“Students share local grocery prices to build a growing table of data to be used in social studies, science, health, mathematics, and other disciplines. Global Grocery List is a long standing project that generates real, peer collected data for student computation, analysis, and conclusion-building within the context of social studies, science, mathematics and other disciplines.” MORE ➲

“Know when it pays to buy organic food products to reduce your exposure to pesticides and other additives, when it might sometimes pay, and when it’s a waste of your money. Use this section the next time you’re making a grocery list.” MORE ➲

“One of the easiest ways to save money on groceries is to simply make a thorough shopping list and follow it. I mean really follow it, not throwing in extra items or letting your children throw in extra items. If you resolve to make a good grocery list before every shopping trip, you will save real money this year.” MORE ➲

“This site has been inspired by the kind people who abandon their shopping list at the end of a trip to the supermarket. I collect their shopping lists. If you’re American you probably refer to these as grocery lists, which strikes me as a bit strange because not all the items on the lists are groceries. Anyhow, I won’t worry myself about it if you won’t.” MORE ➲

“Jansen [Price] has collected shopping lists for a number of years. He currently has over 3,000 different shopping lists. After collecting a large amount, he contemplated what could be done with them, and on January 10th, 1999, Jansen started emailing a shopping list randomly selected from the collection to a group of friends every Sunday.”MORE ➲

“1. You plug a barcode scanner into your computer (preferably one in the kitchen); 2. simply scan the barcodes of any packages before you discard them; 3. Grocist looks up the products information from the UPC database; 4. and keeps a running grocery list for you.” MORE ➲

“Imagine walking into the store with an aisle-by-aisle list in your hand. Better yet, your grocery list has grocery coupon reminders printed right on it. Automatically. Now you won’t forget to use your coupons. Is this aisle-by-aisle list easy to make? The software makes it easy. It provides tools to lay out your own store aisles. For example, you can tell the program that canned fruit belongs in Aisle 7. You have total control and total flexibility.” MORE ➲

“The GLG (Grocery List Generator) is a helpful little tool to store your recipe-ingredients and other groceries you need regularly. It creates a well-organized grocery list to help make your grocery shopping as easy as possible.” MORE ➲

Today my book is released. It’s called “Milk Eggs Vodka: Grocery Lists Lost & Found” and features nearly 300 discarded grocery lists from all over the U.S. — and a few from around the globe. Where else will you find a 2,000-year-old grocery list, lists from all 50 U.S. states, the most commonly misspelled words on Americans’ shopping lists, delicious recipes made using only ingredients listed on other people’s discarded lists, a shoplifting list and a chance meeting with Chevy Chase in the bathroom at Yankee Stadium? Where? Nowhere else. MORE ➲

“The reason that we often have lots of food, but nothing that goes together is that most of us buy our groceries either with an arbitrary list of things we usually get or worse, just wander the store, filling the cart with things that appeal to us. As a result, rather than buying to feed our families, we’re buying to feed our imagination. When we start taking control of this impulse, our grocery bill will shrink, meals will be easy to prepare and you may actually find yourself enjoying cooking again.” MORE ➲