SHOPPING FOR FOOD-CHPT 12

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Shopping for Food

CHAPTER 12

Discover

•How to plan your
food shopping
•How to use food
labels
•How to shop wisely

Key Terms

•Processing
•Enriched
•Fortified

Key Terms

•Impulse buying
•Unit price
•generic

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

How can you
make the most
of your time
and money
when you shop
for food?

Plan Your Food shopping

•Consider Your Budget
•When Will You shop
•Where will you Shop
•What will you Buy

Plan Your Food Shopping

•Before you shop, you need to make
several important decisions
•How much can you spend
•Where and when will you shop
•What will you buy

Consider your Budget

•Most families decide on a specific
amount to spend on food each
month
•Before going shopping, talk with
family members about your food
budget

Consider your Budget

•The cost of food depends on
many factors
•Some of these are the weather,
the time of year, and the costs of
packaging and transportation
•Many nutritious foods are
inexpensive

Consider your Budget

•By planning carefully, you can have
appealing and nutritious meals
on a limited budget
•The shopping strategies you will
learn later in this presentation
can also help you get the most for
your money

When Will You Shop

•Avoid shopping when you’re
hungry
•Hungry shoppers often buy more
food than they need to
•Try to shop when the store isn’t
crowded

When Will You Shop

•How often you buy food depends
on your schedule and the amount
of storage space you have at
home
•Making many trips to the store
during the week takes extra time
and energy
•Plan ahead and make one major
shopping trip

Where Will You Shop

•Supermarkets-

•have a great variety of foods
attractively displayed
•May offer extra services

•Discount or warehouse Stores

•Similar to supermarkets
•Food displayed in cardboard
boxes
•Prices are usually lower

Where will you Shop

•Co-ops

•Require a membership fee
•Buys food in large quantities
•Sells at low prices to members

•Convenience Stores

•Smaller than supermarkets
•Usually more expensive

Where Will You Shop

•Compare food stores in your area
•Choose a store that’s clean

•Sells good quality food
•Offers a good selection

•Decide whether you’re willing to
pay more for convenience and
service

What Will You Buy?

•Suppose you want to buy fruit.

•Think about the processing

•Fresh
•Caned
•dried

•Processing - all the steps taken to
prepare and package food for
sale

What Will You Buy?

•Foods are processed for several
reasons such as:
•To make them safer to eat or drink
•To make them easier to use
•To lengthen the time they can be stored

What Will You Buy?

•Foods are processed for several
reasons such as:
•To add nutrients or put nutrients back
that have been lost means to:
•Enrich
•Fortify
•To turn the food into a particular
product. Eg wheat to flour or cereal

Convenience Foods

•Foods that have been processed to
make them more convenient to
store or use
•Choices range from

•canned tomato sauce
• mashed-potato mix
•Complete frozen meal

Convenience Foods

•When you are busy, convenience
foods offer speed and simple
preparation. Also consider:
•As food is processed, it loses nutrients.
Check labels to compare nutritional value
of foods
•Most convenience foods are high in
sodium, sugar and fat
•Convenience foods often cost more.
Compare prices

Convenience Foods

•It’s fine to use some convenience
foods, as long as you choose
wisely. However, if most of the
foods you eat are highly
processed, it may be difficult to
follow the Dietary Guidelines.
You need other foods, such as
fresh fruits and vegetables, for
good health.

MAKE A LIST

•Making a shopping list is one of the
most important steps in buying
food. A list helps you to:
•Plan the meals and snacks you are
going to have
•As you plan, consider what foods
you already have and need to use
up. Check newspaper ads to see
what foods are on sale

MAKE A LIST

•Use your plan to make a list of the
foods you need to buy
•Check your supply of staples—basic
foods that you always keep on hand,
such as milk and flour. Add them to
the list if needed
•If you clip and save coupons, look
through them to find any you may
be able to use on this trip

ORGANIZE YOUR LIST

•An orderly list helps speed your
shopping

•Group items on your list according to
the areas of the store, such as:
• Grocery section-canned, bottled, boxed, and
packaged foods that an be stored at room
temperature

• Bulk foods-unpackaged grocery items kept in
large bins. You use a scoop to put the amount
you want into a bag. Foods such as flour, dry
beans, and dried frits may be sold this way

ORGANIZE YOUR LIST

• Produce-fresh vegetables and fruits
• Refrigerated cases-dairy products, juices,
and fresh meat, poultry and fish

• Frozen foods-all types
• Delicatessen(delli)-hot and cold ready-to eat
foods

UNDERSTANDING FOOD LABELS

•Imagine a food store where all
the items come in plain brown
wrappers without labels of any
kind. How would you know
what to buy? It’s a good thing
food packages have label
information to help you make
wise purchases

What’s On A Food Label?

•Food labels give you valuable information
for making wise food choices Herer is
some of the information you’ll find on a
typica label:
•Description-Helps you make sure you’re
getting the product you want. E.g. do you
want “whole green beans” or “cut green
beans”? The picture on the label can help
you
•Quantity- Often given as a net weight—the
weight of the food itself, not including the
package

What’s On A Food Label?

•Nutrition Facts-Helps you choose
foods that make up a healthful diet.
•Ingredients-Listed by weight, from
most to least. Reading the
ingredients list can help you avoid
foods you don’t want or can’t eat
•Manufacturer or distributor-the
name and address of the company
that makes or distributes the
product

What’s On A Food Label?

