Jade Warshaw

Eat more meals at home.

Well, it depends on the person who hears that.

I could hear that message with the way that I grew up.

I grew up with a mom who cooks three meals.

She cooks breakfast, lunch, and dinner from scratch.

I go, okay, that's very familiar to me.

That makes sense.

I can save money that way.

I saw that economically growing up.

Great.

You could have another person who hears that message and they come from an extremely scarcity mentality.

When they were kids, they never had anything.

You know, food was something that, you know, if it was every man for himself and maybe you grew up in a food desert, all of these things.

So now as an adult, the first thing you can't wait to spend your money on is meals.

That's a way that you assert your freedom in life.

So when you hear somebody like me say, hey, stop going out to eat, pull back on that food budget, it's like life and death.

It becomes survival mode for you.

Oh, I would never do that.

How could this person ask me to do that?

And suddenly there's a lot of emotion around a very simple piece of advice.