We're trying to eat better on a budget, too, and one thing that's really helping is our Entenmann bakery outlet, of all things. If you can just close your eyes to all the sweet stuff, they have a great selection of whole wheat mini bagels, English muffins, breads and rolls, including whole grain light breads that are only 40 calories a slice. They are half the supermarket price. Aldi has a nice whole wheat bread, brown rice, low fat wheat thin crackers and sometimes Fit & Active rice cakes. I've run into some good Kashi sales and coupons lately, and just got some Near East brown rice mixes free after coupons. Oatmeal is pretty cheap all the time.
FYI - Organic corn does exist. I just saw in our local CSA's flyer that they only have it a few weeks a year because they have to harvest it all before it's time for the pests to attack. Apparently there's no good organic way to control them once they start up.
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