ok the shitpost part of this is funny but the origin

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One interesting thing about me is that I frequently go through periods where I eat nothing but redbull and gas station sandwiches until one day I open my empty fridge and realize I have no idea what a functional human being buys at the grocery store so I have to keep a full list of everything I eat and use taped to the outside of the door so I can stare at it in a dissociative trance until the answers come to me through the void like dark knowledge from a divine being [image: A sheet of paper taped to a fridge door titled "normal grocery items". Below it is written roughly sixty food and grocery items, including aquarium filters and blood worms.]ALT

It’s great to have a shopping list but be careful to remember not to eat all of these items

are you kidding i love normal american meal of fish in ziplock bags

ok the shitpost part of this is funny but the original post is actually a thing i do too. my dude and i have a whiteboard for grocery and other lists, and it has a column on the right that is never erased called “The Uzhe” because everyone knows how to pronounce the abbreviation of “usual” but damned if i know how to spell it. And it has the stuff we go through and always need to replenish written on there. And when we make the weekly shopping list on a piece of paper, we go down that list and check if we need to resupply The Usual Items. Because otherwise both of us forget that they need to exist. And it doubles as a momentum-builder for grocery lists, which is a thing both of us struggle with having enough attention span to make, because you think of a thing you want and write it down and then you’re stuck, but then you do The Uzhe Checklist, and while you’re doing that, your brain often will come up with other things it wants because you’ve primed the pump, so to speak.

and then, later in the week, when you’re staring in despair at the dishes in the sink and it’s 5pm and you’re hungry, you can look at the other side of the list, upon which we write Meals We Plan To Make This Week, and either pick one, or pick one of the convenience foods included in The Uzhe. (In our case usually frozen ravioli. YMMV. Something that’s basically one step to make, but will provide a filling, nutritious-enough meal.)

I won’t mention how many years it took us to come up with this system but I do recommend it. (Your picture was not posted)