How to Save Money on Groceries with The Budget Mom

Didn't I Just Feed You

Stacie Billis and Meghan Splawn

Kids & Family, Parenting, Arts, Food

4.9 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Over the last few months, both Stacie and Meghan have taken a long, hard look at their families’ finances and were shocked to discover how much they were spending on groceries. As it turns out, they’re not alone. When Meghan reached out to Kumiko, aka The Budget Mom, she found out that food is the biggest expenditure for most families. In fact, before Kumiko became an accredited financial counselor, she paid off $50,000 in debt in less than a year and one of the biggest budget cuts that saved her was in the food category. Whether or not you thought you were looking to save money on groceries this year, this episode is for you — because who doesn’t want to save money?! Sure, we go deep with hardcore tips for people who are ready to get serious about their budgets. But we also talk about practical ways that anyone can save money by being more mindful and less wasteful: a worthwhile practice in more ways than one.

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0:00.0	And so it's a matter of baby steps.
0:04.6	It's not something that you should drastically do all at once because, like I said, that can cause frustration.
0:10.5	And so I do suggest if you're going to be reducing your grocery budget and you're still not kind of 100% sure of where you stand or what you can survive with or on, then I'd suggest
0:23.1	try $100 for one month. Try $50 one month. It's whatever you feel you can get by with.
0:30.8	Welcome to Didn't I Just Feed You. A podcast is about feeding us kids.
0:36.8	I have a mood today, Stacy. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, it's been a, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been a time. It's been a time. And it's a new year. And you know what we're going to talk about this week? Let's just jump right in. Let're going to talk about budgeting. And you know what? That's going to put me in a mood
0:58.0	because I hate budgeting. I do. It is like the least sexy thing to talk about. Like,
1:05.5	oh, just so you know you only have $250 left to spend on groceries this month.
1:15.6	Like where just no, write me a check. I don't want to be on a budget. No. So but you know it's really really important and recently so after we did our renovation.
1:24.6	Yes this summer. This summer we moved back into our house and we were like, okay, so we just invested a whole
1:31.6	bunch of money into our home and let's get back on track.
1:35.1	We have to replenish the savings that we spent on our house and let's figure out where we're
1:41.3	going to, you know, scrimp and save so we can replenish that money.
1:45.1	And we took stock of everything. And the amount of money that we were spending on food
1:53.0	was so shocking to me. It was one of our biggest expenditures. I could barely believe it.
2:01.8	And I know that I'm a recipe developer, but even when we pulled that aside, I just really,
2:07.4	I was embarrassed.
2:09.5	Right?
2:10.7	It's like shame.
2:11.3	You feel shame.
2:12.3	Totally.
2:13.6	There were months before we started tracking and budgeting where I spent more than our mortgage
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