I've mentioned before that I track my shopping needs on a spreadsheet, transferring stuff from the dry erase board to the spreadsheet. When I notice I'm running low on stuff, I'll tag it in the spreadsheet to keep an eye out for sales (usually meats I keep in the freezer.) I have the spreadsheet set up so that it sorts the list in the proper order for each store I shop at so I can start at one end of the store and finish at the other without having to backtrack. I copy my list from the spreadsheet, and have not tried transferring it to my cell phone. For some reason I prefer the hard copy list.
Yes, for me, too ! And besides, I would then do exactly the same thing as @Mary Stetler , and forget it lying on the kitchen table. Well…… I do not even have a kitchen table, but I would definitely have left it laying by my little desk, or wherever i wrote the list at. Then you can come home and see all the things you really needed, but forgot because you didn’t have the list along with you. I am doing good just to get them added onto my walmart shopping cart before I order groceries. I usually go though all of the little items they think I might want (the “heart” list) to try and be sure I didn’t forget anything we needed. Walmart doesn’t usually have sales, so it doesn’t matter about that part.
That's my preferred method. When I know I need something, I open my shopping cart on HEB and add the item to my order. I can't imagine keeping a spreadsheet of groceries; I left spreadsheets behind when I retired.
Once he thing has been created and items have been added over the years, it's just a matter of entering a "X" by what I need to buy.
I don’t have a to do list, but I do write reminders on a paper calendar for things like changing the furnace filter. I generally ignore reminders I put on my phone! As for shopping lists, I used to have one in the kitchen, then I went to one on my phone. I would think of something I need and think, “I should put that on my phone list” and then never do it. So, as I’m also really bad at leaving my phone at random places in my house and having to use “find my phone,” which I had to go downstairs to do, I bought a Siri home pod thing. I can stand at the top of the stairs and yell, “Siri! Find my phone!” I also discovered that Siri is good at keeping my shopping list, so, now, I just tell her to add something to the list on my phone, and she does.
The app I have used for years is Our Groceries on Google Play...I have on my phone and just love it. Way better than all the others I tried years ago.