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Speaker 1: Hello, my name's Santasha Nabananga Bamblet. I'm a proud or

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Speaker 1: the Order Kerni Whaltbury and a waddery woman. And before

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Speaker 1: we get started on She's on the Money podcast, I

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Speaker 1: would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land

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Speaker 1: of which this podcast is recorded on a wondery country,

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Speaker 1: acknowledging the elders, the ancestors and the next generation coming

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Speaker 1: through as this podcast is about connecting, empowering, knowledge sharing

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Speaker 1: and the storytelling of you to make a difference for

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Speaker 1: today and lasting impact for tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Let's get into it.

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Speaker 3: She's on the Money, She's on the Money.

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Speaker 2: Hello, and welcome to She's on the Money. That's here

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Speaker 2: to help you save money without feeling like you have

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Speaker 2: to give up everything you love. If you've ever walked

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Speaker 2: into the supermarket for just a few things and walked

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Speaker 2: out wondering, if you've accidentally financed a small car, or

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Speaker 2: if you've found yourself arguing with a self served check

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Speaker 2: out because surely that total cannot be right. Well, my friend,

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Speaker 2: you are not alone. Recent research shows that grocery costs

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Speaker 2: were up eleven percent in twenty twenty four, and look

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Speaker 2: there's actually no signs that that is going to be

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Speaker 2: slowing down. I'm Victoria Devine, and today I am on

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Speaker 2: a mission to tackle the grocery bill madness that is

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Speaker 2: making us all questioned if food is now considered a

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Speaker 2: luxury item or not. With the cost of living absolutely soaring,

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Speaker 2: we're all looking for ways to eat well without spending

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Speaker 2: a fortune, and lucky us, we have the absolute queen

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Speaker 2: of budget friendly meals joining us today. Chelsea Goodwin from

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Speaker 2: ten Dollar Meals, is here to spill her best secrets

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Speaker 2: on slashing your grocery bills, making food stretch further, and

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Speaker 2: proving that cheap eats doesn't have to be sad eats. Chelsea,

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Speaker 2: I am so excited to have you on the show.

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Speaker 2: This is like a fangirl moment from me.

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Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, right back at you, Victoria, I am

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Speaker 4: so excited to be here. I absolutely love your community

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Speaker 4: and everything that you're doing in the finance space.

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Speaker 2: It's the best my community. You're obsessed with you. So

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Speaker 2: they introduced me to you, and then I was like,

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Speaker 2: this woman is a queen. Your recipes are like not

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Speaker 2: only cheap, but like good, and that is a hard

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Speaker 2: thing to manage, especially when we're trying to buy ten

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Speaker 2: dollar meal, like it's just it's exorbitant. Nowadays, Chelsea, your

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Speaker 2: community is booming, Like your community ten dollar meals has

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Speaker 2: completely taken off. People are obsessed with all of the

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Speaker 2: recipes you have, including me, and all of your budget

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Speaker 2: meal hacks. But can we rewind just slightly? How did

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Speaker 2: this all start? Who were you before you were ten

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Speaker 4: Well, it actually wasn't that long ago. We have to

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Speaker 4: go sort of all the way back to twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 2: It does feel like a lifetime ago, though it does.

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Speaker 4: I feel like a lot has happened in that time.

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Speaker 4: But I was and still am, a single mum with

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Speaker 4: three kids. I'd previously been working in marketing, and at

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Speaker 4: that point I'd gone from full time work to part

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Speaker 4: time work. My income had harved, I was homeschooling one

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Speaker 4: of my children and just really really struggling to pay

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Speaker 4: the bills. I was living week to week. And that

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Speaker 4: was at a time where I'm sure you remember everything

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Speaker 4: had just started to go up. Food, electricity, ranch, It was.

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Speaker 2: Like that post COVID, not post COVID. Not sure what's

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Speaker 2: going on, but why is everything more expensive? This feels rude.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was so tough. It was tough for everybody.

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Speaker 4: So I think I got to a point where I'd

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Speaker 4: already cut out all of their really frivolous expenses, you know,

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Speaker 4: realized that the only part of my budget that had

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Speaker 4: I did, and I stuck to it and it worked.

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Speaker 2: That's crazy in this economy, Like that is crazy talk.

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Speaker 4: I think it's just that people are looking for solutions,

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Speaker 4: you know, it's a combination of fact is I think

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Speaker 4: same way that I was. And I think they're sick

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Speaker 4: in other groups on Facebook saying I don't know what

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Speaker 4: you know, two kids, we don't eat junk. We've cut

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Speaker 4: out takeaways. What more can I do? And I thought,

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Speaker 2: I can share this with you.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe this will help people. So that's how my

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Speaker 4: And it's also a solution I think that is working

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Speaker 2: I love it, and I think I also love it

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Speaker 2: because they're just easy. Like we're not talking about you know,

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Speaker 2: want to know, like ten dollar meals, are we saying

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Speaker 2: that we are actually cooking meals for ten dollars, because like,

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Speaker 2: I'm in twenty nineteen. Back in the day you could

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Speaker 2: probably like, oh, you can buy maybe a packet of

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Speaker 4: I know, And I think this is what people are seeing,

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Speaker 4: and they're getting so frustrated because they're thinking it's impossible

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Speaker 4: right to put together a budget meal because they're looking

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Speaker 4: at all of these ingredients that have doubled, some of

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Speaker 2: Not only that, but they've reduced in size, so we're

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Speaker 4: Again illegal, it's not fair, And yeah, it is very

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Speaker 4: single ingredient, and it was even difficult back in twenty

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Speaker 4: and I'm very transparent about this. I'm not giving people

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Speaker 4: that's the secret there. Well. I mean, I think it's

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Speaker 4: across all of those meals in the week, so you know,

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Speaker 4: and if you have to buy that ten dollar bag

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Speaker 2: And I think that that's a really good point as well.

