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[quote=Anonymous]My grocery shopping list falls into three buckets: meal planning, a standard list of weekly staples, and stock items that we always have around.

Stock items:  I keep a running grocery list on the fridge. I've finally trained the whole family - even my kids - when an item starts getting low (not out - but low enough that they expect to use it up within a week), add it to the list if they want more.  I go shopping once a week. If it's not on the list, I don't know to buy it.  So whoever notices that we're running low on butter, crackers, salad dressing, etc adds it to the list.  If something runs out with nobody putting it on the list, then I guess nobody cares whether it gets replenished or not.  If someone wants more after it runs out, we'll live without it until my next grocery run.

Meal planning: I do this once a week, but I agree with a PP that you could start with 3-4 days at a time.  Once I have the meal plan, I check the kitchen for all of the ingredients, and add whatever we need to the running list.

Then there are all the perishables that we restock every week: milk, lettuce and other salad veggies, fruit, etc.  Those used to go on the list, but now I know them well enough that I just shop by habit.

Last piece of advice is to organize the list by location in the grocery store, rather than by meal.  Put all of the produce in one section, all dairy together, all bread products together, etc.  It makes shopping much easier, less running around the store and less likely to miss things.  This makes it much more likely that I'll actually have everything in my cart when I go to check out.[/quote]

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