Make My Day Camp: Tip-sy Tuesday: Grocery List

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Tip-sy Tuesday: Grocery List

I posted about how we use a master grocery list back in '18 and we still use this exact system today. While tweaking it a tiny bit yesterday (I removed a couple things we don't really buy often anymore and added a couple new things) I thought I should share it again because it works so good for us. I keep a grocery list on my phone for when I'm at the store, but this paper list helps people in the house let me know when we are out of something - by people I mean Dave, and by 'we are out...' I mean he uses up things only he uses and then wonders why I didn't replace them hahaha. This way if he doesn't check the item or write it on this master list, then he has to wait until the next time I go to the store - I don't take the paper list with me very often, I transfer all the checked things to my phone list.

Original post from 2/18:

In the quest to be more organized and stop going to the grocery store every day - and also to stop writing things we need on little scraps of paper - I made this master grocery list of the regular things we buy and like to have on hand. When something is getting low or we run out, we just make a little check next to it - and after I make our weekly meal plan (I'm actually sticking to that, see the post about the new way I'm using my planner) I add what we need to this list before heading to the store. My goal is to cut down to twice a week trips and so far, so good.

I did this in Word, just use whatever word processing program you like. For our regular grocery needs I was able to list everything in 4 columns on a half sheet of regular paper (font is chalkboard, text size 8 for the body, 9 for the titles), after getting it like I wanted on the top half of the paper, I copied it and pasted on the bottom half of the paper. Then just cut the pages in half and clip to a small clipboard.