How I make my meals healthy (to my standards) and cheap

*I try to make each dinner with a protein, a starch and a vegetable.
*The goal is to make the vegetable the main staple in the meal, if it isn't, when I serve my children I make sure they receive at least as much vegetables or more than anything else. The level of importance for each meal is as follows:
1. Vegetables (veggies are not only good for you and your growing children, but also a diet higher in vegetables than protein is cheaper)
2. Grains/Legumes
3. Meat
4. Breads
*I have been trying to make less pasta. Where I can, I substitute noodles with rice. If I cannot do this, I limit the amount of pasta on the plate to maybe a quarter of what we eat.
*When I make dishes such as caserols I cut the meat up. Take the chicken and rive caserol: The orriginal recipe by Campbells soup calls for whole chicken breasts. I cut the chicken up into bite size cubes. When I do this, I can make a meal for four with two chicken breasts in tight times.
*BUY IN BULK whenever you can! I can't stress this enough. I am not able to go on bulk shopping sprees like some, but I can get a bag of bulk chicken pieces and it will last me a lot longer than a pack of four chicken breasts from the meat section. No, I don't do this for everything. You have to keep in mind what you will and will not consume in time.
*Buy frozen fruits and veggies. Why? For one they take longer to spoil. They are also much more nutricious than canned goods. Frozen produce is often-at least in Colorado-fresher than something out of the produce department because it is frozen as soon as it is picked and sorted, before it is shipped. For a third, this stuff goes on sale a lot! I shop at City Market (a Kroger store) and get the Kroger brand frozen veggies when they are on sale. My freezer contains mostly veggies.
*Keep fruits for snacks. Cut them up. If I cut it all up, there is less waste, and less of the "Her apple is bigger than mine!" fuss. I do not buy sugary snacks to keep in my house. I am on an anti-sugar mission right now. I don't even keep the crap in my house. Yech. I'll write another blog on that later.
I believe that is it. I will update as I think of more.