Fruit 'n' Veg Week 2008

Tuesday 24 November 2009

While fruit and vegies start out as a plant in an orchard or market garden, they can end up in all sorts of ways in the supermarket. Check out the different ways that fruit and vegetables are sold. Look at the prices. See how they are packaged and promoted. Does this make a difference to the price?

Next time you are shopping at the supermarket with the family do some sleuthing by using the Kilo-Cent$ Counter.

Use the Kilo-Cent$ Counter to find the price of food per kilogram.

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	When checking the price, round off to the nearest 50 cents. For example, if the price is $3.78 say the price is $4.00


	When checking the weight, round off to the nearest 50 grams. For example, if the weight on the packet is 475 grams say the weight is 500 grams


	Find the rounded price across the top of the Kilo-Cent$ Counter. Then move down this column until you are level with the rounded weight shown in the column on the right. The square you land on is the price per kilo. In this example, for a food that is $4.00 for 500 grams its cost is $8.00 per kilo. If this is difficult ask an adult to show you.

Check the price per kilo of the following foods – you might be surprised.
• potatoes, frozen potato chips, potato crisps.
• tomatoes, canned tomatoes, pasta sauce in a jar
• Nutri-grain, Coco-pops, Weetbix, rolled oats
• steak, baked beans
• chocolate biscuits, bread
• oranges, apples, fruit roll-ups, chocolate

Now check the price per kilo of some of your own favourite foods. What have you found?