As you all know, I started a new journey a few months ago trying to find new and interesting recipes. I have been very successful on this quest, but it means that my grocery list is quite intense. I like to purchase the bulk of my groceries only once a month, with a few trips to my local grocer a few times in between for produce, milk and bread. Town is about 45 minutes away, so I can save gas this way.
On the first of this month I sat down with my recipes to plan a months worth of meals. This took some serious planning time to go through each recipe and make sure I had all the ingredients, then I pulled out my staple list that I keep at the back of my better home and gardens cookbook for easy access. It is a 4 page front and back list with 2 columns per page. It includes most everything I buy anywhere from spices to shampoo, to make sure I don't forget anything. The end result is a massive list that is worth about 3 hours of my time.
I usually hit costco and walmart in a big way, then swing by fred meyer to pick up a few soy specialty item. This is exhausting all in one day. This month however was able to ride along with some friends who were going to fred meyer a few days earlier than my planned grocery day. I was excited at this oppertunity, it would make the actual "grocery day" a lot easier, so I thought. I was going through the aisles with my beloved grocery list. I vaguely remember setting it down to help one of the other ladies with some bulk food. Ok now I will cut to the chase, Yes you guessed it, I left my list on the fred meyer shelf. I didn't even realize it until the next day, I thought about calling in but I don't see a store clerk saving a grocery list they found laying around on the shelf and I'm sure they would have thought I was a little crazy for asking! I knew deep inside what the fate of my list had been. All of those hours of work just trashed!! It's hard for me to bear even now!
A list makers nightmare!
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Chantel H
June 08, 2007
6 I love comments!!:
No Way! This is serious trauma! I hate it when something happens and steals hours of my work. Do you need to get together and look at mine again? When you make your new one?
That is terrible! All that work.It sounds like something I would do .Would love to learn how to do the monthly meals and shopping list.With how far we are from town and the gas prices so high.How could I be a recipiant of this meals and shopping thing?....Any chance you guys are still thinking of moveing tp our part? ....Hope to see you on here more ,noticed that you didn't end it yet.
Okay...so you make a list? hahaha Well you know that I am NOT a listmaker, so your story made me giggle through out. I would be upset too, but to be honest I would be shocked and impressed with myself if I made a list, took it with me, and than was able to carry it around while getting all my groceries. I think I may have been so intrigued by the idea of having a list that I may have forgotten to buy my groceries all together...LOL!
And oh yeah...if I was a grocery clerk and someone called me to see if I found a list and would I save it....hehehehe
That would be terrible!!! Well, in answer to your comment on my blog, I've only checked for comments about, oh, 57 times today! Anyways, I wonder why I haven't read your last post before? I've started it about 12-15 times, but I never get past the first paragraph, for some reason or another.
Sorry you lost your list. But I am like trina, lists are not my thing. I actually do better with out. And the few times I do make them I never use them. lol
That is so sad for you! But that is exactly why I never make a list...every time I do I loose it, forget it at home, or on the off chance that I do take it I forget it in the car. I get in the store and feel I have to go back to the car and get the list, so by the time I write the list, forget it at home, and turn around to go get it, and then forget it in the car, and go back out to get it, I could have already bought all my groceries, went home and made dinner...for me it's just a waste of time. But I love your organization. You'll have to make a new one and laminate it. But make sure to put an :
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