July 10, 2025 • 47 mins
With SNAP benefits facing cuts and grocery budgets tightening across America, our deep dive into money-saving grocery strategies couldn't be more timely. Armed with a Buzzfeed list of 35 budget grocery shopping tips, we evaluate each recommendation on a scale from 1-10, separating genuinely helpful advice from less practical suggestions.
The standout strategies earning our highest ratings include making detailed shopping lists, checking price-per-ounce rather than just looking at sticker prices, and embracing store brands for substantial savings. We explore how ethnic markets consistently offer lower prices on produce and staples, while discount racks provide opportunities that blow past the conventional wisdom of "shop the perimeter." The simple act of organizing your refrigerator can prevent costly food waste, while bringing only cash to the store creates a physical spending barrier that curbs impulse purchases.
Our conversation reveals some surprising findings, including the effectiveness of requesting "rain checks" when sale items are out of stock, the dramatic savings potential of vegetarian meals built around beans and lentils, and digital coupon strategies through apps like Ibotta. We debate the practicality of extreme measures (buying an entire cow with friends?) versus accessible everyday habits that consistently save money. Whether you're shopping on a suddenly tighter budget or simply trying to stretch your grocery dollars further, you'll find practical, immediately applicable strategies to implement on your next shopping trip.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey everybody, welcome to In Moderation After
Dark, since we're recording, forme at least, at nearly 11pm.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Rob has no idea what we're talking about Still light
here.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Oh weird, rob has no idea what we're talking about.
I'm surprising him with thetopic.
So what we're going to be doing, rob, is ranking our favorite
musicals 1 through 10.
So if you want to start, offwith my kind of number one.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I'll go to Musicals, eh.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Maybe there'll be some overlap.
Who knows, hmm, number onemusical.
What do you got?
Number one musical.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Oh God, I'm going to have to go with Pirates of.
Penance.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
That sounds like it's a real thing.
That sounds like you did thisbefore.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
That's the one with I am the very model of a modern
major general.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Okay, I have heard that in reference from other
things Probably Family Guy orsomething dumb, I don't know.
I guess I would say Hamilton,that's just a big one.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Hamilton is a good one.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
That's a big one that comes to mind.
Everybody seems to just loveHamilton.
I'm going to be honest, I don'tthink I've ever watched it.
It came on Disney Plus.
I started watching it.
I don't think I finished it.
Everybody's going to get mad atme now, but anyway, that's not
what we're actually talkingabout.
(01:32):
Uh, if you haven't heard,there's like uh in this.
If you're listening in thestates, you probably heard
there's like a bill and likethey made uh, big cuts to snap,
which is kind of what foodstamps are called now.
So there's a lot of people werelike you know, budget's gonna
be real, real fucking tight, youknow.
So I wanted to.
I was like let real fuckingtight, you know.
So I wanted to.
I was like let me look up whatwe'd like to do, the list here.
I think it's fun, we have funwith it.
I was like, let's say some likebudget, grocery shopping.
(01:54):
Um, uh, like recommendations.
So I found this one fromBuzzfeed.
So you know it's good.
Obviously, you know it's goingto be top tier reporting if
buzzfeed is talking about it.
But there's like I don't know35 of them or something.
I figure we go through at least.
Yeah, there's a bunch of them.
It's.
It's called I save 65 65dollars doing it.
(02:18):
Grocery shoppers are sharingtheir best money saving habits
and this should be requiredreading right now, man, that
whoever writes the fuckingtitles that's a long title.
It's it's like back in the day,like I like to listen to history
podcasts, and back in the daythe book, the title of a book,
would just be like the firstchapter of the book.
(02:38):
It would just be like 38 wordsand just like a history and it
just would keep going.
I'm like man, a little shortand sweet, come on.
I guess their, their brains,probably weren't ruined by, you
know, social media, like ours istoday, so you know it's what it
is.
But anyway, there's a bunch ofthese and I'm just gonna read
them and you know we're gonnarank them one through ten
(03:00):
because I say so.
And why not?
Ranking shit's fun, it's's yourpodcast.
It's my part, I do whatever Iwant.
First one you ready for this?
Ready?
Anything in the center aislesof the store I usually skip,
except for a few exceptions suchas baking and spice aisle, the
tuna fish, the peanut butter,rice and beans Shopping mostly
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along the walls of the grocerystore.
That's where the produce meets.
Dairy and eggs are okay.
So this is something we'vetalked about before with, like
you know, generally like eatinghealthy.
Stick to those things, but likeis that the best for saving
money?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I.
I would argue not because, likeright, canned food is, like
they said, um tuna but all therest of the canned food, all the
rest of the frozen food, allthe rest of the frozen food.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Yeah right, I mean I guess frozen, We'll count frozen
food on the end.
But like, let's see what elsein the middle, like noodles,
pasta, right, Like pasta issuper cheap.
You can do a lot of things withpasta.
You can even do like some ofthe pastas that are more protein
fiber.
But just like basic ass pastaLike, and you don't want to cut
out all that I'll mention.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
looking at the sales, which?
I'm sure we'll get into at somepoint here.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
And when you're on a budget, like fucking, get
yourself some ramen.
Man, like if I'm on a budget,I'll get some ramen, you know
I'll spice it up with some otherthings, right, you try and add
other things to ramen, but likethat's, you know it's when
you're broke and you needsomething.
It's like 20 cents or whateverit is.
So I don't know whatever it is.
So, yeah, I, I don't know.
(04:26):
I mean for in terms of justlike eating healthy, that's a,
you know, good advice.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
but like for saving money.
I give that a three for savingmoney.
Yeah, that's, that's.
I'm not too impressed with that.
I would be more impressed ifthey had said, uh, shop the
discount shelf, yeah right andit just mine's in the middle.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I wouldn't even be able to go there if it wasn't
for that all the deals I get.
I wouldn't even be able to gothere if it wasn't for that All
the deals I get I wouldn't evenbe able to do that.
Who would I even be anymore?
Number two if you have troublewith impulse spending, shop with
cash Going in with only $25 or$50 to spend on the next three
days keeps you from buyingunnecessary things.
I could see that.
(05:00):
I can see this one.
I think just kind of having abudget in general is really good
that I can see this one.
I think just kind of having abudget in general is really good
.
If somehow you haven't, uh,listened to dollar tree dinners,
definitely go follow her.
You know she doesn't just dodollar tree, you know she does
walmart and chozy, all likebudgeting tips and stuff.
And she goes in with like alittle list with how much money
she's going to spend and thenshe writes down like each thing
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like I'm buying this and itcosts this much, buying this
costs that much.
So she kind of has a littletally as it goes on.
I think that's smart.
So, like you know, if it helpsjust to have that cash, then I
think that's cool.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
But like just having a budget's probably good yeah, I
could see it um beingbeneficial for uh people with
like adhd that either mightforget their list or just might
forget to write their list.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yeah, I think this could definitely be helpful for
a group of you know, for somepeople.
I think that could be.
Really.
I would give that an eight.
I think that's a good one.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I was thinking seven.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yeah, I, I, I think overall.
I mean maybe my bar is low fromthe other one.
Anyway, number three beorganized in your, in your
fridge.
Sometimes I tend to buy lots offood just to shove it in the
back of the fridge and forgetits existence while I remember
it, or when I remember it, it'salready expired.
A huge waste every time.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I do have a struggle with this.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
You put stuff in there and I don't realize it's
back there, until I eventuallymove some stuff, I'm like, oh
damn, that's messed, that's notgood.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I don't know what the best thing to do with, like I'm
still trying to figure it outmyself like rotating things,
moving stuff, just like.
Do I write it down?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I'm terrible writing things down, so I'm probably not
going to do that and this isgoing to be a bigger issue for
families because they're goingto have a more stocked fridge a
bunch of you got a bunch of foodyou're putting.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Everybody has their different food, right.
They're like oh little timmylikes this food and susan like
right.
So, like you know, that's tough.
I feel like maybe just likeonce a day just looking in your
fridge and be like all right,listen, is there something in
here I can use?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
or or, like you know, make sure it doesn't go off,
probably worth doing it beforeyou go grocery shopping as well
just go to the fridge andrummage into the back and be
like okay, I have this, I don'tneed to buy that yeah, right,
right, because I do that withsome foods.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Now, usually foods I do with like are dried lentils,
so it's like whatever I have, abunch of dried lentils, the last
meat till the apocalypse, youknow.
But like you probably got tocheck before you leave, make
sure you already have that likeoh, I bought carrots again again
.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
I already have carrots.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Whatever it is, I don't know.
I just see carrots in thispicture.
The picture is there's onlylike eight things in the fridge,
so it's like you reallynobody's missing anything in
this anyway.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
That's my fridge, that's a single person's fridge.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I've got, milk I've got soda.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I'm not missing anything.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
That's your plan.
Just have less food in there.
I give that an eight Again.
I like it.
Yeah, I'm going to give thatone an eight too.
I like that my grocery, mygrocery, my grocery.
It's just weird to say mygrocery in that grocery store,
like, I guess, just say mygrocery.
That sounds weird.
My grocery offers delivery fora modest yearly sum.
(08:03):
Oh, they pay per year.
The delivery is at noadditional charge.
I buy nearly all my groceriesthis way.
The prices are the same as inthe store, right, I don't do any
impulse buying, I guess that'strue, saving quite a bit.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I mean I could still see people impulse buying on a
website.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Maybe just you know, walking by, you're like, oh, I
need that hubba bubba, hubbabubba, my car doesn't spend time
in the parking lot, uh, gettingdinged.
I mean, wait, getting how many?
What groceries are you going tothat your car's just fucking
getting dinged while you're inthe parking lot.
Get a.
You should probably go to adifferent one.
Uh, and I save on gas, which Iguess I get the gas yeah, I
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imagine it would pay for itselfin the gas money.
It also says tipping is notpermitted.
Oh, thank God I don't have totip those.
That was the real problem here.
So I think I mean, if it'saround the same price and I
guess it saves you from impulse,I feel like that comes down to
are you an impulse buyer?
And if it helps you with that,then yeah, I could see it.
(09:03):
I could see it.
I see it.
Especially people you know youhave trouble with, you know
mobility issues and whatnot,like that, and I totally get it.
But just for like not goingthere, I don't know, then you
can't really shop this stuff.
For can you still shop thedeals, I guess, online?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
they probably still have deals listed out on the
discount rack.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Yeah, no dice, I give that a one.
I said any any one of thesethat I miss out the discount.
Rack a record.
If that first one gets a one,it gets a one.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Oh I, I I'm 50, 50 on it.
I'll give it a five.
It's like it's hit and missit's fine.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Uh, I never go number five, I never go to the store
without a list.
This might seem obvious, butit's a lifesaver.
I plan my meals for the week,check what I already have, uh,
in the pantry and fridge.
See, hey, there we go, and thenwrite down only what I need.
Uh, it helps me avoid theimpulse buying blah, blah, blah.
Another thing I do is look forsales and discounts.
This one gets a 10.
This one already gets a 10, wego I check the weekly flyers and
(10:01):
clip coupons when I have time.
Sometimes I even use thosestore apps.
Right, yeah, they do have, likeKroger and whatnot has an app
that you can get like weeklydigital deals.
It's kind of a pain in the assI've been.
I've tried like downloading itand getting it but like linking
it to my card.
