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Here are your hosts, Jen and Jill.
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Hey, Frugal Friends. I'm Jen.
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I'm Jill.
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And I decided to follow a 1950s grocery list for one week to see how it would go. Because people love to talk about frugality back in the depression era, 30s, 40s, 50s, kind of seeing it as this golden age of frugality. And I wanted to see, is it really that different? Is it the hype? Is it what we should be focused on? And I learned some things.
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I love that you chose to do this in the summertime and you just. And that the she you're referring to in the title is you. Yeah, she tried. Yeah, Jen tried it.
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She did. She did try it and she learned some things. So I'm going to share what I did, why, how it went, and the experiences that I'm taking forward with me. And if you get the Friend Letter, which is our weekly newsletter, we're going to include this grocery list and meal plan in there. We'll include it in. Obviously, if you're already on the list, you'll get it today and we'll send it out in the next one too. So head to frugalfriendspodcast.com to get that. But yes, so you won't have to like feverishly write it down as I'm talking about it.
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But first, this episode is brought to you by Domesticated. You know what this is? This is. This is. We're pampered for the house. We're here for the indoor stuff. You're tamed from the wild.
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Give me the H Vac, but.
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Give me the no bugs. Give me the floofy pillows.
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As little humidity as possible.
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But if you don't feel tamed from the wilds and you're a little bit loosey goosey all over the place, you don't feel that domesticated.
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You're a little wild Thornbury Berry over here to be.
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Because your foraging skills are not there. Because we have not been cave women for a very long time.
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Is that mushroom toxic?
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I know. Could we have put more in there?
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This is the end. This is the Trifecta of spreadsheets. This is our last one. We started with our budget planner. So we moved on to our annual finance planner. That pretty much is a life, you know, inventory dashboard. And then now we have the meal planner. And this is it. This is all you need. And we are so excited about it.
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And of course, obviously, you know, eventually we're going to have a bundle. Eventually, someday we're going to be able to bundle that stuff. And you're going to love it, but.
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It won't be less than 50% off. So the code in the friend letters.
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You'Re going to want the meal planner now. Yeah. Okay. Jen, why in the world did you do this? Why did you decide I'm gonna do a 1950s?
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It is because this is what people want. And I can't say for certain. I can't say for certain, like our audience. So let me know in the comments if you were like, actually didn't want this.
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But I'm here anyway.
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Right. Thank you. But I was. I look at YouTube a lot just to do research, like, what are people on this platform looking for? Because I can't do that on Spotify or Apple podcasts. It just. There is no capability to do that. But there is a lot of research that can be done on popularity on YouTube. So I was finding a lot of people are interested in 1950s sewing and fashion, creating things, 1950s kitchen, 1950s daily routine, stuff like that. And I think part of it maybe was like, trad wives are really popular. And I don't want to say like, oh, you know, this is all popular because of frugality. It's probably not, but it is. When we search for frugality, people are always looking for extreme frugality. Extreme. How can I save as much and be as, you know, stingy as possible? And so a lot of that comes down to kind of 1920s, 1930s, 40s, all the way up to the 50s where frugality was still seen as a virtue. It was up, I think, through the 50s where frugality was truly seen as a virtue. And so how, again, we want to bring frugality back as being a virtue for a modern era. So I wanted to see, like, how can we integrate the best of both worlds from the 50s, from this modern age and what can be done, if any.
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Yeah, so a couple of facts just.
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About.
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What we're even talking about here. So in 1950, the average weekly grocery bill for a family of four was around 25 to $30. Sounds amazing, right? But then, you know, adjusted to today's dollars, that's about $300 to $350 a week for a family of four, which actually doesn't sound that inexpensive.
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Right.
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And roughly 15 to 20% of food costs were for meals consumed away from home. So this has changed a ton. Restaurants, cafeterias, drugstore lunches. In 1955. So primarily eating at home is what we can read to that. So that translates to about 2 to $4 per week for the whole family, which is about $90 to $120 a week in today's money. So only that amount being spent on eating out weekly.
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Yeah, so. And in the 50s, most food was eaten at home about 75%, but they were often cooked by stay at home moms. So I had to alter some of this stuff a bit. Now over the summer I was kind of a stay at home mom. I stayed at home, but I also had a job, so I had to work from home as well. So I did alter it a little. That's where bringing like the modern like living and amenities that we enjoy, I wanted to combine today, about 50% of food spending is on meals at home. And so this was also an experiment to see like, how could we eat at home more so we in our family, if you heard me talk about like my feral toddler, we do eat 75% of our meals at home. So there wasn't a big change. But I found with inflation that these averages are pretty similar to the averages that we see today. And I don't know about like for family size, but three to 350 a week for groceries sounds about right. Yeah.
