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Product Description Do you wish you were a savvy supermarket shopper who knows how to cut your weekly food budget, banish fast food from the dinner table and serve your family meals that are delicious and good for them? Well, Erin Chase, "The $5 Dinner Mom", is here to help. Erin is the founder of "$5 Dinners", the skyrocketing internet website that's now the go-to source for families who want to eat well and stay within a budget. Erin became a supermarket savvy mom, challenged herself to create dinners for her family of four that cost no more than $5 and is here to share her fool-proof method with you in her first cookbook that contains over 200 recipes that cost $5 or less to make. First, Erin will show you how to size up the best supermarket deals, clip coupons that will really save you money and create a weekly dinner menu plan. Then, in each recipe she shows you just how much she paid for each item and challenges you to do the same. Here are a few of her favorites:- North Carolina Pulled Pork Sandwiches - $4.90- Curried Pumpkin Soup - $4.41- Apple Dijon Pork Roast - $4.30- Orange Beef and Broccoli Stir-Fry - $4.94- Creamy Lemon Dill Catfish - $4.95- Bacon-Wrapped Apple Chicken - $4.96- Country Ribs with Oven Fries - $4.77Join the army of devoted followers who have already let Erin Chase show them how to be savvy supermarket shoppers who cook tasty, economical meals. You'll never spend more than $5 on dinner again. Review “Erin's $5 Dollar Dinner approach is ideal for my family--her recipes are simple, healthy, delicious and always affordable. She proves that budget cooking does not have to be boring!” ― Stephanie Nelson, author of The Coupon Mom's Guide to Cutting Your Grocery Bills in Half About the Author ERIN CHASE is the author of The $5 Dinner Mom Cookbook and The $5 Dinner Mom Breakfast and Lunch Cookbook. She's appeared on The View, The Rachael Ray Show and The Jean Chatzky Show on Oprah Sirius Radio. She lives in Dayton, Ohio, with her husband and three children. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. ONE Strategic Grocery Shopping Here is where I’ll share how I went from “just getting groceries” and spending more than $500 a month to really saving money on my groceries and spending less than $300 a month. The strategies outlined in the following chapters all play an important role in making the most out of each trip to the grocery store and, of course, they are essential to making $5 Dinners. Before I get into the temptations and obstacles that are thrown my way every time I go to the store, I’d like to share with you what kind of shopper I used to be, and what kind of shopper I am now. Shopper Profiles I used to be the kind of shopper who just went to the store and did all that I could to keep the children entertained and happy. I paid little attention to what I added to the cart. I just wanted to make sure there would be enough food to last until the next week, when we’d load into the car and do it all over again. I was happy to see thesale tags on some of the products that I purchased each week, but did not seek out sale items or use coupons. Although I wouldn’t call myself an “Impulse Shopper,“ I certainly wasn’t being smart in my grocery spending. I knew that I could do better. I wanted to become a “Savvy Shopper.” I wrote up a little quiz that will help you determine what kind of shopper you are. It’s a quick ten questions that will help you think about your grocery shopping and spending habits. “WHAT KIND OF SHOPPER ARE YOU” QUIZ Answer the following questions to determine what kind of shopper you are: 1. When it comes to the grocery store circular, I... a. Don’t know where to find it or when it comes out. b. Toss it out with the rest of the newspaper ads. c. Review it each week to see what is on sale at my grocery store. 2. In my family, the grocery bud get is... a. A free- for- all. No care or attention is paid to how much is spent at the store. b. Loose. But I know I’m s