Smart Shopping:
Getting the Most for Your Food Dollar
CHOOSE FOOD WITH LESS PACKAGING
TO SAVE MONEY
- Packaging protects food but adds to the cost.
- Some foods such as fruits come in their own packaging.
- Most foods need some packaging to stay clean and safe.
- Do not buy food in packages that have been opened or damaged.
- If you have a choice, choose food with less packaging.
- Bulk foods are sold in bins and often cost less because they do not have packaging.
- Bulk foods need to be put into storage containers at home.
Prepared by Ellen Burton, Extension Educator, Consumer & Family
Economics
Fact Sheet 9
1997
Consumer and
Family Economics
Department of Agricultural and
Consumer Economics
University
of Illinois Extension
University
of Illinois Urbana-Champaign