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Speaker 1: Welcome to How the Money. I'm Joel and I'm Matt,

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Speaker 1: and today we're talking about cutting your grocery bills. Like crazy, Yedjuel,

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Speaker 1: what are we talking about food? What do you eat today?

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Speaker 1: All right? So I had I asked, because we're talking

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Speaker 1: about groceries and trying to catch me off guard, like

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Speaker 1: I caught you off guard last episode. I see that

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Speaker 1: totally stumbled over my words. Yeah, the fourth of America

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Speaker 1: are referred to that. I was listening to that and

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Speaker 1: when we're kind of proofing that, and I was like,

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Speaker 1: it sounds like a freaking idiot, Like what what was

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Speaker 1: I thinking? That's pretty funny. Sometimes it just happens. So,

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Speaker 1: you know, today it was a random day. I almost

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Speaker 1: never skipp breakfast. Usually I have two eggs for breakfast,

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Speaker 1: but I skip breakfast today. Weird, just kind of busy.

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Speaker 1: That's weird because I look up this morning not feeling

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Speaker 1: hungry either, and I normally have a couple of eggs,

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Speaker 1: couple of fried eggs. Before getting the girls up, actually

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Speaker 1: ran into the kitchen. I told Kate. I was like, hey,

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Speaker 1: could you only cook me one egg? Because I'm just

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Speaker 1: not hungry this morning. Weird, that is weird, dude. And

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Speaker 1: then for lunch, I had very little too. I pretty

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Speaker 1: much just had some pistachios for lunch, and then I

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Speaker 1: had a full fledged dinner this evening. Um, we grilled salmon,

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Speaker 1: zucchinia zu kinian squash and the potatoes. So that was

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Speaker 1: like that salmon swimming up stream right Heck yeah, man,

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Speaker 1: always dude, that sounds delicious. Yeah. I actually had a

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Speaker 1: full dinner with the family at home. But uh, for lunch,

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Speaker 1: I had pie toth Uh. Yeah. So I'm a wedding

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Speaker 1: photographer and sometimes I get good ease on the weekends

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Speaker 1: after the reception is all said and done. And I

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Speaker 1: knew the planner at this one, and they were just

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Speaker 1: going to be getting rid of all of this pie.

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Speaker 1: And so I got multiple pies, dude, like caramel, chocolate, pecan, buttermilk,

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Speaker 1: and then tons of peach and apple slices as well. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: a ridiculous amount of pie. Share the wealth, buddy, dude,

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Speaker 1: you want to check? Yeah, I do. What are you

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Speaker 1: into that? Don't? Buttermilk sounds interesting? Is a good? Actually

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Speaker 1: gave that to our smiths. Thanks, Sorry, I just remembered.

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Speaker 1: We'll get that to the smiths. I'll pick your slice

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Speaker 1: out later. But it's not like he said, yeah, I said.

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Speaker 1: The reception was at a local brewery Three Taverns, which

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Speaker 1: is a great brewery, and the groom is nice enough.

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Speaker 1: At the end of the night, dude, he picked me

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Speaker 1: up a growler and he got me a hat. There

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Speaker 1: we go. Yeah, how sweet is that? Dude? Look at that? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I got me a snap back hat. I think this

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Speaker 1: might be the first cap I owned that might fit

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Speaker 1: my huge head. Yeah, you don't wear hats because they're

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Speaker 1: too small. Ka. It always makes fun of me because

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Speaker 1: I put them on and she's just like, you can't.

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Speaker 1: You can't rock the dad cap, you know, like the

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Speaker 1: flimsy dad cap or whatever. But yeah, it's one of

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Speaker 1: the perks of being a wedding photographers, you know. I

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Speaker 1: guess getting a growler of beer every now and then. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: for real, dude, Speaking of job parks, So my perks

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Speaker 1: on the job, My boss uh like one of the

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Speaker 1: greatest perks of all time takes the entire staff on

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Speaker 1: a trip every year. So your perk is better the No.

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Speaker 1: I mean, your hat's really nice, buddy, wait till you

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Speaker 1: see it. So we just booked our staff trip for

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Speaker 1: next year. We usually, you know, when you go wherever's

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Speaker 1: on sale, and we kind of have a predetermined week.

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Speaker 1: And so, like we talked about on our episode Matt

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Speaker 1: traveling with Purpose on the Cheap, Yeah, that was a

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Speaker 1: good episode. It was a fun one, at least it

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Speaker 1: was in my mind. And so the same thing applies, right, Like,

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Speaker 1: that's what we do when we're booking travel as a staff.

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Speaker 1: And so we booked a four hundred and six dollar

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Speaker 1: round trip flight to Ireland at the end of April

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Speaker 1: next year. So uh man, yeah, it's gonna be really fun.

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Speaker 1: You and I actually at the only time we've ever

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Speaker 1: traveled internationally. Yeah, we took our wives to Ireland like

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Speaker 1: was a fantastic trip. That was actually right after Kate

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Speaker 1: porch with you guys. We're either drinking wine because I

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Speaker 1: think Kate was wanting to be fancy or more and

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Speaker 1: need to travel together internationally. And then a few weeks

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Speaker 1: later a deal popped up. I forgot. Do you remember

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Speaker 1: we paid just over, which is awesome. It's amazing considering

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Speaker 1: And so if you didn't get to listen to that

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Speaker 1: episode about traveling with purpose on the cheap, you should

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Speaker 1: check that out. But also quick tip, uh, sign up

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Speaker 1: for the emails from Scott's Cheap Flights. That's how we

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Speaker 1: find out on the crew about so many of the

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Speaker 1: good airfare sales going on, and that's how I personally,

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Speaker 1: you know, look for air fair deals to pretty much.

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Speaker 1: That gets me started, you know, to at least know

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Speaker 1: of start digging from there. Nice tip man, that's right. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So let's get into the beer for today's episode, Matt

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Speaker 1: uh it is again. We teased last week this awesome

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Speaker 1: listener Mike from Minnesota sent us a few different beers,

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Speaker 1: and so we wanted to drink two of them on

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Speaker 1: the show and to day's beer is Surly Brewing Company Darkness. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and this is a beer, uh that we both have

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Speaker 1: had before, and I'm so looking forward to having this whole,

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Speaker 1: this old Russian Imperial stout. It's a huge beer, lots

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Speaker 1: of flavor. Yes, we have this beer a long time ago,

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Speaker 1: these bigger bottles like this. It looks really cool, but

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Speaker 1: it's kind of annoying. Yeah, it's kind of it's it's

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Speaker 1: a pain. So lately you've been doing all the all

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Speaker 1: but I've always wanted to be. That's interesting that you

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Speaker 1: say that, because I I've totally said the same thing.

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Speaker 1: this is surly darkness Russian Imperial stout. It contains notes

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Speaker 1: of chocolate, coffee, dry tart, cherries and raisins, and it

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Speaker 1: finishes suite with a piny, resinous hop character is what

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Speaker 1: So it's gonna be interesting. Yeah, man, it's thurarly as

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Speaker 1: and and this one in particular, Yeah, darkness stuff to

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Speaker 1: Harry Potter. Let's have a taste, bottoms up a great beer.

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Speaker 1: And I would completely recommend this if you like flavor. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Like the flavor is so good. The flavor profile I

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Speaker 1: And it's as dark as night, as thick as motor

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Speaker 1: I don't think this is I don't think the body

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Speaker 1: on untapped. Uh not Poor Joel and not Poor Matt.

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Speaker 1: your friends are drinking too. So alright, Matt, onto the

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Speaker 1: let's talk about what the problem is first, right, The

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Speaker 1: problem is that the average American family spends way too

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Speaker 1: that I think everyone out there listening can follow. That's right, man.

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Speaker 1: veggies and make it kind of feel better about yourself.

