[PREVIEW] Is It Normal to Spend $700 on Groceries?

We are Virginia Sole-Smith and Corinne Fay and it’s time for your February Indulgence Gospel!Today we are talking about influencers who show their expensive influencer grocery hauls, as well as people who spend A LOT OF MONEY on food delivery. (If you too had feelings about that ChrisLovesJulia reel...let's get into it!) We also talk about our own spending on groceries and food delivery....and our complicated feelings about both. ?You do need to be a paid Just Toast subscriber to listen to this full conversation. Membership starts at just $5 per month!Join Just Toast!??????????????Episode 234 TranscriptVirginiaToday we are going to talk about a phenomenon that I keep seeing on Instagram: influencer groceries. So these are reels where people unpack all their bags and show you all the food going in their fridge. It's like, 'Oh, by the way, we're a family of four and we spent $600 at the grocery store.'As someone who buys groceries for a family that size, I would like to say that that number is jarring and yet, also not totally out of the realm of possibility. It made me take a hard look at my grocery spending. What are we performing in these reels where people are showing what and how they eat, and what are the diet culture implications of that?Corinne, how about you? Do your groceries cost $600 a week?Corinne  I won't respond to that directly.VirginiaWe will just skip that question.Corinne  Groceries are a perennially interesting topic for me. Everyone has been saying that grocery prices are crazy now! VirginiaThey're so high. CorinneWhen I saw that particular reel about how much a family is spending per week on groceries, I was like, "believable."Virginia  Yeah. The reel that we're going to talk about is from Julia Marcum, aka @chrislovesjulia. I have talked before on this podcast about she is one of my problematic faves. She is a high-end, home influencer/Mormon wife and mother who now lives in North Carolina, just to locate the economics of her grocery shopping. She has talked openly about living with a lot of food restrictions due to health problems. She is grain, gluten, dairy, pork and refined sugar free. Which I was like, How do you spend money on groceries? There's nothing left to eat. This is a particular