I'm not fond of grocery shopping. Since I live alone, I can postpone for quite awhile by doing the drive thru thing. But, of course, that's quite unhealthy and I feel bad about it. When I had a MUCH busier life, it was even more of a problem. Then as I was working on simplifying my life, I ran across a book that had a method I still use. I made a list of the items I regularly buy, and then I put them in the order that they are laid out in my grocery store. I did this task on the computer so that the list was stored in the data base.
Each week I decided on menus, checked to see what ingredients I would need, went to the master list and highlighted the things I needed and anything else that I needed - such as paper products - printed out that list and headed for the store. Since it was in order of the layout of the store, it took very little time to pick everything up - no back tracking. Also, I had already done a lot of the work only once. That simplification probably saved me an hour - maybe more - at the store. Since the list was thorough, I rarely had to go back to the store during the week. This method still works for me.
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