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Speaker 1: You're not just only eating peanuts, right right, right. I

426
00:19:44,480 --> 00:19:46,119
Speaker 1: love the taste of peanuts, but they're not nearly as

427
00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:48,720
Speaker 1: good for you, right, and not as filling either, So yeah,

428
00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:51,600
Speaker 1: I feel like almonds and pistachios where I go. But

429
00:19:51,920 --> 00:19:54,399
Speaker 1: that's the great thing about those about nuts is that

430
00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:56,960
Speaker 1: they're really cheap, really in expensive. They're great like snack

431
00:19:57,080 --> 00:20:00,480
Speaker 1: or lunch, and they're providing some of that protein that you,

432
00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:02,400
Speaker 1: you know, maybe or are giving up if you eat

433
00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:04,320
Speaker 1: if you decide to eat less meat, But they're really

434
00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:06,720
Speaker 1: making you that that lunch at work or wherever you are,

435
00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:09,280
Speaker 1: like grabbing a quick snack. It's really feeling for very

436
00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:11,119
Speaker 1: little money. Yeah, man, I'm with you. I I do

437
00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:13,480
Speaker 1: the exact same thing. I'm either eating leftovers or just

438
00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:16,119
Speaker 1: grabbing a handful of walnuts or almonds or peanuts or

439
00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:18,200
Speaker 1: something like that, and yeah, tossing in an apple or

440
00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:20,040
Speaker 1: an orange. And for me, it comes kind of comes

441
00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:23,040
Speaker 1: down to how much time it takes, because for us,

442
00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:25,119
Speaker 1: we sit down, like we sit down every morning and

443
00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:27,480
Speaker 1: have breakfast together, and then we always, for the most part,

444
00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:30,040
Speaker 1: we we always have dinner together. But lunch it's kind

445
00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:31,920
Speaker 1: of like whatever you want to do on your own,

446
00:20:32,760 --> 00:20:35,720
Speaker 1: which means that as a little time as possible that

447
00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:38,280
Speaker 1: I can spend on lunch means I can work. And yeah,

448
00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:39,920
Speaker 1: you grab that handful of nuts and it doesn't really

449
00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:42,400
Speaker 1: slow you down. Uh, pop an apple in your mouth

450
00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:46,520
Speaker 1: as fast as humanly possible. Oh, and I drink I always.

451
00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:48,520
Speaker 1: I feel like I drink a glass of milk too

452
00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:51,679
Speaker 1: when I with an app because normally it leads to

453
00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:53,280
Speaker 1: an apple and then I'm then I think, you know,

454
00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:55,439
Speaker 1: I just need a little bit of peanut butter, And

455
00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:56,880
Speaker 1: then I think, you know what I need a little

456
00:20:56,920 --> 00:20:58,480
Speaker 1: bit of milk to kind of wash this all down,

457
00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:02,080
Speaker 1: and then by then I'm stuffed. So there we go.

458
00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:04,240
Speaker 1: That's how Manto's lunch. Let's go ahead and take a

459
00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:16,679
Speaker 1: quick break. So let's talk about where you should shop. Right,

460
00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:19,200
Speaker 1: So we talked about kind of a few little strategies

461
00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:21,239
Speaker 1: and we'll go into more strategies in a little bit,

462
00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:23,840
Speaker 1: but where you shop is really really important to your

463
00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:27,600
Speaker 1: saving strategy for slashing that grocery bill, like crazy too, right,

464
00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:30,439
Speaker 1: And so for me, I know, all the has been

465
00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:32,200
Speaker 1: really important in our family ever since we got one

466
00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:34,600
Speaker 1: in our part of town. And I know you guys

467
00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:38,840
Speaker 1: utilize all We love all the Yeah, like Gangbusters so close, uh,

468
00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:42,000
Speaker 1: and it's so cheap. I'm gonna say around of our

469
00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:45,400
Speaker 1: groceries come from Aldi. It's incredibly affordable. They've got great

470
00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:48,159
Speaker 1: organic options. And for us, it's crazy close and I

471
00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:50,719
Speaker 1: can bike there or drive there either way, I'm there

472
00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:53,399
Speaker 1: with him about five or ten minutes. And that is

473
00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:55,280
Speaker 1: definitely a way that we're able to keep our grocery

474
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Speaker 1: budget down. Yes, you know what's interesting mat when it

475
00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:01,000
Speaker 1: already comes into a neighborhood, all the other grocery stores

476
00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:04,399
Speaker 1: around it their prices start to sink too, because Aldi

477
00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:07,200
Speaker 1: just has this price effect that even if you don't

478
00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:09,720
Speaker 1: shop at Aldi, but Aldi comes into your neighborhood, you

479
00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:12,480
Speaker 1: are de facto going to save money just because that

480
00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:17,560
Speaker 1: Aldi is. They're putting price pressure on the other grocery stores. Yes, competition, right, yeah,

481
00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:20,320
Speaker 1: But I love all the two. I think the one

482
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Speaker 1: complaint I I have about all the I think they're

483
00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:26,320
Speaker 1: really good for a lot of reasons. Sometimes the produce

484
00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:29,520
Speaker 1: doesn't seem to last very long. Oh yeah, yeah, So

485
00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:31,760
Speaker 1: we've had that issue occasionally at Aldi, and that can

486
00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:34,200
Speaker 1: be kind of annoying. But but other than that, we

487
00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:36,680
Speaker 1: love Aldi and that's one of our primary places to shop.

488
00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:40,760
Speaker 1: We're pretty much like an Aldi, Costco and Kroger on occasion. Family,

489
00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:42,560
Speaker 1: that's kind of how we right hear you? Well, hey,

490
00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:45,879
Speaker 1: you know, all The's got this cash back double guaranteed

491
00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:48,240
Speaker 1: deal and so if something goes bad, take it back.

492
00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:51,720
Speaker 1: They will give your money back and replace it. That's true.

493
00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:53,560
Speaker 1: That is one of them that is like the best

494
00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:56,520
Speaker 1: warrantee in the grocery store industry too. Yeah. I mean,

495
00:22:56,520 --> 00:22:58,399
Speaker 1: and we haven't taken an advantage of that often, but

496
00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:01,160
Speaker 1: sometimes when we feel that, oh wow, this definitely shouldn't

497
00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:03,320
Speaker 1: have gone bad that fast. I mean, they honor it,

498
00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:06,240
Speaker 1: and we're we're totally set. I mean said, I thought

499
00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:08,440
Speaker 1: you were going to complain about the variety at ALDI,

500
00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:10,760
Speaker 1: because anytime we talk to somebody about Aldi, they tend

501
00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:12,879
Speaker 1: to say, oh, they don't carry the brands that we like,

502
00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:14,679
Speaker 1: or they don't they just don't have a lot of

503
00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:17,399
Speaker 1: the things that we like. And to that, I say,

504
00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:19,720
Speaker 1: check out your local farmers market, and for us, that

505
00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:23,640
Speaker 1: is our international farmers market. It's not local at all,

506
00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:26,560
Speaker 1: it's like the opposite. But we go there a good

507
00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:30,040
Speaker 1: bit to get grains and different things that are you know,

508
00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:32,800
Speaker 1: would be considered more exotic, and to get those in bulk,

509
00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:36,240
Speaker 1: and so things like keenwa are in certain kinds of

510
00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:37,800
Speaker 1: brown rice and things like that that we eat a

511
00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:41,160
Speaker 1: good amount of are pretty expensive at ALDI, in fact,

512
00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:45,240
Speaker 1: more expensive there than at our international farmers market. And

513
00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:47,680
Speaker 1: Kate can walk out of there with huge sacks of

514
00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:50,639
Speaker 1: you know, exotic rice and different things like that for

515
00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:53,040
Speaker 1: crazy cheap when you break it down to how much

516
00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:55,560
Speaker 1: she's paying per cup. You guys ever hit up the

517
00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:58,400
Speaker 1: International farmers Market, Yeah, we do sometimes and there's also

518
00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:00,959
Speaker 1: a State farmers market just south of us at sometimes

519
00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,720
Speaker 1: you can snag produce for for a heck of a

520
00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:06,320
Speaker 1: lot less than you can get at your local grocery store.

521
00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:09,280
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think thinking outside the box sometimes farmers

522
00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:11,200
Speaker 1: markets can be one of two things in my book.

523
00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:14,720
Speaker 1: Sometimes are these super small, hyperlocal, really expensive things where

524
00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:19,040
Speaker 1: you were hipster like soaps exactly, yeah, hips are soaps

525
00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:24,720
Speaker 1: and three dollars for a tomato, uh or exactly? I know,

526
00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:28,160
Speaker 1: yeah and uh and I think it's cute, but I'm

527
00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:29,840
Speaker 1: also cheap, and so I'm not going to do that.

528
00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:32,760
Speaker 1: But so the State farmers market, in our international farmers

529
00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:34,960
Speaker 1: market that we have access to here and hopefully you

530
00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:36,800
Speaker 1: know you have access to a farmer's market where you

531
00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:38,920
Speaker 1: live that isn't one of the super hip store or

532
00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:42,880
Speaker 1: you know, eight dollar organic soap farmers markets. They are

533
00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:45,280
Speaker 1: really cool and you have access to items that you

534
00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:48,600
Speaker 1: that you couldn't purchase at a grocery store and some

535
00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:52,240
Speaker 1: fresh products that you definitely don't have access to anywhere

536
00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:55,120
Speaker 1: except for a farmer's market. So yeah, but for me,

537
00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:57,000
Speaker 1: like I'm not doing as much of the grocery shopping,

538
00:24:57,080 --> 00:24:59,520
Speaker 1: especially at that farmer's market because it is kind of,

539
00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:01,960
Speaker 1: you know, a decent drive away from where we live. Yeah. Yeah,

540
00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:03,520
Speaker 1: that's the only downside. It's it's kind of more of

541
00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:05,680
Speaker 1: like a once a month thing, and we're not getting

542
00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:08,240
Speaker 1: much fresh stuff there because it's it's more about sort

543
00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:12,120
Speaker 1: of the bulk exotic grains, which just sounds weird to say,

544
00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:14,359
Speaker 1: but I don't think I've ever said those three words together.

