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How to Save Money on Organic Groceries

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Life isn’t always perfect and neither are fruits and veggies. So they don’t have to be the freshest or most expensive to nourish you. The truth is, being well doesn’t have to cost a lot. In this episode, we’re diving into all things organic and sharing how you can find them for free, on a budget, and totally guilt-free.

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Speaker 1

How to save money on organic groceries.

Speaker 2

Welcome to the Frugal Friends podcast, where you'll learn to save money, embrace simplicity, and live a life here your hosts Jen and Jill.

Speaker 1

Welcome to Frugal Friends podcast. My name is Jen, my name is Jill, and today we are focusing in one of our money saving grocery episodes on just organics. So this is for people who really want to prioritize at least that dirty dozen, but potentially maybe all of your groceries to being organic.

Speaker 3

Yeah, we think that you can get the nutrition that you want at the price point that works for you, and we're just going to dig in on that. But first, this episode is brought to you by the good stuff. You know what I'm talking about, The stuff that feels luxurious, the organic, the well made, the stuff you splurge on. But it's best when you can get the good stuff for free. Like all of our videos on YouTube, we love giving you free content. It's pretty much all we've been doing.

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Speaker 3

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But subscribing to our YouTube channel is huge for us and our growth and our ability to be able to keep putting out this free entertaining education yeah.

Speaker 1

And helping us reach more people with it. There's a lot of people who want to spend less but ultimately want to spend better, more in alignment with their values, and they just don't know frugal Friends exists because they're not really podcast listeners. So please, even if you're not a video watcher, please log into YouTube and subscribe to

our channel. It really does help YouTube put When you go to YouTube and subscribe or watch something, YouTube then sends it out to two other people who don't know us, who are interested in becoming better spenders, so it truly, truly does help us, and we can do more visual content like reacting to things on social media. I know you guys loved the de influencing Memorial Day and the de Influencing Summer videos, so we want to do more

things that have like a visual component. And well, of course we'll have it on the podcast feed because we will not forget about our first true loves. But we just think it's been fun to kind of dissect what's going on in social media, how it impacts our spending and how we view ourselves and our money, and help you keep what's important in perspective and keep your goals like in alignment with reality. It's been very fun and we hope you'll stick around and see it or at

least subscribe to help other people see it. But this episode is just on the podcast feed and we are talking about organics. So we're going to go through our tried and true four step to savings format that we do. How can I get it for free, how can I get it low cost, how can I get a deal on it? And if I can't get any of those, how can I buy it at full price?

Speaker 3

Guilt free?

Speaker 1

And So the first is a couple tips for finding free specifically organic produce and foods.

Speaker 3

And this one's wild. Be careful, but you can forage that is very free, and there are resources to be able to do this, like falling Fruit, which is a user generated collection of public foraging areas, including dumpster diving, if you're into that. We're not saying that you have to practice all of these things, but it is an option that's available to you. And I will say I have foraged, which sounds crazy because I.

Speaker 1

Am dumpster dive.

Speaker 3

Yeah, I'm not a We're not too good.

Speaker 1

We're not saying to do it illegally. But fallingfruit dot com, I think it's dot com is definitely good for cities if you live in an urban area because it's made by foragers for foragers, and there will be little notes as to like, oh, this is on private property, so like be careful.

Speaker 3

Yeah, I mean, especially in Florida around mango and avocado season, that's that's easy to forage and identify what kind of fruits those are. We have a mulberry tree in the park right next to our property, and so every season that the mulberry tree has fruit, there's us and tons of neighbors out there with ladders picking the fruit. So yeah, there can be in your area ways to not get sick, get food for food.

Speaker 1

Yeah, and then you're not always going to be guaranteed organic foods. Honestly, our friend Laura, she does a lot of dumpster diving here, and the smaller, more like sustainable

focused grocery stores they have the best dumpster diving. So definitely check out Falling Through and check out specifically those grocery stores because surely there will be notes on those grocery stores like what to expect, when to expect it, so that you're going there at the right times and you know like, Okay, this is what is usually in there and this is definitely what I mean, I won't

find it. Also, next is food swaps with neighbors. So maybe you have bought something organic and you're not going to be able to use all of it and you want to swap it with a neighbor. You can set these up. You can find them on Facebook groups, but it's probably better to set your own up. I think that we really rely on other people to create groups for us, thinking that leading a group will be too

much work. But I think it really does. If this is something you want to do, it behooves you to start something, whether it's your church, community group, parenting circle, whatever, starting something that I usually have some organic produce. I value organic and when I have leftovers, I'm going to post it here and if you commit to do the same, then we can interchange this stuff. And you can find

some of that in a buy nothing group. But if this lifestyle is really important to you, finding other like minded individuals can get you just more targeted swapping.

