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Hey, you guys, and welcome to this week's episode of the pantry chat, food for thought.

This week we have a really fun guest to talk about something that I know is near and dear to

all of our hearts.

Probably every January, we all start thinking about like, how do we cut down

on the budget side a little bit? How do we squeeze a little bit more out of it? But especially this

January with inflation high, the grocery prices are just phenomenally high. I am so blown away by

that. But then all the other things that are going on in the

world that make us all kind of realize we need to get a little bit better. We need to buckle down.

We need to start making a little better use of every bit of resource that we have. In case, right? I'm not going to say in case what, because who knows,

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