The old grocery list I found in a 1982 cookbook taught me I was meal planning wrong

I found a handwritten grocery list tucked inside a Betty Crocker cookbook from a thrift store. It was organized by aisle and store layout, not by food group like I always did. I realized I wasted 15 minutes per trip wandering back and forth because I grouped produce and dairy together. Has anyone else found a better system in someone else's old notes?

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wells.karen22d ago

Did you ever find any other notes or recipes tucked in that book? My grandma used to write cooking times on the back of receipts and tape them inside her cookbooks. It was like finding little time capsules every time I borrowed one.

joel_butler22d ago

@wells.karen you ever wonder if those little time capsules were actually a smarter system than the modern stuff we use? The aisle-based list makes so much sense for saving time, but I bet the grandma notes had hidden gems too. Did any of her recipes come with weird hand-scrawled corrections that made you change how you cook something? I feel like those old cookbooks always hold the real shortcuts nobody talks about.