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Speaker 2: I feel like over time we have lost I don't

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Speaker 2: and that's where all of your herbs and your spices

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Speaker 2: And yeah, like that bag of cheese I was talking about,

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Speaker 2: it's fine, guys, it works out really well.

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Speaker 4: I'm with you there.

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Speaker 2: Do you know what some of my friends are like,

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Speaker 2: I'll have someone sleep over and I'll be like, oh, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I'm not spending seven dollars on a loaf of bread

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Speaker 2: to have to, you know, throw away the last four

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Speaker 2: my friend, So I need to know, are you an

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Speaker 2: shopping at all the major supermarkets as well?

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Speaker 3: Like?

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Speaker 2: What are the secrets?

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Speaker 4: I love Aldi, but I've recently moved from Brisbane to Tasmania.

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Speaker 2: Welcome. There is no Aldi here, So no, no, there's

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Speaker 2: not I don't have.

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Speaker 4: A choice right now. And that's fine because something I

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Speaker 4: decided when I first started my group, because I used

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Speaker 4: to shop initially before I started sharing recipes, I would

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Speaker 4: shop between supermarkets, so I would sometimes shop specials. I'd

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Speaker 4: do part of my shop maybe at Audi and part

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Speaker 4: of Woolworks or Coals. But when I started my group,

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Speaker 4: I realized pretty quickly that not everybody has access to Aldi,

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Speaker 4: committed to only shopping at those supermarkets because I do

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Speaker 4: share my receipt.

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Speaker 2: You care so much about your community that you're like,

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Speaker 4: If people see you taking shortcuts, they start to think

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think that that is one really beautiful

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think meat is a big one, especially if

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Speaker 2: But it's relatable, right, Like I know that so many

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Speaker 4: Literally as easy as just throwing it in the slow cooker,

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Speaker 2: See, this is not how in my brain. It went

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Speaker 2: They're better, Like even the difference between breast and thigh

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Speaker 2: But I think that one of My favorite things about

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Speaker 4: and then they think, oh, well, I'll just take shortcuts

433
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Speaker 4: next time. I'm not going to cook from scratch, and

434
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Speaker 4: I think I try to simplify it by keeping my

435
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Speaker 4: spices and my sources to a minimum, like the minimum

436
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Speaker 4: amount possible to get as many flavor combinations as I

437
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Speaker 4: can with those.

438
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Speaker 2: That's actually smarter than I've ever been, because I'm not

439
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Speaker 2: gonna lie. This morning, when I was opening the fridge

440
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Speaker 2: to get some milk out, I saw that there were

441
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Speaker 2: an in preparation for this episode. I was just like

442
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Speaker 2: looking at my fridge a little bit different than I

443
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Speaker 2: usually would, and I was like, wow, Victoria to Vine,

444
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Speaker 2: that is three half eaten jars of capers. I can't

445
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Speaker 2: be trusted. I really like capers, but I can't even

446
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Speaker 2: keep track of what's in my fridge.

447
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Speaker 4: I mean, as long as you eat them, it's okay.

448
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Speaker 2: I will at some point maybe or maybe I'll buy

449
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Speaker 2: a new jar. You never know.

450
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Speaker 4: Yeah, just don't buy any next time you go shopping. Okay.

451
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Speaker 2: Honestly, it's one of those things. I feel like we've

452
00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:40,280
Speaker 2: all got that one thing though, that we convince ourselves

453
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Speaker 2: we don't have in stock. Like my partner it's toilet paper.

454
00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:45,880
Speaker 2: He's always like, every time I goes through my goot,

455
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Speaker 2: need to buy toilet paber? What if we run out?

456
00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:50,440
Speaker 2: Like me capers?

457
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Speaker 4: I think with me, it honestly used to be so

458
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Speaker 4: many things that my fridge used to be a nightmare.

459
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Speaker 4: My everything. It used to actually dress me out so much.

460
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Speaker 4: Just the amount of food waste, the ship volume of

461
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Speaker 4: like spices that I had that I didn't even really

462
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Speaker 4: know what to do with for a long time as well.

463
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not gonna lie. I don't know one recipe

464
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Speaker 2: that Cardaman goes in. Not one. Do I own Cardoman though,

465
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Speaker 2: yes of course I do. Oh it's not good, is it?

466
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Speaker 2: And I feel like that's the sneaky budget killer right

467
00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:27,359
Speaker 2: like food waste is the budget killer that none of

468
00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:29,280
Speaker 2: us signed up for. Like I don't think any of

469
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Speaker 2: us go to the supermarket by a loaf of bread

470
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Speaker 2: or buy a packet of pasta and go can't wait

471
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Speaker 2: to throw half of this away? Like none of us

472
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Speaker 2: do that. We're all guilty one hundred percent, and we

473
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Speaker 2: all justify it as well, right, like we all go, oh,

474
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Speaker 2: that packet, it's a little bit more expensive because it's bigger,

475
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Speaker 2: but I'll like reuse it and like we never do.

476
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Speaker 2: And according to research, it's apparently costing Ozzie households up

477
00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:54,800
Speaker 2: to twenty five hundred dollars a year, which you probably

478
00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:58,960
Speaker 2: already knew. That is literally money in the bin. We're

479
00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:01,920
Speaker 2: clearly getting it wrong. So talk to me, how can

480
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Speaker 2: we cut down on waste and also save money at

481
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Speaker 2: the same time, Like, what do we need to be doing?

