Hi Melody:
Thanks for your sensible tips for buying groceries. Many of us here in this country could benefit from following them when grocery shopping. I have read that drinking "designer water" from bottles is not as good as drinking the tap water in our cities, since fluoride has been added in most places. Kids growing up on non fluroride bottled water have more cavities, according to one article I read recently.

As a child of the Great Depression, I have always been very frugal about buying food. We don't buy chips for instance. Any exotic fruits are out of the question. I use prepared foods as little as possible. Many of us need to rethink our buying and eating habits.

Shirley H.