Real People Share How They Save Money on Groceries
Frugal Friends Podcast
Jen Smith & Jill Sirianni | Backyard Ventures
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
If there’s one thing we love more than saving money, it’s food. But it’s also one of the areas where most of us tend to overspend. So instead of listening to influencers and mom blogs telling us what to do, we’re hearing from real people who’ve found their own ways to save on food and Jen and Jill share it all in this episode.
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| 0:29.9 | Real people share how they save money on groceries. |
| 0:45.7 | Welcome to the Frugal Friends podcast, where you'll learn to save money, embrace simplicity, and live a rich life. |
| 0:49.4 | Here are your host, Jen and Jill. Me shopping for groceries now is like one of those bad middle school math problems, right? |
| 0:59.7 | If Mark goes to five stores, spend seven hours to save $12, earn 13 gas points, and four monopoly game pieces, |
| 1:08.4 | how many years did the stress just take off his life? Welcome frugal friends. I'm Jen. |
| 1:14.5 | I'm Jill. And you guys loved our episode on how real people are saving money in this economy. |
| 1:21.2 | So we're back with another, but this one specifically on how real people are saving money on groceries, not influencers, not moms with |
| 1:31.3 | cooking blogs, and not us, but real people out in the world saving money lower in their grocery |
| 1:40.3 | bill. And if you love food, subscribe to our YouTube channel for no other reason other than |
| 1:47.0 | you love food. And maybe you love us, but maybe you also love goals and helping other people |
| 1:52.5 | achieve their goals because we have one. And it's to reach 10,000 subscribers by the time it's |
| 1:58.3 | Jen's 10th birthday on May 9th. It's my 10th birthday and I'd love to reach |
| 2:06.9 | 10,000 subscribers. Yes. We're all about the tens right now. So her birthday is May 9th. That's the |
| 2:15.1 | deadline. That's what you can get me. So grab your friend's |
| 2:18.7 | phone, grab your mom's phone, open YouTube, hit subscribe. Everyone's got a couple subscribes in them. |
| 2:26.5 | So I really think we can do this. And so with that, let's get into these money saving hacks. |
| 2:36.1 | We got quite a few for you, starting with this one. |
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