100% of profits will be donated to cancer research. Behind the humor and the succulent recipes is a serious message: plan early for retirement, save at least 8% to 10% of gross income, earn at least 8% on investment, invest in an all-market index, stay the course, and expect Social Security to play a decreasing role in retirement financing. In a plug-and-play format this book features: * The planning tools you need for successful retirement financing * Unique tables to help you compute an adequate saving rate * Your own easy-to-use retirement budget planner * The tools to help you decide when to start drawing Social Security * Easy to use tables to compute your risk of outliving your money * A link to a free, web-based, interactive spreadsheet to compute the retirement budget and risk of ruin * Illustrations of sample retirement plans and their Risk of Ruin * Using TIPS and longevity insurance to reduce Risk of Ruin to zero * An enviable menu of barbecue recipes