•Directions-tell you how to store or
prepare the food
•UPC symbol-”UPC” stands for
UNIVERSAL PRODUCT CODE. It’s
used with computerized checkout
systems. A scanner “reads” the bars
to identify the item. The price is
then rung up automatically

Using « NUTRITION » FACTS

•Most processed foods have a “Nutrition
Facts” panel that looks like this one. Here’s
how to use “Nutritional facts” to make
healthful food choices.
•Serving Information-Start by checking this
area. All the nutrition information given is
for one serving of the size shown. Is the
amount you’ll eat the same as the serving
size given? If not, you’ll need to do some
math as you read the label. For instance, if
you eat 1 up of green beans, that’s really
two servings. You’ll get twice as many
calories as shown and twice as much of all
the nutrients listed

Using « NUTRITION » FACTS

•Calorie Information-shows the number of
calories in one serving of the food. Also
tells you haw many of those calories come
from fat
•Nutrient amounts-shows how much of
each of these nutrients you’ll get from one
serving of the food. The amounts are
measured in grams(g) or milligrams (mg)
•Vitamins and Minerals-shows the percent
daily value for four of the vitamins and
minerals you need each day

Using « NUTRITION » FACTS

•Percent Daily values-The numbers in this
column can help you decide how the food
fits into a healthful eating plan. You might
not know whether 2 grams of dietary fiber
is a lot or a little. This column tells you
that it’s 8 percent of what the average
person needs each day

•For fat, saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol,
and sodium, a low percent daily value is
your goal. Reading labels can help you
avoid getting too much of these nutrients

Using « NUTRITION » FACTS

•Percent Daily values- For total
carbohydrate, dietary fiber, vitamins,
and minerals, a high Percent Daily
Value is your goal. You want your day’s
food choices to add up to 100% of the
Daily Value for these nutrients
•Percent Daily Values explanation-This
information is the same on all nutrition
labels. It tells what nutrient amounts
were used to calculate the Perceent
Daily Values given

Using « NUTRITION » FACTS

•As you read the Nutrition Facts panel,
remember—it’ your overall eating plan
that counts. You can’t expect just one
food to offer “perfect” nutrition. Some
foods may be short on vitamins or have
more fat than others. Go ahead and
enjoy those foods if you like. Just
balance them with other choices
throughout the day or over several days

LABEL LANGUAGE

OPEN DATING

•Some food packages have a date
stamped on them to help you know
whether the food is fresh
•For example, the package may say “sell
by May 31” or “best if used by June 8.”
•This is called open dating. Look for it on
foods such as dairy products, bakery
items, and grocery items

OPEN DATING

•Open dating can’t guarantee the
quality of the product.
•Quality is affected by the way the
food has been handled and stored
•For example, if fresh milk is stored
at too warm a temperature, it may
lose quality before the date stamped
on the package

Your Shopping Trip

•When you get to the store, follow
your shopping list. Keep your
plan flexible. Look for
unadvertised specials that could
save you money. Avoid
•IMPULSE BUYING-buying an
item you don’t need just
because it seems appealing at
the moment

Using Unit Prices

•In many stores, you will se unit
prices posted near items
•Unit price- is the cost per ounce,
pound, item, or other unit of
measure.
•Eg: A can of pineapple weighing 8
ounces might cost 56cents. The
unit price would be 7 cents per
ounce

Using Unit Prices

•Unit prices make it easier to compare the
cost of items especially those that come
in different size packages.

•If the store doesn’t give the unit price,
you can figure it out yourself.

•Divide the price of the item by the
number of ounces(or other units)
•Do the same for other brands or
sizes. Then compare the unit
price for each.

COMPARISON SHOPPING

•You can find the best values using
comparison shopping.
•Compare the unit prices and nutrition of:
•Different forms of food-Fresh green
beans may be a better buy than frozen
one week. At another time of the year the
reverse may be true.
•Different brands-Name brands are
nationally advertised. The price you pay
for the food includes the cost of
advertising.

COMPARISON SHOPPING

•Different brands-You can often save
money by buying products with the
store’s own brand name. GENERIC
products, which have a plain label, are
even less expensive

•Different sizes-Larger sizes often have a
lower unit price than smaller sizes, but
not always. Besides the unit price, also
consider whether you will actually use
the larger amount before it spoils. If not,
you waste food and money

CHOOSING QUALITY FOODS

•Always buy food that’s in good condition.
Poor quality food wastes money. Here
are some general guidelines:
•Avoid containers that are
damaged in any way. Give
damaged containers to a clerk
•Be sure refrigerated items feel
cold when you buy them

CHOOSING QUALITY FOODS

• Be sure frozen food packages are frozen
hard. Ice crystals may mean that the food
has thawed and refrozen
• Buy refrigerated and frozen foods last.
Otherwise they’ll start to get warm as you
shop
• Be considerate. Don’t block traffic by
leaving your cart in the middle of the
aisle

CHOOSING QUALITY FOODS

• Handle food carefully so you don’t
damage it. If you choose an item and then
change your mind, put it back where it
belongs
• Don’t open packages. If packages of meat
or produce contain more than you want,
ask a store clerk for help
• Put raw meat and poultry packages in a
plastic bag. That will help keep the
juices, which may contain harmful germs,
from dripping on other foods in your cart

AFTER SHOPPING

•After shopping, bring the
food home immediately
and store it. If you do
errands on your way
home, food may begin to
lose its quality. For
instance, frozen food may
start to thaw.