Speaker 3

The other alternative is volunteering at a community garden or doing a work show share program at a local farm. So with those types of situations you can earn fresh organic produce in exchange for helping to maintain the garden. And this is very common actually in all kinds of areas, rural to urban. This is something that could be found.

Of course, there'd be a lot of seasonality to this, especially for our friends in the north, but still a really cool option for you a couple months out of the year.

Speaker 1

Yeah, definitely. And then also you can check community fridges for organics. Some stock donations from local farms, co ops grocery stores can contain organic You are not guaranteed that it will, but you can check Frege fr e Edge or Little Free Pantry. Those are two sites that will link you to community fridges that you can check to see if they have organics.

Speaker 3

Moving on to our next category of how can I get organic groceries at low costs? And our first recommendation is to shop farmers markets towards closing time. So the vendors at farmers' markets will often sell some of their leftover organic produce up to half off or more because they'd rather just get rid of it for at least

some money than haul it back home with them. So it might be a bit picked over, it might not be, you know, your nicest pick of the litter, but you could get it inexpensively this way.

Speaker 1

And this will happen at any farm that's only open on the weekends too. My father in law his you pick and they have they bring in produce from local farms just to make it a more like easy shopping experience, so you can pick your own produce that's there, but then you can also pick up some produce that is

not grown on the farm. But they are only open Friday, Saturday and Sunday, so Sunday evening, whatever is left they do want to get rid of because then they're gonna either use it themselves and if they can't use it all like the other. A few weeks ago, when I was up there for some reason, somebody had a like big bins of spaghetti squash. He had more spaghetti squash than I had ever seen in my life, yikes. And he was telling me like, please take spaghetti squash, like

we will never eat this much. So that that happens at these local farms, maybe not a market, but a farm that's only open, you know, on the weekends, going on a Sunday right before closing time and seeing what you can get. You can also split a CSA box with a friend, so community supported agriculture shares are less expensive in bulk. And again this is the thing where creating your own group of like minded friends can benefit you,

not just in the sharing, but also splitting costs. For a bulk CSA box, you could save up to fifty percent or more on the overall cost. And then having that, you know, maybe you get it one week and another friend gets it another week, or you split it weekly between people. It's really you don't have to be best friends with these people, but if you share similar values on one thing, you can use that to save money.

Speaker 3

Absolutely, this would be even something I think would be good with a coworker.

Speaker 1

Absolutely, yes, exactly, you don't have to be best friends with your coworker, but they could help you save money in this way.

Speaker 3

Next, as far as low cost ways to get organic, you could buy expiration organic goods, so you can get great deals on this type of stuff, even you know, organic canned goods, organic bags of rice, whatever it may be that's still safe to eat, it's just coming up on its almost expired time. And so that would be something that you know could be marked down at the grocery store. But you can also find deals on sites like flash food, So that's an app jen you've used this with great success.

Speaker 1

I love flash food for me get I get it from Dashmart, which is a grocery store that door dash uses like they don't have people going into publics or Walmart. They have their own private grocery store, so people are not just going to go in there and pick up the deals they put near expiration foods on flash food.

And I have gotten so many great things. Yeah, you have that I wouldn't have otherwise gotten for a really low price, and like it's marked up on door Dash obviously, but I'll compare the prices when I'm looking at flash Food, I'll compare them to Walmart where usually at my groceries, or even Costco if it's something I'd get there nine times out of ten less expensive and it's the brand name version. So I love flash Food.

Speaker 3

Yeah, Too Good to Go as an option, although that is primarily more your cafes and restaurants still really great to get low.

Speaker 1

But there are some like eco friendly restaurants and cafes that will put their stuff up and that's a great way. Like if there is an organic restaurant that you're interested in, they might be on there. Or to just browse the organic cafes. There are a couple on are Too Good to Go and again love that app as well.

Speaker 3

Or you can check out Misfits marked It, which I have not used, but either I get ads for them. Believe that they're a bit more subscription based, but I have had friends use them and they've they've been pleased.

Speaker 1

I'm willing to be spa answered by them in order to find it.

Speaker 3

We'd love to try it out.

Speaker 1

I'd love to try it out. Clearance produce bins. So again, natural grocery stores, they will mark down ripe fruits, veggies, they'll just you know, mark down not just fruits and veggies, really anything that's nearing its expiration date. So you can get those things at low cost. But especially fruits and veggies I think are where you're going to find your best low cost. Otherwise you're looking in deal territory, which is maybe ten to twenty percent off.