545
00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:17,320
Speaker 1: So to a note to everyone, where you shop actually

546
00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:19,560
Speaker 1: really matters when you're trying to cut your grocery bill.

547
00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:21,520
Speaker 1: And if you can shop at one of the lower

548
00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:25,080
Speaker 1: cost grocery stores like an Aldi or a Legal which

549
00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:28,120
Speaker 1: is coming into the United States, now, yeah, they're pretty great.

550
00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:32,040
Speaker 1: Those guys are actually undercutting Walmart by a huge amount.

551
00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:33,960
Speaker 1: And so if you're used to shopping at Walmart, you know,

552
00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:36,480
Speaker 1: look at one of these other options, and those low

553
00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:39,679
Speaker 1: cost grocery stores are going to immediately save you money

554
00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:42,040
Speaker 1: without having to spend you know, three hours on a

555
00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:45,680
Speaker 1: Saturday clip clipping coupons. So kind of on the transplant

556
00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:48,199
Speaker 1: for discount grocery store. Have you ever been to a

557
00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:50,760
Speaker 1: discount grocery store. They've got like the dented cans or

558
00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:53,640
Speaker 1: like the slightly past expired, uh stuff. Oh heck, yeah,

559
00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:55,920
Speaker 1: I used to go to one in college all the time. Really, yeah,

560
00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:58,359
Speaker 1: like up in up in Greenville and yep, yep, I

561
00:25:58,400 --> 00:25:59,879
Speaker 1: don't remember what it's called, but yeah, we used to

562
00:25:59,920 --> 00:26:03,320
Speaker 1: go there in college just to a fifty two cent

563
00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:08,320
Speaker 1: boxes cerreal or actually dented dented cans that were, you know,

564
00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:10,760
Speaker 1: twenty cents a piece, stuff like that. Yeah, the dented

565
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:12,959
Speaker 1: cans always kind of weirded me out because I remember

566
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:14,560
Speaker 1: like reading even as a kid, where it's just like

567
00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:17,840
Speaker 1: if you see a dented can, I get like, it's

568
00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:19,720
Speaker 1: just like guaranteed. And so I just grew up thinking

569
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:23,159
Speaker 1: you see a dented can, You're gonna die. When I

570
00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:26,359
Speaker 1: was living in North Carolina, there is a discount grocery store.

571
00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:31,160
Speaker 1: And this is post undergrad, pre real job, and those

572
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:32,600
Speaker 1: are those times where you don't have any money. This

573
00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:33,959
Speaker 1: is back when I was living in that in that

574
00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:37,040
Speaker 1: cabin basically with no central heat, and we chopped around

575
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:39,880
Speaker 1: wood to burn in our woodburning stove. So you better

576
00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:43,240
Speaker 1: believe that we're going to the discount grocery store man

577
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:48,240
Speaker 1: to survive. Donating plasma on the side. Never got that far,

578
00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:50,239
Speaker 1: but I did it did you really will do an

579
00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:52,800
Speaker 1: episode on that one. Oh my gosh, that's like both

580
00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:54,879
Speaker 1: arms you hooked up right one arm, just one arm?

581
00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:57,680
Speaker 1: Really yeah. Ill thought they injected or they drew it

582
00:26:57,720 --> 00:26:59,320
Speaker 1: on one side and then they put it back in

583
00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:01,320
Speaker 1: you on the other day. They put it right back

584
00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:03,879
Speaker 1: like they circulated out and take the plasma out and

585
00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:07,200
Speaker 1: then put your blood back in the same arm. It's amazing.

586
00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:09,520
Speaker 1: It's been a while. It sounds like there's a period

587
00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:11,840
Speaker 1: where you don't have any of your blood, does it not? Yeah,

588
00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:16,400
Speaker 1: you die for a minute, but all right, um, yeah,

589
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:18,520
Speaker 1: this kind of but you really don't make that much money,

590
00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:20,200
Speaker 1: so I wouldn't recommend it to people. I think I

591
00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:23,320
Speaker 1: made like forty bucks a week maybe doing that, so uh,

592
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:28,960
Speaker 1: probably not worth the health risks. Uh yeah. Back to

593
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:31,000
Speaker 1: the diskind of grocery stores, that's something worth considering, you know,

594
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:32,800
Speaker 1: if you've got one of those near you, and it's

595
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:34,639
Speaker 1: worth swinging in every now and then check it out.

596
00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:36,919
Speaker 1: There might be something in there that you're already purchasing

597
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:38,920
Speaker 1: that you can get for a lot cheaper. What you

598
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:41,240
Speaker 1: want to avoid is going in there though, and feeling like, oh,

599
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:43,399
Speaker 1: this is such a great deal. Ended up buying a

600
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:45,439
Speaker 1: bunch of processed food or a bunch of things that

601
00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:48,360
Speaker 1: either don't provide much nutrition or aren't things you would

602
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:50,880
Speaker 1: normally buy, they're just kind of snack foods. And then

603
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:52,679
Speaker 1: what's gonna end up happening is you're just gonna end

604
00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:54,880
Speaker 1: up with way more food than you actually need at home,

605
00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:57,720
Speaker 1: just because you kind of got sucked into the it's

606
00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:00,480
Speaker 1: on sale mentality. Yeah. Completely, I was gonna say, I think,

607
00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:02,600
Speaker 1: you know, the first thing you talked about, matt uh

608
00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:05,600
Speaker 1: was that you guys do very few processed foods. And

609
00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 1: I think for let's say, you know, cereal in the morning,

610
00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:10,639
Speaker 1: it seems like it's cheap, right, but it's also not

611
00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:12,359
Speaker 1: very filling, And so you have the milk in the

612
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:15,159
Speaker 1: cereal and a cup of coffee, and it seems like

613
00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:17,560
Speaker 1: that's a pretty inexpensive breakfast, and like one hour later

614
00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 1: you're starving exactly. Yeah, And so it's not like very filling.

615
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:22,960
Speaker 1: And if you can do a couple of eggs, you're

616
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 1: probably doing it even cheaper, but you're also actually filling

617
00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:29,200
Speaker 1: yourself up more for the day, so you're you're eating

618
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:31,879
Speaker 1: more nutritious food that's actually gonna leave you with that

619
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:34,840
Speaker 1: feeling that you actually ate breakfast as opposed to the

620
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:36,639
Speaker 1: cereal which will dissipate in a matter of a Now,

621
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 1: sugar puffs, dude, we can We can hardly even do

622
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:42,840
Speaker 1: granola anymore, like like real nice hearty granola with like

623
00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:44,600
Speaker 1: the all the good flax seeds and stuff like that,

624
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:48,320
Speaker 1: with oates plus like some Greek yogurt even that. For us,

625
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:50,440
Speaker 1: Kit and I both look at each other like around

626
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:53,600
Speaker 1: to thirty and we're just like, I'm hungry. Yeah, you know,

627
00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 1: like if we if we go into a breakfast like that,

628
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:57,200
Speaker 1: we know that we have to have some nuts or

629
00:28:57,240 --> 00:28:59,200
Speaker 1: something mid morning to kind of fill us up because

630
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:01,040
Speaker 1: I don't know why it is, but eggs, you know,

631
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:02,720
Speaker 1: Like for us, it's eggs in the morning. It just

632
00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:05,200
Speaker 1: kind of sticks to the bones and gets us to lunch.

