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| 5 Meals for $5 - How to Feed 5 People 5 Meals for $5.00 - $8.00 or Less! You Don't Need to Be Wealthy To Eat Healthy | 
 enlarge | Authors: The Queen Of More Green, Jaci Rae
Creator: Albert Garcia
Publisher: North Shore Records, Inc.
Category: Book
List Price: $18.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 200416
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 182
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.6
ISBN: 0974622990
EAN: 9780974622996
ASIN: 0974622990
Publication Date: May 12, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 Excellent Book that Really Delivers April 14, 2008
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
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.
Rocks Platinum!! June 14, 2008
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
Rocks Platinum!!
This book rocks a high note of platinum with my friends and me! Great tasting meals, with lots of leftovers. Great advice on debt and how to rid myself of it. My Mom loves the weights and measures chart and I love the conversion chart (never was good at the math, but now I don't have too be anymore!)
This book really does deliver. It has great recipes, fun girls night out or dates with my dude for free advice (it's like an entire chapter of that information) and 5 Meals gave me all the advice I need on how to make these recipes not only work for me, but save a lot of money because of the information this author gives on how to get the best deals at the grocery stores.
Rocks a high note man. You cannot miss with this one!
Recipes are both tasty and healthy June 14, 2008
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
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.
 Do the math April 14, 2008
11 out of 31 found this review helpful
On the whole, this is a good cookbook that teaches how to create cheap good quality meals. However, the price break down of each ingredient that goes with each recipe reveals the truth. It is a outright lie that each recipe in this book will only cost you less than $5, and here is why. The price of the ingredients is based on individual servings. Why I am sure that a single carrot costs only 23 cents as the author suggests, since when have you seen a single carrot for sale at the market? Also, in the recipe for chuck roast, it calls for a single bouillon cube (cost: 30 cents) and one garlic glove (cost 1 cent.) I have never seen a single bouillon cube or single glove of garlic for sale in my life. This book's title is very misleading. If you think you will walk into a market with 5 bucks and out with enough items to make a single recipe in this book, you are fooling yourself. The items needed to make the recipes in this book can not be bought in individual servings, they are sold in bunches or in jars or cans. Buy this book, just don't spend more than five bucks for it.
Great Book Truth Be Told June 16, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
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!
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