Speaker 3

Yeah. So when we now get to this next category of trying to find a deal on organic produce, you can consider buying the seconds or the ugly produce. So we kind of talked about this already a bit. But asking farmers' markets or local grocers for bruised or misshapen produce. So this doesn't mean that you necessarily have to wait till the near closing time at a farmer's market. It's more so, hey, what do you have that doesn't look so good that you might not be able to spell put out? Yeah?

Speaker 1

I feel like this is more misfits market might be.

Speaker 3

I could be yeah, well this is what they do.

Speaker 1

If they give me money, I'll find out huh exactly. Then also stock up during in season times and freeze.

The freezer is your best friend. Super cubes that have like preportioned bigger sizes than ice cubes are so great for like proportioning out smaller, like buying it in bulk and getting the savings and then freezing it in small portions so that you don't have to take the whole gallon sized bag of uh, like blueberries out or something you can just take like a pre portioned two cup like size of it.

Speaker 3

Yeah, I love those things. I love them too. I don't have any, but I do with just complete envy.

Speaker 1

I mean, they're definitely more for like liquidy things. So maybe blueberries weren't the best because you could just do those in a bag, but I do. I love those like freezing, like buying in bulk and freezing in small portions is fantastic and you save a lot of money. And then also I added this one at the end, Costco. So if you remember we did an episode on Sam's Club versus Costco and where I took it upon myself or wasn't.

Speaker 3

It grocery stores versus warehouse savings?

Speaker 1

Oh maybe it was? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, But I also pitted Sam's Club against Costco in the episode, and I went out into the field as a reporter to report back and found, well, I forget my findings, but I still do compare between grocery store and warehouse.

Whenever I'm trying to buy something with Sam's Club, I found that most of the time Walmart was cheaper, right, so it wasn't worth it, except when I got that deal on the I didn't renew, But then I got a deal on a Costco membership and I was like, well, it's time to test Costco. And what I have found is that they too are more expensive than Walmart. But it's because all of their things are organic. You cannot find regular blueberry, frozen blueberries, regular frozen strawberries, like regular

frozen whatever. It is all organic, h And that's how they do it. So they, yeah, are a little more expensive, and so I still buy most of myself at the grocery store. But if you are somebody who values organic, Costco Costco's word definitely would be the way to go.

Speaker 3

I will also add Aldi has some good organic selection at some good prices, so let's not sleep on al D. My friends is sleeping on aldi. Hopefully no one anymore, but I still will get the straggler who's like, I don't know, it's small, I have to bring a quarter. I don't get it. I went to the.

Speaker 1

Dog park yesterday and this, uh there is this like ragtag bunch of people with their dogs at this dog park. I love it. And one of the ladies was making fun of one of the guys and she's like, I'll throw my ald quarter at you. And I was like, oh my gosh.

Speaker 3

These are my people. I understand that joke. Yeah, and how much sleep? How much it's really going to cost her to throw that at I know she was a big deal.

Speaker 1

That's how you know. I'm really mad and.

Speaker 3

Loses corter over it.

Speaker 1

Oh my god. It was a who These people are a riot.

Speaker 3

And if we've gone through this whole filter and to no avail, we're still looking for other ways to get organic groceries. Let's do it guilt free, then, friends, And the best way to do it guilt free is to buy local, sustainable, values driven and aligned And one of the best ways to do that is to purchase your organic produce from local farms and co ops. So being able to support all of your local organic farmers reduce

your carbon footprint. Buying directly from them is excellent. So you can look for farmers' markets, co ops, farm stands, wherever you can find fresh, sustainably grown organic produce. A good resource you can utilize to find that is local harvest. But also just drive around, like there are farm stands everywhere.

Speaker 1

Yeah, but that just because it's a farm stand or local farm doesn't guarantee it's organic. Sure, like my father and lost farm, it's not organic, but it.

Speaker 3

Does pretty much guarantee that it's going to be better than whatever you're getting from Walmart.

Speaker 1

True, this is so true. So small farms for sure will use fewer pesticides just naturally they bylock can't use like the most natural pesticides. They have to actually use certain insecticides. But yeah, they will be better than farms that are maybe ten times their size and have more pest problems. So that's definitely true. You can also buy certified organic from ethical brands that you see in the grocery store. Remember, not everything that is green is ethical

or sustainable. There is so much greenwashing from and brands that may have at once been defined as this but have been bought up larger companies and are no more so every couple of years. It's definitely beneficial to check if something that you get at the grocery store to make sure that it's still independently owned operated, or at least ethically owned and operated in whatever that is for you.

