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PLAN BETTER. SHOP BETTER. LIVE BETTER.
You work hard for your money, so learn how to spend it right.
The Feed A Family of Five for Only $50! program is the #1 selling household management software on the market.
Food and money are your basic necessities. Here’s how you can get more from both.
When money is tight, the first thing you trim is your food budget. And with gas prices now eating into your wallet, your food pantry is even more strained. Prospering Families can help. Our Feed Five for Fifty program will teach you the basic skills to get more from your food budget and still eat well. You’ll learn how to create a plan, shop smart, and still have money in your budget for household supplies. With a little practice, you’ll be saving hundreds of dollars a month.
The Feed 5 for $50 software package includes:
· Instructions to create a Prepared Pantry™ (20-30 meals from your pantry) · Drag-n-drop menu planning · Weekly shopping list creation · Month-by-month preparedness steps · Recipes from Cook’n™ recipe software · Virtual shopping trip to learn basics · Organizational worksheets and checklists · And so much more
In addition, this software includes a variety of resources for in-depth emergency preparedness—so your family will prosper no matter what the world throws at you.
You’ll learn strategies like:
· Why it’s important to figure out what your family eats on a regular basis · How shopping with your family’s master shopping list will save you a TON of time & money · How to set up a family budget and even reduce your debts on your own · How couponing really works · How to avoid the biggest shopping mistakes commonly made · Where to find great resources both locally and online
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We’re working mothers too and no matter what situation you’re in, we bet we’ve been there too! Here are some excerpts from our blog—
Lisa’s Husband was Laid Off in February 2010
My husband was laid off in February 2010. The company had a reduction in force. We were saddened and shocked that day as well as the few days following. This week is looking very positive with many interviews, follow-up interviews and phone calls. Faith tells me that we will be just fine.
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So, I have been practicing what I preach the past two weeks. I rearranged our Master Menu to include only foods I have on hand and not purchased any groceries for 2 weeks except for milk. I have had enough paper goods, cleaning supplies and groceries in my prepared pantry to keep us in a great place. Last night we splurged and bought Little Caesar’s Pizza. We have eaten out of our food storage & prepared pantry. I can’t believe how many meals I can make. Luckily I have canned meat on hand as well and that has helped a lot.
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Today I went to the grocery store for the first time since the layoff. I had watched the sales, gathered my coupons and I spent $46 for at least 2 weeks worth groceries.
Here’s the list from 2 stores:
* Cheerios (.29!!) It helped that a new grocery store just opened (Riddley’s) and they sent out coupons for free bacon, soda, and a buy 1 get one free on a gallon of milk.
I anticipate spending less than $50 a week on groceries for my family of 6 (4 teenagers) until he finds a job. It can be done. It takes planning and patience and practice, but by using those skills I have already acquired, we can do it!
I needed to take 2 steps to create my new Master Menu knowing that I needed to avoid going to the grocery store until I absolutely had to.
1. Inventory what I have – Luckily I have been working on creating my prepared pantry for 4 years. We have plenty of canned meats, pasta and yes, wheat. I really am hoping I don’t have to start using the wheat, but if I do, well, I have lots and lots of recipes! We have a lot of canned goods on hand which meant that my shopping trip yesterday was really only necessary for purchasing dairy, meat and fresh fruit. The meat was a splurge… the store had extra-lean ground beef on sale for $1.59 a pound – I could NOT pass that up!!
2. Go through my recipe file and search the internet – I have a lot of canned chicken so I have been finding all my recipes for different kinds of casseroles, soups and such. It is amazing how much I already have on hand! I love the DVO Cook’n Software which I can search with the ingredients I have on hand and it spits out recipes. Takes a lot of the guesswork out of my hands.
Hubby has 2 Job Interviews today… wish us luck!
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We are starting our 11th week of this journey called unemployment. I am still making ends meet; grocery shopping has been minimal and the kids are still holding onto their wants and we are satisfying our needs.
Here’s a quick update:
· I “splurged” and made a couple of grocery case purchases (Western Family Vegetables and Ketchup). · We have been eating a lot of rice and pasta… stocking up on those when sales are great (paired with a coupon) has been a lifesaver. · It is amazing how many sauces and gravies you can make to vary the menu (cheese sauce, spaghetti sauce, white sauce, meat sauce, chicken gravy, brown gravy, taco meat sauce, etc.). · I have used up a lot of my canned goods storage, which though not ideal for our health, but it is better than having nothing.
I am so very thankful that we have not had to ask for help financially from any one yet… and with a solid job interview today… we are hoping that this storm will pass very quickly.
Almost 3 months to the day and my husband starts work again on Monday! I am so thankful I had the tools available to survive including coupon and social networking skills. Our family of 6 (4 kids age 12, 15, 16, 18) did very well. I learned a lot and because I have been preparing for this with the way I have shopped the last 3 years, we had a prepared pantry.
Because of our prepared pantry, we did not have to purchase the following items during the three months:
I will post more updates on things I wish we had done differently later. Happy Day! We have a job!!
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Lisa was Diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 2006
I am a stay-at-home mom, diagnosed four years ago with Multiple Sclerosis and with the uncertainty of the disease with fatigue and pain, I needed a new way of meal planning and preparation for my family of six. By having a prepared pantry, my husband or any of my four children ages 13-19 can pull out one of dozens of meals ready to go if I‘m not feeling up to it.
