• Using a shopping list can help you stretch your money.
• Before you make your list, check what food you already have at home.
• Check grocery ads for sales and specials and plan your meals around those items.
• Plan meals for at least a week.
• Put foods together on your list the way they are arranged in the store.
• Put refrigerated and frozen foods last on your list.
• When you get to the store, stick to your list!

Prepared by Evelyn Prasse, Extension Educator, Consumer & Family Economics

Fact Sheet 1
1997

Consumer and Family Economics
Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics
University of Illinois Extension
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign