Smart Shopping:
Getting the Most for Your Food Dollar
USE GROCERY ADS TO SAVE MONEY
- Do you use the weekly grocery store ads?
- Grocery ads can help you save money when you shop for food.
- Look at sale ads before you go shopping.
- Plan weekly meals around sales.
- Make sure sales are really the best buy.
- If you buy one and get one free, can you really use both of them?
- Get your whole family to help plan meals that save money.
Fact Sheet 2
1997
Consumer and
Family Economics
Department of Agricultural and
Consumer Economics
University
of Illinois Extension
University
of Illinois Urbana-Champaign