Cranberry Sauce

Black biro on lined paper ripped from a spiral bound note pad.

A standard list with regular items, milk, eggs, bread etc. A nod to the season though, with the addition of cranberry sauce.

All items ticked, apart from the last.

Morrisons, Reading, 13th December 2021

Merry Christmas 2021

Merry Christmas shopping list viewers.

What a great seasonal shopping list. Lots of great sweet additions for the Christmas menu.

What do the dots mean?

Aldi, Reading, December 2021

Little Toms


A top up list of a few items. Written on a torn piece of note paper with fashionable rounded corners.

Aldi 8th June 2017

Too Much to Analyse

A list written by one person, to be used by another.

What a great piece of work this is. What do the numbers mean?

Sainsbury’s, Reading 10th October 2019

Crumpets and Moz

A small top up shop written on the back of an envelope. I am surmising that Moz is mozzarella.

I wonder if squash is the soft drink or the vegetable.

Found April 2017, Reading, U.K.

Small Potatoes

A list on A4 lined and punched paper pulled from a pad. Written in biro by two people. The first in capitals, the second amending in what looks to be an older style in lower case.

Ordinary tea suggests that other types of tea are sometimes purchased. Quite a healthy list, no meat, low fat.

Sainsbury’s, Reading 3rd August 2021

Salad Nuts


A big shop.

Female hand.

Half a sheet of rules note paper.

This is a Summer list from four years ago which I had in my drafts from back then but did not publish. Still, better late than never.

Aldi, Reading 8th June 2017

P&G

This appears to be shopping for two people in two hands with two pens.

They are working age dog and cat owners with no children.

On P’s side of the list we have chicken, weetabix, French fries, custard creams, cokes and tissues. On G’s side we have duck in plum, chick/mushrooms, cold puds (eclair), trifle, lattes, cookies and chocs.

Some items have been crossed off, some have been circled. Some items in capitals and some in lower case. Notice the change of pen between hand wash and pads/pants.

Sainsbury’s, Reading. 3rd August 2021

PETROL

The shortest ever list. Petrol.

Sainsbury’s, Reading 3rd August 2021

Big Milk, Small Milk, More Meat

A crossed off list shows somebody who takes a pen to the super market. The paper looks to be ripped from another list.

This shopper was looking for two sizes of milk, a Twix, 4 + baguette, fruit, paper cups, W U bowl, c-cumber, BBQ bread and ‘more meat’.

This looks like a BBQ shopping list? It is the right time of year. And what is the little picture in the corner? Some kind of tent?

Sainsbury’s, Reading, 29th July 2021