Do you write a shopping list?

Graces7 · 26-07-2018 12:48PM

My first stop in any supermarket is the reduced section... After that I add the other needs...

Birneybau · 26-07-2018 01:05PM

What's happened to this place?

mahamageehad · 26-07-2018 01:43PM

Yup. I use the Wunderlist app and myself and himself can just as whenever we think of it and it’s always fairly up to date. I do hate that it doesn’t organize it neatly into sections though like freezer, fruit and veg. I also pack that way, I get a physical eye twitch when I see himself throwing a bottle of bleach in with fresh bread, a box of eyes and some frozen chicken wings. *twitch*

ablelocks · 26-07-2018 02:45PM

mahamageehad wrote: »

Yup. I use the Wunderlist app and myself and himself can just as whenever we think of it and it’s always fairly up to date. I do hate that it doesn’t organize it neatly into sections though like freezer, fruit and veg. I also pack that way, I get a physical eye twitch when I see himself throwing a bottle of bleach in with fresh bread, a box of eyes and some frozen chicken wings. *twitch*

twitch is right...although, you could just get a new non-twitchy eye from the box of eyes he brings home

Boom_Bap · 26-07-2018 02:48PM

We do, it's normally a list of the essentials. Then i'd always fill the space left in the trolley with ice cream and treats

I plan to get a chalk board for the kitchen, so that when we run out of something, say, tin foil, we jot it on the chalk board and snap a picture before going shopping. So we shouldn't come home from the shop thinking 'boll0x, forgot the f*cking tin foil' 3 weeks in a row

jimgoose · 26-07-2018 02:49PM

Yes, I use a handy little app on the phone called ColorNote to carry a couple of lists, one for groceries, another for odds-and-ends like new drain covers that need to be picked up, this sort of thing.

Malayalam · 26-07-2018 02:56PM

Boom_Bap wrote: »

We do, it's normally a list of the essentials. Then i'd always fill the space left in the trolley with ice cream and treats

I plan to get a chalk board for the kitchen, so that when we run out of something, say, tin foil, we jot it on the chalk board and snap a picture before going shopping. So we shouldn't come home from the shop thinking 'boll0x, forgot the f*cking tin foil' 3 weeks in a row

I am (was) a very listy person. Writing things down takes them off my mind. I used to have clutches of them for shopping, work, gardening and for random tasks to do - especially horrible admin stuff the kids still need me to do for them. Then I bought a whiteboard. For the discounted price of 2.50 my life has improved immeasurably. (I still take a list to the shops though

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jimgoose · 26-07-2018 03:02PM

Malayalam wrote: »

I am (was) a very listy person. Writing things down takes them off my mind. I used to have clutches of them for shopping, work, gardening and for random tasks to do - especially horrible admin stuff the kids still need me to do for them. Then I bought a whiteboard. For the discounted price of 2.50 my life has improved immeasurably. (I still take a list to the shops though )

I hear you. I'm an engineer too:

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How Soon Is Now · 26-07-2018 03:07PM

I have a pad on the fridge we write down whatever is needed for the following week or sooner.

I then plan up the weeks dinners in advance so I know what I need everyday and what need for shopping.

Saves money in long run and saves most the waste and clutter in presses and fridge / freezer.

I shop online for groceries which again saves me from buying random ****e I don't need.

If I need anything there and then I just fly down to dunnes but its normally only small stuff.

Malayalam · 26-07-2018 03:08PM

jimgoose wrote: »

I hear you. I'm an engineer too:

Hehe.

Over-prepared, eh? Recently I wrote a long email to someone I am going to do a project with working through a list of things to be covered. He wrote me a one-line reply - ''How about we just let it rip?'' Hahaha, that put me in my place (but..nonetheless.. I WILL be prepared. Somebody's got to be.

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freshpopcorn · 26-07-2018 03:11PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

How can it be an extra or not if you don't have a list? If you see something and decide you need it is that an extra or not?

Some people tell they need a list or they'll buy a load of extras.
This isn't the case for me.

freshpopcorn · 26-07-2018 03:12PM

jester77 wrote: »

You must have great memory, no way I'd remember all the ingredients I need for most of the recipes I cook.

Fairly good.

facehugger99 · 26-07-2018 03:54PM

A kitchen blackboard is great. You can get backboard paint and put one straight on the wall.

Not only is it handy for writing stuff like 'self-raising flour' and 'clingfilm', but you can use to leave passive-aggressive notes for your husband if you're a woman.

Steve F · 26-07-2018 04:02PM

finla wrote: »

Don't you just hate it when they change all the stuff around on the shelves....

On-line shopping/click and collect anyone? :P

jimgoose · 26-07-2018 04:04PM

facehugger99 wrote: »

A kitchen blackboard is great. You can get backboard paint and put one straight on the wall.

Not only is it handy for writing stuff like 'self-raising flour' and 'clingfilm', but you can use to leave passive-aggressive notes for your husband if you're a woman.

Or Kiwi Bloke Love-Letters, e.g. "Git some bladdy bog-roll, Oi've got dag!!". :pac:

Stigura · 26-07-2018 05:32PM

Mine:

I go to town once a week. If that black book isn't in my pocket, I'd be standing in the middle of Main Street, wondering what the hell I was there for

Malayalam · 26-07-2018 05:51PM

Stigura wrote: »

Mine:

I go to town once a week. If that black book isn't in my pocket, I'd be standing in the middle of Main Street, wondering what the hell I was there for

Black Stuff ???

