How to Save Money on MEAT at the Grocery Store with Jenny Mitich

Summary

Frugal Friends Podcast Episode: How to Save Money on MEAT at the Grocery Store with Jenny Mitich
Release Date: May 27, 2025
Hosts: Jen Smith & Jill Sirianni
Guest: Jenny Mitich (@MamaMidich)
Produced by: iHeartPodcasts and Eric Sirianna

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Introduction to Saving on Meat

In this episode of the Frugal Friends Podcast, hosts Jen Smith and Jill Sirianni delve into the often daunting task of controlling grocery bills, specifically focusing on how to save money on meat. Joined by Jenny Mitich, a dedicated carnivore diet enthusiast and YouTube educator, the discussion offers practical tips and strategies for everyday individuals aiming to optimize their meat purchases without needing extravagant storage solutions like deep freezers.

Organizing and Preparing to Save

Jenny emphasizes the importance of starting with a well-organized freezer.

Jenny Mitich [03:13]: "I feel like when I go into my freezer now, it's very organized, but before I just had a bunch of like half-eaten bags of vegetables and like just random things in there."

She suggests clearing out clutter to make space for bulk meat purchases and investing in a vacuum sealer to extend the freshness of meat. Additionally, identifying favorite meat cuts ensures that savings don't come at the expense of wasting unwanted purchases.

Best Stores for Affordable Meat

Jenny shares her experiences with various grocery stores, highlighting that affordability can vary based on location and store type.

Jenny Mitich [10:35]: "I'm in the Chicagoland area, so we have Jewel Osco's and they have incredible meat deals. Every week there's one cut that is just deeply discounted."

For nationwide options, she recommends Aldi for its competitive prices, while expressing reservations about Walmart and Target often being overpriced for meat. Local international grocery stores also emerge as hidden gems offering quality meat at lower prices.

Optimal Cuts of Meat for Budget and Nutrition

The discussion pivots to identifying which meat cuts offer the best value and nutritional benefits.

Jenny Mitich [15:54]: "I think most affordable is going to be chicken and pork. Those are my go-tos if I'm needing to save some money."

She underscores the nutritional density of beef, advocating it as a superior option when on sale due to its high vitamin and mineral content. Understanding the grading system—Prime, Choice, and Select—is crucial:

Jenny Mitich [21:55]: "Prime is going to be your most expensive. Select is going to be your least expensive. I usually go for the middle ground choice."

She advises avoiding trendy but overpriced cuts like the Tomahawk steak, which often costs significantly more without offering additional nutritional benefits.

Effective Cooking Methods to Maximize Savings

Jenny shares her straightforward cooking techniques that require minimal equipment and ingredients, perfect for busy households.

Jenny Mitich [26:09]: "For me, I do rib eye steaks. I'll do sirloin... I'll grill it to medium rare or use my air fryer."

She highlights the versatility of appliances like air fryers and ovens in preparing various meat cuts efficiently. Simple seasoning with garlic powder and salt suffices for enhancing flavor without added costs.

Repurposing Leftovers and Minimizing Waste

Minimizing food waste is a key strategy for saving money, and Jenny provides actionable methods to repurpose leftover meats.

Jenny Mitich [31:33]: "I'll throw leftover meats into a casserole pan with eggs and cheese to create a hearty breakfast casserole."

Additionally, she discusses making bone broth from leftover bones, ensuring every part of the animal is utilized:

Jenny Mitich [33:19]: "You can do a bone broth with any kind of bone. Just throw some bones in a crock pot, cover with water, add salt and apple cider vinegar, and let it cook for 24 hours."

Tips for Finding Meat Discounts

Jenny advises proactive strategies to secure the best meat deals:

Jenny Mitich [49:19]: "Talk to your meat manager and ask when they do their markdowns. Early mornings are often prime times for discounts."

She recommends establishing a rapport with store meat departments and visiting multiple stores to track sales rhythms. Bulk purchasing during sale periods, such as around holidays, can lead to substantial savings when meats are frozen for future use.

Lightning Round: Favorite Cuts and Cooking Techniques

In a fun segment, the hosts and Jenny share their favorite meat cuts and preferred cooking methods:

• Jenny Mitich: Ribeye steaks cooked with garlic powder and salt, either grilled to medium rare or air-fried.

  Jenny Mitich [42:02]: "Ribeye steak is king. If I could eat it every day, I would."

• Jill Sirianni: New York Strip steaks prepared with a generous amount of salt and cooked in butter using a cast-iron skillet.

  Jill Sirianni [44:21]: "I love preparing my steak with just a ton of salt and cooking it in really good butter."

• Jen Smith: While not a frequent consumer due to budget constraints, she enjoys the occasional Chick-fil-A chicken sandwich.

  Jen Smith [45:44]: "I was a vegetarian for 10 years and started eating meat again because of cravings like the Chick-fil-A chicken sandwich."

Key Takeaways and Concluding Tips

The episode wraps up with actionable takeaways:

1. Understand Meat Grades: Knowing the difference between Prime, Choice, and Select helps in making informed purchasing decisions.
2. Organize Freezer Space: A tidy freezer facilitates bulk buying and reduces the temptation to purchase non-essentials.
3. Repurpose Leftovers: Creative uses for leftover meats and bones can significantly cut down on food waste and expenses.
4. Engage with Meat Managers: Building a relationship with store meat departments can lead to insider tips on when discounts occur.
5. Invest in Quality Tools: Items like vacuum sealers and reliable cooking appliances (air fryers, cast-iron skillets) can enhance both the longevity and taste of your meat purchases.

