New Ultimatest Grocery Lists: Deluxe v3.0 and Vegetarian!

Yeah, finally. We updated the original list and built a brand new one for all y’all non-meat-eaters.

Shop Smart: The Ultimatest Grocery List in Woman’s Day magazine

Everyone loves this grocery list.

The Wall Street Journal: Want to Save? Put It on the List

The Ultimatest Grocery List, a downloadable PDF shopping list that I made for the book and have available at grocerylists.org, made it into the sidebar on this Wall Street Journal story about the economy and making lists:
You know times are hard when the shopping list makes a comeback.
As the recession takes hold, consumers who used [...]

BOODSCHAPPENLIJSTJES!

OK, I know I need to get back into a groove posting things here. So. This is a start: Check out these collections of shopping lists from the Netherlands!

Food. Lists. Shoulds. Shouldn’ts.

Here’s a mini-round-up of some recently published lists of recommended foods to eat.

The 11 Best Foods You Aren’t Eating

The 20 Healthiest Foods for Under $1

Eight foods you should eat every day

Ostrich, and the 7 other foods you should be eating

The 29 Healthiest Foods on the Planet

On a semi-related note (how not to eat), I just [...]

An amazing new book about grocery lists

So there used to be, like, no fun or interesting books about grocery stores and grocery store… stuff. Then Julian Montague released his amazing and comprehensive “The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification” in 2006. A marvelous achievement! Have you seen it?
And in 2007 I submitted my own opus, [...]

knotler.com – your web and mobile shopping list

“Ok, you can stop writing down your shopping lists on PostIts while listening to your wife’s instructions over the phone. Meet knotler.com – a truly easy, mobile and free online shopping list service… Think of it as a shopping list hosting service. You create your list – we serve it to your computers, PDAs, mobile [...]

Something cool for geeks with grocery lists

“Grocery List is a web based (PHP) frontend set up to maintain a list of items in a MySQL database backend. Grocery List was developed with the goal of being included in a kitchen computer project. The feature that sets Grocery List apart from other similar projects is that it supports the scanning of UPC [...]

Weight loss grocery list?

“Hey everyone. I just started this diet last week, so I don’t have the healthiest of food options in my apartment right now. I want to go grocery shopping tomorrow or Tuesday to stock up on some healthier food, but as I’m new to this I don’t really know where to start. What are some [...]

How not to get malnutrition, or, help me create the ultimate grocery list

Seen over at MetaFiler (thanks Katie!): “I’m moving out next year, and while I do know how to cook, I am pretty clueless when it comes to a healthy diet. I’ve eaten Chinese food all my life and I get a pretty even portion of meats and vegetables and fruits, but since I will be [...]

Grocery lists in Advertising Age

Check out this excellent column in this week’s Advertising Age: Paper Trail: What Grocery Lists Reveal About Shoppers by Lenore Skenazy. It’s all about my new book, “Milk Eggs Vodka,” and this little web site right here.

Presenting milkeggsvodka.com!

Hey everyone, I made a little web site to help promote the release of my new book, Milk Eggs Vodka: Grocery Lists Lost & Found. The book is basically the analog version of this site, featuring hundreds of hilarious discarded grocery lists (along with my even more hilarious commentary). Click here for more info.

Anyway, the [...]

Public or private?

“Last night, I found someone else’s shopping list.
I was making my way through the produce section when I looked in my cart, and there it was. Stuck to the in-store circular on two Post-It notes.
And you know what? It stopped me in my tracks. Maybe I’m just nosy, but I felt compelled to stand there, [...]

Grocery list experiment shows that making mental shopping lists doesn’t always lead to healthier purchases

“Contrary to the advice given by legions of nutritionists and diet guides, making a shopping list may actually increase a shopper’s chance of selecting unhealthier food options. According to a study conducted at Duke University and published in the ‘Journal of Consumer Research,’ the mental effort that it takes to make a shopping list may [...]

Grocery trip without list turns to chaos

“‘You’ve never bought lima beans a day in your life,’ my husband will say after I arrive home from the store. That’s true, I will think to myself. What was I thinking? ‘Yeah, but it says right here I like lima beans. It’s on my grocery list. And grocery lists do not lie,’ I will [...]

Grocery shopping hints

“Purchase foods in a form that makes it easier to eat well. If you have little time for preparing foods, buy those that are ready-to-eat or ready to add to menu items/recipes. Examples might be buying the baby carrots instead of those you have to peel and cut up, buying a prepared fruit salad instead [...]

The Eating Habits of Our Neighbors

Though grocery store receipts are a much more common find that grocery lists, they still provide a peek into the lives of others (which is always much more interesting if it’s one of your neighbors: “The other day I was working in my yard and stumbled upon a grocery receipt that clearly didn’t escape from [...]

Grocery Lists Don’t Guarantee Healthy Choices

“The grocery lists most people jot down before going to the store can create a mental loophole for impulse food. That’s because the act of remembering a variety of food choices makes people more vulnerable to slipping cookies, chips and other not-so-healthy items onto the list, a new study finds.
‘The mental effort that you’re using [...]

Make a list and check it twice to cut down on visits to store

“In this day and age of costly gasoline, consolidating errand trips can have a major impact on your wallet. My family lives in the boonies and, I have to admit, this is one aspect where we falter. Too often we make unnecessary trips to town when picking up something on the way home could have [...]

A Praise for Lists

“I like lists. Correction — I looove lists!!! I love them so much I have lists of lists sometimes. I think lists if not a great organisational tool than at least a wonderful tool to trick yourself that everything is organised and nothing forgotten, so you can peacefully go to sleep at night without frantically [...]