Behind the Scenes at the Supermarket
Over at Ask MetaFilter: "Questions for grocery clerks (or people who stand in line at the grocery thinking about people and their purchases)..." Posted at 2:27 PM Central Time

Online services can help make dramatic differences in grocery bills
"When checkers at the grocery store started complimenting Sarah Chappelle on her food-shopping savvy -- 'Good save!' one said approvingly -- she figured she was on to something. The proof was in her receipt. Almost overnight, Chappelle had slashed her grocery bill by half. Chappelle's secret: coupons, grocery-store sales fliers -- and the Internet." Posted at 10:58 AM Central Time

Think Global, Eat Local
"The sustainable food movement that began with Berkeley chef Alice Waters has blossomed in Portland, Ore. Are its proponents just dreaming? Or is a real revolution underway?" Posted at 10:52 AM Central Time

Local 6 Finds Cheapest Grocery Prices
"The Local 6 Problem Solvers teamed up with a Central Florida mom to shop the aisles of five major supermarkets to come up with the best prices." Posted at 6:51 AM Central Time

The Museum of Food Anomalies
What happens when your cereal looks like or Munch painting, or your funnel cake looks like a seahorse? It ends up here: "Welcome to the first exhibition of the Museum's collection. We've selected a handful of defining works from the archives to supply a proper introduction to the Art of Food Anomalies without overwhelming one's senses. There will be more works posted in the future." Posted at 7:07 AM Central Time

Milk Bottle Of The Week
"Here's where you will find some of the world's most bizarre, beautiful and sexy milk bottles. What's more they're delivered fresh to your desktop every week." Posted at 2:12 PM Central Time

Podcasts coming soon
Use our Podcasts to have a new list read to you every weekday. Forgot your list? Don't know what you want for dinner? Use one of our lists! This morning I recorded a theme song and set up a test feed (the address may change once I learn more about Podcasting): grocerylistsorg.xml. Posted at 1:22 PM Central Time

Heloise: Grocery list makes shopping fast
"The key to my quick, easy and successful grocery shopping is the manner in which I fill out my grocery list..." Posted at 4:52 PM Central Time

Congrats to our friends at Coudal Partners...
...who run the Museum of Online Museums. The MoOm was selected as one of Time Magazine's Top 50 Coolest Web Sites for 2005, probably mostly because the Grocery List Collection is part of the MoOm's Permanent Collection, of course! Posted at 7:47 AM Central Time

Shoppers, supermarkets at odds
the supermarket industry has been slow to respond to consumer needs, in part because grocery chains have outmoded ideas of how people really shop." Posted at 7:22 AM Central Time

Good Food for Your Body and Mind
"Junk food isn't good for your heart and research now shows it's not good for your mind either." Posted at 7:06 AM Central Time

Get fresh: seasonal shopping list
"Strawberries like bullets; peaches you break your teeth on -- we're all familiar with fruit and veg which look perfect but have no flavour and are the texture of granite. It needn't be that way." Posted at 7:54 PM Central Time

Tim Laird's party tips
"Get organized. Make a detailed shopping list and a timeline of food that needs to be prepped." Posted at 7:47 PM Central Time

Cheers to 'yummy' wine
"Years ago, before I started writing about booze, I attended my first wine tasting. As our guide droned on about ripeness units and rainfall levels, I happily knocked back all the wine in front of me. I needed a couple of stiff ones just to be there. But then I looked around and realised that everyone else had only sipped their first wine and they were busy writing detailed notes about it. To avoid the disapproving stares, I put my head down and started writing too: I made out my grocery list." Posted at 8:20 AM Central Time

Parents have to try to be patient with kids who are acting up
"You're tired, you're cranky, and you're trying to get through your grocery list. This is your third stop of the day. Oh yeah, and you're with your kids. Who have been fighting in the car and fighting in the stores and generally acting like that four-letter word that starts with B." Posted at 8:10 AM Central Time

Websites help shoppers compare grocery prices
"Say goodbye to grocery circulars -- comparison shopping for groceries at local super markets can now be done online" Posted at 9:21 AM Central Time

Kroger invites grocery orphans
"Winn-Dixie plans to leave the state. Kroger's weekly advertising circular tells shoppers an awful lot about what's going on behind the scenes in North Carolina's grocery industry. Across the top of the front page, big blue letters read 'Welcome Winn-Dixie Customers.'" Posted at 9:18 AM Central Time

Kroger rated top grocery chain
"The Kroger Co. ranked as the nation's third largest retailer and the top supermarket chain in an annual list of top 100 retailers released Tuesday by the industry's largest trade group." Posted at 8:12 AM Central Time

Next hot thing: Women manning the barbecue
"Grilling. It's a girl thing. That's how self-proclaimed BBQ Queens Karen Adler and Judith Fertig see it. The longtime pals from Kansas City are in town to demonstrate recipes tonight from their new book, The BBQ Queens' Big Book of Barbecue." Posted at 8:12 AM Central Time