How To Feed Your Family's recipe's often become family favorites.
The recipes are family- friendly using time-saving strategies.

How To Feed Your Family is a practical, step-by-step guide for families.
It has been used in financial and budget seminars with great results. 


How to Feed Your Family IS NOT about clipping coupons.
Although we use coupons on occasion, it is for items that we use. 
It has been our experience that coupons are often for highly processed foods that don't fit well into our style of cooking.

Our cooking style DOES NOT use the cream-of-whatever soup casseroles as a way to save. 
We do keep a can or two in our pantry,
but the overall use of these recipes are not in our family's recipe book.

In 2008, the average home is spending up to 50% of their food dollars on take-out and restaurant meals. Families food budgets have gone to where there is "no budget".  

Lack of time and cooking skills contribute to this type of spending.
 
I encourage you, learn a few time-saving kitchen strategies, to reduce your food spending.
Your family will benefit in the long-term. 

 

                               Ten Steps to Saving

1. Have a determined amount of money. Budget wisely. Purchase all essential ingredients for your meals and snacks before buying non-essential foods like chips, soda and candy.

2. Have a well-stocked pantry. How to Feed Your Family's 24-week Pantry Buying Guide will help you get started. A well-stocked pantry is a key to saving money and being able to weather the storms of life. These are not only natural storms, like a hurricane, but financial storms. Prices are rising at the store, now is the time to shop smart.

3. Know your Prices! Having a general knowledge of the regular prices on the foods that your family eats helps you recognize a good sale, or when the prices go up.

4. Know what's on special! Incorporate the specials into your meals and stocking your pantry.

5. Plan your meals. How to Feed Your Family shows you how it is possible to be flexible with your meal plan.

6. Have a detailed shopping list. Your How to Feed Your Family book has an easy-to-use, detailed grocery shopping list. We include four copies with each book order to get you started. You can make additional copies from your local quick copy center.

7. Look at cost per serving, not the over-all cost when planning.  Often, two or three servings are consumed at one sitting. A serving of a boneless cuts of meat are four ounces while boney cuts are only two servings per pound and a ready-to-eat cereal serving size is often 1/2 cup.  Knowing your families serving consumption will help you plan wisely.

8. Look ahead. Do you any special events, holidays or family celebrations? Try to purchase a little-each week to be ready for the event.

9. Allow more time in your planning than in your shopping, and then in learning to prepare foods yourself. Good, basic home economic skills and budgeting is just "good business." The payoff is a long-term investment with benefits. How To Feed Your Family will help those who need guidance on where to start.

10. Cook and eat what you've purchased. Sad-to-say, an average household throws away 20% of their food dollars.