The Ultimatest Grocery List (free PDF)
Very important message!
On Thursday, July 1, 2010 I was on Jimmy Kimmel Live talking about found grocery lists. Read more here!
This is awesome
These are the best pre-formatted grocery lists ever created. I made them just for you — and they’re free. Print ‘em out, hang ‘em on the refrigerator door and mark ‘em up before you go to the grocery store. We have comprehensive versions for both meat-eaters and vegetabletarians.
To download
Right-click the links below or the sample image and choose “Save file as…”, “Save link as…” or whatever. Last updated 28 Sep 2008.
- Free download: THE ULTIMATEST GROCERY LIST (Deluxe version)
- Free download: THE ULTIMATEST GROCERY LIST (Vegetarian version)
As seen in…
The Wall Street Journal, Milk Eggs Vodka: Grocery Lists Lost and Found, Lifehacker, Ask MetaFilter, Woman’s Day, The Mommy Journal, mothering.com, Org Junkie, StumbleUpon, Yahoo! Answers, Squidoo, Wikipedia and more.
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More about pre-made grocery lists
There are a lot of downloadable grocery lists out there, but none are as good as The Ultimatest. Why is this one better? Comprehensiveness. Categorization. Cleverness. Helpful clues and cues. Creativity. And… it’s portable, unlike a lot of shopping list software that requires you to be in front of a computer.
Since I posted the original list in late 2006 it has been downloaded by more than a quarter million people! An early version is also featured in my book, Milk Eggs Vodka: Grocery Lists Lost and Found published by HOW Books. Milk Eggs Vodka is a strange, fascinating and hilarious look at other peoples’ discarded grocery lists. Hardcover, 240 pages, full-color — it’s a beautiful compilation of shopping habits, spelling quirks and good fun. Learn more about the book at www.milkeggsvodka.com.
The Ultimatest Grocery List really is the best downloadable PDF grocery list available — and it’s free. Why? Because I love you. And I love it when people from all over the planet come here and get a kick out of this strange, useless, completely hilarious collection of found shopping lists. It’s my little “Thank You” for stopping by. Happy shopping! But please remember the most important thing: Whether you use these PDFs or not, always leave your grocery list in the cart or the trolley when you’re finished shopping!
P.S. I welcome your feedback and your suggestions. Email me and let me know how to make The Ultimatest just a little more ultimate. I’m hoping to work on some specific variations: The Ultimatest Budget Grocery List, The Ultimatest Junk Food Grocery List, The Ultimatest Vegan Grocery List, etc…
Want to contribute some lists? Contact us!
31 comments ↓
Why is it in a pdf format? Could you make it available in Word so most of us can mod and customize? Some of your listing, I never use.
Type your own customized list from the PDF. It only takes a few minutes.
Thank you so much. Trying to remember everything I’ll need to set up our vacation home had me crazy. Found this and was able to check off everything. Nothing was forgotten,
I love this list! I will make sure all my friends see it.
Great list!! Sure can’t complain that it isn’t complete.
Only one problem…now who’s gonna pay for all this stuff!!??
A diabetics shopping list
A shopping list that is a how to combining
Daily groceries and recipe shopping
This is a great list, I’ve been using it for the last couple years or so.
I had a suggestion: ready made salads. Or Pre-packaged salads, that sort of thing…
Thanks for putting this together!
You can easily manage a shopping list on-line at SmartShopIt.com. Then print it and take it to the store or access it remotely if you have a mobile web device. Plus get coupons, product nutrition facts, product comparison tools and much more.
okay so……is there a problem w/my computer or sumthin??? it always tells me that the file has ‘been permanently damaged and cannot be repaired’. I’ve tried downloading it 5 times but it never works (p.s. i have windows vista and adobe acrobat reader)
little help here?
ookay..i got it working now!!!
please ignore my other comment!!
This is awesome but, I have a request! PLEASE add waffles to the frozen section. I know it says Breakfast but waffles are a force unto themselves and I buy them regularly. Other than that tiny tweak I am loving this list!