482
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Speaker 4: Meal planning helps so much with that. I think it's

483
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Speaker 4: knowing exactly what you need for the meals that you're

484
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Speaker 4: going to cook, and if you're meal planning with a

485
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Speaker 4: view to minimize waste, so like I do with sharing

486
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Speaker 4: ingredients and making sure that there's nothing left over, the

487
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Speaker 4: thing is there is always often going to be something leftover,

488
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Speaker 4: so I think it's then having a plan for what

489
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Speaker 4: you're going to do with that. So if you know

490
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Speaker 4: there's going to be you've got half a bunch of

491
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Speaker 4: chibes or something at the end of the week, instead

492
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Speaker 4: of them, you know, turning into mush and a brown

493
00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:43,240
Speaker 4: mess at the bottom of your crisper, you're going to go, Okay,

494
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Speaker 4: you know what, I'm going to make scrambled eggs twice

495
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Speaker 4: this week. I will use the chibes on top of those.

496
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Speaker 4: It's just planning ahead for those leftovers. But also I

497
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Speaker 4: always tell people that don't just plan for your leftover ingredients,

498
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Speaker 4: but plan for your leftover servings as well, because if

499
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Speaker 4: you're cooking meal and you have extra and you know,

500
00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:02,800
Speaker 4: you put that bolonaise in the container at the back

501
00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:06,359
Speaker 4: of your fridge and you forget about it, and that's heartbreaking.

502
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Speaker 4: So I think you've got to know either put it

503
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Speaker 4: in the freezer, take it to work the next day,

504
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Speaker 4: eat it for dinner the next night, like know what

505
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Speaker 4: you're going to do with that as well.

506
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think that that is really smart. But

507
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Speaker 2: one thing that is coming to mind, and I feel

508
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Speaker 2: like you'll know a lot about this because you're a

509
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Speaker 2: mum of three and a single mum of three at that,

510
00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:28,440
Speaker 2: and that is mental load. And I feel like there

511
00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:31,199
Speaker 2: is probably for you a lot of mental load going on.

512
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Speaker 2: But a lot of us are turned off this idea

513
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Speaker 2: of meal prepping because meal prepping, grocery shopping. It just

514
00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:41,480
Speaker 2: adds to the load and sometimes figuring out what to

515
00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:44,600
Speaker 2: cook in itself is harder than what we actually cook

516
00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:47,000
Speaker 2: and how long it takes. But do you think that

517
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Speaker 2: mental fatigue is also leading towards us just overspending to

518
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Speaker 2: combat the fact that maybe instead of thinking about it,

519
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Speaker 2: this is just the easy way out.

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Speaker 4: One hundred percent. I can still remember, you know, being

521
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Speaker 4: a corporate job, and you know, to come to about

522
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Speaker 4: an hour before I had to go home, and I'd

523
00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:06,280
Speaker 4: start thinking about the fact that I hadn't organized anything

524
00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:09,760
Speaker 4: for dinner, and the stress would kick in then. And

525
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Speaker 4: then you're driving home and you're thinking about ideas, and

526
00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:15,359
Speaker 4: you're in Woolworths and I'd like walk laps around the

527
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Speaker 4: supermarket googling recipe ideas, you know, recipes in under thirty

528
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Speaker 4: minutes using chicken, you know, and had no idea what

529
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Speaker 4: I was doing. And then before I know it, I've

530
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Speaker 4: got to go pick the kids up and get home.

531
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Speaker 4: And it was just it was like this repetitive sort

532
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Speaker 4: of cycle that would happen, you know, multiple times a

533
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Speaker 4: week because I hadn't planned my meals, and I know

534
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Speaker 4: so many people do that and it's just so stressful.

535
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Speaker 4: I think that's why we resort them to much more

536
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Speaker 4: expensive convenience options.

537
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Speaker 2: Yeah, one hundred percent. And I'm guilty of it as well.

538
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Speaker 2: And I mean one of the best changes I've made.

539
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Speaker 2: And I'm very lucky that this fits into my budget

540
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Speaker 2: and I talk publicly about it all the time because

541
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Speaker 2: I'm obsessed with it. But we have Marley Spoon and

542
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Speaker 2: some people like Victoria you could cook that for so

543
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:04,960
Speaker 2: much cheaper, and I'm like, yes, Chelsea would tell you

544
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Speaker 2: that you absolutely can, Like she could literally recreate all

545
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Speaker 2: of these for ten bucks, and you know what, She's

546
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Speaker 2: a genius for that. But I don't have the capacity

547
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Speaker 2: to do that supermarket walk around all the time. In fact,

548
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Speaker 2: I will spend more because I don't have that capacity.

549
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Speaker 2: So for three nights every week we do Marley Spoon

550
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Speaker 2: and then you and Nagi from Recipe t Eats you

551
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Speaker 2: carry the rest of my week. And between the two

552
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Speaker 2: of you with your superpowers combined, like I feel like

553
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:38,639
Speaker 2: you are carrying most of the budget conscious mums in Australia.

554
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Speaker 4: Yeah. I actually do encourage people to look for that

555
00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:46,959
Speaker 4: in between option, like you know that option that's not takeaway,

556
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:51,440
Speaker 4: but it's offering you convenience. If you need that, and

557
00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:54,000
Speaker 4: like you said, it's not a seven night a week thing,

558
00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:58,000
Speaker 4: it's something that you do night's a week. But it's

559
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Speaker 4: always going to be cheaper than getting takeaway. It's probably

560
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:02,120
Speaker 4: going to be a lot healthier as well. But you're

561
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:05,679
Speaker 4: also learning something while you're making these recipes and you

562
00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 4: have the satisfaction of actually creating it yourself. But something

563
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,360
Speaker 4: I like to do as well, which is my sort

564
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Speaker 4: of in between option, is I've got a list in

565
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Speaker 4: the notes up on my phone. I've got a pinned

566
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Speaker 4: note with a list of what I call convenience meals.

