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Free iPhone shopping list app, and more

iPhone apps, out-of-print books and other fun…


‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ recap

A quick rundown of the JKL experience…


Watch Jimmy Kimmel Live on Thursday, July 1

Not much else to say besides, “HOLY COW.”


The Curators

Coming soon to theaters? Maybe not, but it’s double awesome nonetheless.


Big-ass link roundup

7 awesome links, just for you — exploding tacos, sandwich puzzles, butt sniffers and more!


My List, My Life

Here’s something new: An essay by a guest bogger!


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.



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 [...]


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 [...]


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 [...]


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, [...]


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 [...]


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 [...]






About grocerylists.org

Milk Eggs Vodka: Grocery Lists Lost and FoundThis is the world's largest online collection of found grocery lists. In fact, we wrote the book on found grocery lists. Why? Other peoples' grocery lists are fascinating. Plus, the internet is a great place to do  stupid  interesting things. So far 2,000 funny, crazy, weird, sad and/or mundane discarded scraps of paper have been posted. But it's not all useless stuff -- we also link to useful and interesting articles about food, shopping, lists and more, as well as provide a pretty awesome downloadable PDF grocery list for free. Subscribe via RSS ».

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List #2201: If I didn't know any better I'd think this list was made by one of my kids. Specifically, the girl. See more great lists in our collection of Top 10 lists.

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