Smart Shopping:
Getting the Most for Your Food Dollar
COMPARE UNIT PRICES TO FIND
THE BEST BUY
- Unit prices tell you the cost of one unit, such as an ounce.
- Find unit price labels on the shelf edge right under the package.
- Use unit prices to compare costs of different brands of the same food.
- Unit pricing makes it easy to compare the prices of different sizes of the same brand.
- Use unit prices to compare different forms (such as fresh, canned, or frozen) of the same food.
- Choose the food that has the lowest price per unit to save money.
- Check unit price labels often because prices change.
Prepared by Barbara Cooper, Extension Educator, Consumer & Family
Economics
Fact Sheet 6
1997
Consumer and
Family Economics
Department of Agricultural and
Consumer Economics
University
of Illinois Extension
University
of Illinois Urbana-Champaign