Jill Sirianni [52:43]: "Finding your radical middle, leaning into quality over quantity. It works across the board."

The hosts encourage listeners to apply these strategies to achieve a more controlled and frugal approach to grocery shopping, particularly concerning meat purchases.

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Connect with Jenny Mitich:

• YouTube: Meat Matters
• Instagram: @MamaMidich
• Podcast: Available on all major platforms

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[Host 1]

Welcome to the Frugal Friends Podcast where you'll learn to save money, embrace simplicity and live a richer life. Here are your hosts, Jen and Jill.

[Jen]

Welcome to the Frugal Friends podcast. My name is Jen.

[Jill]

My name is Jill.

[Jen]

And today we are focusing specifically on meat, which tends to be the most expensive part of your grocery bill. And we're not just saying buy a whole cow or get a deep freezer. Actually, those are none of our recommendations. We're giving recommendations for normal people who have normal freezers.

[Jill]

This is also a little funny coming on the tails of our last episode, which was going plant based on a budget. And so we just want to remind you that we're here to bring you the radical middle. We are not doing either one of these kind of diets on either extreme of the spectrum. But it is worth understanding what are the different ways that we could save money. We know that a lot of people have different dietary restrictions, so we're trying to kind of COVID all of our bases here. But specifically in this episode, talking with somebody who eats primarily meat. And so she knows a lot about how to save money on meat. So, yeah, if you're here with us, want to know how to save on protein, you're in the right place.

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[Jen]

I love our relationship. So if you're looking for more ways to save money on groceries, we have a lot of episodes on it. We have been doing this year spring specific categories in groceries. So today we've got meat. Last episode we had plant based. We have had takeout. We have had an overall an update on our overall groceries. Upcoming we will have organic food. So if you have a request, a specific request for a groceries episode, let us know. If you're on the friend letter, just respond to the friend letter. And we will definitely take that into consideration when we are adding episodes throughout the year. But I think our ultimate guide to frugal grocery shopping, what we just did, episode 499 and then episode 433, tips for grocery Shopping on a Budget. And you'll notice at the very beginning of the episode I didn't say the episode number. I've heard you and I've heard those aren't helpful. And so we've taken them away.

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[Jill]

Yeah, I mean, there's also always show notes.

[Jen]

There is always. Well, yes, we will have these episodes linked in this episode's show notes. That's always an option.

[Jill]

All right, well, let's get into it. Talk with Jenny, who is the owner of or on Instagram at Mama midich. She's on YouTube. She's talking all about her meat eating lifestyle and she's given us tips on how to save.

[Jen]

Yeah, and we'll preface this with Jenny does talk about the Carnivore diet. She does practice that diet. Or we are not nutrition influencers or podcasters, so we don't promote any particular type of lifestyle or diet. But we thought we saw her videos on YouTube about buying meat on a budget and thought they were really good. And who better to tell us how to save money on meat than somebody who's Buying meat very frequently. So yeah. And does not have a big house or a deep freezer or enough space to raise their own cows for slaughter. So Jenny was a wealth of information that's very accessible. But yeah, we just wanted you to know that we're not promoting any particular type of diet. We're just really looking for the people who know the most about saving in the places they're experts on.

[Jill]

We love interviewing experts on their particular area as it relates to money saving. So let's do it. Let's talk to Jenny.

[Jen]

Jenny, welcome to the Frugal Friends podcast. We're so excited to have you and talk about this topic that we haven't gone in depth on before.

[Jill]

So you know a ton about purchasing meat and we want to hear all of your expertise on this. So just to keep kick it off for the people who don't have a deep freezer, because I think that's like a main way that a lot of people say how to save on meat. But if you don't have a deep freezer, what would you say is the best way to be able to save money on your protein when shopping?

[Host 1]

Yeah, so everyone has a regular freezer. So I think kind of just clearing that out and having space for, for the meat in the first place. I feel like when I go into my freezer now, it's very organized, but before I just had a bunch of like half eaten bags of vegetables and like just random things in there. So I think the first step is just cleaning it out, making the space. And then after that you don't. You just have to kind of search out the deals and make sure, you know, have a, and then make sure you have a vacuum sealer so that you're keeping the meat fresh for a long period of time. But yeah, I think that's probably a good place to start. And then you need to figure out what are your favorite cuts of meat because I know when I'm searching at the grocery store, there's a lot of things that are on sale, but I'm like, am I going to eat that? Am I just buying that because it's on sale? So I always kind of just go with my staples and that's what I put into the freezer.

[Jill]

What stores have you found can offer the best prices on the meat that we're buying?

[Host 1]

Well, I'm in the Chicagoland area, so we have Jewel Osco's and they have incredible meat deals. Incredible. Every week there's one cut that is just deeply discounted. Sometimes it's Like a pork shoulder I got for 99 cents a pound. Just recently, for Easter, they had the rib roasts, you know, $5.99 a pound, which is insane. You can just cut those into ribeye steaks. You don't have to do the whole, you know, a prime rib or anything like that. So that's kind of where I go for my best meat deals.

[Jen]

Nice. And for anybody that doesn't have one of those, are there any, like, kind of nationwide stores that you might push people to?

