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Seventeen chapters and an index. Every store walked aisle by aisle, every item with its three prices. Written plain, so anyone can follow it.
- The Three Prices, the shelf price, the unit price, and the price per supper, which is the only honest one · p. 19
- The Despensa of the Month, a real $200 cart for a house of four, itemised, and the suppers it makes · p. 30
- The Bulk Shelf, the eleven staples bought big, all under $5, and the one exception where big is a mistake
- The Foods That Never Expire, fifteen of them, with the honest keeping conditions and the lie behind “best by”
- The Canned Shelf, the six cans a house needs, the canned meats worth money and the ones that are not · p. 210
- The Freezer the Mexican Way, fifteen things we always freeze, what never freezes well, and the power-out rules
- Cheap Protein, six under $5, and what the carnicería counter sells that Americans walk straight past
- The Aisle Americans Walk Right Past, spices in bags against the famous jar, priced per ounce · p. 118
- Walmart, the Great Value question, which store brands beat the famous ones and the few that do not
- Dollar Tree, the ten things to buy and the five never to touch, with the $1.25 arithmetic · p. 147
- Costco, Sam’s Club and Aldi, the membership arithmetic for a house of four and for one person alone
- The Hard Times Shelf, how her mother fed seven on nothing, said without fear and without the word survival
- Groceries That Last Twice as Long, twelve habits: limes in the drawer, onions in mesh, cheese in paper
- The Winter Despensa, which prices move before October and the twelve things to buy in September
- What We Never Buy at the Store, twelve things Americans pay for monthly that this house replaced long ago · p. 236
- The List, every store on one page, and a thirty-day despensa calendar · p. 255
Seventeen chapters, 268 pages, and a real price on nearly every line.
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- 268 pages, seventeen chapters, six stores walked aisle by aisle
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- The three prices on every item, so you stop paying the one the store shows you
- A real $200 monthly cart, itemised, and the suppers it makes
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"I have been watching your videos and love them! I just had to get your cook book too. Your recipes are great for someone like me, retired, on a fixed income looking for cheaper ways to cook and not starve. Thank you for sharing your cooking knowledge."
"I try her remedies and am satisfied that they work, and then I give the store bought product away. I am saving money by not buying paper towels or other disposable products. These changes in my life have more than paid for the book over and over again."
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"Her rice and beans and albondigas rocked my world and changed my kitchen. I love how practical and affordable and delicious her cooking is. When I shop for the ingredients she teaches me, they always talk to me in Spanish at the store."
"These books are what our mothers should have taught us, if someone had taught them. Simple strategies that are nontoxic and affordable. Schools should use all of her books for home economics classes that everyone takes."
La Despensa is new, so these are verified buyers writing about my earlier books.
Bertha Ramírez
My mother fed seven people on one wage, and she did it with a list folded in her apron pocket. She walked to the store on the first of the month and nobody in that house ever went hungry or cold. I watched her do the arithmetic in her head at the shelf, and it took me twenty years to understand she was reading three prices while everyone else read one.
I will not tell you to panic, and I will not tell you to buy before the shelves empty. That is a trick the channels use and we do not. I will tell you what a thing really costs by the time it reaches the table.
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