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Donna’s Husband was Laid Off in January 2005
Five years ago Lisa and I were working together at a local business. My husband got laid off January 8th 2005. I was pregnant with our third child and we were in the middle of building a home. We didn’t have any money put away and we didn’t have much food storage. We were young (mid 30s), what did we need that for?!?!
My husband had been out of work for four months and it was time to make our first mortgage payment on the new home. That left us with less than $50 for food and necessities that month. To say I was scared is an understatement.
One day Lisa had to run some errands during her lunch hour. When she came back she had a huge bag of groceries with her and she was super excited. She asked me to guess how much she spent on everything. I remember guessing lower than what I thought retail was on the items, but then she floored me when she told me she spent less than $10 for everything.
She told me that while she was there a lady was doing a presentation and shop that she followed around the store. She taught Lisa how to maximize the use of coupons.
I had always thought using coupons was a waste of time. I mean how much can you really save with a 25 cents here and 50 cents there.
Well it didn’t matter what I had thought in the past, I was in dire straights and need to feed my family. After work, I went to the same store Lisa had gone to and purchased the same items with extra coupons Lisa had given me.
From there Lisa and I started using coupons the way the lady had shown her during that “fateful shop”. I say fateful for several reasons.
1. Remember how I said I had less than $50 to feed my family that month? I was able to do it and even have some food left over!!! I’m not saying we ate great, but we had fairly nutritious meals every day.
2. At the end of the month, there was actually leftover food in our pantry and in our fridge. The next month was a little better, but not much. I think we had about $100. I kept shopping the way we did the previous month and we ate okay again, but I had even more food in my pantry!!! It was such a great feeling.
3. By the third month my husband had found a job and finally received his first paycheck. We splurged and went out to eat several times and then I kept building up our pantry with foods we eat every day and I was still spending less than I ever had on groceries.
4. Lisa’s food budget was several hundred dollars a month for her family of 6 and using these strategies she had built a large food storage in her pantry of foods her family eats every day without increasing her food budget. For several months she kept her food budget the same and was able to build a HUGE food storage for her family.
5. After a while, Lisa dropped her food budget and started saving money every month without her family having to go without. She was purchasing everything her family already loved for very little money.
After our experience with this method of shopping we created Prospering Families And, for the past five years we’ve been helping working mothers save time and money each and every month!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We’re sure your wondering how the software works… The Feed Five Program is part of the Cook’n TM Recipe Organizer Family with OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD!!!
· Enter and organize your own recipes · Search hundreds of recipes in seconds · Adjust recipe serving sizes automatically · Create weekly menus & make shopping lists · Analyze nutritional value of any recipe · Print family cookbooks · Email recipes to family & friends · Access unmatched tech support via telephone, e-mail, and live chat
Cook'n Feed 5 is Five Products in One!
1) Electronic Cookbook · Search thousands of recipes in seconds · View hundreds of full color photos · Download recipes from internet
Simply tell Cook'n what ingredients you have on hand and in seconds, Cook'n will suggest several delicious recipes. Or, use Cook'n's exclusive "Recipe Browser" feature and page through pictures of finished dishes to look for ideas. 2) Recipe Manager · Add your own recipes · Easily adjust recipe serving sizes · Print recipes on 3x5 and 4x6 cards or on an 8.5x11 sheet · E-mail recipes to friends
Organizing your family recipe collection in the computer is easy with Cook'n. You already know how to put in your recipes, that's because Cook'n's recipe window looks just like a recipe card. And, "Quick-Fill" editing does much of the typing for you. 3) Menu Planner · Simply drag and drop recipes to create your menus · Build your own weekly, monthly and yearly menus · Automatically generate a shopping list from your menus
With Cook'n you can simply drag recipes into the days of the week to create a menu. Then combine weekly menus into monthly and even a yearly menu. 4) Grocery Shopping Assistant · Compiles your family's shopping list automatically · Organizes shopping list items by aisle · Converts to package sizes (ie; tablespoon tomato paste to 8 oz. cans) · Calculates your grocery cost
Cook'n automatically combines the food on your menus and makes a grocery shopping list. It even converts tablespoons of tomato paste to 8 oz. cans! Cook'n organizes your shopping list by aisle to save you time at the store. 5) Personal Home Nutritionist · Analyze the nutritional elements of recipes and menus (even the ones you add!) · Choose between brands to satisfy dietary needs
Cook'n will analyze the nutritional value of any recipe or menu (even the ones you add!). You don't have to be a nutritionist to understand it either -- that's because Cook'n nutrition facts window looks just like the label on a can. System Requirements: · 8 MB RAM · 180MB Hard disk space · 2x CD-ROM drive · Windows 98/ME/2000/NT/XP/Vista/7 · Compatible with 16, 32, and 64 bit systems
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By ordering from Prospering Families you not only get the Cook’n recipe organizer, but you get all the tips and tricks to save hundreds of dollars on your grocery bill by creating a Prepared Pantry as well as save a TON of time by learning simple and effective meal planning skills.
If you are not completely satisfied with the quality of the Feed Five Program, we will refund your purchase! No hassles, no haggles! So, order today and become a Prospering Family!
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