633
00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:07,280
Speaker 1: Yeah to me too, they're they're the best. They taste

634
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:10,440
Speaker 1: the best. Uh So Okay. Another way to save money

635
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:13,120
Speaker 1: on your grocery bill, to cut that grocery bill like crazy,

636
00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:16,640
Speaker 1: is to stay organized. You have to stick to your list, right,

637
00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 1: and I think it's really important. That's where people get

638
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:22,240
Speaker 1: let a stray oftentimes in the grocery storemat is that

639
00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:24,720
Speaker 1: maybe they have a list, but you know, they don't

640
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:27,080
Speaker 1: stick to it very well, or they don't have a list,

641
00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:29,640
Speaker 1: and that's even worse, and they kind of walk in

642
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 1: a little bit aimlessly, end up stalking a bunch of

643
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:33,719
Speaker 1: stuff in their cart. And the worst thing to do,

644
00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:36,200
Speaker 1: right is to shop while you're hungry, even if you're

645
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:38,080
Speaker 1: not starving, right when you go to the grocery store,

646
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:40,320
Speaker 1: there's something about not having a list or not sticking

647
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:42,959
Speaker 1: to the list that you're gonna put probably you know,

648
00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:46,280
Speaker 1: some some really expensive or things that will bust your

649
00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:48,680
Speaker 1: grocery bills, some items that will bust that grocery bill

650
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,360
Speaker 1: in your cart, and it's it's gonna sink you come

651
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:55,680
Speaker 1: budget time. Yeah, that's me. Like if Kate doesn't give

652
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:58,120
Speaker 1: me explicit directions on exactly what to get and what

653
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:00,240
Speaker 1: not to get, if she's just like, yeah, go to

654
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:02,240
Speaker 1: the grocery store and grab a few things and you know,

655
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:04,480
Speaker 1: look for something like this or something to kind of

656
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:08,120
Speaker 1: fill this category. I am a huge budget buster because

657
00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:11,920
Speaker 1: I'll see something and I think, oom, candy ginger at

658
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:15,320
Speaker 1: the farmer's market. That sounds delicious. I love that stuff,

659
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:19,280
Speaker 1: and then I'd buy it and then Kate's mad at me. Um.

660
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:21,600
Speaker 1: But for me, because it's less of a discipline that

661
00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:23,720
Speaker 1: I've refined and honed, I'm not as good at doing

662
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:26,959
Speaker 1: that as Kate. Kate, on the other hand, specifically, what

663
00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:30,440
Speaker 1: she does is she keeps the kitchen inventory list on

664
00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:32,840
Speaker 1: the front of the refrigerator. And I've seen this, right

665
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:36,200
Speaker 1: this you actually write in marker on your actual refrigerator,

666
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:38,040
Speaker 1: not on paper. Now, well, that's actually a recent thing.

667
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:39,760
Speaker 1: She used to keep it on a dryer race board.

668
00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:41,360
Speaker 1: But then she's like, wait a minute, why am I

669
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:44,960
Speaker 1: not writing directly on my stainless steel refrigerator? And she

670
00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:47,920
Speaker 1: googled it and people are like, yeah, you can write

671
00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:50,360
Speaker 1: with a dryer race marker on the fridge. Now she

672
00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:52,960
Speaker 1: does that, Yeah, I've noticed that recently. Cool. Yeah, this

673
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:54,880
Speaker 1: is super cool. But she kind of keeps what we

674
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:58,080
Speaker 1: have in our house, like in her pantry divided up

675
00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:02,800
Speaker 1: into four different categories, so like meats, veged bowls, grain slash, beans, um,

676
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:06,040
Speaker 1: and then miscellaneous stuff like nuts, are pestoh salso things

677
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 1: like that. And then when it's time to figure out

678
00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:10,640
Speaker 1: what she wants to make for dinner, she can easily

679
00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:13,680
Speaker 1: scan those lists and then pull together a quick meal

680
00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:17,040
Speaker 1: with what's on hand, you know, and so she doesn't

681
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:19,480
Speaker 1: feel like that she has much in the house. But

682
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:21,160
Speaker 1: then she looks at that and realizes, wait a minute,

683
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:22,680
Speaker 1: I've got tons of food in the house. You know,

684
00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:24,680
Speaker 1: like that feeling where you're just like there's just nothing

685
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:26,920
Speaker 1: to there's nothing to eat completely, but there are a

686
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:29,720
Speaker 1: hundred things exactly, and so but she's able to do that,

687
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:32,600
Speaker 1: and they kind of mash them up and then put

688
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:34,640
Speaker 1: together pretty damn good meal. If you do that a

689
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:36,440
Speaker 1: few times and you realize maybe you don't have a

690
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:38,960
Speaker 1: full meal left, she can look at that and realize, cool,

691
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 1: if I just go to the store and buy these

692
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:43,280
Speaker 1: three things, all of a sudden, I've got three more full,

693
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:46,200
Speaker 1: complete meals. And you're not going back into the store completely,

694
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:49,440
Speaker 1: just restocking your your pantry or restocking your fridge, which

695
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:51,520
Speaker 1: keep those three items to create three more meals in

696
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:54,280
Speaker 1: order to use the rest of the stuff that you

697
00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 1: have already on hand. Exactly, Yeah, exactly, Well that gets

698
00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:00,200
Speaker 1: to another tip to right, So yeah, stay organized, stick

699
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:02,400
Speaker 1: to your list, but also clean out your pantry regularly.

700
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:04,120
Speaker 1: And I think a lot of people, yeah, they don't

701
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:06,479
Speaker 1: do that. Right, so they don't use up what they have,

702
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:08,120
Speaker 1: and then they kind of add to it and things

703
00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:09,560
Speaker 1: get stuck in the back of the freezer or the

704
00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 1: back of the fridge and then you find it later

705
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 1: and you're like, it's freezer burnt or man, it's gone bad.

706
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:17,080
Speaker 1: It's gone bad, and so you you end up wasting

707
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 1: more food because of that. So cleaning out your pantry

708
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 1: and finding ways creative ways to kind of make meals

709
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:25,320
Speaker 1: with what you have on hand before you go back

710
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 1: to the grocery store, or like what Kate does, right,

711
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 1: that's a good way of doing it too, where you

712
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:32,000
Speaker 1: see what you have left and you say, okay, if

713
00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:33,959
Speaker 1: I buy these two or three things, I can end

714
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:35,640
Speaker 1: up making you know, a few more meals for my

715
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:38,480
Speaker 1: family without making a full grocery run. And I think

716
00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 1: that's like a really good option that we often in,

717
00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 1: you know, a wealthy country that's used to kind of

718
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:46,960
Speaker 1: easy access to food. Um, we kind of skip that

719
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:49,440
Speaker 1: and we go for the let's just go for a

720
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:51,720
Speaker 1: full grocery run, and then we end up, you know,

721
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:54,320
Speaker 1: usually wasting a lot of more food and not using

722
00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 1: what we have and busting our grocery bill in the process. Yeah,

723
00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:00,000
Speaker 1: typically in America, that also means just jumping in your

724
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:02,080
Speaker 1: are and like driving to the store and like waiting

725
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:04,320
Speaker 1: in traffic, and while you're out, you're also doing these

726
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 1: other things. I mean, there's something about that. I don't

727
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:07,640
Speaker 1: even know what to call it, but it kind of

728
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:10,240
Speaker 1: feels like the equivalent of the rat race, where you

729
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:12,360
Speaker 1: feel like you need something and so you just jump

730
00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:14,120
Speaker 1: in the car and drive to the store for one thing,

731
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:16,960
Speaker 1: and then the next day you do the same thing. Dude,

732
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 1: I hate that sort of approach and that mentality of like, oh,

733
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:22,240
Speaker 1: let's just run to the store, because not only are

734
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:25,680
Speaker 1: you screwing up your budget, but you're screwing like your time. Yeah,

735
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 1: why not just take inventory of what you have, state

736
00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 1: organized know what you have. I mean, the bottom line

737
00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:32,120
Speaker 1: of it is that it keeps you from wasting food

738
00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 1: and you're just more efficient with with everything. Yeah, and

739
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:37,360
Speaker 1: so if you have a stainless steel fridge like Matt,

740
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 1: you guys feel free to take out a dry race

741
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:43,840
Speaker 1: marker and draw all over your fridge. Give it a shot, maybe,

742
00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:45,320
Speaker 1: just like a little mark first, and just to make

743
00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:47,440
Speaker 1: sure that your fridge is cool. Matt's not gonna pay

744
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:49,680
Speaker 1: for your new fridge if it ruins it, but Joel

745
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:53,280
Speaker 1: will yeah. So on that note of wasting food, that's

746
00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 1: just another way that you can keep from blowing through

747
00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:58,000
Speaker 1: your your grocery budget and to keep your expenses low.

