Beating the High Cost of Eating: The Essential Guide to Supermarket Survival
Product Description
If you shop at a grocery store, you need this book!
Beating the High Cost of Eating is a course in supermarket survival. It will teach you proven strategies that will increase your buying power by 33 percent or more! In its pages you will find practical and tested ways to get the most out of your grocery dollar as you learn to
Recognize the best price when you see it
Redefine impulse and comparison shopping
Throw out traditional menu planning
Cut down on coupon clipping
Overcome the "one-stop shopping" syndrome
Choose the right brands
Control your budget once inside the store
Make your pantry a money-management tool
Best-selling author Barbara Salsbury, a recognized authority on thriftiness and self-reliance, offers more than a collection of typical how-to-shop tips. She offers new knowledge and skills guaranteed to help you increase your buying power without games, gimmicks, or coupons!
Rate Points :4.0
Binding :Paperback
Label :Horizon Publishers & Distributors
Manufacturer :Horizon Publishers & Distributors
ProductGroup :Book
Studio :Horizon Publishers & Distributors
Publisher :Horizon Publishers & Distributors
EAN :9780882907864
Price :$14.99USD
Lowest Price :$8.95USD
Customer ReviewsMore common sense than anything
Rating Point :3 Helpful Point :3
This book is a quick read and is a nice break from all the people who proclaim clipping coupons is the way to save money. However, if you already buy a lot of private label/store brand products, plan your weeks meals after you check the sale flyers and buy in bulk when things are on sale, theres not a whole lot more in this book.
She does go into some detail about marketing strategies which is somewhat interesting, but if you are already budget minded, dont think this book can help you slice your grocery bill by a third, maybe 10-15% (which is nothing to sneeze at). Basically, I checked this book out of my library and I think you should too.
Rating Point :1 Helpful Point :4
I bought this book based on the other reviews and am very disappointed. Although it does discuss supermarket trends and ads and what not - which is really common sense at the end of the day, the basic way to cut your grocery costs is to buy the cheapest brands when they are on sale, take the money you saved from that, buy more of those same goods and stockpile them. Now we are a family of 4. I have tried to stockpile and it doesnt work - unless you know for sure that they are goods you can use at some point, all you end up with is a lot of stuff that has expired and is basically good for the trash can only. I know - I throw these kinds of things away all the time. The concept is to stockpile to the point of where you have enough food stored to live off of when major expenses hit you so you can use grocery money to pay for bills. Well we eat a lot of fresh fruit, steamed veg and homecooked meals. My kids would not eat purely out of a tin or spagetti box for long enough to make the savings worthwhile, or the money enough to pay for any kind of significant expense, so if your family is like mine - dont even think this book will reveal some hidden secret - it wont!
great tips
Rating Point :4 Helpful Point :3
I was pleased with some of the insight and tips that i was able to get from this book. I have used some of the suggestions and have saved money.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :0
This book showed me a whole lot of what I was doing wrong when shopping. They cover everything from the pros and cons of coupons and sale items, to little tricks stores use to get you to spend more money.
Bottom line, I may not use everything in this book, but it made me a whole lot more aware of how much time and money I was wasting.
Definitely worth the read. Unless of course you really dont care about saving money on groceries. But then why would you even be reading this.
xox
MEF
This Book is a Keeper!
Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :6
I have read many books on how to go grocery shopping. Many of them say the same thing over and over again... but Barabara Salsbury offers a fresh perspective. I love how she talks about the secerets of advertising and how they try to lure you in. I love how she tells us to give up on cupons (they never worked for me anyways). I highly recomend this book to anyone who wants to save money on grocery shopping.
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