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Monthly Thrifty Shopping List for Summer

This shopping list will provide for a thrifty, healthy, and delicious diet for a family of four, using prices from August 2009. Shop from this grocery list to make all the meals shown on the menu plan for a month. Or use it as a starting point for your own menu plan and a price check for products at the store. The sizes that go with the prices given are shown, but of course get the best deal you can. Summer produce still being harvested while the temperatures cool, so use this list as long as you can get ripe tomatoes and melons. For me, that means July through October.

This list was created with price in mind to help keep you on your food budget. Regardless of price, no items contain high-fructose corn syrup or transfats.

Click here to open the Cook for Good Thrifty Shopping List.

Related lists

Compare this list to the green shopping list. The lists are nearly the same, with these changes from thrifty to green:

• Fresh lemons replace bottled lemon juice
• One pound of Yellow Indian Woman Beans replaces a pound of kidney beans. The Yellow Indian Woman Beans which are fun and delicious but may be hard to get

One of the keys to good thrifty eating is to buy seasonally. Compare this list to the spring and winter lists.

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The grocery list is in a PDF format. Most computers already have a PDF reader, but if you don't, please download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.