 3: So I think the apps that can reward you for
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Speaker 4: For the lightning round you.
Speaker 1: All right, this week's Vulnerability Round one. Thing you won't
Speaker 1: buy or stopped buying at the grocery store, even on sale.
Speaker 3: Oh I missed that second part of the question, even
Speaker 3: on sale. I think my answer still remains the same.
Speaker 4: Okay, So I.
Speaker 3: Just refuse to buy pre prepared pasta dishes, whether they're
Speaker 3: frozen or they are in kind of like the deli
Speaker 3: section of the grocery store. I just feel like pasta
Speaker 3: is so inexpensive and so easy to make myself.
Speaker 4: I just refuse.
Speaker 1: It's one of the only things that I don't feel
Speaker 1: troubled make it. Yeah, exactly, so many other things yeah
Speaker 1: trouble me.
Speaker 3: You can always boil a pot of pasta, and I'm
Speaker 3: just not going to give you all my money to
Speaker 3: have done that for me. Other things I won't buy.
Speaker 3: This is just for me in this life season. It
Speaker 3: could change. I'm holding it loosely, but I don't buy
Speaker 3: pre chopped stuff. And again, even if it's on sale,
Speaker 3: I think I would rather just do those things myself
Speaker 3: and not have to pay for the convenience. And part
Speaker 3: of if it's going on sale to me, that says
Speaker 3: it's on its last leg. And so I don't know
Speaker 3: how long the pre chopped has been sitting out, And
Speaker 3: I feel like once you kind of open up a
Speaker 3: vegetable to the elements.
Speaker 4: It is now like rotting quicker. I don't know.
Speaker 3: This is not based in science, but if your pre
Speaker 3: chop stuff is then on sale, I'll trust it personally.
Speaker 1: Oh goodness, what would I not buy on sale?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's not a lot of things that I wouldn't buy.
Speaker 3: I could answer the question for you. I feel like
Speaker 3: you don't. You don't really do salad dressings? Did you
Speaker 3: make your own?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have recently bought some salad dressing. Okay, So
Speaker 1: it's not that I wouldn't buy them, but I do
Speaker 1: prefer to make my own.
Speaker 4: I would.
Speaker 1: I, I really, I don't eat usually buy the ready
Speaker 1: to cook meals. Those are just I'm not saying I
Speaker 1: would never buy them, but even if they were on sale,
Speaker 1: I probably wouldn't buy them because again, if I'm desperate,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna boil a pot of pasta like and you know,
Speaker 1: throw some meat balls in the oven. I just there's
Speaker 1: not enough reason for me to buy are ready to
Speaker 1: cook meal.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not opposed to it.
Speaker 3: Like I think we talked in a recent episode about
Speaker 3: our friend Lydia Sen, who does this on vacations.
Speaker 1: Okay, yes, example, Okay, on vacation. Absolutely I would do it.
Speaker 1: It's no chopping, Like I would. I buy pre chopped veggies, fruits,
Speaker 1: you know, whatever, occasionally especially frozen, but sometimes fresh. If
Speaker 1: they don't have the frozen. If it is for a
Speaker 1: specific thing that I'm making that week, yeah I will
Speaker 1: do that. But if it's something like I'm out of town,
Speaker 1: I don't have my knives, I don't have my cutting board,
Speaker 1: I don't have anything. It's something I can just throw
Speaker 1: into the airfire. Absolutely I would buy the pre prepared meals. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: cheaper than go into a restaurant exactly.
Speaker 4: Sometimes it's great.
Speaker 1: Less expensive, more affordable.
Speaker 3: I also think, you know, processed foods is not something
Speaker 3: that I am prone to buying, and certainly if it's
Speaker 3: on sale, I'm not going to if it's not something
Speaker 3: I typically would buy that.
Speaker 4: But that differs from produce.
