Grocery Shopping
and
Meal Planning

Follow the steps below to complete your grocery shopping and meal planning project.

Open a new Clarisworks word processing document and name it Daily Food Requirements. Use the sites listed below to do some research about minimum daily requirements, the food pyramid, and calories. Record your notes in your document "Daily Food Requirements". Use your research to write a two-page paper about what it means to eat well.
Read Young Moneyn's Saving Money at the Grocery Store.
Download the Excel spreadsheet, Grocery List, then fill in the columns to buy a week's groceries for four people. Each subdivison of groceries has a maximum number of servings for that group of foods. Try to reach that maximum number when buying your food. At the same time, be aware of cost and don't overspend. Use the spreadsheet to calculate subtotals and a total cost for the week.
After completing the spreadsheet, download the worksheet, Planning a Menu. Using the foods you bought in Grocery List, complete a menu including breakfast, lunch, and dinner for the week.
Be sure to save all your work.
When your project is complete, print a copy to turn in. Remember to show your "best work".

To see a real on-line grocery shopping experience, look at Albertson's, NetGrocer, Peapod, or WholeFoods.

To get your personal nutritional profile and daily food planner, look at Cyberdiet.

Last update: 23 February 2007