567
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Speaker 2: Okay, I didn't even know you could pin notes. That

568
00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:23,719
Speaker 2: is game changing, adore lo pin notes.

569
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Speaker 4: I've got one of convenience meals where I can go

570
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Speaker 4: into the supermarket and their meals that will take me

571
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Speaker 4: about fifteen minutes to put together. Where I'm not really

572
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:35,360
Speaker 4: cooking much from scratch, so sometimes it's getting those pre

573
00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:38,920
Speaker 4: made cofters, those mincekebats that you can get at cales

574
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:41,359
Speaker 4: or Woolies. I will get those. I'll get some curss

575
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Speaker 4: couss if I don't have it at home, because you

576
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:44,760
Speaker 4: don't have to cook cosscuss on the stove. You just

577
00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:48,399
Speaker 4: pour boiling water over it and I'll either get you

578
00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:50,520
Speaker 4: get a pre made salad or you could just grab

579
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Speaker 4: I'll grab a cucumber and some tomato. I'll dice that

580
00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:54,960
Speaker 4: while the cofters are in the pan.

581
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Speaker 2: It's so quick, Okay. I have to ask, do you

582
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Speaker 2: have that note screenshot on your Instagram so that we

583
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Speaker 2: can go screenshot it and add it to.

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Speaker 4: Our sur I should do it. You know what, that's

585
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 4: a great idea.

586
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Speaker 2: Are you telling me that you have a resource that

587
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Speaker 2: could literally help mums who are turning up to the supermarket.

588
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Speaker 4: I hadn't said. I actually did a series of them

589
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Speaker 4: once in my Facebook group a while back, where I

590
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Speaker 4: just did a week of these sort of meals, just

591
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Speaker 4: showing people picon and I think it's like, it's not

592
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Speaker 4: rocket science.

593
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:24,840
Speaker 2: Okay, but it feels like rocket science when I'm standing

594
00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:26,639
Speaker 2: blankly at the chicken section.

595
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's the thing, And I'm like a lot

596
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,000
Speaker 4: of the stuff I share are the things that I

597
00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:33,640
Speaker 4: wish I had ten years ago.

598
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Speaker 2: So you know, yeah, well, we want the screenshot and

599
00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:39,360
Speaker 2: then we will screenshot it and then copy and paste

600
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Speaker 2: it into our notes. And then every single time that

601
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:44,840
Speaker 2: we're feeling overwhelmed and actually haven't done our meal plan prep.

602
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:48,239
Speaker 2: We're going to be like Chelsea still got us. I

603
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Speaker 2: adore this And before you mentioned uber eats, and I

604
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:54,200
Speaker 2: feel like we all know that feeling after a long day,

605
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 2: like you really don't want to do the supermarket dance.

606
00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:58,480
Speaker 2: You just want to get home and then you open

607
00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:02,000
Speaker 2: the fridge and it's uninspiring and it's honestly overwhelming, and

608
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:04,880
Speaker 2: Uber eats is honestly I feel like they call my name,

609
00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 2: like I can just hear the app on my phone singing, Victoria,

610
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Speaker 2: it's me, And then I pick up my phone and

611
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Speaker 2: I've ordered fifty dollars of takeaway, but takeaway is so expensive?

612
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 2: So what are your tips on me? This has now

613
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Speaker 2: become personal and the rest of my community being able

614
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Speaker 2: to avoid that.

615
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Speaker 4: Okay, So one of them would be having some convenience

616
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Speaker 4: meals that you can grab and it may not even

617
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Speaker 4: be something at the supermarket. For instance, I have a

618
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Speaker 4: bakery near me that does a tendle of family pie.

619
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Speaker 2: Oh that's a good deal, I know it does.

620
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:39,400
Speaker 4: So I could get that. I could get a bag

621
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Speaker 4: of chips from the supermarket and maybe some broccoli or something.

622
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Speaker 4: If I felt like being healthy.

623
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but not broccolni broccolinis out of the tax bracket

624
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Speaker 2: for everybody nowadays.

625
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Speaker 4: Unless it's that like two months that it's in season. No,

626
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Speaker 4: So just having those options for not uber eats, not

627
00:29:56,360 --> 00:30:00,840
Speaker 4: drive through, but it's just very quick requires or no cooking.

628
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Speaker 4: Another thing I always try to do is to have

629
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Speaker 4: meals in the freezer, so just cook a little bit

630
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Speaker 4: extra in the meal plans in my cookbook and the

631
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Speaker 4: ones that I share in my group. I'll often have

632
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Speaker 4: one night while you'll make a double batch of something,

633
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Speaker 4: so that gives you the opportunity to either put those

634
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Speaker 4: meals in the freezer or you get a night off

635
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Speaker 4: cooking one week where you might be tempted to get takeaway, But.