So a widely available online option is Thrive Market. But again, smaller grocery stores that are maybe two to three locations versus your hundreds of locations, those are going to be more reliable. Anything smaller, honestly is better.

Speaker 3

Which is like this final tip within this category of supporting eco conscious grocery stores. So this is going to be a lot of your more natural grocery stores. Certainly they're going to have higher ticket prices, but generally their practices and their values are aligned with sustainable ability practices, and they're probably locally owned. So if this is a high value for you, then we say find ways to be able to spend here and if needed, cut in

other areas that aren't as valuable to you. I mean, we have to eat every single day. Yes, it is where we spend a lot of money, so we might as well feel really good about it.

Speaker 1

Yeah, there's also the option of if this is something that's really important to you, but you find yourself eating out a lot, so you would ideally like to buy organic groceries, but you'll buy them and it's hard to use them. So you're eating out at these really expensive cafes that are good every once in a while, that are not sustainable frequently. Check into meal kits like Purple Carrot, not sponsored by them, haven't used them, would love to be,

but would love to have their money. But something that is pre prepared, that is somewhere that is in the radical middle. Right, it's not as inexpensive as buying the organic produce and doing it yourself, but it's not as expensive as what you have been doing. It's in the middle, and it's a good kind of thing to get you over the hump of living values aligned, saving a little bit of money, and then eventually we want to work

towards more DIY. But you don't have to skip straight from eating out five times a week to eating out zero times a week. Let's find something that's going to get you over that hump that's a in the radical middle, a little easier to jump to before you get to that attainable, like that DIY lifestyle that you are truly going for.

Speaker 3

Do you know what else is DIY?

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It's a good it's a good hump from the first part of the show to the last part part of the show.

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Speaker 1

All right, if you can only buy one thing organic for the rest of the year, what would it be, Jill? How much organic do you purchase?

Speaker 3

Here's the funny thing, jen me, buying organic goes based on how tight or not tight my spending plan feels. So like, sometimes I'm at the grocery store and it's like all organic, even the canned stuff. Yeah, I can afford it. And then other times I'm like, ah, who fucking cares? This doesn't mean anything? Wow, No it is. It's very connected to my moon ring, honestly.

Speaker 1

Because we have been paid the same for quite a long time.

Speaker 3

Yeah, and sometimes it feels like I don't I don't have it. It's not a lot.

Speaker 1

Well, we don't have it to give. We don't pay ourselves a lot. That's why we need your subscriptions on YouTube. They're free and they help us.

Speaker 3

But whenever possible, if I am buying berries, I try to get the organic berries. That always feels like the most important to me, you know, trying to follow the Dirty Dozen. I don't always, how about you, I don't ever, And the organic is never in the budget. It doesn't depend on how I feel.

Speaker 1

I have two children and a puppy, and even before I had kids, organic was never in the budget, and even in the Dirty Dozen. And I would love if you can convince me that this that that this is a bad choice. I am open to being convinced.

Speaker 3

But convince her on our YouTube channel.

Speaker 1

After you subscribe, I will only listen to comments left on.

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YouTube videos from subscribers.

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And oh yeah, it has to say publicly subscribe, and it doesn't have to be relevant to the video, but that is how I interact with people. Now, I wish I was that person, and I am not, and I know I'm probably not alone. The half of our listeners are not going to listen to this episode because they already feel that way.

Speaker 3

What feels to you like the most important thing too? By organic? If you were that person.

Speaker 1

I would say berry's, I would I. I think I'm just a little biased. Well maybe not, I don't know.

Speaker 3

And leafy greens. I know we only said one, but for me, berries and leafy greens and now berries, if it's too expensive, then I just I'll either do organic or I won't do them at all. Like there is no radical metal for me typically, but I'm buying leafy greens every single week and that thankfully that's not too expensive organic. Yes, that is what I'll do. Changing my answer, Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1

I buy avocado oil for cooking, and I think that's organic. I don't think they make regular probably not. Yeah, so maybe that's avocado oil. You're just like already it's already organic. Yeah, I think my extra version all of oil might be organic, but it's just because that's the one I purchased.

Speaker 3

Anything you buy from Costco.

Speaker 1

Anything, yeah, which I don't do a lot from Costco.

Speaker 3

There's your question, if you could only buy one thing from Costco for the rest of the year, what would it be?

Speaker 1

Oh, I know what your answer would be?

Speaker 3

Fine? Cool, because I don't know.