[Host 1]

Sure. I mean, Aldi is great. I typically don't do a lot of meat from Walmart. I think they're overpriced. Surprisingly interesting. Yeah, very much so. You would. You would think it wouldn't be right, but Walmart overpriced, Target overpriced. I really like local international grocery stores in my area. I'm in the Chicagoland suburbs, so we have a lot of different grocery stores to go to. And there's one grocery store in particular I go to. It's local. There's like, probably two of them in my area. But it's got a huge produce section, but also an amazing meat section. And they have some banging prices on meat that are. Are like, always good. Always good. Even with the inflation and all the price increases with all that stuff, they've remained a really good option. So I think for anybody in whatever area they're in, you need to figure out and scout out all of the possible stores around you, not just the stores you would normally go to. You know, get out of your comfort zone, go check out these other little places and see what's available, because you might find a couple of awesome deals. I mean, I'm shopping at like five or six different grocery stores. Maybe once a month I do a big shop and I'm getting all of the meat that I need for the month or most of it. And I'm, you know, I get this here, I get this here, I get this here. And that's kind of how I'm able to save a lot of money.

[Jill]

Yeah, that's such a good point. To not just assume. I think we would assume Walmart's going to have cheap prices and the local store's going to hike them up. But it depends, product to product, you might find that your meat is going to be far more affordable. And I can anecdotally corroborate that. There is a local grocer kind of near us, like 35 minutes away, and they have phenomenal meat prices. So, yeah, just getting out and shopping around, it could be worth it. Especially if you can stock up. If you've, if you have cleaned out even just your regular freezer and not your deep freezer.

[Jen]

Yeah. And even if you're not going to do five to six stores a month, like just getting out and knowing what's out there. So you can be sure, like, hey, I had never even heard of this local international grocer and their prices were lower than where I'm normally going. So maybe it's not the lowest every single week, but you can be confident that, you know, maybe three out of five weeks it's going to be the lowest.

[Jill]

And that helps support buying local, which is one of the things we tell our people. What about all the time?

[Jen]

What about Costco? Do you find Costco has deals with.

[Host 1]

I love Costco. I'm obsessed. I have a Costco that's very close to my house and that is where I get my whole ribeyes. So if you go to Costco, you can buy a whole ribeye. It's like anywhere between 18 to 22 pounds and I just cut it myself and then I cut off the extra beef fat and I save that so I can render my own tallow for cooking. So that's really nice. But typically the whole ribeye is two to four pounds. Excuse me, two to four dollars cheaper per pound than the pre cut ribeye. It's the exact same thing. But if you just do a little bit of the cutting, you save money. That varies across the United States. You can also get at Costco Business Center. Have you ever been to one of those?

[Jen]

I have not, but I have heard rumors of it. Please tell me about.

[Host 1]

They're amazing. They're amazing. So any Costco member can go to a Costco Business Center. You do not need to have a special membership. So just go use your normal Costco card. You go in there and their meat section is just like, oh my God. Amazing. They have so many different cuts of meat. They had like beef tongue. They had huge boxes of chicken thighs, bone in skin on drummies for much, much cheaper than you're going to get it anywhere else. Their whole rib eyes I think were like a dollar cheaper than your normal Costco because they're more for like food service. Right. But you can access it. You can get a whole goat, you can get a whole pig. It's insane. I love the Costco Business Center. It's about like 45 minutes from my house, so I don't go very often. But it's good to know that it's.

[Jen]

There that if you're near one of those, then it might be worth getting a deep freezer.

[Jill]

Yeah. Or just going regularly if you're, if you're that close. On the weekends, hanging out at the Costco Business Center.

[Jen]

So let's talk more about like cuts and animals. What are our most affordable options?

[Host 1]

Sure. I mean, I think most affordable is going to be chicken and pork. Those are my go tos if I'm, if I'm needing to save some money. Drumsticks and yeah, it's usually just drumsticks I can find for 99 cents a pound typically. Costco Business Center 79 cents a pound. That's incredible. There's just an amazing amount of nutrition in a chicken wing or a drummy and you can cover a lot of, a lot of your caloric needs with that. I think for pork, pork chops, pork shoulder, pork tenderloin, any kind of pork you can find, you can find for pretty cheap. And if I'm finding it on sale, I am buying a bunch of it and freezing it. But I think like bang for your buck. Beef is probably the best meat that you can get. Just nutrition wise. It's a ruminant animal. The meat is just so packed full of vitamins and minerals and a lot of caloric density. So if you're trying to save money, you know, eating more meat in the form of beef can be very helpful because you know you're taking care of a lot of your nutrition needs in just one meal. So whenever I find beef, like ground beef on sale typically right now in my area it's like I don't know, four to eight dollars a pound depending on what you're getting. But if I can find that for really cheap, like Jewel had these pub burgers that was like £2 worth of pub burgers. But they were selling that package for $4. That's 2 bucks a pound. So I mean, who don't use them for burgers if you just need to use the ground beef? Whatever. I bought a ton of those, you know, so scoop up the deals where you can find it. But yeah, chicken, pork. Cheapest beef though I think is probably the best bang for your buck when you can find a good deal.

