5 minute freewrite: Friday prompt: Grocery List

When I head for the grocery store, there is a good chance I've left my grocery list lying on the table at home. Or stuck on the fridge with a magnet. Fortunately, my husband is usually home nowadays and can text me the list, or read it to me over the phone. Because of the way I learn and remember things, I can often remember a great deal of what I have written down. Just the other day, though, I got into Costco and remembered my list was still in the car. I managed to remember three things I'd intended to purchase there, but I knew there was one more thing I had scribbled down later, and simply couldn't fish it out of my brain. So I hiked back to the car to retrieve my list and sure enough! It was a particular type of peanut butter that my sister had asked me to look for, just earlier that morning! Of course, after going to all that bother to get the list, that particular peanut butter wasn't in stock. Pooh.

My grocery lists tend to include perishables most of all. Things like dairy and dairy-alternatives, fresh produce, and the occasional meat purchase. We try to purchase most of our meats from local people we know, but sometimes I run out of something, or want to try a recipe that calls for some weird cut I've never heard of. Then that has to go onto the grocery list. Sometimes my abbreviations are really hard for other people to read. Like what is cr. chs anyway?