Just a few notes:

Food is expensive globally. We are wasting lots of corn, and driving up prices, trying to produce ethanol. Y'all know it takes lots and lots o'corn to make ethanol. It's not like we have excess corn sitting around; farmers are raising it and selling it to make ethanol. Ask yourself how moral a people we are that we raise and sell food for fuel rather than sell it to countries and peoples that are starving. Think about that when you are complaining about filling up your tank (thanks, Mr. Bush, for my $71 fill up) because we are all part of this problem together.

There is a wheat blight, folks, so wheat is also suffering. This means that the price of bread is higher. Check it out. Watch week over week bread prices and tell me they don't go up.

Also, rice production is down because the major rice producing countries in the world have either suffered major disasters recently or have suffered a weather or financing crisis.

So formerly easy and cheap staples of the global diet are now no longer available.

Keep your bread in the fridge, if you don't already. Keep your flour in a rubbermaid container, or some other sealed container, if you don't already, and in a cool place so that it keeps longer. Ditto for rice.

Doing your part, one small thing at a time.