Beating the High Cost of Eating: The Essential Guide to Supermarket Survival [Paperback]

Barbara Salsbury (Author), Simmons Sandi (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2005

If you shop at a grocery store, you need this book!

Beating the High Cost of Eating is a course in supermarket survival. It will teach you proven strategies that will increase your buying power by 33 percent or more! In its pages you will find practical and tested ways to get the most out of your grocery dollar as you learn to—

* Recognize the best price when you see it
* Redefine impulse and comparison shopping
* Throw out traditional menu planning
* Cut down on coupon clipping
* Overcome the "one-stop shopping" syndrome
* Choose the right brands
* Control your budget once inside the store
* Make your pantry a money-management tool

Best-selling author Barbara Salsbury, a recognized authority on thriftiness and self-reliance, offers more than a collection of typical how-to-shop tips. She offers new knowledge and skills guaranteed to help you increase your buying power without games, gimmicks, or coupons!

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Best-selling author Barbara Salsbury, a nationally recognized personal-preparedness expert, is one of America’s leading authorities on self-reliance. For more than twenty-five years, she has been teaching self-reliance and showing people how to get more for their money. In November 2002, Family Circle Magazine named her one of the "Top Five Penny-Pinchers in America."

She has produced two national newsletters and three videos. In addition, she is the author of seven books, including Just Add Water, Just in Case, and Plan, not Panic.

Active in church and community, Barbara serves as a personal preparedness consultant for Sandy, Utah, and has served as assistant director for San Francisco Key Cities-Area Public Affairs for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She and her husband, Larry, live in Sandy, Utah. They have two children, seven grandchildren, and two spoiled dogs.

Sandi Simmons is a freelance writer. She has written numerous articles, scripts, and newsletters, including a national e-newsletter, "Preparedness Perspectives." She and her husband, Tom, live in Sandy, Utah, with their four children.

Product Details

• Paperback: 209 pages
• Publisher: Horizon Publishers, an Imprint of Cedar Fort, Inc. (May 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0882907867
• ISBN-13: 978-0882907864
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,546,005 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Not just a tips and tricks book June 6, 2006

By Mirrah M.

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Barbara Salsbury packs her book with a lot of useful information. She doesn't write about how to choose the freshest produce or the best time of day to shop. She deals with subjects such as in-store psychology (ie: why we buy when we didn't plan to buy); how to properly read the ads; eye opening information about store games, gimmicks and surveys; menu planning the non-traditional, but easy, way; the expensive lure of one stop shopping; plus many more subjects tying it all together with what she calls her "Pantry Principle."

I've been a grocery shopper for a long time and though I was doing a fairly good job at stretching my grocery budget, Barbara made me realize how much more I could do. She is quick to point out there is no villian here, grocery stores are a business and they are doing it well. Our job as consumers are to become "Super Shoppers" knowing how to stretch our hard earned dollars the farthest.

Her chapters on Brands is amazing! We all know major brand names, but what about house brands? Private labels? Economy brands? No names? When I would look at the grocery shelf and see eight brands of canned peas, I didn't really know the difference between them, now I do because Barbara explains it.

Barbara knows her stuff because she had to live it. In reading about her life, during a short period of time, her family experienced job loss, major hospital bills, their house being robbed, and because of a land fraud situation, didn't even own their home. She HAD to live these principles.

You may already do or know some of things in this book. But it was well worth the money to me as it is chock full of great information, even if it just gives you a different way to look at something almost all of us have to....grocery shop.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars A solid book that takes things a little too far October 27, 2006

By Kangelop

Format:Paperback

This is definitely a book about squeezing the last penny out of your dollar. It is far beyond the typical "clip coupons" and "buy what you can in bulk" mentality. The author actually advises against most coupon shopping (buy the store brands when you can, they are cheaper than discounted national brands in many/most cases). I can honestly say I am a pretty good bargain shopper, but I got my money's worth in reading this book. There is a lot of information in this book that is obvious after reading about it, but not as obvious before it is pointed out.

On the other hand, I thought the book went a little beyond what I would be willing to do. I'm all for stocking my kitchen so that I don't have to purchase items until they are on sale/priced to my liking, but building shelves and hiding them behind curtains in a baby's room or artifically raising the bed to fit more food under it seem extreme.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars This Book is a Keeper! February 6, 2007

By ME :D

Format:Paperback

I have read many books on how to go grocery shopping. Many of them say the same thing over and over again... but Barabara Salsbury offers a fresh perspective. I love how she talks about the secerets of advertising and how they try to lure you in. I love how she tells us to give up on cupons (they never worked for me anyways). I highly recomend this book to anyone who wants to save money on grocery shopping.