636
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Speaker 2: I think that's me, that's literally me, and you will

637
00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:29,880
Speaker 2: be happy to know that I have got a convenience

638
00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:32,920
Speaker 2: meal now in the fridge and we are now freezing

639
00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:35,320
Speaker 2: our leftovers because my husband and I had to come

640
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Speaker 2: to the realization that even all of our best intentions

641
00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:40,760
Speaker 2: mean that our leftovers get left in the fridge because

642
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:42,880
Speaker 2: we forget to take them in the morning, so now

643
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Speaker 2: they're being frozen. And I just feel like even if

644
00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:49,600
Speaker 2: you're not struggling financially with your budget. I just feel

645
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:52,320
Speaker 2: like it is such a smart idea to start caring

646
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Speaker 2: about the little things, because the little things become the

647
00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:58,000
Speaker 2: big things, and then the big things become issues. And

648
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:01,800
Speaker 2: this is honestly, even beyond the fact that they are

649
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:06,560
Speaker 2: very budget friendly, they are yummy, They work, and they

650
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:09,320
Speaker 2: take away that mental load, and I think that that

651
00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:12,320
Speaker 2: is so important and the fact that I can if

652
00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 2: I'm not Unlike, let's be honest, everyone who knows me

653
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:16,520
Speaker 2: knows that my husband does most of the cooking in

654
00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:19,200
Speaker 2: this house. But the reason he does is because there's

655
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:22,160
Speaker 2: a plan. If there is no plan, it is my responsibility.

656
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:27,360
Speaker 2: This plan my husband's across. And that to me is amazing.

657
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:29,560
Speaker 2: I can be like, Okay, here's the meal plan or

658
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:32,520
Speaker 2: here's you know, the recipe, and whoever gets home first

659
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:35,480
Speaker 2: starts and I think that that is really helpful in

660
00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:36,760
Speaker 2: a relationship as well.

661
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:40,160
Speaker 4: I agree, yeah, And I think also like sharing the

662
00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:43,480
Speaker 4: load with your family is really important. I get a

663
00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:46,360
Speaker 4: lot of feedback from people that cook my recipes because

664
00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:49,760
Speaker 4: I separate my recipes into prep steps and cook steps

665
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:52,960
Speaker 4: so they'll get their partner to do like the prep,

666
00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:55,120
Speaker 4: or they'll get their teenage children to do the prep

667
00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 4: before they get home from school and then they'll walk

668
00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:00,200
Speaker 4: through the door. Everything's done and they just need to

669
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:02,240
Speaker 4: do like all the Stoke top cooking.

670
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:05,840
Speaker 2: Literally, Chelsea said, sit down, guys, we have Marley Spoon

671
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:06,280
Speaker 2: at home.

672
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Speaker 4: I honestly like, I have described my book as a

673
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:13,720
Speaker 4: meal kit alternative because you get the grocery list and

674
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 4: people have shown me screenshots of their Woolworth or their

675
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 4: Coals shopping lists and they have Chelsea Week one, Chelsea

676
00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 4: Week two of all the grocery lists for my meal plans,

677
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:25,640
Speaker 4: and now they just have to like they could just

678
00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 4: order the whole list and it's like a meal kit.

679
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:31,160
Speaker 2: They are so smart. You could definitely put that into

680
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:32,280
Speaker 2: Woolies online.

681
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 4: I know. I was like, you guys are way ahead

682
00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:35,320
Speaker 4: of me. That's awesome.

683
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:38,240
Speaker 2: I mean, that's why it's a community. It's a give

684
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:40,400
Speaker 2: and take. Like you thought it was just you giving,

685
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:42,880
Speaker 2: You are wrong, my friend. I learned so much from

686
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:46,640
Speaker 2: my community literally every day having poured over your book.

687
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:49,280
Speaker 2: One of my favorite features It's not going to come

688
00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:53,160
Speaker 2: as a surprise, was the swap and save sections, and

689
00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:55,560
Speaker 2: I thought that was just really smart, because that's what

690
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:57,600
Speaker 2: I was alluding to earlier when I said that, like

691
00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:00,160
Speaker 2: you give really great alternatives, like you can, you know,

692
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:02,560
Speaker 2: even do swaps and saves of things that you know

693
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 2: are more traditional recipes in your Like I don't know vocabulary,

694
00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:08,280
Speaker 2: but I want to know, what do you think are

695
00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:11,240
Speaker 2: three of your favorite like swaps that you can make

696
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:12,480
Speaker 2: that help you save money.

697
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Speaker 4: I think again, like we were talking about before, a

698
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 4: lot of them are making swaps for seasonal veggies. And

699
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 4: I'll usually give people options, so I write them in

700
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:25,600
Speaker 4: the recipe notes of my recipes, but I also put

701
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:28,200
Speaker 4: that in the swap and save section of each meal plan,

702
00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:32,480
Speaker 4: where I'll say, okay, if capsicum is really expensive, instead

703
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:37,000
Speaker 4: you can buy this, this or this, or if for instance,

704
00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:40,600
Speaker 4: sometimes it's actually cheaper to buy a bag of coleslaw

705
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 4: than to buy cabbage. Things like that that people don't

706
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:46,080
Speaker 4: think of. They think, oh, God, surely cabbage would always

707
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:48,680
Speaker 4: be cheaper and then you can shred it yourself. But no,

708
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 4: sometimes the cabbage that's already pre streted in a bag

709
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:54,480
Speaker 4: is going to be cheaper if it's not in seasons.

710
00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:57,840
Speaker 4: So it's just giving people those options and just making

711
00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:00,320
Speaker 4: them aware of the fact that these items might be

712
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:03,719
Speaker 4: cheaper at different times of the year. Also a lot

713
00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 4: of the time just reminding people that home brand is

714
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:08,279
Speaker 4: usually just as good.

715
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:10,360
Speaker 2: It's usually the same thing repackaged.

716
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll say to them. I will say, though, the

717
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:16,040
Speaker 4: only item I do encourage people not to buy, the

718
00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:20,400
Speaker 4: cheapest home brand item is with pasta. I agree, yeah,

719
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:24,080
Speaker 4: just because I've found, especially over the last few years,

720
00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:26,640
Speaker 4: that the quality of that one dollar pasta.

