Erin Chase

I don't care what you're buying at the grocery store, how you're such a smart grocery shopper now.

I just want to see pictures of the kids.

So I started $5 dinners pretty shortly after that conversation with her, you know, knowing that I could help more people and reach a broader audience.

blog where i basically shared what we were having for dinner that night and how much everything cost me i would break it down like per ingredient you know a cup of rice is 20 cents you know so i was really breaking it down to show people this is just a different way to think about shopping for groceries so that in the end you spend less money when you're thinking more about how much i'm spending for the meat that i need for the meal for the starches for the proteins

or excuse me, for the vegetables, seasonal shopping for fruits and vegetables.

And all of those different strategies, a little bit of couponing mixed in there.

I've never been like an extreme crazy coupon.

They do.

They spend a lot of time doing it, though, which I don't have.

So I would, you know, save anywhere between $20 and $40 with coupons.

And so putting it all together, I was able to cut our grocery bill from $500 a month to $250 a month for our then family of four.

You know, I had to tell people what I was doing, what I was making.

And it resonated with people immediately.

It was, you know, she's crazy because making a meal for $5 for four people... I don't think you're crazy.

I know.

I might be crazy a little bit.

I love it.

Well, back then, I don't even know that WordPress was around.

If it was, I didn't know about it.

It was a blogger, a blog spot.