Several times. Intriguing.....

bee06 · 26-07-2018 06:00PM

We make a list of the stuff we don’t buy every week. We also have to shop together because we both make a balls of it separately. I forget important staple ingredients and my husband buys the most random unneeded stuff to try and get to 100 Euro for the Dunnes shop and save and way over spends then.

26-07-2018 06:21PM

I love lists, I have lists and schedules for everything and auto reminders set up for all sorts of stuff and I'm so organized I make myself sick with how smug I am at being so organized and smug. There are no loo roll or milk shortages in my house, oh no. Never happens.

I make lists for groceries and I get everything on the list, but then I go off-piste and bring home all kinds of stuff that looks delicious or useful, but usually isn't. But sometimes is.

Stigura · 26-07-2018 06:24PM

Malayalam wrote: »

Black Stuff ??? Several times. Intriguing.....

Funnily enough; I had a feeling that would happen!

It's hellishly 'An Aquired Taste'. But, I wouldn't drink tea with anything else in it now

26-07-2018 06:24PM

Stigura wrote: »

Mine:

I go to town once a week. If that black book isn't in my pocket, I'd be standing in the middle of Main Street, wondering what the hell I was there for

Is the black stuff dark matter?

Or Guinness?

26-07-2018 06:28PM

Stigura wrote: »

Funnily enough; I had a feeling that would happen! It's hellishly 'An Aquired Taste'. But, I wouldn't drink tea with anything else in it now

My grandfather always had a tablespoon of molasses a day for the vitamins and minerals and he would let me have a big spoonful for myself. I loved turning the spoon round and round, trying to get some to part with the rest.

Malayalam · 26-07-2018 06:30PM

Stigura wrote: »

Funnily enough; I had a feeling that would happen! It's hellishly 'An Aquired Taste'. But, I wouldn't drink tea with anything else in it now

Darn! That's far too sensible an explanation.

Stigura · 26-07-2018 06:56PM

Malayalam wrote: »

Darn! That's far too sensible an explanation.

Quirky bit is; I used to catch and photograph moths. (Yeah. Ye know; There's not a Lot of 'Night Life' out here! :P) And, there's one whack off big thing that they lure in by smearing molasses on a gate post .....

Then, I woke up, one day to find I was out of sugar! Hells teeth! €20.00 taxi trip into town; Or Think .....

I dimly recollected people had used molasses as a sweetener ..... It hit me like a truck, at first. But, by the end of the jar? I never looked back!

And That, children, is how I met ye mother! :pac:

Malayalam · 26-07-2018 07:42PM

Stigura wrote: »

Quirky bit is; I used to catch and photograph moths. (Yeah. Ye know; There's not a Lot of 'Night Life' out here! :P) And, there's one whack off big thing that they lure in by smearing molasses on a gate post .....

Then, I woke up, one day to find I was out of sugar! Hells teeth! €20.00 taxi trip into town; Or Think .....

I dimly recollected people had used molasses as a sweetener ..... It hit me like a truck, at first. But, by the end of the jar? I never looked back!

And That, children, is how I met ye mother! :pac:

Haha ya weirdo

(And there was I thinking you were trading the spuds for opium...)

27-07-2018 01:33PM

Boom_Bap wrote: »

We do, it's normally a list of the essentials. Then i'd always fill the space left in the trolley with ice cream and treats

I plan to get a chalk board for the kitchen, so that when we run out of something, say, tin foil, we jot it on the chalk board and snap a picture before going shopping. So we shouldn't come home from the shop thinking 'boll0x, forgot the f*cking tin foil' 3 weeks in a row

That's my method!! It works well for me.

kylith · 27-07-2018 01:58PM

Meal plan for the week Sunday lunchtime, then shop for the week. It’s stopped me from having a fridge full of gone off bits and no actual food. Saves money and hassle in the long run.

freshpopcorn · 27-07-2018 02:43PM

kylith wrote: »

Meal plan for the week Sunday lunchtime, then shop for the week. It’s stopped me from having a fridge full of gone off bits and no actual food. Saves money and hassle in the long run.

I suppose we sort of do this but we'd do it in our heads in the shop.

kylith · 27-07-2018 03:06PM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I suppose we sort of do this but we'd do it in our heads in the shop.

I like to have it all down, then I can make a list of what the recipes need, cross off what we have, and the rest is the shopping list.

Can come in handy to have it written down. I was humming and hawing about what to have last night and himself went ‘what’s on the menu for today?’ And that was it: the decision was out of my hands.

freshpopcorn · 27-07-2018 03:10PM

kylith wrote: »

I like to have it all down, then I can make a list of what the recipes need, cross off what we have, and the rest is the shopping list.

Can come in handy to have it written down. I was humming and hawing about what to have last night and himself went ‘what’s on the menu for today?’ And that was it: the decision was out of my hands.

I don't really decided on dinners until I get to the supermarket/butchers. I like to see what's on offer/fresh.
I know all the spices/ingredients I have in my cubbords tough.

Do you write a shopping list?

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