748
00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:01,600
Speaker 1: We are not strict recipe followers. You can burn through

749
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:05,520
Speaker 1: a lot of money buying a specific or special cut

750
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:08,400
Speaker 1: of meat that a recipe calls for. So if you're following,

751
00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:10,360
Speaker 1: you know something that you're like, Okay, I saw this

752
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:13,399
Speaker 1: in a magazine or I saw this on Instagram, let's

753
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:16,440
Speaker 1: try it out. I need exactly four boneless, skin less

754
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:19,640
Speaker 1: chicken breast in order to make yeah, exactly yeah, or

755
00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:23,239
Speaker 1: even something crazier like, oh, I've never purchased skirt steak

756
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:25,640
Speaker 1: before this calls or skirt steak gotta go to the

757
00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 1: store and buy that one ingredient. And oh, by the way,

758
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:30,520
Speaker 1: well maybe skirts takes a bad example because it's normally

759
00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 1: pretty cheap, but still it's meat, and something like that

760
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:38,440
Speaker 1: can completely blow your budget and you're just not allocating

761
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 1: your grocery budget well. And so for something like that,

762
00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:44,279
Speaker 1: Kate will generally double like the amount of veggies and

763
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:46,800
Speaker 1: a recipe if she is, you know, following a recipe

764
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:49,040
Speaker 1: or see something that she's sort of inspired by and

765
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:51,239
Speaker 1: will either have the amount of meat in it or

766
00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:53,640
Speaker 1: even cut it completely and instead we'll just kind of

767
00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:55,759
Speaker 1: add some beans to to beef it up. And so,

768
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 1: you know, the extra veggies and the beans are way

769
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:01,799
Speaker 1: more affordable and also filling as well, and not to

770
00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:04,160
Speaker 1: mention like healthy are and especially if you're comparing it

771
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:07,080
Speaker 1: to the red meat. Yeah, another way to get better

772
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:09,759
Speaker 1: at not wasting food, which you know does crush your

773
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:13,920
Speaker 1: grocery budget, is to eat your leftovers. And eating leftovers

774
00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:17,719
Speaker 1: is great for lunch the next day. Like I love leftovers.

775
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:20,880
Speaker 1: See I usually like leftovers, but it kind of depends

776
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:22,600
Speaker 1: on the meal too. I feel like some things are

777
00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:25,520
Speaker 1: better as leftovers others, right, And so we Emily and

778
00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:27,359
Speaker 1: I kind of had to decide, Okay, well, hey, if

779
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:29,480
Speaker 1: we make this one meal, neither of us really eat

780
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:31,520
Speaker 1: the leftovers on that, and so it just kind of

781
00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:34,000
Speaker 1: goes to waste. Let's stop making that meal we have

782
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:36,319
Speaker 1: enough leftovers, or let's make less of it. And so

783
00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:38,880
Speaker 1: there are certain things that we know will gobble up

784
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:41,359
Speaker 1: when it comes to the leftovers, um, and then there's

785
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:43,360
Speaker 1: other things we know, you know, we're just probably not

786
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:45,560
Speaker 1: gonna eat it, and so we've either you know, made

787
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:47,560
Speaker 1: less for dinner or just stopped eating it all together,

788
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:49,360
Speaker 1: or just send it my way to because I will

789
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:53,399
Speaker 1: dispose of that food in my mouth. Done. Buddy will

790
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:55,880
Speaker 1: start making that happen seriously, Like we joke about it,

791
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:59,439
Speaker 1: but we call it Daddy Garbage Disposal Service or something

792
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:01,600
Speaker 1: like that, like like whatever the girls aren't gonna eat,

793
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:04,359
Speaker 1: it's like, I'm not gonna I take pride in not

794
00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:06,360
Speaker 1: like allowing food to go to waste because I'm like,

795
00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:09,040
Speaker 1: that's calories like that, Yeah, that's energy. Like when you

796
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 1: think about it from like an energy scientific standpoint, if

797
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:13,879
Speaker 1: I put that in the trash, I'm throwing away energy.

798
00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:17,880
Speaker 1: I'm literally wasting money and energy, potential energy. And then

799
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:19,400
Speaker 1: instead I put in my mouth and show it up.

800
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 1: So I bet you have like kind of like some

801
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:24,240
Speaker 1: weird food combos on Saturdays when you're eating like leftover

802
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:26,600
Speaker 1: lunch or something like. Well, no, I'm specifically talking about

803
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:28,239
Speaker 1: like at the end of the meal, like instead of

804
00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:30,960
Speaker 1: scraping it because if there's just a little bit, you know,

805
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 1: you don't want to put it in like a tupperware.

806
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:35,520
Speaker 1: You just most of time people scrape into the trash. Can, well,

807
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:39,520
Speaker 1: I just eat it. I disticularly remember my dad seriously

808
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:41,840
Speaker 1: growing up the same thing. He would do something similar. So,

809
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:44,279
Speaker 1: like every Saturday it was kind of leftovers for lunch,

810
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:46,360
Speaker 1: right it was leftovers or make a sandwich, and so

811
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:48,800
Speaker 1: usually you know I wanted something hot for lunch, it's leftovers.

812
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:51,600
Speaker 1: But my dad would essentially come behind all the rest

813
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:53,960
Speaker 1: of us who got leftovers, good man, and it was

814
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,759
Speaker 1: like the bottom of all the leftovers. And so he

815
00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:59,440
Speaker 1: would have the smorge board of a play toss it

816
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:01,400
Speaker 1: in the micro and need to have like eight different

817
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:04,880
Speaker 1: things for lunch. Yeah, I don't know if I actually

818
00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:07,319
Speaker 1: love it, because I like the flavors, which certainly can't

819
00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:09,960
Speaker 1: be true if you've had a week worth of leftovers.

820
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,880
Speaker 1: But I just love the like the philosophy behind that

821
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:14,880
Speaker 1: and just not allowing it to go to waste and

822
00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:17,240
Speaker 1: taking pride in the fact that you're just being efficient.

823
00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:19,680
Speaker 1: I've talked about this before. I'm half Asian and half Germans,

824
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:23,360
Speaker 1: so I think I really prize efficiency, um, and to

825
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 1: know that like not a crumb from our table is

826
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:28,440
Speaker 1: going to waste. Yeah, I think you can do it

827
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 1: too out there listener, like you can you also can

828
00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:35,360
Speaker 1: have you know, one dollar a meal per person grocery budget. Obviously,

829
00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:37,680
Speaker 1: as you're hearing from Matt, it takes a lot of efficiency,

830
00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:40,480
Speaker 1: a lot of dedication, a lot of planning, but you

831
00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:43,440
Speaker 1: two can get there, and that's really cool. So to know, maybe,

832
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:45,879
Speaker 1: you know what, maybe at this point you're at three

833
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:48,000
Speaker 1: dollars a person per meal, uh, and to know that

834
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:50,520
Speaker 1: you can aim for two at least, right, get halfway

835
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:52,439
Speaker 1: there and then kind of see where you can cut

836
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:54,560
Speaker 1: from there. Maybe you're not gonna make the leap all

837
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:56,719
Speaker 1: in one fell swoop and some of these things. Right,

838
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 1: I'm not as good as as Matt is, of course,

839
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:02,000
Speaker 1: like I not quite as good at eating leftovers as

840
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:05,000
Speaker 1: mad is. I'm not quite as good at staying organized

841
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:07,319
Speaker 1: and sticking to the list. But but we're we're doing better,

842
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:08,680
Speaker 1: and we you know, Emily and I have made a

843
00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:10,960
Speaker 1: lot of these improvements. But I think for a family four,

844
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:14,239
Speaker 1: we're still at about six a month, and where you're

845
00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:15,880
Speaker 1: a family of five and you're a four eighty. So

846
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:18,319
Speaker 1: you know, we're we're trying to do better. And and

847
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:20,600
Speaker 1: you know what, doing this show with you kind of

848
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 1: makes me want to redouble our efforts and and see

849
00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:25,319
Speaker 1: if we can slash even a little bit more nice man. Yeah,

850
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:26,520
Speaker 1: I mean I hope that's the case, you know, Like

851
00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 1: I hope it's encouraging and not like oh I could

852
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:31,480
Speaker 1: never do that or to where it's just sort of discouraging,

853
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:33,520
Speaker 1: you know. Um, like hopefully it comes across to something

854
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:35,759
Speaker 1: that's inspiring. And that's the other thing too, is that

855
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:39,200
Speaker 1: like Kate makes amazing food, Like she makes really delicious food,

856
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:41,879
Speaker 1: but she and she enjoys it. For her, it's not

857
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:43,959
Speaker 1: something that she kind of has to do. It's something

858
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:46,359
Speaker 1: that she is able to look forward to. Uh, it's

859
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:48,600
Speaker 1: something that she finds creativity and you know, like putting

860
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:50,880
Speaker 1: together those meals like you've got the four categories on

861
00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:54,560
Speaker 1: the fridge, Like that's that takes creativity and for her,

862
00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 1: she finds a lot of enjoyment in that. And in

863
00:38:56,520 --> 00:38:58,439
Speaker 1: the same way, like when she goes into a grocery store,

864
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:00,360
Speaker 1: she doesn't have the list because she's been doing this

865
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:02,640
Speaker 1: long enough. She's kind of you know, she's at like

866
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 1: the four thousand level class, like she's not doing the

867
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 1: one on one stuff anymore. But for her, she doesn't

868
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:09,120
Speaker 1: need a list when she goes in the grocery store.

