Reverse Grocery List

This process takes a kind of a long time on the front end but SAVES a bunch of time on the back end.  You need to record everything that you have in your kitchen.  Everything that's in your pantry, freezer, and fridge…everything.

Be prepared when doing this, if you're like me, you'll end up doing a kitchen clean-out session too.

In this process, you'll be writing everything down like a massive inventory.  

I got hung up on the best tool to record all of this stuff, but I landed on a sheet of paper and then I typed everything on a Google Sheet that I then shared with my husband.  It seemed like the easiest solution.

Once everything you have in your kitchen is recorded, you can go to the grocery store and just fill in the holes rather than guess what you have.  Once something runs out, you put an x next to the item and you'll know to grab it next time you shop.  It's that easy.

As a heads up, this is massively time-consuming to perform the initial inventory, but it is a huge time saver going forward.  Not to mention, it saves money because you don't have to buy 4 containers of sour cream because you think you've run out.  It's a double win.

Thank you Apartment Therapy for the wonderful time hack.

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