We Asked Real Women to Track Their Grocery Spending for a Week. Here's What Happened.

HerMoney with Jean Chatzky

Jean Chatzky Her Money

Investing, Business

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🗓️ 22 May 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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What does a week of grocery shopping actually look like for real women right now? Jean Chatzky teams up with Yasmeen Khan, writer of Consumer Reports' Bread and Butter newsletter, for a special edition of A Week in Her Wallet, focused entirely on the grocery store. First, Jean and Yasmeen sit down with Lori, a mom of two boys in Massachusetts, who spent the week bouncing between Trader Joe's, Costco, and Stop & Shop. Then, Jean and Yasmeen dig into the bigger picture: what three women's grocery weeks revealed about how savvy shoppers have become, why store brands deserve a second look, and Consumer Reports' best tips for cutting costs at the checkout line right now. Links mentioned: Subscribe to Bread and Butter by Consumer Reports Yasmeen's recent newsletter on saving on groceries Fill out this form to be considered for a future A Week in Her Wallet episode Pre-order Jean's new book, The Forever Paycheck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:59.2	Hey everyone. Welcome to Hermione. I'm Gene Chatsky. Quick question. When was the last time you
1:05.5	walked out of the grocery store, looked at your receipt, and thought, well, that felt totally fine and reasonable.
1:13.8	Yeah, we didn't think so. We are all feeling it at the checkout line right now. Eggs,
1:21.2	berries, coffee, onions, things we used to throw in the cart without a second thought. Yogurt people. They're now making
1:30.9	us stop and do the math. And that moment of hesitation tells us something really important about
1:38.2	where we are all feeling the squeeze financially right now. So today, we're doing something a little different. We have teamed
1:46.9	up with our friends at Consumer Reports for a special edition of our series A Week in Her Wallet,
1:53.5	focused entirely on the grocery store. We asked a group of women to track their grocery shopping
2:00.7	for a full week. Every store
2:02.8	run, every sale they hunted, every impulse buy, and send us voice notes along the way. The
2:10.7	response was overwhelming and what we heard was funny, relatable, and surprisingly revealing.
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