721
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:28,800
Speaker 2: Is just it's going down.

722
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:32,239
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not it. So I think if you're going

723
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:34,760
Speaker 4: to splurge a little bit, that's a swap and safe

724
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Speaker 4: where you maybe spend a dollar extra.

725
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:39,759
Speaker 2: No, And I like that for keeping it real because

726
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:42,760
Speaker 2: it means that we're just not having bad tasting meals.

727
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:44,600
Speaker 2: And I mean, if you still love the dollar past it,

728
00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 2: go for it. You're saving even more money, Queen. But

729
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:49,480
Speaker 2: I do think it's quite funny because we have a

730
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:52,280
Speaker 2: series on Cheese on the Money called name Brand Versus Generic,

731
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:55,320
Speaker 2: where our team puts on a blindfold and then tries

732
00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:58,719
Speaker 2: the name brand versus generic. I didn't appreciate the time

733
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:02,200
Speaker 2: they made me try flour raw and try and tell

734
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:04,799
Speaker 2: the difference. But I'm telling you right now, even raw

735
00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:07,040
Speaker 2: can't tell the difference. But do you know what, we

736
00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:11,600
Speaker 2: could tell the difference between dry pasta. We absolutely could,

737
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:14,880
Speaker 2: even when it wasn't cooked dry pasta, the dollar stuff

738
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 2: was not as good.

739
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:18,840
Speaker 4: It's a texture. It just falls apart a lot easier.

740
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:21,080
Speaker 4: And then I think people get disappointed when they cook

741
00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:23,840
Speaker 4: something and they're like, oh, my rigatoni is in tiny

742
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:24,719
Speaker 4: pieces and.

743
00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:25,920
Speaker 2: It's become spaghetti.

744
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:30,399
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. That is one of the only items, yeah,

745
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:33,319
Speaker 4: that I would say, spend that little bit more, But no,

746
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 4: I think meat is one of the big ones as

747
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:38,320
Speaker 4: far as swaps, just knowing which cuts you can swap,

748
00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:40,799
Speaker 4: even with mints, Like a lot of people don't realize

749
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:43,480
Speaker 4: if it's a say a pork mintce recipe, you can

750
00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:45,799
Speaker 4: probably use chicken mints, you can probably use turkey mints

751
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:47,839
Speaker 4: and it's not going to make a difference, or that

752
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:50,879
Speaker 4: lamb and beef mints can often be interchangeable, or even

753
00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:53,680
Speaker 4: beef and pork. So I think just pointing those things

754
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:56,239
Speaker 4: out to people so they know they have options.

755
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 2: And I love that, but I need to know. I

756
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 2: know that you said you'd spend it dollar more on pasta,

757
00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:04,200
Speaker 2: but when it comes to convenience, like pre made foods.

758
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:07,360
Speaker 2: Are there anything that you've absolutely canceled that you absolutely

759
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:09,759
Speaker 2: refuse to buy anymore because it's i don't know, so

760
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:13,000
Speaker 2: much cheaper and all better to just make it yourself. Yeah.

761
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:16,440
Speaker 4: Well, I should start by saying, like, no judgment to

762
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:18,920
Speaker 4: anybody that does purchase these items, because I know a

763
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:21,560
Speaker 4: lot of people do for convenience, But for me, I

764
00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:25,279
Speaker 4: would say recipe bases, so you know, there's sachets that

765
00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:28,839
Speaker 4: you can get, there's a huge section in the supermarket.

766
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:31,520
Speaker 4: Simmer sauces are a no go for me.

767
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:33,799
Speaker 2: Are we allowed to keep them while we gain some

768
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:36,200
Speaker 2: confidence while reading your cookbook and then get rid of

769
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:39,880
Speaker 2: them later once we have a stocked pantry. Absolutely, Okay,

770
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:42,719
Speaker 2: well let them have them for the interim, but once

771
00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:45,160
Speaker 2: you've read Chelsea's book, like you'll be on her team.

772
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:49,160
Speaker 4: Well, ween, people loft them slowly, but that's funnily enough.

773
00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:52,160
Speaker 4: That's something I hear people say, like I haven't bought

774
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:54,040
Speaker 4: a simmer sauce in six months.

775
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:57,680
Speaker 2: I'm like, I feel like, honestly, it's a gateway. It's

776
00:36:57,719 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 2: a gateway drug.

777
00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:00,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I guess because I used to buy them

778
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:03,560
Speaker 4: as well, but I think it's once you start sort

779
00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:06,960
Speaker 4: of seasoning your food from scratch, you realize how much

780
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:09,800
Speaker 4: cheaper it is and you realize how much better it tastes.

781
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:12,359
Speaker 4: So it's very difficult to come back after that.

782
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:15,600
Speaker 2: I agree, Chelsea. I mentioned before that people's lives are

783
00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:17,919
Speaker 2: going to change when they read your book, and they're

784
00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 2: going to no longer buy Semma sauces, which honestly is

785
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 2: really big. Like you too, we can go to the meeting,

786
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:25,359
Speaker 2: we can all sit around in a circle and say

787
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:27,800
Speaker 2: that I haven't bought a Sima sauce in six months,

788
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:31,719
Speaker 2: but you actually have a brand new book coming out.

789
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:34,920
Speaker 2: I want to know. Tell us that is so exciting.

790
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,560
Speaker 2: That means that the first book did really well, Chelsea.

791
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:40,200
Speaker 2: But what's the difference about this one and how's it

792
00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 2: going to help us level up our budget and our

793
00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:43,040
Speaker 2: meal game even more?

