Have you guys seen the recent prices in food just go sky high? I have been seeing many foods go up atleast a dollar in price! I am not kidding. Even fast food has been going up and I am getting worried. I am right now on a shoe string budget. I have been having to do a lot of extra measures to make sure that I have good yet inexpensive food around, like buying in bulk, planting a garden in pots, looking for sales and I even have had to stop buying fast food altogether. I have stocks of dried beans, rice and I keep extra meat on hand and perserving foods whenever I can. Going green has been easy for me in that respect. My mother has had a hand in teaching me on how to save foods. I even save glass, reuse bags, and ride my bike (it saves money on gas). Things like this have my worried. Have any of your families have had to go with those options?

With food, I do not really like cooking for myself, but I am finding it much cheaper to make my own foods, even my favorite fast foods. I have actually found a way to get fast food somewhat cheaper. I was going through some of my books and I found this interesting book that my mother let me have. It is called 'A Treasury of Top Secret Recipes: The Complete Guide to Re-creating America's Bestselling Brand-name Foods and Restaurant Recipes in Your Own Home' By Todd Wilbur. This book has many of the best foods. Literally everything from KFC's chicken recipe to Snapple drinks, Yoo-hoo drinks, TGI Fridays Turkey Sandwich, BK's Whopper, to making your own Twinkies! I love this book. It has helped me from time to time when I am just hungry for some of this stuff.