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Grocery Related Printables and Resources

Weekly Grocery List/Meal Planner

This is the current format I use for making a weekly grocery list.

It includes place for writing down seven days' worth of breakfast, lunch, and dinner ideas. The meal list can be detached and hung on the refrigerator while you take the weekly grocery list to the grocery store.

Weekly Grocery List

A weekly grocery list form arranged by food/product categories.

 

 

The Five Food Groups Homeschooling Lesson, by TJ

Six day unit

Grade: Approximately Grade 2

 

 

Tips for Grocery Shopping

excerpted from "Controlling Food Costs" University of Connecticut, Cooperation Extension System, October 2004

 

 

Plan Ahead

• Make a plan of the meals and snacks you want to have for the week, or whatever time
frame you will be shopping for. Then check your fridge, cupboards, pantry – where ever
you keep your food – to see what you already have on hand.

• Check newspaper ads or store flyers to see what is on sale. Use this
to help you plan meals and snacks.

• Write a list of the food you need to buy. Organize the list in a way that
makes sense to you…by food group, by grocery store section.

• BRING THE LIST WITH YOU!

Studies show that without a list, you can spend almost twice as much. Follow it, but be
flexible. If you see something on sale that you know you will
use, buy it even if it’s not on your list.

 

Shop Carefully
Try to eat something before you go shopping. You will spend more if you are hungry.

Try to go alone. You will spend more and maybe not take the time you need to read labels or
compare prices if you are distracted by your kids, your husband, your friends.

• Read labels so you know what you are paying for. The “Nutrition Facts” label gives you
lots of information such as how many calories, fat, sodium, fiber, protein, added sugar in
a serving, what IS a serving, how many servings are in the package, and a little on
vitamins and minerals.

• The ingredients list can tell a lot…ingredients are listed in order from most to least. Try
to avoid buying cereals and cake mixes where sugar and high fructose-corn syrup are the
first or second ingredients.

• Use unit pricing and food labels to compare cost of similar food items. When there is
little difference in ingredients or nutrition, choose the store or generic brand.

• Use coupons wisely. Often they promote new products that may be highly refined and
processed. If you don’t need it, you won’t save anything by buying it. Use coupons for
food you would buy anyway.

 

Keep it simple

Stick to more basic, natural, nutritious foods rather then ready-to-eat, highly processed and
highly refined foods. When they do it for you, it usually costs more. One of the best moneysaving
tricks is to know how to cook and fix healthy meals and snacks.

Even when processed foods are cheaper, they are usually higher in salt, sugar, fat and artificial
ingredients and lower in fiber, vitamins and minerals. While they may be ok to eat once in a
while, choose more nutritious foods to eat every day.