Grocery Shopping Checklist: MiniTip XXIII

TL;DR

Make a checklist (either paper or electronic) of groceries you need and cross them off as you get it at the store.

This week, find a recipe that you think you can do. Take a picture and share it with me on Facebook or twitter at @ill_chef

Tip Expanded

Another seemingly obvious one that I am pointing out. As a chronically ill person, and, if I’m being honest, as a person even before chronic illness, my memory of the important things wasn’t the best. Since becoming chronically ill, my memory has become a lot worse.

So if I go to a grocery store even to get one thing, I will probably forget what I went there for when I get distr- “squirrel.” So I go with a list.

I use an app that I found out about when I was doing my bachelors in special education called Remember The Milk. I was using it at the time for assignment due dates, but it was originally designed for groceries.

Call to Action

This week, if you go out of the house to grocery shop (which at the writing of this post may be inadvisable due to the coronavirus), make a list.

This week, find a recipe that you think you can do. Take a picture and share it with me on Facebook or twitter at @ill_chef