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Or maybe even slightly more than what some people are spending.
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Right. And so, but that was for like 75% of your meals at home, and now it's for 50%.
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That's true.
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So but we're also wasting a lot more food. So yeah, that was just like, you know, what I found in peripheral research and.
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Yeah, so what did this involve, this little experiment that you did?
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All right, so let's get into the grocery list and the meal plan. So for the 1950s, most people would shop once a week, whereas today we're seeing people shopping multiple times a week at the grocery store. So there were obviously fewer processed foods. So trying to maybe put a higher emphasis on that. This week I already only do a single weekly shopping trip, but it's on my phone on my Walmart app and I get it delivered. So that's different. But that's one of those like work at home mom things that I Had to change. And they had a stronger reliance on seasonality, pantry staples, and home skills like baking and preserving. And I have no home skills, so you'll notice there was no baking or preserving this week. But I did try to incorporate a little more seasonality and pantry staples. All right, so for our. So this is what I got. Most of these. I'll let you know if I change something out based on preference or avoid it altogether. So for meat and protein, we've got a pound of ground beef, one whole chicken, which I buy chicken breasts in bulk from Costco. Same with ground beef. So some of the stuff I already had, so I didn't have to buy. So instead of a whole chicken, I'm using chicken breasts, 1 to 2 pounds of pork chops or roast. I use pork tenderloin, and I did not do a roast. So I just had ground beef, chicken breast, and pork tenderloin. Bacon or salt pork? Bacon. I already had canned tuna or salmon. I did neither of those things.
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For casseroles, that's what it's.
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And I did neither of those things. A dozen eggs. Got that. We do eggs a lot. And then cheese, I say cheddar or American slices. And I had shredded cheddar, so that's what I got. Dairy, gallon of milk. Got it. Butter. Yes. Cottage cheese. Yes. And then evaporated or powdered milk. For recipes. Did not get that.
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Recipes don't really use that anymore.
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No. For bread, we got white sandwich bread. Yes. And that I use for my kids. I actually get tortillas because I really like to make everything a wrap. Yeah, I do love to just wrap things up. So that's for me. Flour, sugar, oats, rice, pasta. I had all those. And then saltine crackers. Saltine crackers. I love that.
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Of course you need saltine crackers, but.
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I actually do have crackers. I have the almond crackers from Simple Mills. Those were on sale at Costco, and I love those. I only get them when they're on sale, though, so I just happen to have crackers.
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This list does feel very simple. It does feel very 1950s housewife.
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And I think that's. That was. I think that's one of its, like, virtues is that it is so simple.
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And it feels like going to my grandmother's house.
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We over complicate our grocery lists a lot. And I think that's where some overspending comes in. Okay, so for produce, we've got potatoes, onions, carrots, apples, or bananas. I got bananas, cabbage, or a lettuce. I got lettuce. But I do have sauerkraut in the fridge, so I think that counts. And then canned fruits or vegetables, I don't do canned, I do frozen. So I have a lot of frozen fruits and vegetables already. But everything else actually I did not get carrots. I did get a bag of pre made lettuce salad mix that had some carrots already in it. So that is what I did for my salads. And then the pantry staples, coffee, duh. Baking powder, soda, salt, pepper, vinegar. Canned soups also didn't do that. But it's summer so it's not soup time. Tomato paste. I like to get the tomato paste that's in the tube instead of the can. Lasts longer, it's easier to use. And then shortening or lard. Did not get that. But I have some oil at home.
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Nice.
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And then treats. Jell O mix, Cocoa powder, cake mix and soda or Kool Aid. Occasionally I have pudding mixes because I got a ninja Creamy and I put putting mixes in there to it makes it kind of gets the ice cream consistency better.
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Oh yum.
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Whatever chemicals are in there. And I have cocoa powder. But I didn't bake. I didn't bake anything. No. Make cakes or pies or.
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I think that's something we've moved away from like being used to a dessert after dinner.
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That was something. Yeah. No. Well, here's the thing. I don't do it because I have no self control. And if the dessert is there, I will eat it. I will not wait. I'll just eat it all the time, all day. And so the cake will last a day. So I don't bake. So. And then okay, again on the shopping routine. Once a week, usually on Friday or Saturday, I get my groceries delivered either on Saturday or Sunday because Sunday is the day I do most of my meal prepping. One local grocery store, butcher and maybe a bakery. Mine's all Walmart. Brought a handwritten list and cash. Mine's all digital. Heavy focus on cooking food.