794
00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:46,879
Speaker 4: Okay, so my second book is called Money Saving Meal

795
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:50,040
Speaker 4: Plans at Chelsea, and it.

796
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:51,880
Speaker 2: Does what it says it's going to do on the box.

797
00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:55,319
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. So I think I would have been crucified

798
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:58,000
Speaker 4: if I'd changed the format from my first book, because

799
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:01,680
Speaker 4: people really loved the grocery list, the meal plans the

800
00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:05,520
Speaker 4: budget recipes, so I wasn't going to change anything in

801
00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:08,480
Speaker 4: that way. But great thing about having a community you

802
00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:11,839
Speaker 4: get so much feedback. So I was having people saying, oh,

803
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:14,680
Speaker 4: I'd love it if you do a vegetarian book, where

804
00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:16,399
Speaker 4: I'd love it if you do a slow cooker book,

805
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:18,400
Speaker 4: and I thought, you know what, I'm getting all these requests.

806
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 4: I'm going to be eighty before I can write all

807
00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:21,040
Speaker 4: these books feels.

808
00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:23,080
Speaker 2: But also you can be like me and you can

809
00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:25,319
Speaker 2: pump out like I don't know, five in three years.

810
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:28,400
Speaker 2: It's like I believe in you. It's a lot the

811
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:31,840
Speaker 2: mental load we were talking about before books are on

812
00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:32,760
Speaker 2: another level.

813
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:37,040
Speaker 4: I have full respect to anybody that has written a book, honestly,

814
00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:40,839
Speaker 4: but yeah, I thought I can try and incorporate all

815
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:43,480
Speaker 4: these things that people have requested into one book. So

816
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:45,799
Speaker 4: what I've done in this book that's different is that

817
00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:48,680
Speaker 4: each meal plan is categorized. So I have a thirty

818
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:50,879
Speaker 4: minute plan, I have a meat free plan to cater

819
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:54,200
Speaker 4: for the vegetarians. I have a slow cooker plan, an

820
00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:58,239
Speaker 4: air fryer plan, but also have provided instructions for stovetop

821
00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 4: and oven cooking for people that don't have appliances.

822
00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:03,040
Speaker 2: Oh, you're a nicon. I was like, I don't actually

823
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:05,000
Speaker 2: own an air fryer, and I feel like I'm one

824
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:07,240
Speaker 2: of the only people in the entire country that doesn't

825
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:09,560
Speaker 2: own any a fry nor do I feel the need

826
00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:12,200
Speaker 2: to own one, which I think is the most concerning part.

827
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 4: Honestly, I don't use mine very often, but I know

828
00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:18,960
Speaker 4: that people love them, and I know that people are

829
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:22,200
Speaker 4: looking for recipes to cook in their air fryers. So

830
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:26,600
Speaker 4: given the people what they want, and yeah, so it's

831
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:30,560
Speaker 4: just eight meal plans and then a chapter of budget sides,

832
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:34,040
Speaker 4: and a lot of the meals work in together, so

833
00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:36,799
Speaker 4: you can swap different things around. A lot of the

834
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:39,759
Speaker 4: meals also complement the meals in the first book really well,

835
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 4: because I know sometimes people say to me, oh, I've

836
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:44,360
Speaker 4: got guests coming over, what can I make? So I

837
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:46,360
Speaker 4: can say, Okay, why don't you make this in the

838
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:48,920
Speaker 4: first book, and then use these sides from the second book.

839
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 2: And oh, that's genius, because I never know what to

840
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:53,440
Speaker 2: do when people are coming over, and that I would

841
00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:56,000
Speaker 2: say it's one of the say the biggest money sucks

842
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:59,399
Speaker 2: because I definitely don't entertain enough, but it's a really

843
00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:01,440
Speaker 2: big money because then I'm like, okay, you know what

844
00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:02,920
Speaker 2: I'm going to do. I'm just going to do a

845
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:06,840
Speaker 2: roast because crowd pleaser. Yes it's more expensive, but I

846
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:08,400
Speaker 2: know how to do that, and I know how to

847
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:10,719
Speaker 2: do that well. But like that ends up becoming a

848
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:12,520
Speaker 2: very expensive dinner for four people.

849
00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:15,880
Speaker 4: It can, it can. So I think having also those

850
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:18,919
Speaker 4: like options for entertaining is really important for people because

851
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:20,960
Speaker 4: most people at some point will have guests over for

852
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:23,200
Speaker 4: dinner or even things that they can cook for Easter

853
00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:25,760
Speaker 4: or for Christmas or when they have to bring a plate.

854
00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:27,719
Speaker 2: Just thought of everything exactly.

855
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:31,879
Speaker 4: So try to cover all my bases so that there's

856
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:34,960
Speaker 4: something for everybody, but also really just working within that.

857
00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:38,600
Speaker 4: Still a budget for this second book, it's three dollars

858
00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:41,600
Speaker 4: per serve is the figure I gave myself.

859
00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:45,080
Speaker 2: I feel like that is still very impressive. Three dollars

860
00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:47,640
Speaker 2: a serve is more than reasonable, I think.

861
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:49,960
Speaker 4: So it's still like very budget friendly.

862
00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:53,560
Speaker 2: And in twenty twenty five, that's I would say, still

863
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Speaker 2: unheard of. Like that is incredible, still difficult.

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Speaker 4: Put it that way. It's not an easy us.

