Eat Healthy for $50 a Week: Feed Your Family Nutritious, Delicious Meals for Less [Paperback]

Rhonda Barfield (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 1996

A guide to feeding one's family delicious, nutritious meals on a budget explains how to slash grocery bills, plan healthy and low-cost menus, get the most out of coupons and store specials, and other ways to satisfy picky eaters economically. Original.

Product Details

• Paperback: 223 pages
• Publisher: Kensington (March 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1575660180
• ISBN-13: 978-1575660189
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,244,415 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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56 of 62 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, April 6, 2000

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Alexandra T. Schultz "atolin" (Sound Beach, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eat Healthy for $50 a Week: Feed Your Family Nutritious, Delicious Meals for Less (Paperback)

This was sad. It was impossible not to like the author of this book, or believe that she sincerely wanted to make shopping easier for busy people. Therefore I feel guilty in reporting that I found this book very thin and unhelpful, with few recipes and advice that I can't believe I paid for, like "subscribe to the Sunday paper for coupons". If you need to buy this book to know you should use coupons to save money at the grocery store you are in more trouble than this woman can get you out of! I commend her on supporting 4 kids when her husband's an artist and she's a musician and now homemaker, but I hope she plans on sending me some supplimentary recipes, because I feel cheated out of 9 bucks after buying her book! (just think of all the food I could've bought with that!)

33 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Money-Saving Ideas, Recipes Questionable, April 25, 1998

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This review is from: Eat Healthy for $50 a Week: Feed Your Family Nutritious, Delicious Meals for Less (Paperback)

While Rhonda's book is much healthier than her book that is similar than this one (Eat Well instead of Eat Healthy) I found some of her recipes leaned toward the sweet end of tastes. I had never heard of using ketchup in a pizza sauce before and really felt that there could have been a better recipe that did not use the ketchup, or the additional added sugar that is stated in the recipe. In addition, I am not a Miracle Whip fan. I prefer real mayonnaise, I guess that is my own personal taste. I also felt that she could have been a little more creative in some of her ideas instead of quoting dozens of other resources. I bought her book thinking it was her ideas, not other books or newsletters. Oh well, I guess I'll have to buy some of those others since they seem to be mentioned frequently.

24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, February 11, 2002

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T. Rimmer "trimmer31" (Calgary, Alberta Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eat Healthy for $50 a Week: Feed Your Family Nutritious, Delicious Meals for Less (Paperback)

This book was not worth [what] I paid for it. The ideas are old ones -- nothing new here. Also, she gives sample shopping lists and the meals she feeds her family from them. It's not hard to feed a family on $50 a week with no meat -- but strangely, although no meat appears on her grocery list (total $48.32) that next week she manages to prepare a roast beef dinner and a baked chicken. I found the grocery lists unrealistic for the meals she apparently provided from them -- some ingredients simply weren't there.

I can appreciate the fact that she is honestly trying to show people how to manage on a fixed income. I think it's commendable that she has managed to do so for her own four children -- but the book lacked a lot. She also seems to buy a lot of pre-made stuff -- ie., Miracle Whip, bottled salad dressing, whipped topping, muffin mix -- not to mention the 60 penny candies and pound of M&Ms. If you're going to write a book on [inexpensive], HEALTHY eating, I'm not sure I would include these things.