My fiance & I are moving into our 1st place in less than a month. We’ve never lived on our own before… finding this grocery list is a blessing and I am sure it’ll make our 1st grocery trip much easier ;o)
okay so……is there a problem w/my computer or sumthin??? it always tells me that the file has ‘been permanently damaged and cannot be repaired’. I’ve tried downloading it 5 times but it never works (i have acrobat reader although)(little help here)
Could we get it in black and white? Ink is expensive!!!!
For MS Word: Click the “File” dropdown menu. Select “Save As”. Choose “Microsoft Word Document (.doc)” from the “Save As Type” menu.
For Black and White: Click “File”, and select “Print”. Change your printer setting to “Black and White” or “Grayscale”.
This isn’t rocket surgery.
Georgia/Pooja
Download Firefox web browser. Click the “Tools” dropdown menu and select “Options…”. Click the “Applications” tab. Scroll down the list until you see “Adobe Acrobat Forms Document”. In the column to the right of that, select “Use Adobe Acrobat (in Firefox)”.
This will open PDF docs in your web browser. Then you can click the “Save a Copy” button to save it to your computer.
The “Ultimatist Grocery List” is one of the nicesest things I came across in a longestest time! It the most completetest list and I can only see a lot of possibilities for it! Thank U very much!!
I love your humor!!
I am going to post this on my blog and share with other Mommies about this great list! I am going to print it out and start using it this week – thank you! And I would be excited to see your junk food and healthy good lists as well! Thanks!
I devised a grocery list 2-3 years ago from my grocery receipts, which in turn lists those products that we acually use. I add/delete from time-to-time as our tastes change. We are now retired and my husband decided he would go to the grocery with me, so I print out the list in two pages based on aisle numbers. He takes one page and starts at one end of the store and I take one and start at the other. We pretty much cut the shopping time in half.
We love your grocery lists! We aren’t vegetarians but we love the vegetarian grocery list because we cook organic foods. :)
Thanks!
How about a Gluten/Wheat Free shopping list.
At last! I have found the perfect shopping list in your
Ultimate Deluxe! Now I KNOW I won’t forget anything, ever again!!
http://www.free-ocr.com/ this site provides free conversion to text only , from pdf or any picture file from a scanner … just copy and paste into your favorite text editor …i recently found it when i needed to copy down things from my college textbooks….
The list is awesome! you don’t even need to right a whole list out.
This is a great idea. I love that it is just one page!
Can we post a link to this from our website, http://www.groceryalerts.ca
It is so comprehensive your list.
This is fantastic! Thanks!
My thoughts: Litter… Why have checkboxes if they expect it to be used again? … Far too much unnecessary stuff … not good for anyone on a budget.
The grocery list pdf file would not download after countless attempts!!!!!!!
i print out a copy of this list and i check off what i already have in the house..then i bring both with me..
what i have to get and what i already have..sometimes you think you need something and forgot to check it off but this way i know
Wow! Superb man! I wish I’d discovered UGL sooner my tomodachis (very good friends in Japanese. I am into anime in a big way so I use Japanese terms all over the web)!
This is a wonderful stockpile of ideas for stocking up the old larder. Really useful even though our supermarket’s less than a kilo away from home. I always hate to remember what I forgot after we get back home from the shop, don’t you? Now with this handy lil gem that will never happen again thank Kam (God)!
I will be doing all the family shopping now since Mama passed away on 26 June and now it’s just me and Bobby my 54 yr old brother on disability. My birthday was 8 July and I am a spry 61 although I feel like Ichigo Kurosaki and Kagome Higurashi (anime characters from Bleach and InuYasha resp. and both are 15 year old schoolkids) so like I always say you’re only as old as ya feel baby!
Kudos on this great website and domo arigatou (thank you so very much) for this downloadable perpetual grocery shopping list. I just saved it to my hard drive and printed out a dozen copies of it. I’ll hang them on the fridge door and check off what we need as soon as we run low on it. Then it’ll be mere child’s play to grab the list when it’s shopping time.
Although I don’t use a mobile unit er cell phone myself for those who do this list could be DLd to your phone and you’d never forget to bring it with you to the market. I have eidetic imagery (photographic memory and total recall) but even that sometimes gets mucked up so this list is a blessing!
Sayonara for now and see ya soon- keimanzero the Scion of Anime in Brookhaven PA-USA(JKMc)
I love this! The grocery store is sooooo intimadating for me!