It's just, it's annoying.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Anyway, I even use those.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yeah, do you have them?
Speaker 2 (10:23):
We've got what's it called Nielsen Home Scan and if
you join that, basically whenyou purchase stuff you just scan
it with your phone and you getpoints which you can redeem for
gift cards.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Yes, so we have I've talked about it before there's a
woman that does a lot of budgetstuff and she uses Ibotta,
i-b-o-t-t-a, ibotta and that'sjust like an app where you put
in, like it gives you deals for,like certain products.
You buy that product, you putit in, you scan your receipt and
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then it gives you money back orpoints towards things and that
sort of stuff.
So I think it mostly givesmoney back.
So, like those things I thinkcould definitely be worth if
you're trying to save some money.
Uh, you know, check thediscounts.
Obviously love that.
Uh, and like I think the listis good.
I started, I have what's itcalled.
I actually started, you know,the list on my, my phone for the
(11:21):
first time ever because I havelike all these recipes and I
saved my favorites and I go andthen I try to look at each video
, like oh, I need that for this.
I'm like this is stupid.
I just need to write down whatI have.
Any list that's the name of it.
Any list is what I use, not asponsor, and it just gives me my
grocery list and I add it andthen like when you, you just tap
it.
Like I just tap this, like Ihad almonds.
(11:41):
I tap it and then it crosses itoff.
It just like it's still there,but it's crossed off.
So I know I have it and Itechnology I know it's neat,
instead of, just like you know,pen and paper or whatever, like
I I think I think that's cool,so I like this 10 yeah, I'm
going with a 10 on that too uhnumber six choose one or two
stores near you with uhgenerally good prices and use
(12:04):
them for most of your shopping.
Don't go all over town, spacepermitting.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Make fewer, larger trips hmm so I mean you say this
one's gas, this one's funny.
For me, being a small townperson, it's like, okay, I, I
only have one store here in townthat I can go to.
You're pigeonholed into that,yeah.
So I don't know what to how toview that as a city person.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
For me because I do have, you know, lots of the ones
around me I have, kind of theones I do more of my shopping at
, Mostly Kroger, Like Aldi, Ilove Aldi.
Like Aldi in the States andalso in Europe, Um it's, it's
got the some of the best prices,but they don't, like really
have everything you need.
Is the problem they not likeyou know a bigger store that has
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you know, like, oh, I need thisspice or whatever it is that,
like Aldi is just not going tohave.
So I don't know, like, I guessyou save money on gas, but like,
do you save that much by justnot going multiple times?
I, I don't know, Maybe I'm justI'm biased because, like, I go
to the store a lot since I'malways like, oh, somebody tagged
me this recipe, Now I need Idon't know like salmon roe or
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something weird.
Aldi's not going to have thatoff to.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
I feel like if you're worried about gas, you may as
well just get the deliverythough.
I guess, I don't know, that'slike a four, I give that.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
A four, I give that a question mark because I right
you're going to take my ratingswhere I just stopped giving, I
just stopped rating things outof ten, because I was just like
I don't even like.
People were asking me about myscale, like what is your scale
intake?
I'm like I don't fucking knowand I'm like I like it or I
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don't like it, or like I like itbut it's too much work.
So now I just say that I'm likeI like it, but it's too much
work and I'm not gonna make itagain out of 10.
And I think people resonatemore with that because they're
like yeah, that's pretty muchwhere I'd be, it could be a 9,
but if it's too much work, thenfuck it.
They're like oh well, then youcould knock down your rate.
No, that's too much work.
I'll just tell you what I thinkabout it out of 10.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
There's no, you don't know what a 7 out of 10 means,
right it's generally good, butnot great.
I guess it doesn't tell me thatit's too much work.
It's just a second out of 10.
Okay, well, it could have beentoo much work.
It could have not been thatgreat.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
I'm just going to tell you what I mean and then
just say out of 10.
And then I would just start tosay out of 10 for like anything
at the end I'm not even talkingabout food.
I'm like it's a good workoutout of 10.
I don't know, this is dumb.
But I Number seven eat beforeyou go to the store.
When you're hungry, everythingis tempting.
That's fair.
Yeah, I think that's fair.
I think that's good advice.
(14:48):
Let's give this like a nine.
It's solid advice.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
I think people yeah, that's when you, that's often
when you do that impulse buying,I think, like walking past the
chips and you're kind of like,oh, I'm snacky, yep.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Yeah, I think even if you're going to the store, like
having something with you, likeyou know, snack on something to
the store, right?
So you're like not super hungryit's like you.
You're like oh, I don't havetime to sit down and have a
whole meal or something likethat.
Often like I was just finishingright here a nuri protein shake
or whatever.
So, like my wife and I you know, april and i- I like to chew
gum.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
My, I find, you know, some people say gum makes them
hungrier, some for me it doesn'tmake me hungrier, so it depends
I've had people, I've heardpeople say both thing.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Yeah, it kind of just works for you I don't know, I
haven't man one.
I don't even know what last timeI chewed gum was, but like you
know what I like fucking hardcandies, because I'm 90 anyway.
Uh, number ace.
Plan ahead if you need uh creamfor one dish, find another dish
that will use up the rest ofthe cream within a few days, and
this kind of goes back to notwasting food, which I think is
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solid.
So, like, even for me, like I'mlike doing all these recipe
reviews, I'm like, oh, I havethis.
Like is there another recipethat like takes this because I
need to use it for something?
If not, I'll just have tofigure something out on my own.
So I think this is very solidadvice.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Yeah, it's a little bit into the meal prep a little
bit.
Yeah, just dips the toe in, Iguess.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Um a little bit.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Yeah.
The opposite of that would beto just skip anything that
requires anything.
Fancy, yeah, but that dependson.
You know some people likeespecially with autistic people
they like to eat the same thingover and over again and then
they switch to something elseand eat that over and over again
.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
I think it's just like yeah, if you find something
, it is true, because a lot ofthings are just bought in a big
container and you're like man,when the hell am I going to use
this If it's not something likeRoche, it goes for a while.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
I hate when the sales are always like the family size
sales Buy two, get one free orwhatever, and it's like I don't
need three of these.
That's the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
I'm a single person.
I need one.
Yep, I still just buy them.
I bought, like I don't know itwas like 10 boxes of like honey
nut Cheerios for April Not thatlong ago, because it was like
buy five and get each one for adollar, and I, not that long ago
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, because it was like buy fiveand get each each one for a
dollar, and I was like I'll get10 for 10 or something
ridiculous.
So you know I had a whole bunchof my basement, but like they're
good for over a year, yeah, atleast they've got a good uh long
expiration on them.
Yeah, yeah, shelf life.
So it's got the shelf life,then I'm like all right, I'll,
I'll do it.
Uh, okay, so I think that's.
I think you're playing aheadeight.
It's number eight on the list.
I give it an eight.
Number nine look for the storebrand or in-house brand.
Yes, many stores, supermarketsand online shops sell groceries
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and food items of their ownbrands.
Right, I give this 10.
I always love shopping.
We all have the things right.
People are like, oh, I needHeinz ketchup or whatever.
Totally, I fuck with that I.
People are like, oh, I needheinz ketchup or whatever.
Totally, I fuck with that.
Like, I get it.
I'm.
I'm about, um, uh, the, theblue diamond almonds, fucking
love those things.
Uh, I'm gonna pay for that,unless it's on the discount.
Right, then I'm getting a wholebunch of this, which I think I
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still do.
Uh, but, yeah, the store brands.
Most of the time it's like justas good, man, I get the, the
off brand.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Like, uh, frosted mini wheats or whatever there's
a lot of occasions where it'smade in the exact same factory.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Yep, same place, and they just put a different box on
it.
10 out of 10.
Love that Number 10, thoughpartially, prepare your meals in
advance.
Try to do some preparation likemarination, marination,
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chopping the vegetables, mixingthe spices required for cooking
and other things that can helpyou speed up cooking.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
How is that?
Speaker 1 (18:31):
saving me money.
I don't know.
Not wasting things, maybe justbeing less waste.
When cooking gets easier andquicker, you are less tempted to
buy from outside.
Okay, so that's the end of itAll right, so I guess you just
buy.
You eat out less.
That's the idea of saving money.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
I guess I get that Having some things partially
prepared so it's easier to throwit together.
So like you cook a bunch ofchicken in the oven and then you
have chicken ready for whenever.
I see a lot of people do that.
They use little hand mixers.
You know those hand mixers andthey put the chicken breast in
there and they shred it up andthen they have shredded chicken.
I did that once.
Chicken was fucking everywhere.
Every ounce of my kitchen wascovered in cooked chicken.
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I was like this is, and so thenlike they're like oh yeah, get
a, a paper plate and then putthe little tong thingies or
whatever they are, the littleblender, whatever's, through
that and then have that as ashield.
I'm like I, this is, this is alot man that's getting a little
too much yeah I don't know Ijust mean, at that point, just
get a food processor.
I'm just gonna get tofu orgrinder because I'm lazy, it's
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easy, I just take it out of thepackage.
I don't know.
So like I, I guess, partiallyprepared things I I give that's
like a seven or an eight.
Like I I get it, I think,having some things kind of just,
but also having like those like, um, vegetable mixes or
something right like the frozenones, just having that and like
that's already partiallyprepared and I didn't have to do
jack squat for it yeah, andthat goes back to our center
(19:58):
house.
There just the, yeah, the cannedfood, the frozen food mm-hmm, I
saw I, I like that idea.
But, uh, number 11, I always,uh, I always make a list, right,
thank you, we already said listand I check my list against the
weekly sales.
Yes, yes, blah, blah, blah.
Uh, I'll hold off on buyingthat.
I, if pantry items go on saleand I know I'm low but not out,
(20:21):
I'll stock up, I guess.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
All right, so stocking up, yeah if it's got a
long shelf life there's longshelf life.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Totally get it.
I always check the expirationdate.
That is true.
You should probably check it,just make sure it's not.
But like you know also, youknow it's not poison after best
buy isn't poison after whateverdate you know, so it's.
I'm still eating these likelentil pouches that are like
past the best buy date, but likeit's still good, like it's in a
little seal pouch, it's fine.
Uh.
(20:47):
But I do like the idea ofstocking up.
I give that idea an eight.
I like that yeah, particularlywith toilet paper right, like
those sort of things that arelast, yeah, but stock up when
you can.
That's why, and that's why it'skind of like expensive to be
poor.
Right, because, like when youonly have like twenty dollars
and you're like, oh well, that's, I don't have the money to buy
it.
When it's on sale Now I canonly buy a little bit, and next
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time it won't be on sale andthen I'll be paying.
So that man.
You know, being poor isexpensive, which just sounds
stupid, but it's true.
Um, number 12, I check the costper ounce yes, the items on
sale aren't always the cheapest.
That's 10 out of 10, 11 out of10.
Yes, um, because, yeah, likeyou, you see, like, even like a
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bigger container, you think abigger container might be, uh,
cheaper or something.
But you look at per ounceyou're like, oh, yeah it's not
cheaper or something.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
but you look at per ounce you're like, oh, it's not,
it's nice.
When they have it on the labelon the shelf It'll be like right
above or below the price andit'll say X amount per whatever
freedom unit.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Yeah, exactly 142 miles per 18 Fahrenheit, I don't
know.
So yeah, you're like oh, it'scheaper, I go with that.
