Grocery List

Soultemptress
Soultemptress Posts: 18 Member
edited May 20 in Getting Started

How do I create a grocery list without creating a meal/meal plan? I just want to add items to a list for next shopping trip.

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  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,496 Member
    edited May 20

    I plan out my meals a week in advance, putting it on a “note” in my phone, check the pantry and freezer and create a grocery list on the same phone note. (That way it never gets left at home plants easy to scroll down to refer to the meal plan.)

    This is my meal plan for the rest of this week, as well as some wants? And a few items I’ve run out of, or am fixing to:

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    I then add all meals to my food diary, pre-logging meals a week out.

    This removes the temptation to buy things not on my meal plan, that I might binge on. (Looking at you, ginger crisps and Sardinian puffed crackers that magically made it in my basket last week!)

    It also helps to have a filling meal or snack before you go grocery shopping, so you don’t yield to the temptation of the flat of ginger crisps (I went late afternoon, hadn’t had a snack and was weak. I ended up throwing half the flat out to save myself any more heartache.)


    anyway, as I add things to my basket, I simply delete them from the list.

    Easy peasy. A lot simpler than faffing around with the grocery store app shopping list or anything here.

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 36,489 Member

    I'm somewhat like Spring up there: I don't use MFP to generate a grocery list, and don't know that it's even possible outside of the meal planning feature.

    I do a variant of what she does. I don't pre-plan or pre-log meals. (Doing it can be a good thing; it's just not my style.)

    Instead, I've worked out and stocked a set of pantry items I can rely on, plus a range of foods I enjoy eating that are more perishable. On my phone, I have a checklist app (Colornote) that lists everything I might shop for. I built that list over time. Things I don't need to buy are crossed off in that app's list. When I pull the last of a standard pantry item off the shelf, I click the item in my list to remove the cross-off. Some of the standard perishable items work similarly, but more based on thinking what I'm running short of, down to a "time to get more" level. Others are on the list in categories ("fruits", say - if needed, I go buy a variety).

    At the store, I can sort my list by status, so the things that I need to buy are at the top. When I put the item(s) in my cart, I click the list to cross off what I'm buying.

    That process might not work for you, but it works well for me.

    There are actual apps designed for shopping lists, but none that I know of integrated with MFP. I was already using this app for other purposes, so it made sense to use it for my grocery lists, too. YMMV.

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