Welcome to the Healthy Moms Podcast with Katie from WellnessMama.com

Today, Katie again joins Katie Kimble, founder of KitchenStuartship.com and creator of the Kids Cook Real Food Course.

Katie Kimble is a teacher and mom of four kids who eat their vegetables and even help cook them.

She is the creator of the popular Kids Cook Real Food Course, an author of seven cookbooks.

In the show notes of this episode, you can find out more about Katie's course, Kids Cook Real Food, and get access to her no-cost three video series that includes many lessons for teaching your kids how to help in the kitchen.

Let's join the two Katie's in this episode as they share their best real food shopping tips and budget saving ideas.

Katie, welcome back. Last week you were here talking about baby steps to eating real food and you shared some amazing tips on pantry staples and switching out some of those processed box foods that are so popular and that make dinner time easy with real food options that are also simple and easy.

This time I can't wait for us to dive in and talk about some of our favorite real food shopping tips and tricks.

So welcome. Thanks for being here.

Well, thank you. You make me blush by using words like amazing because I feel like all I do is little tiny things.

And I guess the little tiny things stack up, but I'm hoping that that's encouraging to the listeners too that it's just they're normal.

They're not amazing like they're normal little things that anyone can do and it's just a matter of stacking them up tall enough to kind of reach your goal.

Yeah, I love that. That's a great point. And your recipes, they are so good. And I feel like for someone especially making the switch just having knowing what those little things are in the beginning, even if they are simple can be so helpful.

I know even gosh, almost a decade ago when I started this, there weren't as many blogs, but I would find just a little tip on somebody's blog and be like, oh my gosh, why didn't I think of that? That's so helpful.

Also, and your whole blog is that everything I feel like that you write is, oh my gosh, that's so helpful. So good.

And one thing that you are also so exceptional at is that so you have four kids, you have a lot of kids also and you also follow a budget as I do as well.

And so I would love for us to talk about some of our favorite best places to shop, especially on a budget. So where your go to grocery stops.

Well, I go to Costco and all the is kind of a new refreshed love in the last year and a half or so. We in Michigan, we have country life natural foods where we can order in bulk. And that would be similar to the one you mentioned on the last episode, the Azure standard.

And then I think gosh, the name is escaping right now, but there's another one that's maybe more of the West coast.

But any really any co-op would be similar to that, but so ours is called country life here in Michigan. And then I do go to Meyer, that's our, that's our like big box store.

Although I find myself going there less and less and less like it's almost down to just once or twice a quarter.

Basically, when I need vegetables that the others don't carry and it's not farmers market season. And that's that's the last place. Of course, you got a shop at the farmers markets, but it's a limited.

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