[SamAdams76]

Recently I've been doing the grocery shopping for the family as the wife is recuperating from an operation. I am amazed with just how much junk the average American throws into their grocery carts. No wonder they are complaining about the prices, just about everything they buy is "heat-and-eat" processed crap. Doesn't anybody cook from raw ingredients anymore?

About 80% of my shopping is done around the perimeter of the store and I can tell you exactly the order that the items hit my cart as I travel around the perimeter:

• Butter
• Eggs Yogurt Cheese Milk Fish Meats and Poultry Produce (fruits and vegetables)
• Nuts Raisins Bread

That gets me to the front of the store and from there it's just a couple of trips into the aisles to get a few canned goods and oatmeal. No frozen ready-to-eat entrees, no chips, no cookies, no processed cereals and other junk like that. Almost always under $100 to feed family of four for at least a week.

I do get one thing in the frozen section and that is frozen blueberries and blackberries. They taste great when swirled into plain vanilla yogurt, much cheaper than fresh and don't have to worry about spoilage.

[Beagle8U]

If you have even a small yard, you could buy a couple blueberry bushes. They take little room and if you feed them your used coffee grounds, and pick the ones that get ripe as they do, you can have fresh blueberries from mid July - October.

By picking them as fast as they ripen they will keep putting out new berries. Two small bushes will give you over a quart of berries a week for months.