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Essential Guide to Grocery Shopping: Tips for Smart Food Buying

This guide covers the fundamentals of grocery shopping, including understanding food standards, unit pricing, and how to make informed decisions while shopping. Learn about staples with longer shelf lives, strategies to avoid impulse buying, and the importance of reading food labels. Discover how to compare prices effectively, choose seasonal fruits and vegetables, and utilize coupons wisely. With these tips, you can maximize your shopping efficiency while ensuring you buy quality products at the best prices.

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Essential Guide to Grocery Shopping: Tips for Smart Food Buying

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  1. Buying Food

  2. Standard of Identity • A federally regulated recipe • Define what a food product is, its name and what ingredients must or may be included in it

  3. Consumer • Anyone who buys/uses good and services

  4. Staples • Foods that last a fairly long time and are not bought often • Sugar • Salt • Flour • Spices • Coffee/tea

  5. Unit Price • The cost per ounce or pound of a product • Price divided by units = unit price • 12 oz can of coke for 60 cents • 60/12=5 cents per ounce

  6. Grocery Shopping • Make a list • (won’t forget things—less impulse buying) • Don’t shop when you’re hungry • (impulse buying) • Read advertisements • Use coupons wisely • Plan menu

  7. Read labels • Compare prices (unit prices) • Consider what the food will be used for • The more done to a food, the more it costs (cut up or deboned chicken costs more than a whole chicken) • Buy fruits and veggies in season • (when they are ripe in this area—cost less)

  8. Know the layout of the grocery store • (get refrigerated and frozen items last) • Don’t buy damaged products • Be aware of grocery store advertising • (end of aisle displays, check-out counter displays, samples, etc)

  9. Food Labels MUST tell you: • Common name • Form • Weight of contents (net weight) • Name and address • List of ingredients (in order of amount) • Nutrition facts • UPC symbol (bar code)

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