The perfect grocery list-making app doesn’t exist
TL;DR
The author struggles with chaotic grocery shopping and finds no reliable app for meal planning and list-making, often forgetting items despite handwritten lists.
There is no more chaotic activity than willfully entering a grocery store without a list.
I know. Some people thrive on vibes-based grocery shopping. They can come up with meals on the fly, buy what's on sale and work around that, or follow some bizarre "3-3-2-2-1" rule or whatever I'm always seeing on Instagram. I am not one of these people.
But while I know a list is essential for my survival at the store, I've never been able to work out a reliable meal planning and grocery list-making system. Every week I write out a list by hand, and every week I forget something crucial. So I asked myself, as I so often do when confronted with a pro …