Replacing HD With SSD, Need To Install OS X (Not Clone Old HD) On New SSD

Hello All!!
I am getting a new Samsung 830 series 256GB SSD today which I am going to put in my 2011 (late year) MacBook Pro 15". I would like to put the new SSD in with a fresh installation of OS X (I don't want to clone my old hard drive). Can anyone please outline the steps to do this or put a link to a web page that explains it in nice simple terms?
I have tried searching around but I can't seem to find any page that is helpful. I did find one website that explained how to put the OS X on a USB flash drive. They said to download OS X from the App Store but when I checked it was like $27. I don't want to pay for a newer version of OS X I just want to put a fresh install of the version I already have (10.7.5) on the new SSD.
Thank you!

Believe it or not, a clone of your old boot drive onto a blank powered, Disk Utility formatted GUID / OS X Extended (Journaled )external drive is the safest choice.
This gives you something to boot the computer with in case of trouble with the SSD, when formatting it and reverse cloning everything back on.
I know what you said, you want a clean install of OS X. However in 10.7 and later to install OS X fresh needs the Recovery HD partiton to be booted from, on the boot drive, to download 10.7 from Apple's servers.
So the object here is to clone your old boot drive clone to the formatted SSD of everything, OS X and Recovery Partition (plus any Apple hidden gems), then when that's completed, later boot into Recovery HD and wipe just the Macintosh HD partiton clean and clean install OS X there again.
There is only one software that can do this and it's Carbon Copy Cloner. Superdupes can't clone Recovery HD.
Just use the CCC's default setting to clone one drive to another. Hold the option key down while booting  to enter Startup Manager, where you can select which drive you want to boot from.
To first format any blank or soon ot be overwrtitten drive, use Disk Utility to select the entire drive and Partition: Options: GUID and OS X ext. jorun., as the format.
To erase the Macnitosh HD partition, hold command r boot from the SSD to enter Recovery HD and select the Macintosh HD partiton in Disk Utility to erase it. Then quit and floow the instructions to reinstall 10.7 fresh from Apple's servers.
There is plenty of good info here
https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro?view=documents

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