[Jill]

Yeah, I have so much to learn about the different cuts of meat. I can often, I can get into these ruts of this is just what I know. So I'm just buying some chicken and then I look at all of the different types of beef and I'm like, the prices feel wildly different and I don't know what to do with them, like how to prepare them. So I just often will stick to what I know. And I'm like, someday I want to be a grownup and understand what all of these different cuts mean. But so, so hearing what you're saying about beef and how this actually could be, you know, quality over quantity for us, and we see that, you know, some beef is really inexpensive price per pound, and then some are up to, you know, $15 per pound. How do we make sense of those different types of cuts? Should we just, you know what it's beef. Get whatever's cheapest and figure it out later. Like what should we be considering this message is brought to you by Apple Card Whoa.

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[Host 1]

Yeah, that's a good question. So I mean with beef there's select, choice and prime. Prime is going to be your most expensive. Select is going to be your least expensive. I usually go for the middle ground choice. It's good, you know, pretty tender for the most part. Your different cuts of of beef are going to be, you know, prepared in different ways. The the cuts that need to be cooked for longer that are tougher, you know, like your chuck roast, things like that. Those you know are going to be probably cheaper per pound. Then you get all the way up to like a ribeye steak or something. Those are, those can go for a lot, you know, down. I'm in Florida right now and they have Publix as their local grocery store and man did they overcharged for steaks here.

[Jill]

Publix is expensive.

[Host 1]

I have not been buying ribeyes down here. It's like 19 a pound. I'm like why, why is it so expensive? So that kind of runs the gamut there I think as far as like cost effective cuts of beef. The chuck eye steak has a similar fat profile and tenderness to the ribeye, but it's drastically cheaper. I mean like I Can find one of those for maybe four or five dollars a pound. And then the ribeye, you know, 13 to $20 a pound. So that's a really good cost effective way to eat more steak and have the, you know, good fat to protein ratios, but save some money. I also really like skirt steak. I like the untrimmed skirt steak. It has a lot of fat on it when it's untrimmed. And then I either cook that on a grill, you know, garlic powder, salt on both sides, and then just grill it to maybe like medium rare. Because that one, if you cook it too much, it can get tough. But if you cook it just right, it's really juicy and delicious. Do it on a grill or I do it in my air fryer. Surprisingly, I cook a lot of steaks and beef in my air fryer, so that's always a good way to do it too.

[Jill]

Yeah, I did just go out on a limb and got a chuck roast. Cause I'm like, this is so inexpensive. I'll figure it out later. It was so good. I. In my mind, I'm thinking roast like what my grandmother used to make. And it was always so tough and the gravy was lumpy. And she was a good cook at one point in her life. But the roasts I was accustomed to were just not the greatest. And so I've never really done a roast. Cause I thought, I don't like them. But this was so good and so inexpensive and so. So on the flip side of that, you kind of mentioned this already with the different. I did not know that. Between the select choice and prime, I didn't either. That's a fun takeaway choice.

[Jen]

What I will go with now, are.

[Jill]

There any cuts of meat that aren't worth the extra price? Like you could go with something less expensive? Just like. Yeah, if you see that this is a lot of money, it's. It's not actually worth it if you're on a tight budget.

[Host 1]

Yeah, that's a really good question. I think one of the most trendy meats out there is the tomahawk steak. You know, the big ribeye with the big bone. It looks really cool. It's not. It's just a ribeye steak with a long bone on it. That's all it is. And you get charged so much more. Just buy a normal ribeye if you're gonna do that. It's not worth it. That's the first that comes to my mind.

[Jill]

That is a good point. I always wondered what sets a tomahawk apart, other than it just looking like you can hold it with a big stick.

[Jen]

Yeah, it's very Instagrammable.

[Host 1]

Yeah, very much so. It looks great on camera, but you don't need to spend an extra $20 a pound for it, you know.

[Jen]

Oh, my gosh. Are you. Is that extra $20 basically just paying for bone? Because that's what's on going considered in the weight. Right. That's what I always think with bone in stuff.

[Host 1]

Yeah, I basically. Yeah, I think so. Because, I mean, weight wise. Yeah. The tomahawk steak normally is going to be more meat on it. You know, like they're going to be a larger steak just to compensate. You can't have a tiny little piece of ribeye and then a huge bone. So it's going to be a little bit bigger. But. But just price per pound. It's normally just so much more than just a normal, even bone in ribeye. So, yeah, I just avoid those unless I'm doing, like a special cookout with a party and I want to, you know, be bougie or something, but that's not really happening.

[Jen]

Oh, my gosh. Okay, so I have two questions. I want to know kind of how you like to cook your meats. Like, really either, like, simple recipes or. Yeah, just like, how are you cooking your meats? That's my first question.

[Host 1]

Sure. So I. For those in your audience that don't know, I follow a carnivore diet. I'm a Carnivore educator on YouTube. And so I only eat meat and animal products. And one of the best things about this lifestyle is that you don't have to think too much about your food. I don't have a lot of fancy side dishes or, like, extra stuff I have to buy. So for me, I keep it simple. I have twin toddlers that are three and a half, and they are wonderful, but also very active and always trying to, like, kill themselves, you know, they're like, trying to break everything all the time.

[Jen]

I know that life.

[Host 1]

You know it.

[Jen]

I think I live with one of those.