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So you didn't do it fully?
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No. And that's the thing. I wanted to see how we could merge the past and the present. That was the true test. Staying as true to the 1950s routine as possible, but knowing I've got limitations. I. I'm not one of these extreme YouTubers or influencers that's going to go extreme for show. I'm just not going to do it because this is my life and I'm. I want to live it how I want to live it. They have a heavy focus on cooking from scratch and planning ahead obviously. I love planning ahead. I, I needed to take some of the prep away from cooking from scratch. So I did make like my own sauces and, and cooked a lot of stuff from scratch. But like frozen vegetables are all pre chopped and so that was something I did. I got a bag of frozen onions that were pre chopped cause I would normally do that myself but I just didn't have time. No delivery or convenience foods, which we don't really have. We didn't have any delivery besides the groceries. And then home gardens often supplemented the list. And here's the thing, I do have an herb garden but it is August and she's sick on her. She's not here right now. She'll be back later. So. All right.
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And we aren't making jello molds.
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Okay. We aren't making jello mold. Or my mother in law did make jello last time I was over there, but I'm not. So. So yeah. And then the dessert thing, we're not making.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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So breakfasts, they would usually do scrambled eggs, toast with butter, oatmeal or cold cereal and then coffee or milk. So what I did was I did oatmeal three days, three or four days. And it was just overnight oats. So instead of a hot oatmeal like you would see in the 50s, it was a cold oatmeal. And I think I did, I think that was like with chocolate protein powder and some raspberries, maybe some mini chocolate chips. And then I did an egg scramble, like not a scramble but an egg bake where I scrambled everything up, threw it in a casserole and then baked it and cut it up for different days.
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So that's something I gotta do.
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I actually had the last of that last one of those this morning and it was very good. So sweet potato and spinach, both frozen and pre chopped with some chicken sausage, sauteed. And then I mixed up a couple eggs with some egg whites and put the cooked sausage and potatoes in the casserole, obviously oiled. And then Put the egg on top. I didn't do any cheese. Cheese. There was some paprika and garlic and salt in the eggs. So good. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, Same idea, just different way to cook it. For lunch, they would do, like, tuna salad sandwich, grilled cheese sandwich, egg salad sandwich, leftover meat sandwich.
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This is lot of sandwiches.
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Yes. Macaroni and cheese, PB and J. Or just like a deconstructed sandwich.
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Which cheese bread, Basically charcuterie, But they didn't call it that. Probably.
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Yeah. So what I did is I did two different kinds of wraps, and I would do either a turkey wrap. So turkey lunch meat with some. Some of that salad mix. I would use the salad mix for salad. Then I also use the mix in my wraps and then a light ranch dressing. Just like a drizzle. And that was my lunch. Yum, yum. Or I would replace the turkey with spicy chicken tenders that I buy in bulk from Costco.
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Yeah, you do.
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Yeah. I love those. We love those spicy two. Two spicy chicken tenders with some lettuce and ranch in a wrap as so good.
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I'm getting very hungry.
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Well, yeah, it's almost lunchtime for us. We're recording this before lunch. Ah. And so, yeah, so those were my sandwiches for. For lunch. And then we get into dinner, which is everyone's question. What's for dinner?
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Yeah, you guessed it. Meatloaf, mashed potatoes.
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Yes. So this I wanted to do. I don't. I'm not a meatloaf, girly. So for my beef, what I just did was I just cooked it like regular beef, and I actually used the ingredients I had from the list, and I made this viral beef cottage cheese bowl.
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Okay.
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And I can't even remember off the top of my head what it is, but I had all. It's cottage cheese, beef, sweet potatoes, which I already had from the list. And then a hot honey drizzle.
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Hot honey is having a heyday right now.
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Hot honey grain woodwork.
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And they were just like, we're on everything. Hot honey chips, hot honey almonds, hot honey chicken, hot honey toast. Oh, there's a reason hot honey beef and cottage cheese. Is the cottage cheese hot?
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No. No.
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So it's warm beef, cold cottage cheese.
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Hot honey, and hot sweet potatoes.
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Interesting.
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It sounds weird, but it's actually really delightful.
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But I guess cheese. You put cheese on stuff? Yeah.
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Yeah. So. And I could have added peas. I actually did have peas, and I forgot to add them. I'll be fully transparent. I had them and I forgot.
