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You can't save grocery money by growing food at home.
Unless you have significant amount of land and you've already invested in the resources.
Growing food is expensive. My garden every year costs me $200 or more, but I am not getting that much produce from it, maybe $50.
Most people don't aim for their gardens to grow high value crops at a low constant expense.
Organic rosemary appears to be around £0.20 per sprig, I bought a plant for under £5 several years ago and that is my entire expense on buying rosemary. I have several of them growing now all propagated from that plant. Easily in profit on that.
Of course if you factor in other garden costs you could say it's a negative overall, but I didn't have to buy them if I was only focusing on the costs, I also got some things because it looks nicer. Like stone tiles for pathways and wood borders. If I was going all in on running it as cheap as possible then I would have spent nothing at all in the past few years.
and I have a jar of it that lasts me years that I got for 3 bucks.
it's never cheaper to grow your own produce.