Speaker 3: So if there's a produce item I don't typically cook
Speaker 3: with but it's on sale, I would definitely consider it
Speaker 3: and then challenge myself to try a new meal. But
Speaker 3: if there's like packaged cookies or I don't know, some
Speaker 3: other type of like little Debbie who knows things that
Speaker 3: like just processed foods that I don't typically eat, I'm
Speaker 3: not going to be tempted to buy it. And if
Speaker 3: it's on sale, if it's but potato chip like things
Speaker 3: that I would typically buy and they're on sale, heck yeah, chips,
Speaker 3: sign me up.
Speaker 4: I have no problem wavy lace.
Speaker 3: With some chips, chip, potato chips, salt vinegar chips.
Speaker 1: Penno kettle cooked Yeah that those are the best chip.
Speaker 4: Uh, bite size tortilla chips.
Speaker 1: I found a hobbanaro tortilla chip and it is good.
Speaker 1: Whoa Yeah, found those on sale. Needed to buy some
Speaker 1: tortilla chips for a party and it was by two
Speaker 1: get one free, and so I got the Hobbanero tortilla
Speaker 1: chips for free and traps and I blew through those
Speaker 1: without salsa.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna have to try those there, habnaros.
Speaker 1: That's that's another level spicy. It's not Hobbornaro level spicy,
Speaker 1: but it is. But you have to like spicy things, yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure.
Speaker 4: And I like kalapeno chips, so.
Speaker 1: Right, we love halopenno chips. If you love halopenno chips
Speaker 1: like we do.
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Speaker 1: Gorugle Friends is produced by Eric Sirianni. Oh, Jill, got
Speaker 1: to tell you about an impulse purchase I made that.
Speaker 1: I am so grateful, thankful for love.
Speaker 3: Uh oh, this is not the message that our people.
Speaker 1: Okay, well this is gonna be. It's got a good
Speaker 1: wrap up oka, yes, okay, okay. So we I bought
Speaker 1: a and I already told you this. I bought a
Speaker 1: jogging stroller, a double jogging stroller. So we have never
Speaker 1: had a regular stroller, always only had a single jogging stroller.
Speaker 1: That's been our main stroller all the time. It is fantastic.
Speaker 1: I don't I couldn't use an umbrella stroller at this
Speaker 1: point because I'm so spoiled. Yeah, it's just it's the
Speaker 1: baby trend. We're not using the tool duol or whatever
Speaker 1: or the bob not needed. We got the baby trend expedition.
Speaker 1: So when we were looking for a double stroller, I
Speaker 1: bought one on Facebook Marketplace when Atlas was born because
Speaker 1: we needed one that the baby car seat could fit on. Again,
Speaker 1: another baby trend, but not a jogging stroller horrible, so
Speaker 1: difficult to push. But now Atlas is out of his
Speaker 1: infant carrier and one night I was just like, you
Speaker 1: know what, it would be nice to take the kids
Speaker 1: out together and just have them in the stroller, you know,
Speaker 1: just have them go and uh so I went on Amazon. Well,
Speaker 1: I first went to Facebook Marketplace to look for a
Speaker 1: jogging stroller, because that's what we do. We first look
Speaker 1: to buy used and couldn't find one the double jogging.
Speaker 1: There was double, and there was jogging, but no double
Speaker 1: jogging strollers. That was very hard to find. So because
Speaker 1: I couldn't find one, then I immediately went first to
Speaker 1: runners World to see what are the best jogging strollers.
Speaker 1: Of course, the eight hundred dollars Bob and I think
Speaker 1: it's the dual. I don't know, those are the two
Speaker 1: best ones. They're eight hundred dollars each. But then they
Speaker 1: had this baby trend expedition, the same one that I've
Speaker 1: been happy with as a single. Yeah, one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty bucks or something one hundred and sixtyk okay, And
Speaker 1: so I was just like, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, because
Speaker 1: I can sell this one I already have for one
Speaker 1: hundred yeah.
Speaker 3: And can you really yeah, when the doubles one fifty retail,
Speaker 3: you think you could sell your single used for no?
