Smart Shopping:
Getting the Most for Your Food Dollar
CHECK PRICES WEEKLY TO FIND
BARGAINS
- Food prices may change from week to week.
- It makes sense to keep track of the prices of foods you buy often.
- Make a chart and write food prices down when you put your groceries away.
- Take the chart with you when you shop to see if a price is really a bargain.
- Compare your chart with the price in the grocery store.
- If the sign says "2 for 1" it does not always mean you can buy one for half price.
- Items at the end of the aisle may not be on sale.
Prepared by Elizabeth Kiss, Research Assistant, Consumer
& Family Economics
Fact Sheet 8
1997
Consumer and
Family Economics
Department of Agricultural and
Consumer Economics
University
of Illinois Extension
University
of Illinois Urbana-Champaign