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Oh, did you add jello though, please tell me you added jello.
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I did not add white bread or which is also on the meal plan. Okay. Next day is baked chicken rice, cooked carrots.
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There you go.
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Cottage cheese and canned fruit. So I just had my cottage cheese with the beef instead. And so this one actually was a chicken fried rice bowl for me.
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Okay.
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So I had Japanese barbecue sauce and I will often look in my fridge and was like, okay, what sauces, what dressings do I got that I need to use up? And so I had that. So I did. And I pre cooked my rice on Sunday so that I have rice for the week. And it's also like fried rices do better with pre cooked rice. Anyway, so I had my chicken and I actually put spices on that and just let it sit in the fridge overnight. Did that. Made my rice with the carrots that were actually pre chopped frozen carrots. I got those too perfect. And mixed that all up. Cool. Actually have the last bit of it for leftovers for lunch today.
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I love that.
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Yeah. I'll wrap up the meal plan real quick because you'll get a copy of it in the friend letter. But so then was pork chops, potatoes, coleslaw, biscuits. I did a pork tenderloin and just seasoned it spaghetti with meat sauce. Don't. Don't gotta do that any differently. And then one was hamburgers and I did turkey burgers which are delicious with some fig jam and brie that I already had. And then I skipped the fish cakes because I obviously didn't get. Or tuna casserole. I skipped those two and dessert. But though that was the meal plan and I had it, it was something I would have made anyway.
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Yeah. Yeah. So what did you learn? What was surprising?
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I think for me what surprised me the most was how people put so much emphasis on the good old days. They think if we could just get back there, things would be much better. But I think people have not changed. And I think with inflation our prices, like what we have access to has advanced in a way that we have like access to eat at home more reasonably. Like all the. Everything I bought was pre chopped and it wasn't super expensive like gourmet stuff. It was just like the dollar bag of carrots in the fridge. And people want to be perfect and be like, cut your own carrots, it's even cheaper. But you know what, at the end of the day, I don't want to cut carrots. And if it comes down to that or eating out, I'm eating out. And so we are not much Different. I think we have as many, if not more things to allow us to be frugal and save money as people did back then. They were just kind of forced to use them, and we have a lot more options.
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Well, and I think the 1950s was also kind of the time when convenience was burgeoning and some of the throwaways were starting to happen at this time. And so people, even though this was very simple, it still stands out to me that some of those convenience things were happening. Like the jello mix was very convenient. The canned veggies convenient. The white bread in a bag. Convenience.
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Yeah. Those were all like new things.
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Yeah, right, exactly. And so even going back that far, that's kind of the beginning of some of these hacks that still could be kind of affordable that we can still look for. But that's. That's what stands out to me too, is the simplicity of it and the reuse of ingredients, which we do talk about all the time.
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Yeah.
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As how to save on food.
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Right. And because I've been eating at home a lot now, I can identify more ways to reuse things in different ways. And that has taken a lot of years to kind of identify what I like, what I don't like. That even a beef bowl with cottage cheese and hot honey would be enjoyable to me. Which man eating birdfood.com. that's the website where I got the recipe, and I think it's viral on TikTok. So I'm sure there's other places, but gosh, yeah, I don't know.
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Well, and I think dining out less, I think that's a huge one. If we are looking to really find out where can we save eating at home more? And taking that page out of a 1950s book can really help. And again, the meal plans are gonna be what really saves us in that area. So. Frugalfriendspodcast.com mealplanner and that they did eat.
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Out in the 50s. They spent what in today's dollars would be 90 to $120 a week on eating out. And eating out is so villainized, like in the, you know, saving money, financial, frugal community. And it's always been done, even when frugality was a virtue and something positively looked at, people still ate out.
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Do you know what we still do.
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And will always and will always be a virtue?
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The bill of the week.
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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. This is the bill of the week. Hey Jen and Jel, this is Maggie from Richmond, Virginia. I just finished the Buying Local episode and I wanted to say that my favorite bill of the week is the 30ish plus dollars that I spend on a huge box of produce sourced locally delivered to my house every week. It is always delicious. I can add other things like meats and cheeses and I just love that I'm able to help support my local farmers. I hope you guys have a great rest of your day.
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Yes, Maggie, this is so great. We love a little local produce delivery box.
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Yes we do.