869
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:11,200
Speaker 1: She knows like what we eat as a family, the

870
00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:14,160
Speaker 1: things that work, the different items that she knows can

871
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:16,960
Speaker 1: be used for multiple meals, so that if there is

872
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:19,279
Speaker 1: some say leftover pasta or something like that, after it

873
00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:21,360
Speaker 1: gets gets them boiling, she can pop that in a

874
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:23,839
Speaker 1: tupperware and can put that towards another meal that she's

875
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:26,239
Speaker 1: planning to make later on in the week. Kate is

876
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:30,440
Speaker 1: geared towards UH slashing the grocery budget, you know, like

877
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 1: it's it's sort of a natural disposition that she has

878
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:35,600
Speaker 1: and and for others that may not come as naturally, um,

879
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:38,080
Speaker 1: but hopefully Yeah, like you said that folks are encouraged

880
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:41,000
Speaker 1: by this and it's not something that is UH is

881
00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:43,520
Speaker 1: a daunting, huge task. Yeah, I think for people that

882
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 1: aren't naturally attuned to it, right, And so like Emily

883
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,360
Speaker 1: and I, I will readily admit we're not natural. We

884
00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:52,799
Speaker 1: don't naturally gravitate towards crushing a grocery bill. Um. We've

885
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:54,600
Speaker 1: gotten better at it through the years as we work

886
00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:56,480
Speaker 1: and we see kind of how our family functions, and

887
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:59,240
Speaker 1: we've trimmed our grocery bill also, but we're not naturally

888
00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:01,520
Speaker 1: attuned to it, like like Kate is, and and like

889
00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:05,359
Speaker 1: you said, Kate makes some really really amazing food. So

890
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:07,799
Speaker 1: you're eating a dollar a meal per person, but the

891
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:11,280
Speaker 1: food is almost gourmet. Really, oh, it's totally gourmet cooking.

892
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:13,680
Speaker 1: And Joel has a few more tips to share with

893
00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:24,600
Speaker 1: you all right after this break, All right, Matt, And

894
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:26,160
Speaker 1: there are a couple of tips that I wanted to

895
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:28,279
Speaker 1: mention that that I've always been able to stick to.

896
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:30,279
Speaker 1: So I haven't been quite as good though, you know,

897
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:32,480
Speaker 1: I kind of just lambasted at Emily and I not

898
00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:34,319
Speaker 1: being nearly as good as you and Kate. But there

899
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:35,960
Speaker 1: are a couple of things that I've found that we're

900
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:37,640
Speaker 1: kind of the easy button for us in order to

901
00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:40,200
Speaker 1: have kind of instant savings when it came to um

902
00:40:40,239 --> 00:40:43,720
Speaker 1: our grocery budget. One was when they're deeply discounted items,

903
00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:46,759
Speaker 1: we would stock up on those things. Yeah. Uh. And

904
00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:50,480
Speaker 1: also store brands, right, always always store brands. Yeah. Never

905
00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:52,319
Speaker 1: buying name brands that costs, you know, twice as much

906
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:54,799
Speaker 1: for no reason. So anytime you can, you can go

907
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:58,120
Speaker 1: for the generic or store brand. I think you should. Also,

908
00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:01,640
Speaker 1: I think another really good uh think to enter into

909
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:04,480
Speaker 1: the ecosystem for grocery shopping is some of the stuff

910
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:07,160
Speaker 1: like Kroger's clicklist. I think for people that have a

911
00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:10,560
Speaker 1: terrible time sticking to their sticking to their list, it's

912
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:13,400
Speaker 1: actually probably worth the five bucks to sign up for

913
00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 1: Kroger clicklist and have someone bring the groceries out to

914
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:19,439
Speaker 1: your car, because you're gonna save way more than that

915
00:41:19,719 --> 00:41:21,800
Speaker 1: in the impulse items that you left on the shelf

916
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:24,040
Speaker 1: and you didn't put into your basket. Yeah. And since

917
00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:26,160
Speaker 1: clicklist kind of puts like the blinders on you, and

918
00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:28,239
Speaker 1: like you don't even present yourself with a temptation to

919
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:31,080
Speaker 1: buy the snicker Bars ice cream, right, which is what

920
00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:33,399
Speaker 1: I do when I go to the grocery. Can let's

921
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:36,560
Speaker 1: see that? And I think, how does that caramel never freeze?

922
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:39,960
Speaker 1: I don't know, I want. Yeah, so you just take

923
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:42,720
Speaker 1: the temptation away altogether and consider something like the Kroger

924
00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:45,120
Speaker 1: click list. And and there's just things like that are

925
00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:47,800
Speaker 1: being invented all day, every day by these major grocery

926
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:51,440
Speaker 1: store chains. One thing I would caution people against is

927
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:54,960
Speaker 1: sites like instat cart. I mean, I think they're really cool,

928
00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:57,239
Speaker 1: they're really neat and sometimes you know, the sign up

929
00:41:57,280 --> 00:41:59,400
Speaker 1: bonuses are great, but then they try to get you hooked.

930
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:02,760
Speaker 1: And those grocery delivery services can cost you on two fronts.

931
00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 1: The delivery of the groceries costs you a fee, but

932
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:09,279
Speaker 1: then on top of that, for many of the retailers,

933
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:12,440
Speaker 1: that companies like instat cart are associated with, the price

934
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:14,440
Speaker 1: that you see on the site when you're buying the

935
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:17,640
Speaker 1: item is more expensive than the price of the item

936
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:20,840
Speaker 1: in the store. And so you know, those moonless skinless

937
00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:23,160
Speaker 1: chicken breast you probably shouldn't be buying anyway, right there

938
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:26,000
Speaker 1: are three seventy nine a pound versus to seventy nine

939
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:28,280
Speaker 1: pound in store. You kind of get used to seeing

940
00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:31,239
Speaker 1: that price online and you pay it um. Whereas if

941
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 1: you're actually going into the store and your price checking

942
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:36,719
Speaker 1: and you're comparing, you're gonna realize, man, that's really really

943
00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:39,480
Speaker 1: expensive if I'm buying it online and giving it delivered. Um.

944
00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:41,680
Speaker 1: So yeah, those sorts of fees that you're gonna pay

945
00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:44,080
Speaker 1: when you're buying online and having it delivered your home.

946
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:47,400
Speaker 1: You know, while it might be really really convenient, ultimately

947
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:49,120
Speaker 1: it's really gonna hurt you when it comes to your

948
00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:51,480
Speaker 1: grocery budget. That's a quick question, to do you guys

949
00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:53,840
Speaker 1: meal plan because I know for a lot of families

950
00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:56,680
Speaker 1: that those are steps that they take to be organized

951
00:42:56,680 --> 00:42:58,919
Speaker 1: about what they're eating for the rest of the week

952
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:01,399
Speaker 1: so that as not stressful, but also to to be

953
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:03,319
Speaker 1: you know, to be smart, to be more efficient, and

954
00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:05,960
Speaker 1: to make best use of their time, whether it means

955
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:08,440
Speaker 1: sort of batch cooking a bunch of stuff on Sundays

956
00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:10,440
Speaker 1: and kind of freezing it or sticking it in the fridge,

957
00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:12,319
Speaker 1: or at least just sort of planning out that what

958
00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:14,120
Speaker 1: the meals are going to be and making sure you

959
00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:16,319
Speaker 1: have the groceries on hand you get you guys do that, Yeah,

960
00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:18,759
Speaker 1: we do. Yeah, we don't do the batch cooking necessarily.

961
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:20,400
Speaker 1: And I think I've seen people do that, and I

962
00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:23,760
Speaker 1: think it's a brilliant strategy, especially if you're okay eating

963
00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:26,560
Speaker 1: the same thing more often, which honestly, for me personally,

964
00:43:26,560 --> 00:43:28,919
Speaker 1: I am. I could eat the same thing every week,

965
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:32,120
Speaker 1: like the same six things Monday through Saturday and then

966
00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:34,640
Speaker 1: left over Sunday and then go on about the same

967
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:37,480
Speaker 1: schedule the week the following week. Yeah you're a robot, Yeah,

968
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:40,680
Speaker 1: pretty much. Uh, But so Emily does a great job

969
00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:42,360
Speaker 1: of planning our meals so we don't have to do

970
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:45,160
Speaker 1: that and we get a little more more variety culinary

971
00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:47,840
Speaker 1: diversity in our lives. But yeah, so she does a

972
00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:49,960
Speaker 1: great job kind of planning things out, which helps save

973
00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:52,319
Speaker 1: money and helps us, you know, kind of plan what

974
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:55,200
Speaker 1: we need when it comes to grocery shopping time, and

975
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:56,920
Speaker 1: then kind of also just make sure that, yeah, we're

976
00:43:56,920 --> 00:43:59,279
Speaker 1: not eating the same thing every week like I would do. Yeah,

977
00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:00,560
Speaker 1: I mean on the same way. I think if if

978
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:01,960
Speaker 1: the groceries were kind of left up to me, I

979
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:05,040
Speaker 1: would have a very rigid meal schedule. We can get

980
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:06,560
Speaker 1: this down to thirty cents a meal. I know it,

981
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:10,320
Speaker 1: all right, Matt. Back to the beer, Mike from Minnesota

982
00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:16,200
Speaker 1: generously provided Surly Darkness, a Russian Imperial stout that is beastly.

