5 Meals for $5

by The Queen of More Green and Jaci Rae

Book Overview

5 Meals for $5 Gives You More Control Over Your Money and Your Food. Simply Delicious Recipes That Will Save You Money and Time.According to the USDA and other reports, Americans spent $2,961.79 on... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0974622990
• ISBN13: 9780974622996
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: North Shore Records, Inc.
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Big Sister

I am the oldest of nine children and my single mom works two jobs and she relies on me to provide the meals for my younger siblings. Bought the book to help her budget and help me menu plan. Searched the internet to find something and came across this. Followed the recipes and the money saving tips and they work and my brothers and sisters and my mom love the food. It's been a big help in our budgetary concerns and a big drop in the food budget all together. The recipes are easy to follow.

Great Book Truth Be Told

This is a great book! The recipes are easy to prepare and I love the fact that Jaci Rae put with many of the main dishes the price of salad and the dressing (all made by yourself, which is really cool) with the meals. The meals that my family and I have tried thus far are fresh and delicious. There are nearly 300 recipes (I am very detail) and there are many chapters in addition to the recipes that are teaching my family and I how to save money and get out of debt. My husband I really love the chapter on free date nights and fun things to do. It is the best cookbook I have ever owned. The truth be told, there are approximately 40 recipes that include rice, potatoes and pasta, but I love rice and pasta. But Jaci recommends brown rice, not white as the reviewer Kerry suggested. Actually, Jaci gives you a choice. But there are no recipes that require salt, although most recipes have it in the recipe ingredients that you add to the meal just like the one listed on this page. But if you cannot take salt, do not like it or just cannot have it, omit the salt. Easy as that. Even for the Chicken Divan, which is a favorite of my family I have always had to use canned cream of mushroom soup and canned cream of celery soup. It never occurred to me to make fresh. But Jaci Rae includes those recipes on making all the cream soups yourself from scratch. The meals really do feed my entire family regular portions, a few of the meals like the Chicken Divan are very large and actually, we have many leftovers with that meal. But I love the balance Jaci put into the meals as well. I also love the weights and measures chart and the conversion chart. My mom does as well. She found a chart in there she has never been able to find. The truth be told. This is an incredibly well rounded and great book!

Recipes are both tasty and healthy

Practical guide to keeping some of my hard earned money. This book is loaded with easy to use tips and tricks to save money while shopping at the grocery store. Recipes are both tasty and healthy. Thanks 5 for 5.

Great book - Great information!

This is a great book! I am single, but it works for me. Just cook, freeze and microwave when I want. It also gave me the information on when my supermarket has it's sale dates, coupon rules and even when my supermarket delivers it's fresh fruits and vegetables. I like the plan this author gives in 5 Meals for $5 also. It's how to get out of debt and reduce your spending and increase your savings and she even has a section for date nights making them free. Great book. Great information and certainly the most thorough cookbook I have ever owned. Chinese, Mexican, Italian, American, goodies, it has it all! Wonderful! Addition - I just finished reading the entire book and I have used several of the recipes, which are delicious, but Jaci has put information in there that has already become a useful fun thing for me, getting perfect apples every time and I have gotten a perfect apple, juicy and crunch every time. She taught me how to get the perfect apple. I wonder why they don't teach us these things, but I am sure glad she has. She also taught me how to get perfect fruit and how to take back items I don't like to the store and always get my money back or an exchange. I didn't know how to do that before her. Also, I did what she said to save money and I just checked the receipts and I have saved $53.82 so far. That means I have already saved money past the price of the book. If you subtract the price I paid for the book and shipping, I have saved $34.57 just so far. So thank you Jaci.

Excellent Book that Really Delivers

My hats off to Jaci Rae. I was very impressed with the book. At first I was skeptical because I have purchased books that say they save you money, however, this one really does. I went with my spouse, using the information in the book and coupons in hands with the sales and walked out with an entire meal of taco's and salad to feed both of us. The cost was $2.56 and she had three tacos, I had two and we had a lot of left over salad. I do agree with Buddy that you could not purchase a single clove of garlic (although you can purchase a single carrot). This book clearly gives the entire price of the product (meaning the entire bunch of garlic as well as a pound of carrots) in the shopping list, along with the unit price so that you can see where the cost for the recipes comes from. The book is not meant that you go to the store every single day, for every single meal to buy the food for your one meal and then go back to buy another meal as Buddy suggests. That's certainly a waste of time and gas. The book gives a shopping list that matches the recipes and it also states that when you use the coupon method with the sales that happen you can feed five people (although I would have to say more in the recipe we just tried with our boys), and Jaci has nicely provided a detailed list of stores around the country, when their sale times are, when their fresh goods come in and how to use their double triple coupon days, you can absolutely use this book and make meals. Jaci didn't say that an entire clove of garlic would cost pennies nor did she say anywhere that you should try to purchase that way, but in bulk. On those points I utterly disagree with Buddy. Jaci clearly states in the shopping list exactly how much the entire item costs and then breaks down the price into unit prices so that you can understand how much each recipe costs when you use that certain item. I would give this book 10 stars, because it packs a powerful punch and provides exactly what I needed for my family of four.