Interesting thread, Susan.   Sounds like you are three miles ahead of me on stretching food money. Have you already done a thread on 'how we still manage to eat on not much money'?

Inflation and other problems have got us really getting serious about cooking dry beans, baking to use up a ton of staples on hand, etc.    I got some good ideas from the "Hillbilly Housewife" site, but sheez it takes a lot of forethought to eat decently while broke.