Speaker 1

The hot dog? Ah yeah, book. Okay, we just went to Costco on Sunday and okay, let's let's go through the outro and then I'll have to look at it. I'll have to look at my Costco receipts. Thank you so much for listening. We love reading your kind reviews, whether they are on YouTube, Spotify, wherever, on Amazon. If you purchased the book, Uh, did you know? We have a book. It's called buye What you Love Without Going Broke. It breaks down that ninety day transaction inventory and tells

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Speaker 1

By Google Friends is produced by Eric Sirianni. All Right, So, there are quite a few things that I buy frequently at Costco, but I think I want to choose one that I can only get at Costco.

Speaker 3

Uh So, I think, yeah, that's a good call.

Speaker 1

There's these things called Heavenly hunks. They're like oatmeal bites.

Speaker 3

Those are so good.

Speaker 1

My kids are obsessed with them. We cannot keep them. But they're so expensive. They are not it's ten bucks.

Speaker 3

For a bag, you know what, My energy bites that I make That recipe.

Speaker 1

Similar, very similar, because I was like, I'm going to have to get a recipe for this because they're too much, and they love them. JoJo's dark chocolate with the like nuts and like stachios and dried cranberries. Those are a good sweet treat, healthy sweet treat. And Ellie likes these

jerky treats and then dried liver treats. They're actually very affordable at costco versus if I was to get them at like pet Smart or something, So I feel like if I had to choose one, I would have to choose the Heavenly Hunks or they also have a vanilla yogurt. I think it's a goat milk yogurt. That stuff is delicious and I've never seen it anywhere else.

Speaker 3

I would probably choose something from their frozen section. Their frozen foods save me so much. They are my emergency emergency freezer meals. Yes, so I love stocking up on stuff like that from COSTCA.

Speaker 1

Have you tried the pre cooked surloin. No, that's just in the refrigerated section. No, that sounds crazy. It is good. I've been doing steak salads with it and so just cold. Yeah, it's pre cooked, it's refrigerated. Comes in two packages, so I froze one and I've been eating the other. One package will get me like three salads.

Speaker 3

Okay, and this is.

Speaker 1

My first time trying it because it's not cheap. It's like twenty four bucks. WHOA for all that? Yeah, but it has saved me several times in the past week. Yeah, Like last night we got home really late and I hadn't eaten, and instead of going for something unhealthy, I was able to do a really healthy steak salad.

Speaker 3

Yeah.

Speaker 1

So that's another thing like going in radical middle, Like has you more healthy too. It's not the worst thing I could have. It's not the best thing I can have, but it's quick and it's easy and it's pretty healthy.

Speaker 3

I love that. Well, you've hacked life.

Speaker 1

I have not hacked life. I'm for you to say that and know where I'm at and life is an inside joke. But here we are.

Speaker 3

I'm in your YouTube video coming out with some unhinged comments.

Speaker 1

Yeah, yeah, it's good though, Yeah it'll be good. Yeah, tell us what you want what you buy at Costco.

Speaker 3

I'm saying the freezer section, what would be my favorite thing? We were really enjoying those chicken corn on blue things. Definitely not the most healthy, yeah, but easy to eat for We.

Speaker 1

Had to take a break from them. We were buying them so much.

Speaker 3

Costco has the best bacon, real good bacon, real good bacon. I would probably, though, have to say, and I'm not going to remember the specific name of it, but they've got like prepackaged like burritos or Chimmi changa things that are some really good go to lunches for us.

Speaker 1

I take everything back the Costco white chocolate raspberry cake.

Speaker 3

That we would live off of.

Speaker 1

That I would live off of that.

Speaker 3

That's right. You have made statements like this before, like you could live off of That's what episode this would have been so long ago, probably where that was our lightning round question of what food could you live off of? And I took it literally. I was like bread, wine, and apples, like I think it has everything that I need. And you were like Tira, missu, and I'm like no, Jen, you're not understanding the assignment, like we can't live off a Tierra Missu. And you dug in, like heels in.

You doubled down so I can breakfast, lunch, and dinner every every little bit, a little.

Speaker 1

Bit for every meal, not too much.

Speaker 3

And here you are again. I'm like, I think I could sustain off of like burritos with like beans and meat and veggies inside of it. And you're like the raspberry cake.

Speaker 1

It's so good. Hey, first I said, steak salad, I want to put that out there, and.

Speaker 3

Then you were like, no, let me change my answer. I'm coming out of the radical middle and going to an extreme up. Yeah. Wow, there we are. This after show has been longer than the episode itself, but.

Speaker 1

It's been important.

Speaker 3

People need her to hear this.

Speaker 1

People really needed that

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