[Host 1]

Yeah. So I just want to keep it as simple as possible. So when it comes to my meat, I do rib eye steaks. I'll do sirloin. Once in a blue moon, I'll do filet. But typically it's rib eye because I do that whole rib eye from Costco to save money. And we just cut that up, freeze it, put it away, and I'll eat steak maybe once or twice a week. I will take it out of the freezer, thaw it. And then I do garlic powder and salt on both sides and we either grill it to medium rare or I do it in my air fryer. And I use a tasty air fryer. It has a built in temperature probe. So I just stick that in the meat, put it into the air fryer, and then I cook it to like 118 degrees internal temperature Fahrenheit because it cooks for a few minutes longer once you pull it out. So it'll get to about 125A really good medium rare. Great. Good to go. I cook it at like 420 degrees Fahrenheit for 12 to 14 minutes. For the ribeye chicken wings, super simple. I love chicken wings. I'm slightly obsessed. I kind of like blackout when I'm eating them. And my husband's like, wait, can I have some? And I'm like, no, I'm going to. But chicken wings are super simple too. We do those in the air fryer 420 degrees Fahrenheit for about 18 to 20 minutes. And with those, I do a little bit of avocado oil on the wings and then I'll do garlic powder, onion powder, smoked paprika, and salt. It's kind of like my chicken blend. And just, you know, get it all over all the chicken wings, put them in wing tips to the inside, and then I cook like eight to 10 of them at a time for, for that period of time. That's a really good way to do it. Yeah, I, I have some complicated recipes. I have a cookbook. Well, it's a in depth guide to the carnivore diet and a cookbook in one that's coming out in September. So there's some more fancy recipes in there for people that need a little bit more, you know, diversity in their meals. For me, I could eat steak, chicken wings, bacon and eggs every single day for the rest of my life. And I would be like, I'm good, boring eater.

[Jen]

How do you, how do you cook your bacon? Are you like massive, like baking it or. Because that's always been troublesome for me because I will do a whole package in the oven, but it's hard for me to get it to the crisp that I like.

[Host 1]

Yeah, it depends on what you're looking for. So for me, I want that kind of crispiness that melts in your mouth. I love that. That's my favorite type of bacon. So I do it in the oven, a whole pound on a rack. So elevate it off the bottom, put them all out and I do it at, like 400 to 405 degrees Fahrenheit for 25 to 30 minutes. I check on it right when I get down to that wire and kind of just see if it's crispy enough. That's. That's how I'm cooking bacon. I cook that almost every day.

[Jill]

Does that ruin your oven? Like, with all the grease? I've.

[Host 1]

Yeah.

[Jill]

Yeah, I bet.

[Jen]

So you also have to clean your.

[Jill]

Oven things to, too? Yeah, I usually make it on the stove, but then it's like, all right, it's a bacon day, and I just have grease all over the floors.

[Jen]

I would rather do it in the oven to contain the grease than to have it all over the place. That's my. I would rather clean the oven as a contained space.

[Jill]

It feels like a. Like a job. It's like you got to put it on the calendar. Like, that's the day you cook bacon and you hate your life, but you love the food.

[Host 1]

They are so good, though. But, you know, when we have a very small house, so all of. I just smell like meat all the time. I kind of hate it. But when we get a bigger house, hopefully someday I want to get a griddle to put outside on the back porch or something. That's how a lot of people cook a lot of their bacon and stuff. Then you're not dealing with that on the inside. But until then, yeah, I'm going to be doing it in the oven because I get it. It's just the most crispy consistency.

[Jill]

I do have an induction burner, and I'm. I'm going to do that because I've actually done this when I've cooked crab legs before, take it outside on the induction burner in a big pot so that my house doesn't smell like fish. I've never thought about it with bacon, though.

[Jen]

There you go.

[Jill]

That's a big unlock for me. Wow.

[Jen]

Okay. And so my second question is, how do you repurpose leftovers and, like, minimize waste?

[Host 1]

Sure. So I guess it depends on your relationship with leftovers. Some people just can't do it, and some people are totally into it. So for me, breakfast meats, honestly, there's not really anything left over between my boys and myself. We eat all of it every day. But if I'm doing, like, a breakfast casserole, I'll set some aside. So I chop up breakfast sausage, bacon, any kind of meats. I have leftover chicken. Like, if we had some chicken drummies left, any steak, ground beef, chorizo, anything. I have left over. I'll just throw that all into a casserole pan and Whip up like 8 to 12 egg eggs, maybe with a little dairy, if you're including dairy, throw that in and then cover it in cheese. Bake it for like 25, 30 minutes and you have a breakfast casserole. So that's a really good way to reuse your meat. Because my husband and I are only eating meat. The leftovers that we have are pretty typically like half a steak or like some chicken wings and we just eat it the next day. Following the lifestyle that I do. We don't have a ton of food waste. That's another way we're saving money because we're just eating everything that we cook. So that's been really, really helpful with our grocery bill because we used to, when we were eating salads and all that stuff, it would just go bad in the fridge because we couldn't eat the lettuce quick enough or the other vegetables and fruits that we were eating. So that's been really helpful money wise with that. But yeah, leftovers just depends. Just depends on how you feel about it.

[Jill]

You mentioned repurposing some of the fats and making your own tallow. Do you do anything fun with the bones?

[Host 1]

Yeah, yeah. There's so much you can do. You can use every piece of the animal.

[Jen]

Tell us about that. So you can do like.

