does anybody really save money?

madcat - you're as mad as me!! 
Learner - I think you're a poet too! Lovely posts, to which I can so fully relate.

i think i am saving in a big way to my mum payed 2 pound some thin for about 4 leeks yesterday a packet of my seeds dident cost that much and i get more than one dinner from that packet of seeds 1 pound 70 pence for 500g of hurst greenshaft thats alot of peas that will last me about 2 year an my 3 year old daughter loves picking them she cant do that in the supermarket she even has her own strawberry patch with about 60 plants in it she goes down every day when thay are ready to beat the birds and i no i am saving money on the strawberrys a lot two i dont think its about the money just the enjoyment of the hole growing thing an cooking it fresh or just taking a plate an having a freshly picked salad mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm roll on the warmer weather cant wait

As was rightly pointed out, if you weren't doing this you would be spending money somewhere else; with that in mind I recon you would be in profit if you never ate a single veg. I grow some things that I know are cheap and often better in the shops (root veg that are terrible on my stony clay, leeks, maincrop spuds, onions) knowingly at a loss, but other things are easy to grow but expensive to buy (salad stuff, squashes, beans, cut flowers) so I am sure I make a profit on these (actually flowers especially; used to spend £5 a week on flowers, now self sufficient in them for 9 months, and working on the rest of the year).

Charlie