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Tuesday, October 30, 2007
A Workable Shopping List
For a long time I simply had a pad of paper on the refrigerator door where I wrote any grocery or other items that we needed to get when it came shopping day. This worked ok, but I found that when I or my husband did the shopping, the list was in no kind of order and it was easy to forget things that way. So...here was my solution:
Being the form/list maker that I am :) - I made up a form on the computer that included headings for the basic things that we shop for each week, listing them in the order that we would shop for these things in the store. In my word processing program I made the page landscape (sideways) and made three columns. This way I could get three lists on each page. I simply print out several pages of the lists, cut them apart, and put them on a little magnetic clipboard on our refrigerator.
Here is what my list looks like:
SHOPPING LIST
Personal Items/Office Items
Baby Items
Dry Goods/Canned Fruit & Veggies
Paper/Plastic/Cleaners
Baking Needs
Chips/Crackers/Breads
Fresh Produce
Refrigerated Items
Freezer Items
This has worked great for me! I keep it on the refrigerator through the week, adding things as I think of them or as we run out of them during the week. Then on Thursdays when I make our menus, I take the list down and add all the items I need for our menu for the next week, and also any non-food items. Once that is done, it goes back on the clipboard until shopping time! I hope this helps someone! |
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