[Host 1]

Yeah, you can do a bone broth with, you know, any kind of bone really. I usually typically use beef. Throw some bones in a big crock pot, cover it with some filtered water, add a little bit of salt and a little bit of apple cider vinegar. Be sure to add maybe like a teaspoon because that can kind of unlock the nutrients from the bone and then just let it cook for like 24 hours on low. I tend to skim some of the fat off the top just because it's just too much for me to then consume. But that's a really good way to do just bone broth as a drink on its own. Or if you're making a base for a soup. Bone marrow. Bone marrow is amazing and it's so, so good for you. So anytime I can. We're roasting some bone marrow. I've done it in the air fryer. I do it in the oven. And you typically at your local grocery store, if you can get bones there, they can cut them canoe cut style. So they're flat and long instead of, you know, vertical. That's easier to access the marrow in that form that local international Grocery store I was talking about, they will canoe cut bone marrow for me. So that's kind of another thing that I figured out. But yeah, there's lots of uses for the bones.

[Jill]

When you make your bone broth, will you, will you mix animals? Like, you know, you said you primarily use beef bone, but could you do like beef, chicken, turkey bone?

[Host 1]

Yeah.

[Jill]

Okay.

[Host 1]

You can do whatever you want.

[Jill]

I like that. That works for me, you know.

[Host 1]

Yeah. I mean, you know, if you're buying like a whole chicken and you have the carcass left over, you can make a really delicious chicken soup out of that. You know, just like, like a rotisserie chicken from Costco is five bucks. Eat what you're going to eat. Put the carcass into a crock pot with some water, salt, cook that down, and then you can add more chicken, like if you ate the whole thing, you know, or you can just leave what's on the bone. We do that with our Thanksgiving turkey. You know, I did that for the.

[Jen]

First time last year.

[Host 1]

It's so good. You know, throw it in a giant stock pot, let it cook down, gets all the little bits off. And then you just throw in whatever you're going to. If you're including plants, you know, carrots, potatoes, whatever you're going to do for us, we just eat it like that. And it's so good. And just. That would have gone in the garbage, you know.

[Jill]

Right.

[Jen]

But there's still so many, so many nutrients, like, left.

[Jill]

Do you know what's not going in the garbage? And is. Is actually super nutrient dense, sour packed.

[Jen]

It's so dense every single episode.

[Jill]

The bill of the.

[Host 1]

That's right. It's time for the best minute of your entire week. Maybe a baby was born and his name is William. Maybe you paid off your mortgage, maybe your car died and you're happy to not have to pay that bill anymore. Duck bills, Buffalo Bills, Bill Clinton.

[Jen]

This is the bill of the week, Jenny. Every week we invite our guests and our listeners to tell us what their bill for the week is. And we look forward to hearing yours.

[Host 1]

Well, I had a few thoughts, but one of the things that my husband and I have done recently is go through our credit card bill and eliminate all of these stupid subscriptions that we had that we didn't even realize we still had. I had one for like some ketones. He had one. He had like two credit checking subscriptions. So we each made our own list and we've been checking them off. So we've saved like hundreds of dollars eliminating Those bills.

[Jen]

That is so great. That's the thing that we tell people to start when they're trying to lower the expenses. Do not start with the fit with the first thing that comes to your head. That's the last thing that you eliminate. The first thing you eliminate is those two credit checking services you didn't realize and don't know why you're paying for.

[Jill]

Mm, yeah, that's an. This is one of our money moves that we talked about recently. And it's amazing. Not just, oh, cancel subscriptions, cancel subscriptions. You don't utilize. I think when we talked about this as a money move recently, it was something like at least $33 a month the average American is spending on unused subscriptions. So that's just a good bill and a good tip. Jenny, to go through your credit card bill, make sure that you don't have any unused subscriptions and if you do, cancel them. If you all are listening and you have a bill that you want to submit to us, if it is about bills you forgot you were paying for and you don't want to be paying for them anymore, or a bill you don't mind paying for, you're not name is Bill.

[Jen]

You think you have all the things bizarre. Unused bill. Ooh, I. I want to hear the.

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[Jill]

It'S time for the lightning round.

[Jen]

Pew pew. Okay, so for our lightning round either this we could be we could do this two ways. What's your go to cut of meat and how do you cook it? Or like what is your like favorite cut of meat and how do you cook it okay, Jenny, Ribeye rib eye steak is king.

[Host 1]

If I could eat it every day, I would. And garlic powder, salt. Cook it for 12 to 14 minutes to medium rare.

[Jen]

What? What is that? So my husband's favorite steak is New York strip. How does that compare to rib eye? I don't know.

[Host 1]

Yeah, just a different fat profile. So on Carnivore, we're aiming for high fat, moderate protein. So just the amount of fat and protein on a ribeye is like 70% fat to 30% protein, which is like the ideal fat to protein ratio. So for me, I've always loved the fat. I was one of those kids that, like, if my mom cut fat off of her steak, I was like, oh, give it to me. I was a weirdo. So that's kind of why I go for the ribeye.

[Jen]

And so what would the profile of the New York strip be?

[Host 1]

So the New York strip would just be a little bit more protein and a little bit less fat, but still a really good ratio.

[Jen]

Okay. Yeah. I am the person that cuts off the fat and throws it away, and that's how I feel.

[Jill]

Recently, I have learned that the fat is good for you, and I love it, so I'm leaning in. I know. All right.

[Jen]

I am trying to lean more into healthy fats, but they are my least favorite foods across the board. I have found. When I've now that I'm looking into the macronutrients of different foods, I can really, like. Don't judge me. I'm so nervous to say this. I'm kind of take it or leave it on cheese, like, on things.

