I need to spend less.

[freshwest]

19. I've only had one summer with sufficient sun at my place to grow anything at the window.

But I do sprouts and green them under a lamp.

I think your best bet would be to grow greens if you have enough sunlight for more food value. If you grow a good variety, you will find they have every taste, sweet, bitter, salty, green, bland. I found going from vegetarian to raw was very good for my health and finances.

When I've had friends complain about the cost of the buying raw vegetables, I have to remind them that you cannot afford both. Or as in their case, because they wanted to continue to buy meat, processed foods, etc. and eat raw.

It's liberating to not have to cook, clean the stove, cooking utensils, much in the way of dishes, when you eat everything essentially the way it came from nature. And it's cheap, you just have to convince yourself you can survive that way.

I'm not sure if you want to go that far to simplify, but some people are doing it and it's working well. I'm not getting rid of a lot of media related items and coming to some hard choices about what I am most likely to ever be able to use. Most of it, I'm just giving away.

I hope that gives you a few ideas.