Food

Grocery shopping with your family can be fun.

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Many families take their children to the store when shopping. The grocery store is a great place to practice English. You and your children can read the labels together.

The back of food packages will have information on the ingredients. Other packages will provide expiration dates. What does expire mean?

  Watch this video for some tips on how to shop with your children.

Below is a Read Aloud Activity on Grocery Coupons:

Shoppers use coupons to save money. The Sunday newspaper has many food coupons. You can cut the coupons out and take them to the grocery store.

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Here’s how to use food coupons:

  1. Make a list of what you need to buy at the grocery store.
  2. Look for coupons in newspapers, magazines, on the Internet, and in stores.
  3. Organize the coupons according to product type or date of expiration. Take them to the store with you.  (Did you figure out what expire means? An expiration date means that food will not be good to eat after the date on the package.)
  4. When you go to the checkout stand, give the coupons to the cashier.

A family that uses coupons will save about $5.20 to $9.60 per week.  That is $270 to $499 per year. Wow!