Have you noticed that you always buy the same things over and over at the grocery store? I got an idea from a newspaper a while back (so sorry that I cannot credit the writer or the paper), to create a typed list containing all the things you tend to buy at the store. I thought about my grocery store and the way it is organized, and I created this grocery list divided into sections based on the aisles at my grocery store. My teenage son found the list in my computer and added items such as "dynamite" and "liquid nitrogen" at one point which made me laugh when I read that in the dairy section. I removed his creative additions, just because of space limitations. We keep a printed list stuck to our refrigerator all the time. When people say, "We're out of cream of tartar," I can tell them to circle it or write it on the list.
I took this concept a step further and noticed I am also making the same meals all the time, over and over. And so I created a list of about a dozen meals with all the ingredients needed, so that before I go to the store I have a plan. So we are transferring whatever we need from the meal list, onto the grocery list.
Maybe we need a master list of the list of lists. No, I think we're good. A little planning like this helps you not buy a bunch of random stuff that you don't need, and prevents you from being in the middle of making spaghetti sauce only to realize you need tomato paste.
I took this concept a step further and noticed I am also making the same meals all the time, over and over. And so I created a list of about a dozen meals with all the ingredients needed, so that before I go to the store I have a plan. So we are transferring whatever we need from the meal list, onto the grocery list.
Maybe we need a master list of the list of lists. No, I think we're good. A little planning like this helps you not buy a bunch of random stuff that you don't need, and prevents you from being in the middle of making spaghetti sauce only to realize you need tomato paste.
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