Loss of Income Creates Changes in How We Eat

We all enjoy watching the cooking shows where only the finest and freshest ingredients are used. Cost is no object for their belief of eating what is considered to be the best. For the rest of us, convenience comes at a price that will easily be justified by marketing that it is healthy and quick. As long as we can afford to fund our beliefs nothing really changes.

But something did change. The economy slowed and many families were not able to keep having a dual income family. For single income families they lost all their income and had to resort to using savings or government assistance.

Change for these groups came fast and hard. These people realized very quickly, wasting food is the equivalent of throwing away good money. Forget about dining out as a form of entertainment or as a way to feed a family. With very little extra income dining out is usually the first expense that suddenly becomes expendable.

The transition to cutting back on food expenses usually takes some time. Non essential packaged foods are still purchased but not as much as in the past. For many people the cost of food is just now being realized as before it was a simple get what we want swipe a piece of plastic and sign on the computer screen.

The reality of food costs really hit home when you find the few snacks and packaged foods you can barely afford to purchase only half eaten. Expensive low nutritional valued being thrown away. When times are financially tough you can realize what many low income families already know.

The limited food budget has to achieve maximum value and quantity. Nutrition must be reasonably balanced and waste must be kept to a minimum.

The Scratch is our newest book about feeding a family on a budget. we have made this free book available to help familes like ours get started with three simple dinner meals. These three meals will help you save big dollars when you are ready to start budgeting.

If you would like a copy all you have to do is email me. I understand privacy is a concern for everybody and I promise that I will not share your email with anyone. Everything we do is done manually. I will check my email  a couple times a day and send you a pdf file.

The Book is free and you can share it with anybody you like as long as you do not try to sell it.

Simply put "The Scratch" in your subject line and sent to: rickjhenderson@hotmail.com