983
00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:19,879
Speaker 1: What's your take? Yeah, man, this is a delicious beer.

984
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:22,000
Speaker 1: Is just as good as I remember it. Sometimes, when

985
00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:23,480
Speaker 1: it's been a few years since you've had a beer,

986
00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:25,040
Speaker 1: you kind of wonder how it's gonna hold up. There's

987
00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:30,239
Speaker 1: so many new craft beers entering the scene, and it's

988
00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:32,040
Speaker 1: kind of awesome to go back to a solid beer

989
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:33,719
Speaker 1: like this that you remember being great and you have

990
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:36,520
Speaker 1: it again several years later and it's still fantastic. So

991
00:44:37,239 --> 00:44:39,320
Speaker 1: I am superstoked that we got to have this again,

992
00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:42,080
Speaker 1: especially since surly isn't something that we can just go

993
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:44,200
Speaker 1: to the store and buy from our local package store.

994
00:44:44,280 --> 00:44:46,719
Speaker 1: So Mike from Minnesota, thank you so much. We really

995
00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:49,240
Speaker 1: appreciate it. And no joke, next time you're in Atlanta,

996
00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:52,800
Speaker 1: man drinks around us, no doubt. Yeah, it's really interesting.

997
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:55,040
Speaker 1: I feel like, Uh, I say this about a lot

998
00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:57,080
Speaker 1: of beers. It's also the case for this beer. I

999
00:44:57,120 --> 00:44:59,680
Speaker 1: don't think I've ever had another beer that tasted like this. Yeah,

1000
00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:02,480
Speaker 1: little with that kind of hot finish and some of

1001
00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:05,359
Speaker 1: those other notes going on inside of the beer. I've

1002
00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:07,960
Speaker 1: had Russian Imperial stouts, but they taste completely different from

1003
00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:10,040
Speaker 1: this one. And I really enjoy this. I think totally

1004
00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:12,480
Speaker 1: put together something that Yeah, it hits a lot of

1005
00:45:12,719 --> 00:45:14,640
Speaker 1: kind of flavor notes on your tongue, and I enjoyed

1006
00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:17,000
Speaker 1: it. It It was really good. You know, man, something else

1007
00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:19,680
Speaker 1: We didn't talk about this earlier too, but we haven't

1008
00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:23,680
Speaker 1: talked about going out to eat, and for us, it's

1009
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:27,239
Speaker 1: worth noting that our grocery budget does not include going

1010
00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:30,160
Speaker 1: out to eat, uh, does it? For you guys. Know, Yeah,

1011
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:32,319
Speaker 1: we keep that separate as well. So some people lump

1012
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:34,640
Speaker 1: those together and they say this our food budget. Yeah,

1013
00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:38,839
Speaker 1: because it's eating at home or it's eating while we're out. Yeah,

1014
00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:41,399
Speaker 1: that makes sense to a certain degree. But yeah, we're

1015
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:42,920
Speaker 1: the same way. Man. We don't do it because, I mean,

1016
00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:44,440
Speaker 1: the way we look at it is that going out

1017
00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:47,680
Speaker 1: to eat is fun, it's entertainment, and so we kind

1018
00:45:47,680 --> 00:45:49,799
Speaker 1: of we own it at that and so are going

1019
00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:52,600
Speaker 1: out to eat money doesn't affect our grocery budget. And

1020
00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:54,960
Speaker 1: I think that's the reason that's important, is because you

1021
00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:56,840
Speaker 1: can go out to eat for one meal and that

1022
00:45:56,880 --> 00:46:00,200
Speaker 1: can completely blow your budget when it comes to groceries end.

1023
00:46:00,520 --> 00:46:02,560
Speaker 1: Before you know it, you're just kind of tossing your

1024
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 1: hands up saying we'll forget it, Like, what's it matter

1025
00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:07,000
Speaker 1: because I've already blown through a week's worth of food

1026
00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:09,919
Speaker 1: going out to this nice dinner. That's a huge reason

1027
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:12,160
Speaker 1: why we keep it separate, and we call it entertainment,

1028
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:14,439
Speaker 1: we call it what it is. Yeah, that's a good thought,

1029
00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:18,120
Speaker 1: and uh yeah, people are gonna structure their budgets differently,

1030
00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:20,000
Speaker 1: but it's good to know that that's how we structure

1031
00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:22,520
Speaker 1: are so that saying how do they do that with

1032
00:46:22,560 --> 00:46:24,120
Speaker 1: eating out of the hand, how do they go out

1033
00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:26,480
Speaker 1: to eat and how do they afford their beers? Yes,

1034
00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:28,080
Speaker 1: that's just good for people to know that we're not

1035
00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:30,680
Speaker 1: including going out to eat in this these kind of

1036
00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:34,120
Speaker 1: budget parameters for you and I and so you know,

1037
00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:36,080
Speaker 1: maybe some people combine those things and they're like, how

1038
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:37,600
Speaker 1: do they get it down to a dollar meal and

1039
00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:39,960
Speaker 1: still afford to, you know, go go out to eat,

1040
00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:41,919
Speaker 1: even going to Chick fil a, Like that's gonna blow

1041
00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:44,799
Speaker 1: your budget, right, But so, yeah, that's something that's separate. Yeah,

1042
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:47,360
Speaker 1: we both have an entertainment budget for our own families

1043
00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 1: that that encompasses eating out. But Matt, so, what would

1044
00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:52,760
Speaker 1: you say to someone who does enjoy eating out and

1045
00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:56,520
Speaker 1: they don't enjoy cooking, right, they don't enjoy you know,

1046
00:46:56,600 --> 00:47:00,799
Speaker 1: making meals at home. How in the world can they

1047
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:03,000
Speaker 1: decrease that entertainment budget right and go out to eat

1048
00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:05,920
Speaker 1: less and actually start to enjoy maybe or or at

1049
00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:08,799
Speaker 1: least get better at sticking to a grocery budget and

1050
00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:11,560
Speaker 1: cooking more meals at home it, dude. So what I

1051
00:47:11,560 --> 00:47:13,360
Speaker 1: would say then is to focus on this sort of

1052
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:16,360
Speaker 1: easier things to to reduce and cut your your grocery budget.

1053
00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:20,640
Speaker 1: The first thing being by very few processed foods, if

1054
00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:23,880
Speaker 1: at all possible. This is basically any chips, any crackers,

1055
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:26,760
Speaker 1: any snacks, anything like in the middle of the grocery

1056
00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:29,640
Speaker 1: store that's in a cardboard box or a plastic bag.

1057
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:32,080
Speaker 1: You know that's prepackaged and it has a pretty label.

1058
00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:34,439
Speaker 1: Does that mean I gotta stop buying cheese it? Yes,

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Speaker 1: Jesus are dude. Cheeses are of snack food that provide

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00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:43,680
Speaker 1: almost no nutritional value that just make you feel like crap.

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Speaker 1: I agree to disagree? Yeah, please, you know that you

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00:47:46,880 --> 00:47:49,960
Speaker 1: know the truth. But yeah, focus on whole foods, like

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00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:52,759
Speaker 1: real foods like fruits and vegetables and nuts, things that

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00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:55,120
Speaker 1: actually provide your body with nutrition that will fill you

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Speaker 1: up and keep you healthy at the same time. And

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Speaker 1: you know the next tip I'm going to mention too,

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00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:01,600
Speaker 1: which is something I know you have a tough time with.

