How To Feed Yourself For $35 A Week Guaranteed

Wilkinson Publishing (Published 2009)

Written By Cynthia and Alisa Mayne

Australia

Review 4 stars— Excellent Book

How the blurb describes the book:
It’s not a joke. It can be done!

Chefs Cynthia and Alisa Mayne certainly know how good food and good times can be had on a very tight budget, even when cooking just for yourself.

Delicious meals and snacks are all planned for and costed at very affordable prices. How about a delicious Cheese and Chive Omelette for breakfast? Tuna and Potato Baguette for lunch sounds good doesn’t it? Does Sausage Paella or Warm Tuna Salad in Crepes sound like your perfect dinner? And why not try Mango Stacks for dessert.

This book is the ideal companion for ‘How to Feed Your Family For $75 A Week’.

Letter from the writers
Hello there,
Whether young, old or in mid-life, there comes a time for most of us when we need to plan and prepare meals for ourselves as a single. For a day, a week, a month, or longer period.

This book will help day by day. It’s packed with simple and affordable recipes and meal plans that are tasty and good for you.

We have tested – enjoyed – every recipe and rechecked that every meal can be done at the low prices. All it takes is a bit of planning and real desire to do it.

This does not mean you can’t have fun with eating out and entertaining. Yes, you can splurge occasionally. But we show you how to do it knowing you’re still in control of your dollars and diet. Yes, with our plan you too can take the kilos off and still have lots of energy to burn.

So whether you are a student just starting out on your own, a mid-lifer who wants to be happily single with dollars to spare, or into the well earned retirement years and without the need to feed the tribe – How To Feed Yourself For $35 A Week Guaranteed is for you and yes, please do pass it on or recommend it to a single friend.

Thanks from Cynthia and Alisa Mayne

Mr Home Budget’s Review:
As the blurb suggests this is a cookbook which caters for single living people or couples who want to double all the recipes’ ingredients. So don’t come into this expecting to feed the whole family.

But what does $35 a week really represent. Well in a recent study on Australian families, they found for a family of four, we spend around $290 a week on food. So if you divide this by each person, this is around $73 for person. This handy book could cut an individual’s food spend by around half! Nothing to sneeze at.

In fact other studies have shown that living alone is extremely expensive. As everyday living costs of electricity, water, gas, and rent are higher even with the small usage of one person. It’s just a trade off, from not being able to share these high costs with someone else.

So anyone living alone would need to find each extra dollar they can. And what better way to start than in the kitchen.

The book runs off a two-week menu plan suggesting and costing every meal for the full 14 days. Right at the end, they will have a shopping list of products and more importantly, weights of each product and the approximate price you should pay for each item. Giving you a total of just under $70 for the two weeks.

Menu plans in some savings books can be boring, with leftovers taking up a huge chunk of the days and many recipes without any meat in them. However this one has a fair amount of meat dishes throughout the book.

If you are single and want to save some money, you should pick up a copy of this book when you can.

Pros: If you are living alone, this book is a must, as it will be your roadmap to big savings on food.

Due to pricing out all the ingredients, you can truly check to see if they deliver what they promise.

Cons: Don't expect the recipes to hold your hand too much. So if you don't have any cooking experience then some might be a tad tricky.