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Local especially when you get different variety. You never quite know. That's the spontaneity. Oftentimes when we impulse spend it's because we want the spontaneity. It is kind of a need of ours. And so doing something like this is what can serve a little bit of that dopamine rush of getting a delivery and then being able to get creative with what's in the box today and what can I make this week and then shape our meal plan around that. It's a beautiful thing. Well done.
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I don't think there's anything wrong with things like Misfit markets or Thrive, but like check to see if you've got something local first. Even if it's the same price, it's worth it to invest in local agriculture. And the smaller the farm, the better. Smaller the farm the better.
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You hear that? That's not just a Toyota truck. That's the sound of no crowds, no alerts, no distractions, and no telling what you'll find next. You know, like a detour. So why would you ever take a tour when you could take a detour? Toyota trucks.
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A
And now it's time for the lightning round.
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B
Okay, your most and least favorite thing about the 1950s grocery list, Jill, you go first. I want to hear your thoughts on it.
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I love this concept and maybe I'm idealizing it, but having a baker and a butcher and a fishmonger and having.
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B
The time to go to all these places throughout the week.
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A
Yeah, again, that is, that's, that's the housewife. Privilege is the word I'm looking for.
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B
I guess it would be a privilege. Yeah.
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A
I mean if you want that privilege.
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B
Yeah.
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So that feels really nice to me. It feels very in the neighborhood having someone to go to and be able.
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B
To get your community aspect of it. I love that.
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Which technically at a grocery store you do have these things you can talk to the butcher. It's just probably not going to be the same experience as kind of what you think of when they talk about, you know, your butcher and you're able to ask for specific cuts and you're able to get the different discounts on the things. Like you may or may not be able to speak to a manager of the meat department and get the cut that you want. You just kind of, you shop the meat section and that's that. But I love that and I have a love hate relationship with all the jello and the macaroni and the casserole.
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B
I do make macaroni. I made macaroni and cheese for my kids. Yeah, that week. But that's something I do again regularly.
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A
Right.
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B
So like I am a 1950s housewife. That was the most shock. I think I will say again, most shocking thing to me is that I am a 1950s housewife.
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A
Domesticated.
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B
Yeah. Well, okay, so for me, my most favorite thing about the grocery list, I love the emphasis on desserts. I, I love that about the 50s is that they just love desserts. They'd have desserts a few times a week. They didn't villainize sugar. But I have no self control. So I did have my creamies My ninja creamies. We all sit there and we share the pint between the four of us.
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A
That's cute.
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B
Yeah, it is really adorable. We all have our own spoon.
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A
Wow.
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B
And I feel good about letting my kids have it because it's like high protein loaf.
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A
You know what's in it?
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B
Yeah. And they don't get enough protein in their diets. I know that. So yeah, that feels good. My least favorite thing was the term fish cakes. And I don't hate tuna. Like I actually have tuna in my backpack right now. The jalapeno like tuna pouch. But something about tuna casserole, tuna cake, tuna macaroni. Yeah. Like in things. I like to have it on a cracker.
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A
I'm with you.
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B
Yeah.
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A
Yeah. There's something about like. Yeah.
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B
So I hated that. The sound of it.
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A
Yeah.
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B
But to each their own.
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A
If you want more of a deep dive, we've got another video where we talked about how healthy could become toxic covering skin toxic when wellness CLP ones kind of that whole trend and influencing vibe around health and wellness can kind of take a dark turn and how it impacts our spending and how much.
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B
They would hate this grocery list.
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A
Oh, they would absolutely anger them. It is not powdered nutrients whatsoever. So yeah, feel free to cue that one up.
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B
So thank you for listening to my experience. We love reading your reviews of what we say, whether it's in the YouTube comments on Spotify or Apple podcasts or on Amazon. On our book Buy what yout Love Without Going Broke. And we want to read this one from Jesse about the book. Happens to be five stars says refreshing read. Lovely book by Jen and Jill. Really love their podcast and this book was a refreshing take on values based spending. I appreciate their approach to shame free questioning of analyzing our own actions through a psychological lens and coming back to living your values. Great read for someone looking for a fresh take on money.
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A
Ooh, love that.
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Thank you.
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Thank you so much and we will see you next time. Bye. Frugal Friends is produced by Eric Sirianni Think about the app you've been wanting to build, sell something you've created, run your community, manage your business, or launch your next idea. Now imagine it's live. Before today's over, meet base 44, the fastest way to turn any idea into a fully functional app. No code, no waiting. Just describe what you want and watch it come together. Backend design, and all in minutes. A real product ready to share. From idea to live app Fast Start building today@base44.com.
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