Too costly to eat???

Recession or whatever it is that is happening sucks, no? Gas prices will reach $4.00 this summer, not that far off and FOOD has become more expensive week by week. Our friends, a couple, came by to visit for a day and we were discussing our grocery budgets, and how it's hard to cut down on the food in order to fit into your budget because of rising costs.

From what I noticed, it seems dairy and meat is always first to go up, then veggies and fruits. Everything else, I'm not really sure but I'm sure they've gone up too. Oh yes, hotdog and hamburger buns which were 99 cents, are like 1.18 or something. So I basically told her, "Eat less." What are we to do? With flailing jobs and a shaky economy, some luxuries deemed unnecessary may be cut out...the $5.00 Torrone bar only available at the Int'l market, the $7.89 a pound for fish...heard of frozen tilapia anyone?

I've read of many frugal families who get by and very satisfactorily may I add with a food budget less than their insurance premium. We can do it! Plus, you'll lose those love handles too...nice. Losing unnecessary pounds by cutting out unnecessary extra food can only be translated into a bonus.

My daughter is progressing in her crawling, so we're busy cleaning little nooks and crannies and really considering getting the carpet cleaned....since people have never heard of taking their shoes off! I'm craving Chinese...what to do? what to do?