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Speaker 2: No, but you've done the work for us, so for me,

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Speaker 2: it is very easy and I hope I share that. Now, Chelsea,

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Speaker 2: you have been insanely kind and you've actually put together

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Speaker 2: a three recipe meal plan just for people in the

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Speaker 2: She's on the Money community, Like that was so nice

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Speaker 2: of you. Can you actually give me a little bit

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Speaker 2: of insight And guys, don't worry, I'm going to put

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Speaker 2: the link to that in the show notes so that

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Speaker 2: you can get that in your inbox asap and give

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Speaker 2: it a crack. But Chelsea, why did you pick those

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Speaker 2: three recipes and how I guess they fit into a

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Speaker 2: budget friendly meal plan?

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Speaker 4: Okay, Well, I've been in your community in your Facebook

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Speaker 4: group for a long time now, so I get a

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Speaker 4: feel for like who they are and what their sort

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Speaker 4: of lifestyle is and that sort of thing. So I

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Speaker 4: know you've got a mix of like people who have

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Speaker 4: families and people who are single, people in couples. So

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Speaker 4: what I've chosen is it's from my week two meal

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Speaker 4: plan from my first book, Tend Doll Meals to Chelsea,

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Speaker 4: and it's a trio of recipes where and this is

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Speaker 4: the case with a lot of mind your plans, where

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Speaker 4: you batch cook something and then you use that same

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Speaker 4: base for multiple recipes during the week so that you're

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Speaker 4: saving time and money. So this one is a Vietnamese

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Speaker 4: meat ball sort of trio of meals. Actually made these

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Speaker 4: a few weeks ago and they are a huge hit

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Speaker 4: with my kids.

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Speaker 2: They're still good. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: You start the week by making a rice bowl with

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Speaker 4: an Asian swore with just cooking the Vietnamese meatbals in

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Speaker 4: the pan, or you can do them in the air fryer,

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Speaker 4: and then you use the same meat balls for barn meat,

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Speaker 4: which you could take to work for lunch, or you

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Speaker 4: could just have that as a light meal. And then

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Speaker 4: you're using the rest of that meatball mixture in a

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Speaker 4: stir fry, so that becomes the base of a noodle

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Speaker 4: stir fry with veggies. You've got a lot of shared

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Speaker 4: ingredients within those meals, but also like a lot of variety,

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Speaker 4: so you're not getting sick of like those same flavors

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Speaker 4: all the time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're not just having a rice bowl every day.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. And I actually had leftover meatball mixture the last

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Speaker 4: time I made it, because I'm cooking for three now

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Speaker 4: because my adult sons moved out.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's so you do not look old enough to

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Speaker 2: have an adult son Chelsea, what is that I do?

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Speaker 4: So we had leftover meat or mixture and I used

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Speaker 4: it as spring roll filling and it was so yummy,

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Speaker 4: so so many different uses. You could use it in

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Speaker 4: dumplings as well, so depending on what you wanted. But yeah,

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Speaker 4: your listeners will have those recipes, they can give it

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Speaker 4: a try and just try out that sort of cook

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Speaker 4: once eat three times format as well, that.

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Speaker 2: They're gonna love it. I'm obsessed. I just know that

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Speaker 2: that's going to hit really well. And I mean you're

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Speaker 2: telling me three meals ten dollar meals, like it can't

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Speaker 2: get better than that. Chelsea, this has been so fun,

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Speaker 2: like you are very fun to talk to, but it's

924
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Speaker 2: also been very insightful. I'm so grateful that you wanted

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Speaker 2: to share your genius budget friendly tips and tricks with us,

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Speaker 2: because I just I have seen you pop up time

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Speaker 2: and time again in my Shoes on the Money community,

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Speaker 2: Like not only are you know my community recommending you,

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Speaker 2: but you are supporting them in the comments, like you

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Speaker 2: are getting in and being like well what about this?

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Speaker 2: And like I swear there are often whole threads about it.

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Speaker 2: I'm just always like this woman comes in clutch.

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Speaker 4: I link on Facebook, Victoria, I'm in my Facebook group

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Speaker 4: like twenty four seven.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Like what people don't realize about Facebook group management.

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Speaker 2: We live there. I live there, am in there all

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Speaker 2: the time. I'm deleting comments, I'm liking comments. People often like,

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Speaker 2: oh my god, I saw your name pop up in

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Speaker 2: that group. I'm like, yeah, babe, that's because I live there.

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Speaker 2: I live there. Thank you so much for putting together

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Speaker 2: that meal planned for our community. It's going to be

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Speaker 2: in the show notes, guys, because obviously, not only do

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Speaker 2: my community want budget meals, we love a freebie. And

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Speaker 2: if you want more of Chelsea's energy, which is unmatched,

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Speaker 2: but also her incredible meal ideas, please check out ten

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Speaker 2: Dollar Meals on Facebook and Instagram and grab a copy

947
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Speaker 2: of her new book. Chelsea, thank you so much for

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Speaker 2: joining me. It has been a delight, and I just

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Speaker 2: know this isn't the last episode that we have you on, Like,

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Speaker 2: I'm going to be planning to get you back as

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Speaker 2: soon as poss.

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Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, I hope we get to do this again, Victoria.

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Speaker 4: This has like honestly been so much fun for me

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Speaker 4: as well.

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Speaker 2: I love it. I feel like we're on the same wavelength.

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Speaker 2: When it comes to energy, which works really well. And

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Speaker 2: I mean, you've just moved to Tasmania and I grew

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Speaker 2: up there. I didn't know that, but I did, which

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Speaker 2: is why I was like, oh, Tasmania. Really, my nana

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Speaker 2: actually makes me bring back this salmon thing from Audi

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Speaker 2: and also the Audi chocolates when I come home because

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Speaker 2: you can't get them in Tasmania. So I knew you

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Speaker 2: didn't have Audi. I knew what I was doing there. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Chelsea and guys, I hope you

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Speaker 2: have enjoyed this and we will see your next episode. Bye.

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