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National Food Service Management Institute Section 3: Grocery List 1
Section 3: Grocery List (Step 2)
Food Purchasing for Child Care Centers
The purpose of section 3 is to introduce Step 2 in the food purchasing process. Step 2 is developing a grocery list. Lesson Introduction
- Emphasize that developing the
grocery list is time-consuming, but it is an important step to purchasing success. Note: Use the six tennis balls described under “Materials and Supplies” on page 33 for the following activity.
- Take the six tennis balls and
attempt to juggle them. Then, throw them one by one to different participants and ask the participants to catch them. After you have thrown all six balls, ask those who caught them to read aloud the label on the ball.
- Point out that a person must juggle
the six things labeled on the balls— menus, recipes, the list for standard stock and yearly items, the list for menu items, a calculator, and pen and paper—when making the grocery list.
- The best way to juggle all these is
to break up the task of making the grocery list into two parts:
- (1) making the list of items
needed and
- (2) estimating the quantities.