So I think that's very smart.
Check the price per ounce.
I like that.
10 out of 10.
13, shop your pantry first.
Take a few things out of yourcupboard, fridge and freezer.
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What do you need to make withthese meals?
Okay, so just looking at likeokay, I need to use these up.
What do I buy at the store touse these with?
I like that.
I like that.
You have like pasta, likethere's.
They show a picture likesomebody has like pasta.
Oh, they have stevia.
Fuck this.
This gets a zero out of ten.
I don't like this.
From this picture.
I hate stevia.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
It tastes gross like it yeah uh but yeah, it's pretty
often you'll find pasta orsomething in the back of the
shelf, right yeah, there's likewell, it's like ramen in here
yeah, like.
So, yeah, you find that stuff.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
You're like what can I work with this?
Totally get it like it.
I like that 10 out of 10.
Um, we're about halfway throughhere 14 at least half of what
we buy is on sale.
Love that.
Our little groceries.
Uh, weekly sales that come outon wednesday through the
following monday.
I'm there on Wednesday.
Oh okay, I my store.
I don't know if my store haslike a set few days that they're
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like most of the stores aroundhere are Thursday Interesting.
I actually don't know.
I'm just there so often, I justcheck, but like that's smart to
know that it's on a Wednesday.
I like that.
Jan Steinman, good job.
10 out of 10.
Check your deals when do theycome out?
15.
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Meal plan based on what willspoil first.
For example, if you boughtfresh strawberries, you should
include them in every meal untilthey are gone.
Yeah, especially fuckingberries.
Man, you turn your head andyou're like, oh, moldy shit, I
like that.
Definitely.
Check what's going bad, use itup.
Love that nine out of ten um 16.
(23:46):
In the us it seems there is afair amount of product that is
rejected by larger grocerystores for aesthetic reasons.
This is true, a bell pepperthat is half eat, half, half
eaten half green and half red.
That's half eaten.
It's not good.
You probably don't want that.
Uh, and this produce is stilloften sold at small independent
grocery stores.
In both california and marylandI found mexican groceries where
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the produce is half as much as,uh, as safeway, I think.
Yeah, so, like, there'sdefinitely like delivery
services as well.
They're like oh, this, we, wedeliver you a box full of like
misfit, you know, potatoes andshit.
Like I think that's cool.
Um, and yeah, so there'sdefinitely a discount outlets.
I've shopped at a bunch ofthose and yeah, like, like I
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said, like you know, expirationdates are too big of a deal, but
some of them are like real pastexpiration date, so you want to
check that if it's like waypast it, that it doesn't taste
so great anymore.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Um, that also goes back to the uh discount shelves,
because you know a broken box,they can't put that on the
regular shelf.
But exactly, it's just a brokenbox fuck it who gives.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
I'm not eating the box, um in both.
So, yeah, I, I like that.
I think this is really good andshopping at like mexican
grocery stores, asian grocerystores I've seen a lot of like
asian.
I've been to some asian onesthat are like really good, um,
so I think shopping at one ofthose like more ethnic stores
awesome, love that.
10 out of 10 again.
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Yeah, uh, number 17 buy in bulkwhen it makes sense.
Yep, so they've shown a picture.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Yeah yeah, buy in bulk when you can sense Yep.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
So they've shown a picture Yep Buy in bulk when you
can.
I think that's when you can isthe key there.
Obviously you can't always, butI think when you can.
Very solid advice 18,.
I've observed many friends whowill purchase bulk items at
stores like Costco, sam's Cluband the like, but will buy twice
as much as they would normallyuse.
(25:38):
So if an item like a superlarge bag of broccoli is five
dollars a bag but you throw halfof it away, right, okay.
So again this comes back toright, like what's shelf stable
and whatnot, because yeah,broccoli, I have bought the
giant things of broccoli orsalad and then you end up
throwing half of that out, whichis not great, you know.
So I think that really comesout.
Or like the potatoes like Ilove potatoes, but sometimes
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it's like a 10 pound bag ofpotatoes.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
I'm like I can't, I went to that.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
These are gonna get eyes in them before I can finish
that.
I don't care if it's five it's.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
It's hard for me to buy those things as a single
person.
I'm not gonna go through anentire bag of potatoes unless
I'm eating potato every singlemeal for the next like every
meal, not just every day.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Every meal.
Like that's a lot of damnpotato, like what's?
It's like five pounds for 350or 10 pounds for five dollars.
Like oh, well, then it shouldbe cheaper in the long run.
But like no, they go bad, youthrow them out, so I'm gonna pay
for the 350, for the five poundbag, uh number.
So yeah, I think that's 10 outof 10.
I like that, I'm justeverything.
10 out of 10, 10 or 1.
Now, it's my scale is 10 or 1.
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Those are the only two options.
Look high and low, not in themiddle.
The most expensive items areusually put on the shelves where
you can easily see them andreach them.
Some of the less expensiveitems may be on the higher or
lower shelves.
Is this something you'veexperienced?
I'm trying to think really thisis.
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It kind of just seems to, yeah,like I, I don't know like, I'm
trying to like like go throughmy grocery store and see, like
you know, like, where the moreexpensive items are, but I feel
like it's just a little all overthe place.
I guess if you notice that,that gets a one for me.
That wasn't one one I, becauseit doesn't fit my what I'm used
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to uh, number 20 years sometimesthe stores.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
The store brand stuff might be on the bottom shelf
but like yeah, I don't oftenit's not there's expensive items
in the middle man.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
I've seen some damn things.
I'm like 20 for what?
Like I, uh, what is it?
Um that?
That?
That blue blue spirulina shitman I bought that.
I was mad I had to pay like 20bucks for that.
So expensive um, use rewardscard.
Use a rewards card if yourstore offers them by engaging
weekly deals.
I don't know many Like.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
I don't?
Speaker 1 (27:59):
There's stores that have like so, like, oh, so like.
Okay, kroger actually has thoselittle card that like that's
how you get the discounts in thestore and then you save on gas
as well.
So I think that's kind of smart.
So when I go by, you know, saveit up.
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You go by, buy gas, you get adollar off gas.
I'm like all right, that's cool.
So I think I think if they havea store card, you might as well
use it, right, if it's one ofthose ones that's free.
Um, let's just say, just becareful with this approach.
If you are spending an extraten dollars on an item that you
don't need to save ten dollars,well, yeah, I don't want.
Okay, moving on, I give that.
Now I break my scale.
Five, uh, uh.
Invest in herbs and spices.
These will make food uh, nomatter how cheap more exciting,
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fair.
Yeah, good job, joe gear.
Geronimo, geronimo, geronimo.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Joe Geronimo.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Is his name.
Joe Geronimo.
G E R O N I M O.
Geronimo, geronimo.
Geronimo.
G-e-r-o-n-i-m-o.
Geronimo Geronimo, geronimoMartinez, joe Geronimo.
His name is Joe Geronimo.
I need to know everything aboutJoe Geronimo.
Okay, social media find us JoeGeronimo.
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I'm copy pasting it right now.
The rest of this episode willno longer be about saving money.
It is about who the hell is JoeGeronimo Martinez?
I have a picture of a bunny onSoundCloud, a Quora question
(29:32):
from someone.
Maybe Joe Geronimo Martinezpassed away in recent days of
congestive heart failure inYorkshire.
Oh boy, I don't think this isthe same one.
How many Joe GeronimoMartinez's are there?
Apparently a lot, apparentlymore than one, which is I didn't
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expect that.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
I wouldn't have expected that.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
I guess, like Joe Martinez is like those are
common names, but sure Am I.
Maybe I'm just saying thatwrong and I'm just dumb, but
whatever, yes, joe, you're right, the spice is very good.
10 out of 10.
Number 22, if something goesoff in a shop, it's their
problem.
Something goes off in a shop,it's their their problem.
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If it goes off in your house,it's yours.
Don't buy food that you'regoing to throw away so like if
it's already spoiled.
It's fairly easy to judge whenyou ate all of the previous week
, for instance.
No, no one throws away bacon orsteak, but perhaps.
Uh, but.
But perishables and impulsebuys that might be a good idea.
Uh, don't get thrown away, okay, I mean, I guess, yeah, just
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don't throw away food.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Don't throw away food .
Don't buy spoiled food.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Bro, it's from Joe Geronimo.
I shit you not.
It's Joe Geronimo Martinez.
It's the same dude.
You're just getting the.
Is it the next one?
Joe, all right.
No, the next one's not Joe, allright.
So Joe says get spices, anddon't buy things that are just
going to immediately go off.
I guess Sure.
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And don't buy things that arejust going to immediately go off
, I guess Sure.
We're with you, joe.
Number 23.
Use the 60-30-10 grocery ruleand spend 60% of your budget on
fruits and veggies and 30% onprotein, such as dairy fish and
meat.
The remaining 10% can be usedon snacks and extra stuff that
you might need.
Remaining 10% can be used onsnacks and extra stuff that you
might need.
60% of your budget on fruitsand veggies.
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That's, bro, unless you'rebuying green beans and shit
fruits and veggies can beexpensive.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
I also feel like if you're shopping frozen fruit and
veggies, you're going to begetting a better deal.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
It might not be 60%, I don't know I guess like, okay,
the 10% on like snacks we alllike have been there right when
you look at your cart and halfof it's like 50% of it's snacks
and you're like this was not thebest choice, these are not the
best choices I've made, so thatI get, but like I don't know if
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you need the 60, 30, I'm iffy onthat.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
I'm iffy, I give an iffy I feel like I would spend
way more on protein hmm, yeah, Iguess how much depends on the
price of protein, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
I'm yeah, I don't know about that one.
I like the snack thing.
I get uh number 24.
If you live in a city, go toethnic neighborhoods and shop in
the markets there.
Yeah, a plucked chicken willnaturally cost more than one you
plucked yourself.
I'm not kidding, really, albertcool.
But in general the produce andmeat will be much lower, lower
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priced, than at the big chains.
Yeah, no, I do agree, though,like the ethnic uh stores, like
mexican, asian, all that stuff,they really do have good deals.
Like man, like even somethinglike ginger, like I was, I
bought it like an asian uh storeand I got like pounds of ginger
for like pennies.
I was like this is, this is wayless than normally I spend.
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So I think they have somereally good deals.
If you have one of those,definitely check it out, and
they have some if you have oneof those yeah right, a lot of
people won't have one, but likeyou know, they, they.
If you go in there, like what'sthis?
That's interesting, I bought,uh, oakley, um, a bunny that was
carrying.
It was like a stuffed bunnythat was carrying a banana, or
maybe it was a plantain, I don'tknow, but it was cool and she's
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like why was a bunny carrying abanana I don't know.
They were carrying a whole bunchof different things and I was
like, just pick one.
And she got the one that wascarrying a banana and I was like
plantain or whatever it is.
I was like, okay, cool, prettymuch any stuffy we get, though
our dogs just eventually rip itup, so I don't even know why I
keep buying them at this point.
But you know that's what it isshe wants you like.
You're like when you have alittle child that wants a stuffy
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like okay, five dollars for astuffy anyway.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Uh, no one actually money saving technique don't
have children yeah, don't.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
If you're tight on cash, don't get pregnant or get
someone else pregnant.
That's their money saving tip,oh shit.
Number 25, use leftovers sonothing goes to waste.
Yeah, we've already talkedabout this.