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Speaker 1: But you know that you can save money by not

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Speaker 1: eating much meat. Yeah, it's true and you know it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Joel's the cornravore type of guy that wants to I mean,

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00:48:13,719 --> 00:48:15,800
Speaker 1: if money was not an option and your health was

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00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:18,319
Speaker 1: not an option, which would you really eat like grill

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00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:22,600
Speaker 1: meat every single night. Probably Joel is sort of like

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00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:25,840
Speaker 1: the nick Offerman type when it comes to turf and

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00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:30,440
Speaker 1: turf baby it comes to his diet. Um, I'm not

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Speaker 1: saying that you're nearly as steadily as nick Offerman. Well yeah, no,

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00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:35,799
Speaker 1: no one, no one could be. But uh, I could

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00:48:35,880 --> 00:48:37,640
Speaker 1: see you in a nice hearty beard though you want

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00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:39,160
Speaker 1: to grow a beard out in this winter if my

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00:48:39,200 --> 00:48:41,640
Speaker 1: genetics would allow it. But yeah, no, for real, eat

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00:48:41,719 --> 00:48:43,440
Speaker 1: less meat. There's there's lots of other ways that you

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00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:46,280
Speaker 1: can get protein, whether it be through eggs or nuts

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00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:48,799
Speaker 1: or or beans, just lots of other things that are

1084
00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:51,520
Speaker 1: more affordable, better for the environment, better for your own health,

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00:48:52,040 --> 00:48:54,520
Speaker 1: look to other sources of protein. And then the next

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00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:56,400
Speaker 1: thing I would mention too is something that I know

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00:48:56,520 --> 00:48:58,279
Speaker 1: that you and Emily do. And by the way, you

1088
00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:01,440
Speaker 1: guys do an awesome job too. Mentioned y'all's grocery budget,

1089
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Speaker 1: which is still well below the national average. So I

1090
00:49:03,880 --> 00:49:05,600
Speaker 1: know you're kind of beating up on on you guys,

1091
00:49:05,640 --> 00:49:08,080
Speaker 1: but you guys do an awesome job. Yeah, shopping at

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00:49:08,080 --> 00:49:10,600
Speaker 1: Aldi has helped a bunch, right, So when all the

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00:49:10,719 --> 00:49:12,440
Speaker 1: kind of came into our neighborhood. It did lower the

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00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:16,280
Speaker 1: prices I noticed distinctly at other grocery stores, but shopping

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00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:19,400
Speaker 1: at ALDI still saved us money over shopping at Kroger

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00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:21,719
Speaker 1: or Public or some of the other you know, traditional

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00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:24,640
Speaker 1: bigger grocery stores we had around. And I gotta tell you,

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00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:26,879
Speaker 1: the biggest thing I love about shopping at Aldi two

1099
00:49:27,120 --> 00:49:29,560
Speaker 1: is how small it is and that the choices are fewer.

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00:49:29,840 --> 00:49:31,960
Speaker 1: I'm in and out of all the in less than

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00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:34,360
Speaker 1: half the time, I swear. Every time in Mt. Kroger,

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00:49:34,400 --> 00:49:37,439
Speaker 1: I have to ask someone where an item is, and

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00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:39,399
Speaker 1: and at all the I know where everything is, and

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00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:42,680
Speaker 1: that's beautiful. But yeah, so shopping at Aldi and UH

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00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:46,000
Speaker 1: inexpensive farmers markets in your area, just shopping those low

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00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:48,560
Speaker 1: cost options as opposed to the higher cost grocery stores

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00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:51,600
Speaker 1: like Whole Foods, Fresh Market, Sprout stuff like that, that's

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00:49:51,640 --> 00:49:55,759
Speaker 1: just instantly gonna cut your you know, grocery bill by

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00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:59,439
Speaker 1: a lot without you having the clip coupons or even

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00:49:59,520 --> 00:50:01,800
Speaker 1: kind of start implementing some of these more advanced tactics

1111
00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:04,720
Speaker 1: that MAT's been talking about. That's true, man. But then finally,

1112
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Speaker 1: don't waste food, UH specifically eat leftovers. There's nothing wrong

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Speaker 1: with leftovers. Yeah, have a day of the week, you know,

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Speaker 1: a Saturday or Sunday, where you clean out your fridge

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00:50:15,719 --> 00:50:17,520
Speaker 1: right so that that stuff doesn't go to waste, and say,

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00:50:17,560 --> 00:50:19,960
Speaker 1: you know what, we're not going out to eat Saturday night, like,

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00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:21,720
Speaker 1: this is what we do. We clean out the fridge

1118
00:50:21,960 --> 00:50:23,719
Speaker 1: and clean out your pantry from time to time too,

1119
00:50:23,760 --> 00:50:26,239
Speaker 1: because you'll find things back in there that can help

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00:50:26,280 --> 00:50:29,000
Speaker 1: you finish or start a meal that you forgot you

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00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:31,200
Speaker 1: even had. And so yeah, making sure that you have

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00:50:31,280 --> 00:50:34,239
Speaker 1: those times that you are specifically dedicating to cleaning out

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00:50:34,280 --> 00:50:36,480
Speaker 1: your fridge or your pantry. Man, those are really good

1124
00:50:36,520 --> 00:50:39,080
Speaker 1: for you know, keeping your grocery costs low and helping

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00:50:39,080 --> 00:50:41,680
Speaker 1: make sure you actually use the things that you bought. Hey, man,

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Speaker 1: I love that left overnight. Doesn't have to be this

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00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:46,799
Speaker 1: left overnight. There could be pride, like, man, we're gonna

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00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:49,000
Speaker 1: freaking to eat everything in this cabinet and it's gonna

1129
00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:51,160
Speaker 1: be awesome. I will say for us, man, it felt

1130
00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:53,279
Speaker 1: so good right that we said, you know what, we

1131
00:50:53,320 --> 00:50:55,200
Speaker 1: know that we don't do well with those leftovers. So

1132
00:50:55,239 --> 00:50:56,799
Speaker 1: we're either going to make just enough, you know, for

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00:50:56,840 --> 00:50:59,719
Speaker 1: us to cover dinner or we're gonna not make that

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00:50:59,800 --> 00:51:03,479
Speaker 1: mean at all. And uh, then we actually started eat

1135
00:51:03,520 --> 00:51:05,919
Speaker 1: all of our leftovers and it just it feels really

1136
00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:08,120
Speaker 1: good because you're scraping a whole lot less in the trash,

1137
00:51:08,320 --> 00:51:10,719
Speaker 1: and you know that that's a crappy feeling, right, you know,

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00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:12,680
Speaker 1: you feel terrible when you're doing that just as a

1139
00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:15,799
Speaker 1: human being, you know, wasting food, knowing kind of the

1140
00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:18,719
Speaker 1: plight of so many people around around the world that

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00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:21,000
Speaker 1: don't have enough food to eat. Um. And so yeah,

1142
00:51:21,040 --> 00:51:23,320
Speaker 1: it's good for that reason. And it's good for actually

1143
00:51:23,480 --> 00:51:26,480
Speaker 1: making sure that you cut your grocery bill like crazy

1144
00:51:26,920 --> 00:51:29,080
Speaker 1: so that you're able to spend your money on things

1145
00:51:29,080 --> 00:51:31,799
Speaker 1: that actually matter, dude. And I'll leave us with this

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Speaker 1: final statue in the New York Times that was talking

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Speaker 1: about how much money that we waste in food, like

1148
00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:38,920
Speaker 1: food that goes to waste. Do you even want to

1149
00:51:38,960 --> 00:51:41,160
Speaker 1: guess as to how much it is? It's got to

1150
00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:44,399
Speaker 1: be depressing. Yeah, it's insane. It's one hundred and sixty

1151
00:51:44,440 --> 00:51:48,799
Speaker 1: billion dollars in wasted food a year. Is that not

1152
00:51:49,640 --> 00:51:53,520
Speaker 1: the craziest thing ever? Talking about like inefficiencies and just waste.

1153
00:51:53,960 --> 00:51:56,400
Speaker 1: And they were talking about how about nine billion of

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00:51:56,440 --> 00:51:59,919
Speaker 1: that is in dairy products alone, So like, yeah, just milk,

1155
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Speaker 1: I'm sure, what's the vast bulk of that. And that

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00:52:03,280 --> 00:52:05,080
Speaker 1: just makes me sad to think that there's just that

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00:52:05,160 --> 00:52:08,759
Speaker 1: much food that's getting wasted and just that much energy. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And like you said, to know that there's countries around

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00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:13,520
Speaker 1: the world that just don't have you know, that don't

1160
00:52:13,560 --> 00:52:16,920
Speaker 1: have enough food for that reason alone, challenge yourself to

1161
00:52:16,680 --> 00:52:19,440
Speaker 1: to not waste food, to find ways to reduce the

1162
00:52:19,440 --> 00:52:22,879
Speaker 1: amount that you're spending and ultimately throwing in the trash. Yeah,

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00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:25,120
Speaker 1: I think that's another good reason to consider as you're

1164
00:52:25,160 --> 00:52:27,880
Speaker 1: looking at cutting your grocery bills, because not only is

1165
00:52:27,880 --> 00:52:29,920
Speaker 1: it good for your bottom line as a family man,

1166
00:52:29,920 --> 00:52:32,520
Speaker 1: it's good for our bottom line as humans, you know, right,

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00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:34,560
Speaker 1: a continue the cycle of life and make sure that

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Speaker 1: we're not wasting better for the whole planet, dude, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: no doubt. So thanks for listening everyone. Our home on

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Speaker 1: interested in personal finance, find this podcast and we really

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Speaker 1: Friends Out, Man m.