This book was actually a quick read, despite its thickness. And you don't even have to read the entire book, you can pick and choose categories that interest you.
Most of the principles in this book won't actually work for my family right now because we live so far from any grocery store and there is very little competition between the stores we can go to because they are so few and far between. We also don't have access to a Sunday paper (thus coupons and store ads). Some money saving methods they use would also take a long time to implement.
The appeal of this book though is that you can use one or all methods, and use them to varying degrees. They menu plan for an entire month, but you can start by trying to menu plan for a week and move your way up.
They also cook and freeze about fifteen meals to be used over a month's time. But it is easy to start this on a smaller scale by cooking a double portion and freezing the extra for another meal. I've been doing this with soups for a while now, but will look into expanding that to other meals (once I start cooking again after the nausea of the first trimester settles).
A few things that I never anticipate implementing is freezing milk and bread. I just don't like them once they've been frozen and thawed, so it would not save money if you never end up eating it. I would like to try freezing more fresh fruits and veggies (when they're in season and thus cheaper) and maybe cooking large portions of meats and freezing them as thawing and cooking meat is often what takes the most time in daily meal preparation.
Especially if you can pick it up from the library, I recommend taking a look at this book. You can disregard any principles that don't appeal to you and your lifestyle, and all the methods are broken into little (or big) steps you can take and can be adjusted for a single person or a large family.
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