Speaker 1: No, no, no, that one would be We'd be used
Speaker 1: that for five years. I would give that away. I
Speaker 1: probably have to pay somebody to take it. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about the other double stroller. We've barely used it. The
Speaker 1: person we bought it from barely used it. So it
Speaker 1: looks new and for somebody you know, who wants that
Speaker 1: sort of thing, who has an infant, you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's still useful. And I bought it. And so we
Speaker 1: went to running club last night. Was shirked off our responsibilities,
Speaker 1: just threw off responsibilities in general, and went for a
Speaker 1: run in the cold with our kids and it worked great. Ah,
Speaker 1: Kai loved it, Atlas didn't hate it. Wow, and I
Speaker 1: am so pleased. But here's the Here's the wrap up
Speaker 1: is running is something that Travis and I have always done.
Speaker 1: We are runners, and not having a double jogging stroller
Speaker 1: was kind of holding us back from doing this thing
Speaker 1: we used to do together all the time. And so
Speaker 1: I'll go with Atlas in the single jogging stroller and
Speaker 1: go for you know, a three mile run on the weekends.
Speaker 1: That is something I've done regularly, but as a family,
Speaker 1: I you know, we just haven't. We used to go
Speaker 1: out with Kai, the three of us, but since Atlas
Speaker 1: has come along, it's something we haven't really done and
Speaker 1: I wanted to do. So it was an impulse purchase,
Speaker 1: but it was something that I had already identified we
Speaker 1: do regularly and would do more of with this item.
Speaker 1: So it wasn't just the thing that I think I
Speaker 1: want to get into running. Let me get a double
Speaker 1: jogging store and see if running with my kids is
Speaker 1: something I'd be into already run with a kid, run
Speaker 1: before kids. This is just a natural progression that I love. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I entered into impulsively.
Speaker 3: I love this example because I think it's helping me
Speaker 3: to realize that there's a spectrum of impulse purchasing. I think, okay, yes,
Speaker 3: it maybe we could qualify under an impulsive because you
Speaker 3: thought about it in the same day that you ended
Speaker 3: up pulling the trigger on buying it, But that doesn't
Speaker 3: totally mean that it was off the wall. A spending
Speaker 3: decision you regret, a spending decision that's outside of your means,
Speaker 3: a spending decision that's not going to make sense for
Speaker 3: your lifestyle, Like, there still are all of these other
Speaker 3: components that can come into play in your spending decision
Speaker 3: in that moment that like, just because you thought of
Speaker 3: it that day doesn't mean that there's not intentionality in
Speaker 3: your spending or thought that went into it. That Okay,
Speaker 3: this one stroller will replace two other strollers that you've
Speaker 3: been using. It helps you get back into a lifestyle
Speaker 3: that you've been or move forward with a lifestyle that
Speaker 3: hails to the past, that is something that you've really
Speaker 3: valued and enjoyed. It's affordable quality for what you know
Speaker 3: you love, like it still ticks all these boxes that
Speaker 3: I don't know that I think it's just worth identifying
Speaker 3: that there's a spectrum to impulsive spending. And sometimes we
Speaker 3: can make a decision in the same day we decide
Speaker 3: that we want something and it's still be a really
Speaker 3: good decision.
Speaker 1: Yep, that is totally true. So getting control of your
Speaker 1: spending and spending intentionally doesn't have to mean we never
Speaker 1: impulse spend again. Then as we impulse spend better.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then okay, I'm still glad that I impulse
Speaker 3: impulsively spent on this. And part of that too, I
Speaker 3: think we associate like guilt and shame with impulsive spending,
Speaker 3: which isn't present for you, So that doesn't totally indicate
Speaker 3: a need for a shift in it. But also, wherever
Speaker 3: we do, wherever we do fall on that spectrum of
Speaker 3: an impulse spend, if we can't return it, then we
Speaker 3: can get creative. And then what else can I do
Speaker 3: to maybe make up the difference if I feel the
Speaker 3: need to do that, which for you is sell one.
Speaker 4: Of the other ones? Yeap, beautiful, beautiful story. That's a
Speaker 4: good story. I gotta see the stroller. It sounds amazing,
Speaker 4: It's so good.