A month.
Yeah, don't use leftovers,right?
Thanks, craig.
We've already gone over this afew times.
(34:21):
It's just Craig.
We don't even have his lastname Fucking.
We have Joe Geronimo Martinezover here.
They're giving us all names,this guy's Craig.
Thanks, craig.
Craig, I give it a one becausewe've already seen it a bunch.
Number 26.
Fruits and vegetables in seasonare usually cheaper and fresher
than those not in season.
Try to plan your meals aroundseasonal produce.
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I think that's fair yeah, yeah,that's fair like oh, this is
cheaper.
These berries now are on salebecause they're in season.
Totally zarita, zarita.
I like that 10 out of 10, um.
And then like, oh yeah, likefarmer's markets and stuff you
get some good deals at farmer'smarkets if you have one.
So like there's one, there'sone here, um, not too far from
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us, like downtown grove cityarea, uh, where I live in
columbus, and it's like we get abunch of different stuff.
That's really cool, like youknow, like I haven't even seen
that, I, I.
So yeah, if you have farmersmarket farmers markets are one
thing that are common in yeahdefinitely, like you know,
things only grow for like twomonths out of the year for you
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guys, but like those two months,you gotta get the the
watermelons when they're there.
I don't, I, I don't know, butoakley's been chowing
watermelons.
She wakes up.
I just cut up a bunch ofwatermelons.
She sits there just like justit bowls more, more, more
watermelon.
All right, you eat as muchwater, watermelon and raisins,
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like you know what.
Sure there's worse things to bereally into.
So eat your watermelon andraisins, all the sugar.
27.
Eat more vegetarian meals.
Lentils and beans are way lessexpensive than meat.
Fair man, like, fuck, I talkabout all the time Beans, man,
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lentils, just so cheap.
Like if you get it dried,they're basically paying you to
take it away.
Uh, and even like canned, it'sstill very inexpensive and I
think the so a lot of people Ithink is just like well, I, I
don't want to give up meat, likeI, I like it.
I'm like, listen, I get it.
Mix it together, man, do, likeyou know, do, do the ground beef
and lentils mixed together,make a chili that has some
ground beef and a bunch of beans, whatever it is that sort of
stuff, right?
Yeah, vegetarian meals are justlike cheaper, like the, the,
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the plant proteins are usuallypretty, pretty inexpensive.
10 out of 10.
Uh jim good job, jim good Jim28.
If you see something on salebut the grocer is out of stock,
ask for a rain check.
Oh, that's actually a good one,good for 30 days.
Rain checks are given out as anincentive for you to return to
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the store.
How do they even, howard,howard, how are they even doing
this?
You come back and you're like,oh, I asked about this last week
, or something like what they?
Speaker 2 (37:05):
write it down yeah.
That's weird I think I have arain check for chicken somewhere
around here.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
I never I've never done.
I've done a lot of like savingsand stuff Never asked for a
rain check on something likethat.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
It's rare that I see someone's sale that's like just
completely out, but like when ithappens, I'm just like, okay,
well, find something.
I think it's more likely tohappen in a small town, because
like we don't get that muchright, right, that's fair, but
yeah, when it when you see areally good deal and they're out
.
Yeah, ask for the rain checkrain check got it.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Good job, howard, 10 out of 10.
Use a calculator.
Stick to your list, uh, and usea calculator as you shop to
stay under budget fair.
I like that, you know you.
Just I was talking aboutwriting it down but you could
just do it each time like six,six dollars plus 480, whatever,
right, like the whole time.
That way, you kind of know.
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Yeah I think that's good re,good job re.
10 out of 10.
Uh, looks like we only have afew more.
A few more.
Yeah, let's go.
We only got a few more.
I think that's good.
Uh, on tuesday I saved over 65dollars on my grocery uh bill by
using coupons.
Uh, the total bill was 253.
I paid 185 total sold on couponsthat was a good total Sold on
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coupons, that was a good saving,totally sold on coupons and
using the online system for myfavorite grocery store to have
additional coupons on theironline system.
Yeah, I think having coupons.
How often it seems like now alot of things are digital, right
, they have the app or something.
How often are you actuallyclipping, actually cutting out
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coupons and stuff?
Speaker 2 (38:46):
I'm assuming that's still around.
I haven't seen that happen fora while, but there's definitely
apps that you can like digitallyclip it and then they usually
can scan it either when you'reat self checkout or regular
checkout.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Did you ever watch extreme couponing?
No, it was a TV show show Ithink it's like tlc or some shit
.
Like I got addicted to extremecouponing, like the whole people
.
Right now there's some peoplelistening like dude, extreme
couponing.
Like you get addicted to thatshow because these people they
have this entire fucking likebinder, just like set for what
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they're getting and they find anitem that has a coupon and an
in-store thing and an onlinething and they subtract these
three things and like you'regetting money back when they do
it right.
So you buy something that'slike 85 cents and you have 50
cents and 30 cents and 20 centsand then you're getting money
back because you have all thesethings add up right.
So you they buy like just likea hundred of them and they have
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like all this basically storecredit and they're buying all
these things and it's coming offof like that with the store and
some stores won't do it andthey'll go in like I only have
23 and I'm buying 800 worth ofthings, hopefully this works,
and you're like, oh shit, that'swild.
oh yeah, that's crazy.
Look up, just go on youtube andjust look up like extreme
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couponing, like I'm sure theyhave just like clips of it or
whatever.
Like I got it.
I was like, oh, what's gonnahappen next?
They're bringing it up, they'realmost there.
But I was, I was into it, I was, I was invested with these
people.
It's like, yeah, because you'reeveryone's with them, right?
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They're like, oh, they'resaving so much money, they're
giving it to the big box storeor whatever.
Oh, it was dumb.
I absolutely loved every minuteof it.
31,.
Create a menu that revolvesaround inexpensive ingredients,
like rice pasta, for example.
If you are unsure of what thecosts of food are, visit the
grocery store, walk the aisaisles and take note of all the
food that interests you and whatthey cost.
Then determine what isinexpensive to you and set a
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budget for the entirety of themenu or just one dish okay I
mean so yeah like we weretalking about pasta's cheap.
Rice is cheap, so like if youcan make a bunch of meals around
the games.
Yeah, beans right like I've hada lot of uh people's comment on
my videos.
Like I'm asian, I have to haverice with every meal.
I'm like hey dope, like that'sjust cheap.
Get a bunch of rice, just likea ton of it, and then you can
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make a bunch of the differentmeals with it.
Like rice is versatile, I loveit, I love it.
So I think 10 out of 10.
Chef john oh shit, we got achef in here.
Let him put the chef first.
Uh, almost, uh, 32.
If you eat meat, buy what's onspecial this week and freeze it,
(41:31):
oh yeah, then meals around itfor the rest of the week.
I like that.
Evelyn, free.
Uh, you know, like if,especially if it's like on the
discount rack and it's going bad, and like, well, it's going
best, buy in two days.
Speaker 2 (41:41):
Whatever you freeze it, you take it out when you
need it and if it is on specialand it's not there, get a rain
check, get a rain check manApparently.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
But yeah, I like that idea.
As long as you got the freezerspace, throw it in there.
My freezer's fucking just bad,anyway.
33, save leftovers and makesoup, Even bones that have been
gnawed on by the family members.
Maybe even bones that have beengnawed on by the family members
, maybe not the dog, all right,thanks, um, evelyn, again, damn
girl.
Uh, it can be boiled up fortrendy bone broth, otherwise
(42:12):
known as stock.
Uh, so yeah, I think, um, oh,what was it?
I just got tagged in the video.
I was gonna try and makesomething with it.
She, she was making likegarbage fajitas, which is like
you just make like a fajita, butwith whatever is in your fridge
.
You know that's going bad.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
You just throw it in there like hey, dope love that,
like yeah obviously it's easyyeah, throw everything if you,
if you have a crock pot, great.
If you don't go to a thriftstore, you'll probably find one
yeah, true, like the kitchen andjust take all your stuff,
that's you know about gettingclose to going bad.
Throw it in the pot, make asoup yeah, thrift store has a
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lot of different.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
I bought like my toaster there I eventually did a
new one that was but I also gotlike an air air popper for like
popcorn for like a few bucks orsomething like that.
So, like they have some, theyhave some stuff.
Thrift store.
Thrift store.
10 out of 10, liam, that's whatI'm, that's number 36 anyway,
34.
(43:13):
I keep, uh, a supply of pantrystaples bought in bulk, like
several varieties of rice, driedbeans, cornmeal, flour, nuts,
condiments, dried fruit.
When I make a pot of beans,rice or polenta, who's buying
cornmeal in bulk?
Pearl York is buying cornmealin bulk.
That's what I got when I make apot of beans, rice or polenta.
(43:36):
I make enough for three or fourmeals and freeze it.
Freeze in meal size portions,all right, yeah, I mean you get
a bunch of stuff, make meals andthen freeze it.
That's meal prep.
That's meal prep.
So buy a bunch of staples andmeal prep.
I like that.
Yeah, I like that idea.
(43:57):
Is the last one?
Pearl York?
No, it's not All right.
Last one, last one.
And finally, share with friends.
You can save by buying in bulkat warehouse stores or at sale
prices.
You can go a step further andshare these bargains with
friends.
If I buy a three pack oftoothpaste at Costco, I
sometimes arrange to share thecost with my family.
Damn, who is that?
Speaker 2 (44:17):
Jim's going in.
Speaker 1 (44:18):
I like this.
Speaker 2 (44:18):
He's fucking.
Speaker 1 (44:20):
He's, he's, he's, he's really he's getting the
whole family.
I love it.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
I mean for those of you who who really love meat and
you're.
You're like yelling at us aboutall our bean talk.
You want to save on meat?
Go in with a friend and buy acow.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
Buy a whole cow.
Speaker 2 (44:38):
Damn, you can.
You can buy a cow, get itbutchered.
You know you split the costwith friends.
Each person gets a portion ofit.
Throw it in the freezer.
I would have no idea where tostart on buying a whole damn cow
.
Speaker 1 (44:51):
That's wild.
Will you just go up there youpick one, like, hey, bessie over
there, that's what I want.
Speaker 2 (44:57):
I don't know.
There are ranches where you canyou put them on a train For,
but ranches where you can youknow the animals there are for
butchering yes, I know thetrain's going in the background.
The animals there are forbutchering and so they'll have,
like they'll have, the normalherd which is going to go for
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all the big corporations, butthey'll have a couple set aside
that are for people to comepurchase.
Speaker 1 (45:26):
I've never rain check and buying cows to bring to a
butcher.
I've never heard of this.
That's it's.
That's definitely so.
I probably just stick withbeans.
Speaker 2 (45:35):
Beans are easier but like I guess, if you beat me, go
buy a cow.
Speaker 1 (45:39):
I don't.
Oh man, that's nuts All oh, man, that's nuts all right.
Well, that's that's it.
Um, do we give it okay?
It says what do you think?
Do we give it a thumbs up aheart?
Oh, there's, uh, there's thelike duh emoji.
You know the duh emoji.
That has just as many as as thehearts does.
Then the other ones, thelaughing one and crying one,
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don't have any.
It's got 29 thumbs up a heartand the duh emoji.
Do we give it the duh emoji orwhat do you vote?
