Save your Money, Save Your Family : How to Reduce your Grocery Bill to $85 per week or less!
Guide to Savvy Shopping Skills written by Toni House
About the Book
Toni House, America’s most trusted money management consultant, gives you the tools to help you and your family reconnect while saving money. Toni teaches families money management skills, starting with meal time.
“Everyone has to eat”, says Toni, “families are given a budget of $85 per week for a family of four, then they learn how to plan each delicious meal with this budget in mind. The Save Your Money, Save Your FamilyTM Guide to Savvy Shopping Skills the timing is perfect. With the withering recession more and more families are having to cut back, but are still unable to get ahead. If what you are doing is not working”, says Toni House, ‘then it is time to change the way your are doing it.
By following The Guide To Savvy Shopping Skills, you will take back your finances and your life. The Guide to Savvy Shopping Skills includes the following sections:
- The 8 Traits of a Savvy Shopper
- The 7 Rules of Menu Planning on $85 per week
- 15 Simple Strategies for Savvy Shopping on $85 per week
- A Week in the Life of a Savvy Shopper!
- The Do’s and Don’ts of Couponing Your Way to Less
- Leftovers for Less
About the Author
Toni House is the Author of “Save Your Money, Save Your Family, A Foolproof, 28-day Plan for Recession Proofing Your Family“. She is also the CEO and founder of Save Your Money, Save Your Family; an organization that specializes in educating the masses in budgeting, planning and money management skills.
Toni is a single working mother that understands the financial struggles of every working family, from every walk of life, from sea to shining sea. She holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in accounting and has an MBA with a concentration in accounting. Toni is a consultant for Athlete Transitions, and has worked in the financial field in a variety of C-level positions, including CFO and President, for top employers, from casinos and construction companies to national restaurants.
In 2001, she launched and managed a full-cycle accounting and consulting business, serving 350 plus business clients accounting operations. The business specialized in budgeting, planning, money management, tax planning and preparation. Toni, speaks around the country from radio talk shows and to civic groups about family and money management solutions. Toni’s need to help educate families and her financial background makes her the perfect author of her second book (reviewed in this post).
My Review
When I started living a frugal life I had no idea how much it would change my life. When you have a family of four (six, if you include our dogs), you have to look for deals and ways to save in every possible way. And Toni House said it right…”stretching a meal, stretches a dollar”. Grocery shopping is not just making a list, cutting coupons and hoping you are under budget each week…you have to have a strategy, or a PLAN in place. I have learned the hard way, as most families have, that money can only go so far; and when it comes to feeding your family, that may mean going to more than one store to get the best sales, cutting coupons each week, and counting those pennies to make it work.
There are several great points that this book has to offer, including tips for grocery shopping, menu planning, and how to make leftovers for less. Reducing our grocery bill to $85 week has already been a goal for me every week, even before I came across this read. So, to be honest, I am not sure if this book is really that NEW or something that I would read again and again. I like that the book was short, to the point, and had great steps to keep in mind when saving money…but like many frugal blogs, this is something that we do already.
Some of the things she suggests are things that really would just work for her. Like being able to stretch 2 lbs of ground beef into three meals…as a family of four, this is very unrealistic. Or having a breakfast bar for breakfast everyday for four days…I don’t know about your kids, but mine like to have something different just about everyday. Leftovers are a definite must for us, but after a day or so…you can only enjoy it for so long.
Something else that I noticed is that although the author recommends using coupons and utilizing store sales, she never really showed how she used them to her advantage. I really think that would have been a bigger focus in the book…with that said, I would recommend this book to someone who is in need of getting their budget under control (when it comes to buying food at the grocery store). This book would be ideal for someone who needs help with the basics of saving money (food-wise).
To learn more about this book, you can visit the book’s website, follow the author on Twitter, and/or purchase it for yourself via Amazon.com.
Post published by Melissa Roach, our Product Review & Giveaway Specialist.
Melissa is a Full Time Mom & Blogger HERE (please check out her blog!)
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