A Healthier You - My Shopping List(PDF|74.1 KB) DHHS. Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Make a healthy foods shopping list, based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005.
Beware of 8 Food Shopping Mistakes(PDF|8 KB) Food and Health Communications. This checklist is designed to help you avoid eight common pitfalls of food shopping. Includes label reading exercise.
Cheap and Healthy Shopping List(PDF|64 KB) Food and Health Communications. This handout includes a list of inexpensive, healthy items to purchase in the grocery store and 9 strategies for saving money that are often overlooked. Also includes tips to plan meals on the go.
Creating Top-Notch Menus University of Georgia Cooperative Extension Service. Provides tips to create menus with balance, variety and moderation.
Eat Well for Less Web based Learning: Stretching Food Dollars Oregon State University. Extension Service. Web based learning module providing tips and instructions to participants on basic food resource management which include "Strategies at Home" and "Strategies at the Store."
Freezing Sandwiches University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension. Freezing sandwiches in advance can help you save time and money. This fact sheet reviews ingredients that DO and DO NOT freeze well and provides simple frozen sandwich recipes.
Ideas for Planning Thrifty Menus(PDF|177 KB) The University of Maine Cooperative Extension This 4-page fact sheet includes specific suggestions and recipe substitutions to help you stick to your food budget.
Learning for Better Living
Meal Planning: Stretching Your Dollar(PDF|108 KB) University of Missouri. Human Environmental Sciences Extension. This short handout, available in both English and Spanish, entails several suggestions to help stretch money used for food as well as propose simple ways to save at the supermarket.
Managing Your Food Money(PDF|510 KB) University of Wisconsion Extension. Wisconsin Nutrition Education Program. An envelope is used to keep family money set aside for food. In the activity, small groups use this "envelope method" to keep track of a cash and SNAP benefits (paper or electronic) allotted for food. "Shopping cards" give various situations in which the groups must decide when the food money/SNAP Benefits should be used to purchase food and non-food items. Discussion questions are also included. Material uses a previous version of the Food Guide Pyramid.
Meal Planning and Shopping (PDF|161 KB) South Carolina LINC
Program. One page handout discusses easy steps to meal planning, tips for grocery shopping, and how to save money at the store.
My Food Shopping List(PDF|511 KB) Kansas State University. Blank shopping list categorized according to MyPyramid sections. Also contains food shopping tips.