Speaker 2 (46:08):
The crying emoji, the head exploding emoji the angry
emoji, the nervous emojiDefinitely the head exploding
emoji.
Speaker 1 (46:14):
Okay, we gave it one head exploding emoji.
They were the only ones thatour minds are blown from this
list.
Yeah, slits Somebody.
The person who wrote this listis like finally somebody's mind,
megan.
Speaker 2 (46:28):
My mind was blown by Joe Geronimo.
Speaker 1 (46:31):
Joe Geronimo.
Well, yeah, get out there,don't spend some money and also
don't be your worst.
Speaker 2 (46:40):
Don't be your worst.
Speaker 1 (46:44):
Oh shit it's 47 minutes.
Hey everybody, welcome to In Moderation After
Dark, since we're recording, forme at least, at nearly 11pm.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Rob has no idea what we're talking about Still light
here.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Oh weird, rob has no idea what we're talking about.
I'm surprising him with thetopic.
So what we're going to be doing, rob, is ranking our favorite
musicals 1 through 10.
So if you want to start, offwith my kind of number one.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I'll go to Musicals, eh.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Maybe there'll be some overlap.
Who knows, hmm, number onemusical.
What do you got?
Number one musical.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Oh God, I'm going to have to go with Pirates of.
Penance.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
That sounds like it's a real thing.
That sounds like you did thisbefore.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
That's the one with I am the very model of a modern
major general.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Okay, I have heard that in reference from other
things Probably Family Guy orsomething dumb, I don't know.
I guess I would say Hamilton,that's just a big one.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Hamilton is a good one.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
That's a big one that comes to mind.
Everybody seems to just loveHamilton.
I'm going to be honest, I don'tthink I've ever watched it.
It came on Disney Plus.
I started watching it.
I don't think I finished it.
Everybody's going to get mad atme now, but anyway, that's not
what we're actually talkingabout.
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Uh, if you haven't heard,there's like uh in this.
If you're listening in thestates, you probably heard
there's like a bill and likethey made uh, big cuts to snap,
which is kind of what foodstamps are called now.
So there's a lot of people werelike you know, budget's gonna
be real, real fucking tight, youknow.
So I wanted to.
I was like let real fuckingtight, you know.
So I wanted to.
I was like let me look up whatwe'd like to do, the list here.
I think it's fun, we have funwith it.
I was like, let's say some likebudget, grocery shopping.
(01:54):
Um, uh, like recommendations.
So I found this one fromBuzzfeed.
So you know it's good.
Obviously, you know it's goingto be top tier reporting if
buzzfeed is talking about it.
But there's like I don't know35 of them or something.
I figure we go through at least.
Yeah, there's a bunch of them.
It's.
It's called I save 65 65dollars doing it.
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Grocery shoppers are sharingtheir best money saving habits
and this should be requiredreading right now, man, that
whoever writes the fuckingtitles that's a long title.
It's it's like back in the day,like I like to listen to history
podcasts, and back in the daythe book, the title of a book,
would just be like the firstchapter of the book.
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It would just be like 38 wordsand just like a history and it
just would keep going.
I'm like man, a little shortand sweet, come on.
I guess their, their brains,probably weren't ruined by, you
know, social media, like ours istoday, so you know it's what it
is.
But anyway, there's a bunch ofthese and I'm just gonna read
them and you know we're gonnarank them one through ten
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because I say so.
And why not?
Ranking shit's fun, it's's yourpodcast.
It's my part, I do whatever Iwant.
First one you ready for this?
Ready?
Anything in the center aislesof the store I usually skip,
except for a few exceptions suchas baking and spice aisle, the
tuna fish, the peanut butter,rice and beans Shopping mostly
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along the walls of the grocerystore.
That's where the produce meets.
Dairy and eggs are okay.
So this is something we'vetalked about before with, like
you know, generally like eatinghealthy.
Stick to those things, but likeis that the best for saving
money?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I.
I would argue not because, likeright, canned food is, like
they said, um tuna but all therest of the canned food, all the
rest of the frozen food, allthe rest of the frozen food.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Yeah right, I mean I guess frozen, We'll count frozen
food on the end.
But like, let's see what elsein the middle, like noodles,
pasta, right, Like pasta issuper cheap.
You can do a lot of things withpasta.
You can even do like some ofthe pastas that are more protein
fiber.
But just like basic ass pastaLike, and you don't want to cut
out all that I'll mention.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
looking at the sales, which?
I'm sure we'll get into at somepoint here.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
And when you're on a budget, like fucking, get
yourself some ramen.
Man, like if I'm on a budget,I'll get some ramen, you know
I'll spice it up with some otherthings, right, you try and add
other things to ramen, but likethat's, you know it's when
you're broke and you needsomething.
It's like 20 cents or whateverit is.
So I don't know whatever it is.
So, yeah, I, I don't know.
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I mean for in terms of justlike eating healthy, that's a,
you know, good advice.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
but like for saving money.
I give that a three for savingmoney.
Yeah, that's, that's.
I'm not too impressed with that.
I would be more impressed ifthey had said, uh, shop the
discount shelf, yeah right andit just mine's in the middle.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I wouldn't even be able to go there if it wasn't
for that all the deals I get.
I wouldn't even be able to gothere if it wasn't for that All
the deals I get I wouldn't evenbe able to do that.
Who would I even be anymore?
Number two if you have troublewith impulse spending, shop with
cash Going in with only $25 or$50 to spend on the next three
days keeps you from buyingunnecessary things.
I could see that.
(05:00):
I can see this one.
I think just kind of having abudget in general is really good
that I can see this one.
I think just kind of having abudget in general is really good
.
If somehow you haven't, uh,listened to dollar tree dinners,
definitely go follow her.
You know she doesn't just dodollar tree, you know she does
walmart and chozy, all likebudgeting tips and stuff.
And she goes in with like alittle list with how much money
she's going to spend and thenshe writes down like each thing
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like I'm buying this and itcosts this much, buying this
costs that much.
So she kind of has a littletally as it goes on.
I think that's smart.
So, like you know, if it helpsjust to have that cash, then I
think that's cool.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
But like just having a budget's probably good yeah, I
could see it um beingbeneficial for uh people with
like adhd that either mightforget their list or just might
forget to write their list.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yeah, I think this could definitely be helpful for
a group of you know, for somepeople.
I think that could be.
Really.
I would give that an eight.
I think that's a good one.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I was thinking seven.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yeah, I, I, I think overall.
I mean maybe my bar is low fromthe other one.
Anyway, number three beorganized in your, in your
fridge.
Sometimes I tend to buy lots offood just to shove it in the
back of the fridge and forgetits existence while I remember
it, or when I remember it, it'salready expired.
A huge waste every time.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I do have a struggle with this.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
You put stuff in there and I don't realize it's
back there, until I eventuallymove some stuff, I'm like, oh
damn, that's messed, that's notgood.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I don't know what the best thing to do with, like I'm
still trying to figure it outmyself like rotating things,
moving stuff, just like.
Do I write it down?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I'm terrible writing things down, so I'm probably not
going to do that and this isgoing to be a bigger issue for
families because they're goingto have a more stocked fridge a
bunch of you got a bunch of foodyou're putting.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Everybody has their different food, right.
They're like oh little timmylikes this food and susan like
right.
So, like you know, that's tough.
I feel like maybe just likeonce a day just looking in your
fridge and be like all right,listen, is there something in
here I can use?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
or or, like you know, make sure it doesn't go off,
probably worth doing it beforeyou go grocery shopping as well
just go to the fridge andrummage into the back and be
like okay, I have this, I don'tneed to buy that yeah, right,
right, because I do that withsome foods.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Now, usually foods I do with like are dried lentils,
so it's like whatever I have, abunch of dried lentils, the last
meat till the apocalypse, youknow.
But like you probably got tocheck before you leave, make
sure you already have that likeoh, I bought carrots again again
.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
I already have carrots.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Whatever it is, I don't know.
I just see carrots in thispicture.
The picture is there's onlylike eight things in the fridge,
so it's like you reallynobody's missing anything in
this anyway.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
That's my fridge, that's a single person's fridge.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I've got, milk I've got soda.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I'm not missing anything.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
That's your plan.
Just have less food in there.
I give that an eight Again.
I like it.
Yeah, I'm going to give thatone an eight too.
I like that my grocery, mygrocery, my grocery.
It's just weird to say mygrocery in that grocery store,
like, I guess, just say mygrocery.
That sounds weird.
My grocery offers delivery fora modest yearly sum.
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Oh, they pay per year.
The delivery is at noadditional charge.
I buy nearly all my groceriesthis way.
The prices are the same as inthe store, right, I don't do any
impulse buying, I guess that'strue, saving quite a bit.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I mean I could still see people impulse buying on a
website.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Maybe just you know, walking by, you're like, oh, I
need that hubba bubba, hubbabubba, my car doesn't spend time
in the parking lot, uh, gettingdinged.
I mean, wait, getting how many?
What groceries are you going tothat your car's just fucking
getting dinged while you're inthe parking lot.
Get a.
You should probably go to adifferent one.
Uh, and I save on gas, which Iguess I get the gas yeah, I
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imagine it would pay for itselfin the gas money.
It also says tipping is notpermitted.
Oh, thank God I don't have totip those.
That was the real problem here.
So I think I mean, if it'saround the same price and I
guess it saves you from impulse,I feel like that comes down to
are you an impulse buyer?
And if it helps you with that,then yeah, I could see it.
(09:03):
I could see it.
I see it.
Especially people you know youhave trouble with, you know
mobility issues and whatnot,like that, and I totally get it.
But just for like not goingthere, I don't know, then you
can't really shop this stuff.
For can you still shop thedeals, I guess, online?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
they probably still have deals listed out on the
discount rack.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Yeah, no dice, I give that a one.
I said any any one of thesethat I miss out the discount.
Rack a record.
If that first one gets a one,it gets a one.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Oh I, I I'm 50, 50 on it.
I'll give it a five.
It's like it's hit and missit's fine.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Uh, I never go number five, I never go to the store
without a list.
This might seem obvious, butit's a lifesaver.
I plan my meals for the week,check what I already have, uh,
in the pantry and fridge.
See, hey, there we go, and thenwrite down only what I need.
Uh, it helps me avoid theimpulse buying blah, blah, blah.
Another thing I do is look forsales and discounts.
This one gets a 10.
This one already gets a 10, wego I check the weekly flyers and
(10:01):
clip coupons when I have time.
Sometimes I even use thosestore apps.
Right, yeah, they do have, likeKroger and whatnot has an app
that you can get like weeklydigital deals.
It's kind of a pain in the assI've been.
I've tried like downloading itand getting it but like linking
it to my card.
It's just, it's annoying.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Anyway, I even use those.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yeah, do you have them?
Speaker 2 (10:23):
We've got what's it called Nielsen Home Scan and if
you join that, basically whenyou purchase stuff you just scan
it with your phone and you getpoints which you can redeem for
gift cards.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Yes, so we have I've talked about it before there's a
woman that does a lot of budgetstuff and she uses Ibotta,
i-b-o-t-t-a, ibotta and that'sjust like an app where you put
in, like it gives you deals for,like certain products.
You buy that product, you putit in, you scan your receipt and
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then it gives you money back orpoints towards things and that
sort of stuff.
So I think it mostly givesmoney back.
So, like those things I thinkcould definitely be worth if
you're trying to save some money.
