There was a thread here a while back that I never got around to posting to regarding raising your own crickets. In my mind and for mysituation its the only way to go. As we all know, breeding crickets is a cinch. Its the raising them that's hard. Well its not that hard. What's harder for me is to go buy crickets for 10 lizards that eat 20-40 crickets a day. That's around 300 crickets a day, or two $30 boxes a week! $240 a month for lizard food? No thanks.
We raise over 10,000 every 3 weeks here and we get them to adult size in 3-4 weeks (crank their temps to 85-90F and they grow like mad). Its the only way to go if you need more than a few boxes a month.
These guys are 2 weeks old and look at the size of them!