If every household started spending just $10 per week
of their current grocery budget on locally grown foods,
we’d keep more than $37 million each week circulating within Michigan’s economy.
Fact supplied by the Michigan Dept of Agriculture
of their current grocery budget on locally grown foods,
we’d keep more than $37 million each week circulating within Michigan’s economy.
Fact supplied by the Michigan Dept of Agriculture
You do make a difference by purchasing foods and products grown, processed or produced in Michigan (many of them are on sale often!). Here’s just a sampling of some Michigan-based brands:
- Archway Cookies
- Aunt Mid’s Produce
- Aunt Millie’s Bread and Buns
- Bob Evans Sausage
- Cole’s Garlic Bread
- Country Fresh Dairy Products
- Eggland’s Best Eggs
- Faygo
- Garden Fresh Tortilla Chips & Salsa
- Gerber
- Jiffy Baking Mixes
- Keebler Cookies & Crackers
- Kellogg’s Cereal
- Koegel Meats
- Kowalski Meats
- Litehouse Dips and Dressings
- Minute Maid
- Old Orchard Juice
- Pioneer Sugar
- Vernor’s
- Vlasic
- Welch’s
- Yoplait Yogurts
SHOP for Michigan-made products at a Michigan-based grocer and you can double the difference you’re making in Michigan’s economy!
- Busch’s
- Gordon Food Service
- Hiller’s
- Meijer
- Nino Salvaggio
- Randazzo
- VG’s
- Vince & Joe’s
Now it’s your turn to comment – Which are your favorite MICHIGAN-BASED BRANDS?
I just recently found out that Old Orchard is a Michigan based company and I am even more thrilled to purchase their products! This is a great article!
Two that I notcied are not on your list is Bell’s Beer and Kebbler. Whenever we have a party with beer we always buy Bell’s. Their resturant in Kalamazoo is AWESOME!!! And of course we LOVE Kebbler!
Hiller’s is awesome because they actually have signs by the Michigan made products in their stores, so you know when you are shopping.
I was under the impression that Bob Evans was based in Ohio? If not, then I feel that much better purchasing their products, as my children will not eat any other breakfast sausage.
Better Made Potato Chips is based in Detroit – on Gratiot, near French Rd. (just north of I-94)…that is my favorite Michigan brand. 🙂
Biggby coffee and Grand Traverse Pie Co! mmmmmmm
Quality Dairy
Better Made chips are the ONLY chips I eat!!! My husband often stops right into the store at the factory and buys them when he is out in Detroit for work
Mmmm Love Better Made Rainbow Chips. I’m so hooked on those!
I know you do not post Wal-mart and I rarely shop there, but if you do you will notice they have signs by the made in michigan products. I think all stores should do this it may sway people to buy locally.
Thank you for this! I always tell people one of the things I buy whether it is on sale or not, is Pioneer or Big Chief sugar, because they are made in MI! Many of the beets are grown near our home here in Saginaw county! I don’t mind paying a bit extra for sugar when I know the local beet farmers, whose kids go to the same schools as mine, are benefiting from it.
My brother grows sugar beets (but not in Saginaw County)!
El Matador tortilla chips are the only kind we like to buy and are made in Grand Rapids! They’re delicious!
Thanks for all the great brands! I always try to support local Michigan brands. Another thing I like to do is shop at local farmers market. They have a great farmers market in Flint that has one a few national contests recently!
This is perfect- my first grader’s class is having a Taste of Michigan event with all Michigan based foods! Shopping local is another great way to support your neighbors- most smaller stores are locally owned or your neighbors work there!
Do you mid if I share this list with my facebook group of coupon swappers? Great topic!
Absolutely, thanks for asking!
I shared this with my FB Friends! GREAT information.
A few years back my son did his 6th grade Social Studies Olympia on Michigan Made products & I was blown away by all the Michigan Made products. He took 1st Place & we have a whole list of Michigan Made products now.
http://www.buymichiganproducts.com/products/food-items/
Pretty sure that Flat Out Bread is from Saline, MI too!
Sure is – just down the street!
Does anyone know if Meijer brand food products are actually made in MI?
Guernsey Farms Dairy in Northville — milk, ice cream, yogurt. Just went to a Taste Fest there last weekend.
I don’t shop at Whole Foods often, primarily because it’s quite expensive, but they have those local signs up, too. Since they do carry so many brands of things that are regional, they can provide products from smaller companies. I bought some raw honey recently from a local farm (whose name I forget at the moment, unfortunately) at WF and it was definitely worth the extra money.
Another way to BOOST the economy while shopping at these Michigan companies is to PAY CASH for your purchases! Even if it means stopping at the ATM on the way, I pay cash as often as possible. Even if you use your debit card, these companies are hit with credit card processing fees for your purchase (which fees have to be passed on to consumers). That is why some gas stations give a discount for cash. If we all work together and start paying cash whenever possible, we can do our part to turn this mess around. 🙂
Thanks! I will make sure to do just that. I will buy more Michigan products!
And I shared it on fb!