Uh, you know, check thediscounts.
Obviously love that.
Uh, and like I think the listis good.
I started, I have what's itcalled.
I actually started, you know,the list on my, my phone for the
(11:21):
first time ever because I havelike all these recipes and I
saved my favorites and I go andthen I try to look at each video
, like oh, I need that for this.
I'm like this is stupid.
I just need to write down whatI have.
Any list that's the name of it.
Any list is what I use, not asponsor, and it just gives me my
grocery list and I add it andthen like when you, you just tap
it.
Like I just tap this, like Ihad almonds.
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I tap it and then it crosses itoff.
It just like it's still there,but it's crossed off.
So I know I have it and Itechnology I know it's neat,
instead of, just like you know,pen and paper or whatever, like
I I think I think that's cool,so I like this 10 yeah, I'm
going with a 10 on that too uhnumber six choose one or two
stores near you with uhgenerally good prices and use
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them for most of your shopping.
Don't go all over town, spacepermitting.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Make fewer, larger trips hmm so I mean you say this
one's gas, this one's funny.
For me, being a small townperson, it's like, okay, I, I
only have one store here in townthat I can go to.
You're pigeonholed into that,yeah.
So I don't know what to how toview that as a city person.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
For me because I do have, you know, lots of the ones
around me I have, kind of theones I do more of my shopping at
, Mostly Kroger, Like Aldi, Ilove Aldi.
Like Aldi in the States andalso in Europe, Um it's, it's
got the some of the best prices,but they don't, like really
have everything you need.
Is the problem they not likeyou know a bigger store that has
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you know, like, oh, I need thisspice or whatever it is that,
like Aldi is just not going tohave.
So I don't know, like, I guessyou save money on gas, but like,
do you save that much by justnot going multiple times?
I, I don't know, Maybe I'm justI'm biased because, like, I go
to the store a lot since I'malways like, oh, somebody tagged
me this recipe, Now I need Idon't know like salmon roe or
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something weird.
Aldi's not going to have thatoff to.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
I feel like if you're worried about gas, you may as
well just get the deliverythough.
I guess, I don't know, that'slike a four, I give that.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
A four, I give that a question mark because I right
you're going to take my ratingswhere I just stopped giving, I
just stopped rating things outof ten, because I was just like
I don't even like.
People were asking me about myscale, like what is your scale
intake?
I'm like I don't fucking knowand I'm like I like it or I
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don't like it, or like I like itbut it's too much work.
So now I just say that I'm likeI like it, but it's too much
work and I'm not gonna make itagain out of 10.
And I think people resonatemore with that because they're
like yeah, that's pretty muchwhere I'd be, it could be a 9,
but if it's too much work, thenfuck it.
They're like oh well, then youcould knock down your rate.
No, that's too much work.
I'll just tell you what I thinkabout it out of 10.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
There's no, you don't know what a 7 out of 10 means,
right it's generally good, butnot great.
I guess it doesn't tell me thatit's too much work.
It's just a second out of 10.
Okay, well, it could have beentoo much work.
It could have not been thatgreat.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
I'm just going to tell you what I mean and then
just say out of 10.
And then I would just start tosay out of 10 for like anything
at the end I'm not even talkingabout food.
I'm like it's a good workoutout of 10.
I don't know, this is dumb.
But I Number seven eat beforeyou go to the store.
When you're hungry, everythingis tempting.
That's fair.
Yeah, I think that's fair.
I think that's good advice.
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Let's give this like a nine.
It's solid advice.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
I think people yeah, that's when you, that's often
when you do that impulse buying,I think, like walking past the
chips and you're kind of like,oh, I'm snacky, yep.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Yeah, I think even if you're going to the store, like
having something with you, likeyou know, snack on something to
the store, right?
So you're like not super hungryit's like you.
You're like oh, I don't havetime to sit down and have a
whole meal or something likethat.
Often like I was just finishingright here a nuri protein shake
or whatever.
So, like my wife and I you know, april and i- I like to chew
gum.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
My, I find, you know, some people say gum makes them
hungrier, some for me it doesn'tmake me hungrier, so it depends
I've had people, I've heardpeople say both thing.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Yeah, it kind of just works for you I don't know, I
haven't man one.
I don't even know what last timeI chewed gum was, but like you
know what I like fucking hardcandies, because I'm 90 anyway.
Uh, number ace.
Plan ahead if you need uh creamfor one dish, find another dish
that will use up the rest ofthe cream within a few days, and
this kind of goes back to notwasting food, which I think is
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solid.
So, like, even for me, like I'mlike doing all these recipe
reviews, I'm like, oh, I havethis.
Like is there another recipethat like takes this because I
need to use it for something?
If not, I'll just have tofigure something out on my own.
So I think this is very solidadvice.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Yeah, it's a little bit into the meal prep a little
bit.
Yeah, just dips the toe in, Iguess.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Um a little bit.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Yeah.
The opposite of that would beto just skip anything that
requires anything.
Fancy, yeah, but that dependson.
You know some people likeespecially with autistic people
they like to eat the same thingover and over again and then
they switch to something elseand eat that over and over again
.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
I think it's just like yeah, if you find something
, it is true, because a lot ofthings are just bought in a big
container and you're like man,when the hell am I going to use
this If it's not something likeRoche, it goes for a while.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
I hate when the sales are always like the family size
sales Buy two, get one free orwhatever, and it's like I don't
need three of these.
That's the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
I'm a single person.
I need one.
Yep, I still just buy them.
I bought, like I don't know itwas like 10 boxes of like honey
nut Cheerios for April Not thatlong ago, because it was like
buy five and get each one for adollar, and I, not that long ago
(17:11):
, because it was like buy fiveand get each each one for a
dollar, and I was like I'll get10 for 10 or something
ridiculous.
So you know I had a whole bunchof my basement, but like they're
good for over a year, yeah, atleast they've got a good uh long
expiration on them.
Yeah, yeah, shelf life.
So it's got the shelf life,then I'm like all right, I'll,
I'll do it.
Uh, okay, so I think that's.
I think you're playing aheadeight.
It's number eight on the list.
I give it an eight.
Number nine look for the storebrand or in-house brand.
Yes, many stores, supermarketsand online shops sell groceries
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and food items of their ownbrands.
Right, I give this 10.
I always love shopping.
We all have the things right.
People are like, oh, I needHeinz ketchup or whatever.
Totally, I fuck with that I.
People are like, oh, I needheinz ketchup or whatever.
Totally, I fuck with that.
Like, I get it.
I'm.
I'm about, um, uh, the, theblue diamond almonds, fucking
love those things.
Uh, I'm gonna pay for that,unless it's on the discount.
Right, then I'm getting a wholebunch of this, which I think I
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still do.
Uh, but, yeah, the store brands.
Most of the time it's like justas good, man, I get the, the
off brand.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Like, uh, frosted mini wheats or whatever there's
a lot of occasions where it'smade in the exact same factory.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Yep, same place, and they just put a different box on
it.
10 out of 10.
Love that Number 10, thoughpartially, prepare your meals in
advance.
Try to do some preparation likemarination, marination,
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chopping the vegetables, mixingthe spices required for cooking
and other things that can helpyou speed up cooking.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
How is that?
Speaker 1 (18:31):
saving me money.
I don't know.
Not wasting things, maybe justbeing less waste.
When cooking gets easier andquicker, you are less tempted to
buy from outside.
Okay, so that's the end of itAll right, so I guess you just
buy.
You eat out less.
That's the idea of saving money.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
I guess I get that Having some things partially
prepared so it's easier to throwit together.
So like you cook a bunch ofchicken in the oven and then you
have chicken ready for whenever.
I see a lot of people do that.
They use little hand mixers.
You know those hand mixers andthey put the chicken breast in
there and they shred it up andthen they have shredded chicken.
I did that once.
Chicken was fucking everywhere.
Every ounce of my kitchen wascovered in cooked chicken.
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I was like this is, and so thenlike they're like oh yeah, get
a, a paper plate and then putthe little tong thingies or
whatever they are, the littleblender, whatever's, through
that and then have that as ashield.
I'm like I, this is, this is alot man that's getting a little
too much yeah I don't know Ijust mean, at that point, just
get a food processor.
I'm just gonna get tofu orgrinder because I'm lazy, it's
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easy, I just take it out of thepackage.
I don't know.
So like I, I guess, partiallyprepared things I I give that's
like a seven or an eight.
Like I I get it, I think,having some things kind of just,
but also having like those like, um, vegetable mixes or
something right like the frozenones, just having that and like
that's already partiallyprepared and I didn't have to do
jack squat for it yeah, andthat goes back to our center
(19:58):
house.
There just the, yeah, the cannedfood, the frozen food mm-hmm, I
saw I, I like that idea.
But, uh, number 11, I always,uh, I always make a list, right,
thank you, we already said listand I check my list against the
weekly sales.
Yes, yes, blah, blah, blah.
Uh, I'll hold off on buyingthat.
I, if pantry items go on saleand I know I'm low but not out,
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I'll stock up, I guess.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
All right, so stocking up, yeah if it's got a
long shelf life there's longshelf life.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Totally get it.
I always check the expirationdate.
That is true.
You should probably check it,just make sure it's not.
But like you know also, youknow it's not poison after best
buy isn't poison after whateverdate you know, so it's.
I'm still eating these likelentil pouches that are like
past the best buy date, but likeit's still good, like it's in a
little seal pouch, it's fine.
Uh.
(20:47):
But I do like the idea ofstocking up.
I give that idea an eight.
I like that yeah, particularlywith toilet paper right, like
those sort of things that arelast, yeah, but stock up when
you can.
That's why, and that's why it'skind of like expensive to be
poor.
Right, because, like when youonly have like twenty dollars
and you're like, oh well, that's, I don't have the money to buy
it.
When it's on sale Now I canonly buy a little bit, and next
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time it won't be on sale andthen I'll be paying.
So that man.
You know, being poor isexpensive, which just sounds
stupid, but it's true.
Um, number 12, I check the costper ounce yes, the items on
sale aren't always the cheapest.
That's 10 out of 10, 11 out of10.
Yes, um, because, yeah, likeyou, you see, like, even like a
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bigger container, you think abigger container might be, uh,
cheaper or something.
But you look at per ounceyou're like, oh, yeah it's not
cheaper or something.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
but you look at per ounce you're like, oh, it's not,
it's nice.
When they have it on the labelon the shelf It'll be like right
above or below the price andit'll say X amount per whatever
freedom unit.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Yeah, exactly 142 miles per 18 Fahrenheit, I don't
know.
So yeah, you're like oh, it'scheaper, I go with that.
So I think that's very smart.
Check the price per ounce.
I like that.
10 out of 10.
13, shop your pantry first.
Take a few things out of yourcupboard, fridge and freezer.
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What do you need to make withthese meals?
Okay, so just looking at likeokay, I need to use these up.
What do I buy at the store touse these with?
I like that.
I like that.
You have like pasta, likethere's.
They show a picture likesomebody has like pasta.
Oh, they have stevia.
Fuck this.
This gets a zero out of ten.
I don't like this.
From this picture.
I hate stevia.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
It tastes gross like it yeah uh but yeah, it's pretty
often you'll find pasta orsomething in the back of the
shelf, right yeah, there's likewell, it's like ramen in here
yeah, like.
So, yeah, you find that stuff.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
You're like what can I work with this?
