Challenge!

I don't know how many read this blog but I'm putting forward a challenge to every single one of you.  If you dare, post as a comment on your best ideas for saving money on food. 
Today food is one of the most expensive necessities that we cannot live without.  Obvious, huh?  Thanks to the fact that this country actually pays our farmers NOT to grow food and encourages them to ship whatever food they do grow to other countries, our cost for food keeps increasing with no end in sight.  I don't know about you but I love food.  I love my country.  This doesn't mean that I like what both of them do to my bottom line.  (You can take that figuratively and literally.)  
Here is my tip: Quality has a price and its worth it!  For the past few years we have had a vegetable garden.  This was the worst year ever.  I didn't reap even though I sewed.  I learned the hard way that quality of seeds and transplants is really important.  I will never buy from 'big box' sources again.  It costs a little more but Seed Savers Exchange (www.seedsavers.org) will be the only place I ever buy from.