[Jill]

Okay. You're safe. You're safe.

[Jen]

Thank you. I'm taking it or leave it on. Like the avocado on toast.

[Jill]

Okay.

[Jen]

And then the fat on meat.

[Jill]

Wow.

[Jen]

Yeah, I know. So. But I am more cognizant of that.

[Jill]

And what are you eating? You just eliminated coffee, avocado, bread, fat, cheese.

[Jen]

I am exclusively living on caffeine. I told Jill this before we started recording.

[Jill]

Not good caffeine.

[Jen]

I woke up at the bottom 3am, not because I'm an Instagram influencer, but because my 2 year old decided that was when he was ready to get up. So I. I think I exist exclusively on caffeine. That's. I'm on the caffeine diet.

[Jill]

Yeah. I. I am a steak girly. I do love. It is my favorite. I probably could eat steak every day. I feel like I'm at a point where that's not quite affordable for me. But my favorite way is to prepare it with just a ton of salt. I don't even do the pepper, honestly. I just put salt all over that bad boy and cook it in some really good butter in a cast iron skillet.

[Jen]

Yeah, that's my fave. I know that it's not meat, but Jenny, tell us what's the best butter that you can get at like Costco or any other regular grocery store?

[Host 1]

Yeah, just go for grass fed butter of any kind. Kerrygold. The Kirkland brand is really, really good. That's what I use. It's like $10 for a four pack of the big Brix and it's delicious. Salted. I always use salted.

[Jill]

Noise. Yeah, yeah. What are we out here doing with unsalted butter? Usually for baking my own hot take.

[Jen]

It's usually for baking.

[Jill]

And why?

[Jen]

I don't know. Because that's what the recipe says, Jill.

[Jill]

Why? And then they're like, so then you don't have to add salt.

[Jen]

Don't question the recipe makers.

[Jill]

No.

[Jen]

Just follow them blindly.

[Jill]

I, I don't. And I always, I buy salted. I use salted. No complaints over here. Okay, your turn, Jen.

[Jen]

So, okay. I was a vegetarian for 10 years and I started eating meat again when I was pregnant with my first son and I craved a chick fil a chicken sandwich. So that meat has always held a special place in my heart.

[Host 1]

So chick fil a chicken sandwich.

[Jen]

The chick fil a chicken sandwich. I don't know if it's my favorite cut of meat. It might be my, it's not my go to because I can't afford to eat that.

[Jill]

Can you call it cut of meat? Can you call anything from a fast food restaurant like a cut of meat?

[Jen]

I'm sorry, a chick fil a is a chick. Chick fil a? Yes, it's a cut of chicken. I would say I do enjoy the New York strip when I get it right. It took me a while to figure it out after not cooking any meats, but so when I say I was a vegetarian, I really mean I was a pescetarian because I would eat Sushi throughout the 10 years. That was like my one exception is that I would eat sushi. Do you eat any like seafood or shellfish, Jenny?

[Host 1]

Yeah, I do. I do tuna sashimi and then there's this amazing sushi salad at my local sushi place that's like a bunch of cut up pieces of fish with some spicy mayo and they usually put tempura flakes in it, but we get those out and then I do a lot of Sardine fasting. So I just eat sardines for a specific period of time. So that's typically the seafood. Oh, and crab and lobster and all that stuff. But that's kind of expensive right now. So none of that, none of that.

[Jen]

If you were going to eat it and you wanted to get the best price, what would you do if you were going to maybe splurge for, for any seafood, what kind of seafood and where would you go if you were like, I need seafood or shellfish right now and I have a limited budget right now.

[Host 1]

Okay. So always get wild caught, always. Because the farm raised just has a bunch of stuff in it you don't even want to consume. It's not worth it. So keeping that in mind, it's, you know, depends on the, the cut of fish. If you're getting like, you know, wild caught salmon, it's going to be expensive. So search out the deals for sure. You know, around Easter time, before Easter with Lent, a lot of seafood was on sale because a lot of people don't eat meat for that 40 day period of time. So you could stock up on it then and freeze it. Seafood freezes really well. And then of course, you know, like around New Year's you're going to be able to find crab for pretty cheap and crab legs do freeze, freeze well. So I don't know. King crab has been an issue though. Just with the big die off there was like the ocean is too hot and the king crab is all dying. So that's why we couldn't really find it this year. But yeah, that's kind of what I do do there. But canned fish, canned fish are great, great deals. And you know, sardines, a lot of people were like, ugh, sardines. But man, they have a lot of nutrition, a lot of bang for your buck and you can get a really, really good deal at Costco. A six pack for I think $12 of the season brand. And they have some of the Wild Planet which are whole sardines for. I think it's like $10 for a six pack. So you can get a lot of nutrition from canned fish.

[Jill]

When I was in Portugal, there was an entire store dedicated to sardines, canned sardines. I mean, I think it's a big thing in Portugal, but it made me want to buy. I don't actually think I've ever tried to just eat sardines out of a can. And I didn't start, I'll tell you.

[Jen]

I did not.

[Jill]

But the cans were so beautiful and the Store was so beautiful. And I'm like, I think I'm gonna. I think I'm gonna eat sardines now.

[Host 1]

This is beautiful.

[Jill]

I didn't. But they were influencing me.

[Jen]

Oh, I remember. I have one more question for you. I watched in one of your videos that you had a tip of going to a grocery store in the early morning for deals. Is that still applicable? And is there, like, a certain day of the week that you found better deals?

