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BiggerPockets Money Podcast

3: Cutting Your Grocery Bill in Half with Erin Chase from $5 Dinners

BiggerPockets Money Podcast

BiggerPockets

Education, Investing, Business

4.53K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

As a mom of (then) two, Erin Chase found herself shopping for groceries without a plan, picking up things that sounded good, but no idea what she’d do with them once she got them home. They made their way into the refrigerator, then on to the trash after they rotted. She knew she had to significantly cut her grocery bill if she wanted to get ahead. In this episode of The BiggerPockets Money Podcast, Erin shares how she cut her grocery bill in half - while adding two more kids to the mix. She gives actionable tips for significantly reducing your grocery bill - without clipping coupons! Don’t miss this awesome episode with Erin! Links from the Show Checkout 51 King Soopers Favado Coupons.com Albertsons Safeway   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the Bigger Pockets Money Show Number 3.

0:03.0

It's time for a new American dream, one that doesn't involve working in a cubicle for 40 years, barely scraping by.

0:09.0

Whether you're looking to get your financial house in order, invest the money you already have, or

0:13.5

discover new paths for wealth creation. You're in the right place. This show is for

0:18.5

anyone who has money or wants more. This is the Bigger Pocket's Money Podcast.

0:23.0

How's it going everybody?

0:25.0

This is Scott Trench. She here with my co-host, Miss Mindy Jensen.

0:28.0

How you doing, Midy?

0:29.0

I'm doing really good, Scott.

0:30.0

How are you doing today?

0:31.0

I am doing great.

0:32.0

I'm excited to learn a lot about budgeting and grocery shopping and learning how to really make a dent in my food budget here.

0:38.0

This show is fantastic. Aaron Chase is the founder of $5 dinners.com, $5 meal plan.com, the

0:47.2

grocery budget makeover.com, and she's author of the $ dollar dinner mom cookbook series and before we talk anymore

0:56.2

about her I want to say that all of these five dollar dinners are actually really good meals.

1:02.0

She's not sharing with you how to make beans and rice or

1:05.4

how to make a peanut butter sandwich. She's sharing really delicious meals

1:09.1

using everyday ingredients that you can find at your store. She doesn't have those weird

1:13.4

ingredients that cost like a hundred dollars. She doesn't have boring meal plans. She's

1:18.7

on a mission to help busy, overwhelmed home chefs learn how to spend less money in groceries and get organized in the

1:24.0

kitchen and I've made her meals I subscribe to five dollar dinners myself and they're

1:30.1

amazing and what are the reasons why we're talking about this here is, you know, when it comes

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