My DD is very organized. She shops for groceriess every two weeks. When she noticed that her bill was going up and up she looked at what it cost her about 18 months ago. Like most of us, she buys basically the same stuff every time. She is a very picky shopper and makes sure that bargains are really bargains. She found that her grocery bill for her family (they have two boys, 12 & 7) had gone up about $100 every two weeks but their wages have not gone up nearly that much. I don't know how families do it. As we all know, eating healthy is not cheap to begin with. For those of us on fixed incomes, it is even worse. We didn't even get a raise this year. Even if we had, it wouldn't have come close to matching how much everything has gone up. This year I am going back to canning everything I can grow and lay hands on.