[Host 1]

That's a really good question. So the. The meat manager at whatever grocery store you're at, if the meat needs to be sold by that day, they're doing those markdowns first thing in the morning, 6, 7am because they want to get that stuff out the door and make some money. Now, before the past couple of years, a few years ago, I would see 50% off discounts. Now at my local jewel, I'm seeing just 30% off. So that's changed. But I still am finding really, really sweet deals now down here in Florida at Publix, I have not seen any meat discounts. It's crazy. So we actually froze a bunch of meat. We drove down and brought it with us. But I would say if you talk to your meat manager, ask them, when do you do your markdowns? And they'll tell you, you know, because they want to get that out the door. So just communicate with your meat manager. You can also, like, I go, I do a big grocery shop once a month, but I also visit my local grocery store a couple times a week maybe to pick up some bacon or some milk for my boys or something like that. And I'll just do a quick check and I'll look at the dates, like, oh, okay, these chicken, it needs to be sold by this day. That's in a couple of days. I'll come back and see if there's any discounted. So, yeah, you're at the store a little bit more, but you're really queued into what's going on there, and you can kind of see the rhythm of things, and then you can find some really good deals.

[Jen]

That's a good tip. Asking the meat manager when the markdowns happen.

[Jill]

Yeah. Cool. Well, Jenny, if people want more from you, where can they find that?

[Host 1]

Sure. I'm on YouTube. Jenny Midich is my handle. I'm also on Instagram. That's Mama Midich. And my podcast is Meat Matters. That's also on YouTube. But all of your podcasting platforms that.

[Jen]

It'S available wherever you're listening to this. Thank you so Much Jenny. And yeah, I'm excited to eat some meat.

[Jill]

Get the meat sweats.

[Host 1]

Me too.

[Jen]

You got that in again?

[Jill]

I did, yeah.

[Jen]

The second time this week she said meat sweats.

[Jill]

Well, I have some takeaways and that's always my metric for if the interview was good or not. Granted, there ever hasn't ever been an interview that we haven't aired, so they've all been good in my opinion. But I love it when I can walk away with some takeaways. Like I said in the podcast, I had no idea about the select choice prime.

[Jen]

And she said actually once we stopped recording that very rarely will they have select out. And I just assumed choice was the bottom of the barrel and prime was the only other option. But now knowing that there are three options and choice is. Is actually the middle of the road, I can feel safer making that choice now.

[Jill]

Yeah. Asking your meat manager for discounts, making some of your own broth. That has always felt so clouded for me, like, unattainable. But she made it sound so simple that maybe I'll try it.

[Jen]

And we have said in the weekly money move, one of our. One of the money moves is tracking your food for a few days, figuring out, okay, how many calories am I putting into my body and what are the nutrients in those foods that I'm putting in my body so we can make sure that we're getting the right nutrients to fuel ourselves. And so I think it's important to also kind of know what Jenny was talking about with the fat to protein ratio. So like someone like me, I like less fat. And so my fat, my desire for fat content is lower. And so now I can kind of know, like, I mean, if I want to splurge, I can do a New York strip, but most of the time, I mean, I maybe buy steak once a month. Honestly, same.

[Jill]

Yeah.

[Jen]

And I feel more confident in that now. So it's important to know that we're spending money in the right places when it comes to buying food. Regardless of the diet lifestyle that you are following.

[Jill]

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[Jen]

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[Jill]

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[Jen]

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[Jill]

Oh wow. I only write books, I don't read them. Sorry guys.

[Jen]

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[Jill]

See you next time.

[Jen]

Frugal Friends is produced by Eric Sirianna.

[Jill]

I want sushi now.

[Jen]

We have to record another episode before we get sushi.

[Jill]

Okay.

[Jen]

But we had already planned for it. Yeah, we did plan for it today.

[Jill]

It's in my plan. It's in the business plan.

[Jen]

It just happened to be that today is also the day I woke up at 3:00am yeah, but. So that's just a happy accident.

[Jill]

When she talked about the tuna. What? Tuna tartare salad? Or am I mixing things? I don't know. I blacked out when she was talking about tuna. That sounded so good to me.

[Jen]

Like an ahi tuna salad, maybe.

[Jill]

Or she used other words to describe ceviche.

[Jen]

She was describing it almost.

[Jill]

Yeah. Was like tuna tartare in a salad with like a spicy mayo on it. That sounded.

[Jen]

Oh yeah. I blacked out at spicy mayo. That's where she lost me. I was just.

[Jill]

She didn't lose me. She wrangled me. But I still blacked out.

[Jen]

I left the episode and went to tuna and spicy mayo.

[Jill]

Oh, I wonder if they have that at this place next door.

[Jen]

They have a delicious spicy tuna and a delicious spicy mayo.

[Jill]

Oh, you're gonna make me record more before I get in. I am, but I'm just. I can't stop thinking about it.

[Jen]

I'm just a girl.

[Jill]

How am I gonna be able to record a Sunday reset when I can't stop think thinking about tuna?

[Jen]

Oh, girl, we got a Sunday reset and another podcast episode.

[Jill]

Nuh. Oh, that's right.

[Jen]

We.

[Jill]

I'm gonna have to have A snack. I'm gonna go, we will do a snack.

[Jen]

I'm gonna do a snack of caffeine because that's my diet.

[Jill]

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