WOW THAT IS AN AMAZING DRESS.

For food: I point you to the Prudent Homemaker site, I've made a few of her recipes and they are pretty tasty. https://theprudenthomemaker.com/ She has a weekly blog entry, where there are a lot of ideas from her and others on saving money. She's got a great series on eating on 40 cents a day, as well as seasonal menus and a couple of weeks of menus for eating from food storage.