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Hey everyone, I'm Gene Chatsky. Thanks so much for joining me today on her money.

Today we are bringing you a mailbag all about the best ways to shop at the grocery store,

what best buy dates really mean, and other burning questions about how to save money on food.

If you listen to our Wednesday episode this week, you know all about

Ali Slagel and why she truly believes you only need 40 ingredients forever to make endless meals.

Her book, just a reminder, is also called I Dream of Dinner so you don't have to. Go check it out. If you haven't listened yet

to the episode and be sure to check out her substack as well. We asked our Hermione Facebook

community what questions they had about cooking. Got some amazing ones. Allie, thanks so much

for being here again. Thank you for having me. Our first couple of

questions come from Chris. They're about shopping and meal prep to save the most money. I'll

read them and we can just go to it. Sound okay? Let's do it. What is the best way to shop per meal each week in bulk, depending on the items, to save the most money each month?

And what's the most economical way of cooking?

Large batch, double protein for multiple recipes, batch cook, meal prep a few days a week.

Those are some really interesting questions.

They are, and they offer a lot of opportunities for cooking when you can't necessarily cook every

single night. I think the answer to the question is really thinking about how cooking can fit

into your life. So if you left to go to

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