Food Shopping

Consuming Local Vegetables from Our Local Growers

Qingren Wang, Edward A. Evans, Margie Pikarsky, and Teresa Olczyk

This publication promotes local vegetable consumption by pointing out some of the advantages, benefits, and business opportunities associated with local vegetable production and consumption. The targeted audiences of this article are food crop producers, consumers, business managers, extension agents and specialists, and government policy makers. Minor revision of the UF/IFAS Horticultural Sciences Department, written by Qingren Wang, Edward A. Evans, Margie Pikarsky, and Teresa Olczyk; 5 pp.

US Food Shopper Trends in 2017

Lijun Angelia Chen and Lisa House

This study provides an overview of US food shoppers in 2017 and serves as a benchmark for policymakers and marketers of consumer food and beverage products for analyzing consumer trends in the future. A nationwide sample of 5,993 adults, all primary food shoppers in the United States, completed a survey in 2017 to learn about food-related perspectives and trends. Consumers differ in food shopping outlets, grocery spending, response to food price increases, food-related attitudes, food and beverage consumption patterns, and nutritional perceptions.

Join us for a Lunch-and-Learn Series in April: Invest in Your World, Invest in You

Shari Bresin

The Family and Consumer Sciences agents of the Southwest Florida District have a myriad of program expertise, and now they are coming together to share it in a free four-part virtual series. With Earth Day coming up, the agents tied in this year’s Earth Day theme, Invest in Our Planet, with the theme of investing […]

Grocery Shopping for Your Health: Shopping “green” is more than just saving money

In our last post in the “Grocery Shopping for Your Health” series, we looked at food safety, starting at the store. Today, in our final (planned) post in the series, we discuss shopping “green.” For our purposes, shopping “green” carries dual (though not dueling) definitions: 1) saving some money at the grocery store, and 2) […]

Grocery Shopping for Your Health: Food safety considerations that start at the store

In our last post in the “Grocery Shopping for Your Health” series, we focused on fish and seafood. Today, we’re talking about food safety, starting at the store. Grocery stores are diligent with following food safety protocol. We expect this high standard of food safety without really thinking about it. But, just as grocery stores […]