Review: Good Tips
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 2, 2012
Melissa Burnell dug herself out of debt by saving money on groceries. In this book she presents ways to save you money too. There is important information like how to plan a menu and helpful advice like how to save on meat in bulk at places like Costco.After reading this book you might consider getting a vacuum sealer so you can freeze a lot of food easily.Melissa Burnell explains how to make your own mixes to save money and how to make copy cat recipes. Her site is very helpful and contains way more recipes than this book does. I found a recipe for Pesto at her site but looked and looked for the recipe for Garlic Parmesan Biscuits - eventually I found the recipe at the Grocery Budget 101 website instead of the Budget 101 site.Most of the recipes seem geared towards hungry families who don't mind consuming lots of flour and sugar. The site does however have some healthy recipes.This book focuses a lot on foods made from scratch so you need a bit more time to cook or at least to prepare foods in order to cook. You are really swapping money for time.One money saving tip was to leave your kids with a babysitter while you shop. I've seen kids beg for things while I shop and I think this is an excellent idea. After you read this book you may enjoy going to the website to print off coupons. When I printed off recipes at the site the pictures printed too. It makes the recipes more appealing but I don't like wasting ink!I think you will get quite a few money-saving ideas from this short book. I clip coupons but rarely buy things that are on special. That is something I need to start doing to save even more.~The Rebecca Review