Going Plant-Based on a Budget With Toni Okamoto
Frugal Friends Podcast
Jen Smith & Jill Sirianni | Backyard Ventures
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
See how eating healthy doesn’t have to be pricey? Very demure, very mindful. If you’ve been wanting to eat a little better, try more veggies, or just stop spending a lot at the grocery store, this episode’s for you. Back with a listener favorite, Toni Okamoto is here to prove that plant-based living doesn’t mean sad meals or empty wallets.
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| 0:00.0 | Going plant-based on a budget with Tony Acomoto. |
| 0:07.3 | Welcome to the Frugal Friends podcast, where you'll learn to save money, embrace simplicity, and live a rich of your life. |
| 0:17.0 | Here are your host, Jen and Jill. |
| 0:23.4 | Welcome to the Frugal Friends podcast. My name is Jen. |
| 0:26.3 | My name is Jill. |
| 0:27.2 | And today we are replaying a listener favorite from several years ago about going plant-based because it is such a great way to save money on groceries because meat is the most expensive thing |
| 0:40.7 | in most of our grocery cards. It might not be the only reason that you want to go plant-based. |
| 0:44.9 | If you already are and you're looking for more ways to think critically about how you spend money, |
| 0:50.7 | maybe you are wanting to make a couple of meatless days a part of your meal plan. You just need a |
| 0:57.7 | diet change. We know that that can be one of the biggest barriers. People recognize, |
| 1:02.2 | sure, there's plenty of ways to reduce my grocery bill, but what about when I have a special |
| 1:06.8 | diet? And so this is one of those episodes where we turn to an expert. So it is a replay of an old |
| 1:14.0 | favorite, but we think it's a good one. So we're excited to share it with you. But first, this episode is |
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