Totally get it like it.
I like that 10 out of 10.
Um, we're about halfway throughhere 14 at least half of what
we buy is on sale.
Love that.
Our little groceries.
Uh, weekly sales that come outon wednesday through the
following monday.
I'm there on Wednesday.
Oh okay, I my store.
I don't know if my store haslike a set few days that they're
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like most of the stores aroundhere are Thursday Interesting.
I actually don't know.
I'm just there so often, I justcheck, but like that's smart to
know that it's on a Wednesday.
I like that.
Jan Steinman, good job.
10 out of 10.
Check your deals when do theycome out?
15.
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Meal plan based on what willspoil first.
For example, if you boughtfresh strawberries, you should
include them in every meal untilthey are gone.
Yeah, especially fuckingberries.
Man, you turn your head andyou're like, oh, moldy shit, I
like that.
Definitely.
Check what's going bad, use itup.
Love that nine out of ten um 16.
(23:46):
In the us it seems there is afair amount of product that is
rejected by larger grocerystores for aesthetic reasons.
This is true, a bell pepperthat is half eat, half, half
eaten half green and half red.
That's half eaten.
It's not good.
You probably don't want that.
Uh, and this produce is stilloften sold at small independent
grocery stores.
In both california and marylandI found mexican groceries where
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the produce is half as much as,uh, as safeway, I think.
Yeah, so, like, there'sdefinitely like delivery
services as well.
They're like oh, this, we, wedeliver you a box full of like
misfit, you know, potatoes andshit.
Like I think that's cool.
Um, and yeah, so there'sdefinitely a discount outlets.
I've shopped at a bunch ofthose and yeah, like, like I
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said, like you know, expirationdates are too big of a deal, but
some of them are like real pastexpiration date, so you want to
check that if it's like waypast it, that it doesn't taste
so great anymore.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Um, that also goes back to the uh discount shelves,
because you know a broken box,they can't put that on the
regular shelf.
But exactly, it's just a brokenbox fuck it who gives.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
I'm not eating the box, um in both.
So, yeah, I, I like that.
I think this is really good andshopping at like mexican
grocery stores, asian grocerystores I've seen a lot of like
asian.
I've been to some asian onesthat are like really good, um,
so I think shopping at one ofthose like more ethnic stores
awesome, love that.
10 out of 10 again.
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Yeah, uh, number 17 buy in bulkwhen it makes sense.
Yep, so they've shown a picture.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Yeah yeah, buy in bulk when you can sense Yep.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
So they've shown a picture Yep Buy in bulk when you
can.
I think that's when you can isthe key there.
Obviously you can't always, butI think when you can.
Very solid advice 18,.
I've observed many friends whowill purchase bulk items at
stores like Costco, sam's Cluband the like, but will buy twice
as much as they would normallyuse.
(25:38):
So if an item like a superlarge bag of broccoli is five
dollars a bag but you throw halfof it away, right, okay.
So again this comes back toright, like what's shelf stable
and whatnot, because yeah,broccoli, I have bought the
giant things of broccoli orsalad and then you end up
throwing half of that out, whichis not great, you know.
So I think that really comesout.
Or like the potatoes like Ilove potatoes, but sometimes
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it's like a 10 pound bag ofpotatoes.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
I'm like I can't, I went to that.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
These are gonna get eyes in them before I can finish
that.
I don't care if it's five it's.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
It's hard for me to buy those things as a single
person.
I'm not gonna go through anentire bag of potatoes unless
I'm eating potato every singlemeal for the next like every
meal, not just every day.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Every meal.
Like that's a lot of damnpotato, like what's?
It's like five pounds for 350or 10 pounds for five dollars.
Like oh, well, then it shouldbe cheaper in the long run.
But like no, they go bad, youthrow them out, so I'm gonna pay
for the 350, for the five poundbag, uh number.
So yeah, I think that's 10 outof 10.
I like that, I'm justeverything.
10 out of 10, 10 or 1.
Now, it's my scale is 10 or 1.
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Those are the only two options.
Look high and low, not in themiddle.
The most expensive items areusually put on the shelves where
you can easily see them andreach them.
Some of the less expensiveitems may be on the higher or
lower shelves.
Is this something you'veexperienced?
I'm trying to think really thisis.
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It kind of just seems to, yeah,like I, I don't know like, I'm
trying to like like go throughmy grocery store and see, like
you know, like, where the moreexpensive items are, but I feel
like it's just a little all overthe place.
I guess if you notice that,that gets a one for me.
That wasn't one one I, becauseit doesn't fit my what I'm used
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to uh, number 20 years sometimesthe stores.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
The store brand stuff might be on the bottom shelf
but like yeah, I don't oftenit's not there's expensive items
in the middle man.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
I've seen some damn things.
I'm like 20 for what?
Like I, uh, what is it?
Um that?
That?
That blue blue spirulina shitman I bought that.
I was mad I had to pay like 20bucks for that.
So expensive um, use rewardscard.
Use a rewards card if yourstore offers them by engaging
weekly deals.
I don't know many Like.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
I don't?
Speaker 1 (27:59):
There's stores that have like so, like, oh, so like.
Okay, kroger actually has thoselittle card that like that's
how you get the discounts in thestore and then you save on gas
as well.
So I think that's kind of smart.
So when I go by, you know, saveit up.
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You go by, buy gas, you get adollar off gas.
I'm like all right, that's cool.
So I think I think if they havea store card, you might as well
use it, right, if it's one ofthose ones that's free.
Um, let's just say, just becareful with this approach.
If you are spending an extraten dollars on an item that you
don't need to save ten dollars,well, yeah, I don't want.
Okay, moving on, I give that.
Now I break my scale.
Five, uh, uh.
Invest in herbs and spices.
These will make food uh, nomatter how cheap more exciting,
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fair.
Yeah, good job, joe gear.
Geronimo, geronimo, geronimo.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Joe Geronimo.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Is his name.
Joe Geronimo.
G E R O N I M O.
Geronimo, geronimo.
Geronimo.
G-e-r-o-n-i-m-o.
Geronimo Geronimo, geronimoMartinez, joe Geronimo.
His name is Joe Geronimo.
I need to know everything aboutJoe Geronimo.
Okay, social media find us JoeGeronimo.
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I'm copy pasting it right now.
The rest of this episode willno longer be about saving money.
It is about who the hell is JoeGeronimo Martinez?
I have a picture of a bunny onSoundCloud, a Quora question
(29:32):
from someone.
Maybe Joe Geronimo Martinezpassed away in recent days of
congestive heart failure inYorkshire.
Oh boy, I don't think this isthe same one.
How many Joe GeronimoMartinez's are there?
Apparently a lot, apparentlymore than one, which is I didn't
(29:53):
expect that.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
I wouldn't have expected that.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
I guess, like Joe Martinez is like those are
common names, but sure Am I.
Maybe I'm just saying thatwrong and I'm just dumb, but
whatever, yes, joe, you're right, the spice is very good.
10 out of 10.
Number 22, if something goesoff in a shop, it's their
problem.
Something goes off in a shop,it's their their problem.
(30:17):
If it goes off in your house,it's yours.
Don't buy food that you'regoing to throw away so like if
it's already spoiled.
It's fairly easy to judge whenyou ate all of the previous week
, for instance.
No, no one throws away bacon orsteak, but perhaps.
Uh, but.
But perishables and impulsebuys that might be a good idea.
Uh, don't get thrown away, okay, I mean, I guess, yeah, just
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don't throw away food.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Don't throw away food .
Don't buy spoiled food.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Bro, it's from Joe Geronimo.
I shit you not.
It's Joe Geronimo Martinez.
It's the same dude.
You're just getting the.
Is it the next one?
Joe, all right.
No, the next one's not Joe, allright.
So Joe says get spices, anddon't buy things that are just
going to immediately go off.
I guess Sure.
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And don't buy things that arejust going to immediately go off
, I guess Sure.
We're with you, joe.
Number 23.
Use the 60-30-10 grocery ruleand spend 60% of your budget on
fruits and veggies and 30% onprotein, such as dairy fish and
meat.
The remaining 10% can be usedon snacks and extra stuff that
you might need.
Remaining 10% can be used onsnacks and extra stuff that you
might need.
60% of your budget on fruitsand veggies.
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That's, bro, unless you'rebuying green beans and shit
fruits and veggies can beexpensive.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
I also feel like if you're shopping frozen fruit and
veggies, you're going to begetting a better deal.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
It might not be 60%, I don't know I guess like, okay,
the 10% on like snacks we alllike have been there right when
you look at your cart and halfof it's like 50% of it's snacks
and you're like this was not thebest choice, these are not the
best choices I've made, so thatI get, but like I don't know if
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you need the 60, 30, I'm iffy onthat.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
I'm iffy, I give an iffy I feel like I would spend
way more on protein hmm, yeah, Iguess how much depends on the
price of protein, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
I'm yeah, I don't know about that one.
I like the snack thing.
I get uh number 24.
If you live in a city, go toethnic neighborhoods and shop in
the markets there.
Yeah, a plucked chicken willnaturally cost more than one you
plucked yourself.
I'm not kidding, really, albertcool.
But in general the produce andmeat will be much lower, lower
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priced, than at the big chains.
Yeah, no, I do agree, though,like the ethnic uh stores, like
mexican, asian, all that stuff,they really do have good deals.
Like man, like even somethinglike ginger, like I was, I
bought it like an asian uh storeand I got like pounds of ginger
for like pennies.
I was like this is, this is wayless than normally I spend.
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So I think they have somereally good deals.
If you have one of those,definitely check it out, and
they have some if you have oneof those yeah right, a lot of
people won't have one, but likeyou know, they, they.
If you go in there, like what'sthis?
That's interesting, I bought,uh, oakley, um, a bunny that was
carrying.
It was like a stuffed bunnythat was carrying a banana, or
maybe it was a plantain, I don'tknow, but it was cool and she's
(33:27):
like why was a bunny carrying abanana I don't know.
They were carrying a whole bunchof different things and I was
like, just pick one.
And she got the one that wascarrying a banana and I was like
plantain or whatever it is.
I was like, okay, cool, prettymuch any stuffy we get, though
our dogs just eventually rip itup, so I don't even know why I
keep buying them at this point.
But you know that's what it isshe wants you like.
You're like when you have alittle child that wants a stuffy
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like okay, five dollars for astuffy anyway.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Uh, no one actually money saving technique don't
have children yeah, don't.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
If you're tight on cash, don't get pregnant or get
someone else pregnant.
That's their money saving tip,oh shit.
Number 25, use leftovers sonothing goes to waste.
Yeah, we've already talkedabout this.
A month.
Yeah, don't use leftovers,right?
Thanks, craig.
We've already gone over this afew times.
(34:21):
It's just Craig.
We don't even have his lastname Fucking.
We have Joe Geronimo Martinezover here.
They're giving us all names,this guy's Craig.
Thanks, craig.
Craig, I give it a one becausewe've already seen it a bunch.
Number 26.
Fruits and vegetables in seasonare usually cheaper and fresher
than those not in season.
Try to plan your meals aroundseasonal produce.
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I think that's fair yeah, yeah,that's fair like oh, this is
cheaper.
These berries now are on salebecause they're in season.
Totally zarita, zarita.
I like that 10 out of 10, um.
