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HerMoney with Jean Chatzky

Ep 463: Dinner With 10 Ingredients Or Less with Ali Slagle

HerMoney with Jean Chatzky

Jean Chatzky Her Money

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever found yourself rushing to the store for a single missing ingredient, only to watch it go bad in your fridge after one use? You’re not alone. With grocery prices soaring, getting the most out of your food budget has never been more important.  This week, we’re joined by Ali Slagle, New York Times contributor and author of 40 Ingredients Forever, to talk about the art of cooking smarter—not harder. Ali shares her philosophy on keeping a “capsule kitchen” with just 40 key ingredients that can be used in endless combinations.  Resources & Links: 🔗 Ali Slagle’s Substack: 40 Ingredients Forever 🔗 Ali’s Cookbook: I Dream of Dinner (So You Don’t Have To) 🚀 FinanceFixx – Our 4 or 8-week coaching program to get your finances on track! 📈 InvestingFixx – A club for women ready to grow their wealth Have a Money Question? Send us your questions for our upcoming Mailbag segment at [email protected]. Like What You Hear? Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, and be sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And what I would recommend and what I do is I look in my fridge and I see what is going to go bad first.

0:06.3

It could be as simple as some dill that I should probably use and I start from there.

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So I always work to use what I already have and then maybe I have a protein in the freezer that I could defrost.

0:18.0

So I start to kind of triangulate and see what will go bad the

0:21.5

quickest and then what I want to eat. You know that moment when you're standing in the kitchen,

0:26.5

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Hey everyone, thanks so much for joining me today on Her Money.

1:38.4

I'm Gene Chatsky, and I want to know if you, like me, have ever found yourself running frantically to the grocery store

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because you are missing one ingredient.

1:50.4

One.

1:51.2

But you need it desperately for whatever you are trying to make for dinner.

1:55.5

Maybe it is time.

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Maybe it's bay leaves.

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Often in my house it's buttermilk. I could go on, but then you use

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