And then like, oh yeah, likefarmer's markets and stuff you
get some good deals at farmer'smarkets if you have one.
So like there's one, there'sone here, um, not too far from
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us, like downtown grove cityarea, uh, where I live in
columbus, and it's like we get abunch of different stuff.
That's really cool, like youknow, like I haven't even seen
that, I, I.
So yeah, if you have farmersmarket farmers markets are one
thing that are common in yeahdefinitely, like you know,
things only grow for like twomonths out of the year for you
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guys, but like those two months,you gotta get the the
watermelons when they're there.
I don't, I, I don't know, butoakley's been chowing
watermelons.
She wakes up.
I just cut up a bunch ofwatermelons.
She sits there just like justit bowls more, more, more
watermelon.
All right, you eat as muchwater, watermelon and raisins,
(35:46):
like you know what.
Sure there's worse things to bereally into.
So eat your watermelon andraisins, all the sugar.
27.
Eat more vegetarian meals.
Lentils and beans are way lessexpensive than meat.
Fair man, like, fuck, I talkabout all the time Beans, man,
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lentils, just so cheap.
Like if you get it dried,they're basically paying you to
take it away.
Uh, and even like canned, it'sstill very inexpensive and I
think the so a lot of people Ithink is just like well, I, I
don't want to give up meat, likeI, I like it.
I'm like, listen, I get it.
Mix it together, man, do, likeyou know, do, do the ground beef
and lentils mixed together,make a chili that has some
ground beef and a bunch of beans, whatever it is that sort of
stuff, right?
Yeah, vegetarian meals are justlike cheaper, like the, the,
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the plant proteins are usuallypretty, pretty inexpensive.
10 out of 10.
Uh jim good job, jim good Jim28.
If you see something on salebut the grocer is out of stock,
ask for a rain check.
Oh, that's actually a good one,good for 30 days.
Rain checks are given out as anincentive for you to return to
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the store.
How do they even, howard,howard, how are they even doing
this?
You come back and you're like,oh, I asked about this last week
, or something like what they?
Speaker 2 (37:05):
write it down yeah.
That's weird I think I have arain check for chicken somewhere
around here.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
I never I've never done.
I've done a lot of like savingsand stuff Never asked for a
rain check on something likethat.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
It's rare that I see someone's sale that's like just
completely out, but like when ithappens, I'm just like, okay,
well, find something.
I think it's more likely tohappen in a small town, because
like we don't get that muchright, right, that's fair, but
yeah, when it when you see areally good deal and they're out
.
Yeah, ask for the rain checkrain check got it.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Good job, howard, 10 out of 10.
Use a calculator.
Stick to your list, uh, and usea calculator as you shop to
stay under budget fair.
I like that, you know you.
Just I was talking aboutwriting it down but you could
just do it each time like six,six dollars plus 480, whatever,
right, like the whole time.
That way, you kind of know.
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Yeah I think that's good re,good job re.
10 out of 10.
Uh, looks like we only have afew more.
A few more.
Yeah, let's go.
We only got a few more.
I think that's good.
Uh, on tuesday I saved over 65dollars on my grocery uh bill by
using coupons.
Uh, the total bill was 253.
I paid 185 total sold on couponsthat was a good total Sold on
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coupons, that was a good saving,totally sold on coupons and
using the online system for myfavorite grocery store to have
additional coupons on theironline system.
Yeah, I think having coupons.
How often it seems like now alot of things are digital, right
, they have the app or something.
How often are you actuallyclipping, actually cutting out
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coupons and stuff?
Speaker 2 (38:46):
I'm assuming that's still around.
I haven't seen that happen fora while, but there's definitely
apps that you can like digitallyclip it and then they usually
can scan it either when you'reat self checkout or regular
checkout.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Did you ever watch extreme couponing?
No, it was a TV show show Ithink it's like tlc or some shit
.
Like I got addicted to extremecouponing, like the whole people
.
Right now there's some peoplelistening like dude, extreme
couponing.
Like you get addicted to thatshow because these people they
have this entire fucking likebinder, just like set for what
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they're getting and they find anitem that has a coupon and an
in-store thing and an onlinething and they subtract these
three things and like you'regetting money back when they do
it right.
So you buy something that'slike 85 cents and you have 50
cents and 30 cents and 20 centsand then you're getting money
back because you have all thesethings add up right.
So you they buy like just likea hundred of them and they have
(39:45):
like all this basically storecredit and they're buying all
these things and it's coming offof like that with the store and
some stores won't do it andthey'll go in like I only have
23 and I'm buying 800 worth ofthings, hopefully this works,
and you're like, oh shit, that'swild.
oh yeah, that's crazy.
Look up, just go on youtube andjust look up like extreme
(40:06):
couponing, like I'm sure theyhave just like clips of it or
whatever.
Like I got it.
I was like, oh, what's gonnahappen next?
They're bringing it up, they'realmost there.
But I was, I was into it, I was, I was invested with these
people.
It's like, yeah, because you'reeveryone's with them, right?
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They're like, oh, they'resaving so much money, they're
giving it to the big box storeor whatever.
Oh, it was dumb.
I absolutely loved every minuteof it.
31,.
Create a menu that revolvesaround inexpensive ingredients,
like rice pasta, for example.
If you are unsure of what thecosts of food are, visit the
grocery store, walk the aisaisles and take note of all the
food that interests you and whatthey cost.
Then determine what isinexpensive to you and set a
(40:50):
budget for the entirety of themenu or just one dish okay I
mean so yeah like we weretalking about pasta's cheap.
Rice is cheap, so like if youcan make a bunch of meals around
the games.
Yeah, beans right like I've hada lot of uh people's comment on
my videos.
Like I'm asian, I have to haverice with every meal.
I'm like hey dope, like that'sjust cheap.
Get a bunch of rice, just likea ton of it, and then you can
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make a bunch of the differentmeals with it.
Like rice is versatile, I loveit, I love it.
So I think 10 out of 10.
Chef john oh shit, we got achef in here.
Let him put the chef first.
Uh, almost, uh, 32.
If you eat meat, buy what's onspecial this week and freeze it,
(41:31):
oh yeah, then meals around itfor the rest of the week.
I like that.
Evelyn, free.
Uh, you know, like if,especially if it's like on the
discount rack and it's going bad, and like, well, it's going
best, buy in two days.
Speaker 2 (41:41):
Whatever you freeze it, you take it out when you
need it and if it is on specialand it's not there, get a rain
check, get a rain check manApparently.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
But yeah, I like that idea.
As long as you got the freezerspace, throw it in there.
My freezer's fucking just bad,anyway.
33, save leftovers and makesoup, Even bones that have been
gnawed on by the family members.
Maybe even bones that have beengnawed on by the family members
, maybe not the dog, all right,thanks, um, evelyn, again, damn
girl.
Uh, it can be boiled up fortrendy bone broth, otherwise
(42:12):
known as stock.
Uh, so yeah, I think, um, oh,what was it?
I just got tagged in the video.
I was gonna try and makesomething with it.
She, she was making likegarbage fajitas, which is like
you just make like a fajita, butwith whatever is in your fridge
.
You know that's going bad.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
You just throw it in there like hey, dope love that,
like yeah obviously it's easyyeah, throw everything if you,
if you have a crock pot, great.
If you don't go to a thriftstore, you'll probably find one
yeah, true, like the kitchen andjust take all your stuff,
that's you know about gettingclose to going bad.
Throw it in the pot, make asoup yeah, thrift store has a
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lot of different.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
I bought like my toaster there I eventually did a
new one that was but I also gotlike an air air popper for like
popcorn for like a few bucks orsomething like that.
So, like they have some, theyhave some stuff.
Thrift store.
Thrift store.
10 out of 10, liam, that's whatI'm, that's number 36 anyway,
34.
(43:13):
I keep, uh, a supply of pantrystaples bought in bulk, like
several varieties of rice, driedbeans, cornmeal, flour, nuts,
condiments, dried fruit.
When I make a pot of beans,rice or polenta, who's buying
cornmeal in bulk?
Pearl York is buying cornmealin bulk.
That's what I got when I make apot of beans, rice or polenta.
(43:36):
I make enough for three or fourmeals and freeze it.
Freeze in meal size portions,all right, yeah, I mean you get
a bunch of stuff, make meals andthen freeze it.
That's meal prep.
That's meal prep.
So buy a bunch of staples andmeal prep.
I like that.
Yeah, I like that idea.
(43:57):
Is the last one?
Pearl York?
No, it's not All right.
Last one, last one.
And finally, share with friends.
You can save by buying in bulkat warehouse stores or at sale
prices.
You can go a step further andshare these bargains with
friends.
If I buy a three pack oftoothpaste at Costco, I
sometimes arrange to share thecost with my family.
Damn, who is that?
Speaker 2 (44:17):
Jim's going in.
Speaker 1 (44:18):
I like this.
Speaker 2 (44:18):
He's fucking.
Speaker 1 (44:20):
He's, he's, he's, he's really he's getting the
whole family.
I love it.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
I mean for those of you who who really love meat and
you're.
You're like yelling at us aboutall our bean talk.
You want to save on meat?
Go in with a friend and buy acow.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
Buy a whole cow.
Speaker 2 (44:38):
Damn, you can.
You can buy a cow, get itbutchered.
You know you split the costwith friends.
Each person gets a portion ofit.
Throw it in the freezer.
I would have no idea where tostart on buying a whole damn cow
.
Speaker 1 (44:51):
That's wild.
Will you just go up there youpick one, like, hey, bessie over
there, that's what I want.
Speaker 2 (44:57):
I don't know.
There are ranches where you canyou put them on a train For,
but ranches where you can youknow the animals there are for
butchering yes, I know thetrain's going in the background.
The animals there are forbutchering and so they'll have,
like they'll have, the normalherd which is going to go for
(45:21):
all the big corporations, butthey'll have a couple set aside
that are for people to comepurchase.
Speaker 1 (45:26):
I've never rain check and buying cows to bring to a
butcher.
I've never heard of this.
That's it's.
That's definitely so.
I probably just stick withbeans.
Speaker 2 (45:35):
Beans are easier but like I guess, if you beat me, go
buy a cow.
Speaker 1 (45:39):
I don't.
Oh man, that's nuts All oh, man, that's nuts all right.
Well, that's that's it.
Um, do we give it okay?
It says what do you think?
Do we give it a thumbs up aheart?
Oh, there's, uh, there's thelike duh emoji.
You know the duh emoji.
That has just as many as as thehearts does.
Then the other ones, thelaughing one and crying one,
(46:00):
don't have any.
It's got 29 thumbs up a heartand the duh emoji.
Do we give it the duh emoji orwhat do you vote?
Speaker 2 (46:08):
The crying emoji, the head exploding emoji the angry
emoji, the nervous emojiDefinitely the head exploding
emoji.
Speaker 1 (46:14):
Okay, we gave it one head exploding emoji.
They were the only ones thatour minds are blown from this
list.
Yeah, slits Somebody.
The person who wrote this listis like finally somebody's mind,
megan.
Speaker 2 (46:28):
My mind was blown by Joe Geronimo.
Speaker 1 (46:31):
Joe Geronimo.
Well, yeah, get out there,don't spend some money and also
don't be your worst.
Speaker 2 (46:40):
Don't be your worst.
Speaker 1 (46:44):
Oh shit it's 47 minutes.
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