I found a shopping list from 1969

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Interesting isn’t it!

I don’t think so, this ad is from the 1950s. Unless they were called “Crispies” in the UK and “Krispies” in the US?

And here’s one from the 1930s

Still have a handwritten one in our house.
It lives on in the side in the kitchen and everyone knows that if they use the last of anything, they put it on the list. Then whoever does the shopping takes the list (or rings from the supermarket for someone to WhatsApp a picture of it still sitting on the side 🤣🤣).

My dad worked in a grocer's when he left school. He says he thinks he could still page up loose tea or sugar in to a parcel - can your dad do the same.

They are similar ages too.

DM also worked in a grocer’s for a few years after school (she’s 86) and remembers all the parcelling up. I must remember to ask her about the lists later.

Vile things. Like eating sugar and a peculiar smell when doused in milk.

When did I last see a handwritten shopping list? Years ago, nobody needs them any longer

I do a written list every week (crossing items off as I do the supermarket trudge is a tiny pleasure 😊). I've a handwritten list on the fridge, as well as a list for the foodbank.

I’ll risk it for a Swisskit !!
Puffa Puffa Rice was a favourite in our house.

Also a cereal that nobody seems to remember, it was little puffed stars, tasted rather like those loops you get now, I remember Sooty being on the box but I was v small so might have mixed something up. Big boxes but I think it also came in those small variety packs, so Kelloggs ?

I would also write Rice Crispies not Krispies and I work in publishing/editing and have an English degree. I've literally never noticed the K!

This reminds me of the books which people used to drop off at my parents grocers shop. I would help to assemble everything on the list and pack it into a cardboard box. My Dad would then load the box and many others, with the "order book" placed on top of each box, all priced and added up. He would then every Friday do a delivery round, collecting payment on delivery. The precursor of online shopping!

This system of a book that you hand over to the grocer, for him to fulfill and deliver to you, for payment - it’s basically online shopping, isn’t it? Except today we pay first (I suppose because none of us have any kind of relationship with our grocer, we’re just randoms).

Yes, I was thinking that! I order from Ocado more or less every week, and I do exactly that - I tell them which specific items I want, plus quantities, they estimate what it will cost, and send me the stuff, with a receipt showing what I actually paid, and details of anything that was missing, and the substitutes offered, if any (extremely rare with Ocado, actually). I imagine in days of yore they must have had a system for substitutions too, just a bit wordier. 'Mr Harris says he's very sorry, but the Stork lorry broke down and we've run out. Will Echo do instead? If you don't want it, Mr Harris says of course you can give it back to me ...'

I still make the spice cake. It's a really quick, good, low cost, family recipe that I often add bits to like dried cranberries, nuts etc. And freezes well. So much better than a lot of modern recipes which need multiple eggs and odd ingredients. I got an old book off the Internet as my mums original one is in storage.

Sometimes people asked if the payment owed could go "in the book", which was a large accounts ledger kept by my Mum vit was added up at the end of each month and a bill for payment was sent. Sometimes this was refused, but not too often fortunately!

Reckoning back I was probably about 15 at the time of the OP's list. I still remember the prices of some things as I used to help in the shop at weekends (for my pocket money).

A sliced loaf was 1/4 ( one shilling and four pennies for the pre decimalisation folk on here!)
A pair of Dorothy Vernon brand stockings was 2/11
Best butter 4 shillings a pound, as was cheese (only one sort), the butter was in a large barrel and the appropriate amount cut off, weighed and shaped with paddles before being wrapped in greaseproof paper.
Heinz beans small can 6d (pennies)

Blimey, feel like Methuselah remembering all this, didn't realise I'd got so old, better b*er off over to Gransnet 🥴😂

I went to Glasgow a few times in the late 70s, and stayed out along the West road. The nearby grocery shop still had various different counters.

The butter man was a real artist, and used to make a most beautiful pat, finished off with the shop's stamp, and wrapped with a flourish in pleated paper.

I remember 45rpm singles being 6/8, so you could buy three for £1.

My rent in 1972 was £5 a week, and we had £5 a week "housekeeping money" to feed ourselves on. We ate reasonably well I think.

@ReeseWitherfork It's largest ☺️

And actually, my Mum used to only go to the big supermarket once a month so this list is pretty similar. Mine isn't much different to be honest although I shop weekly.

When did I last see a handwritten shopping list? Years ago, nobody needs them any longer.

Nobody? We write them on the fridge.

Then I take a photo of it with my phone.

Our Army Quarters all had a baby Burco that were never used but were great for curry supper nights! Nappies were soaked in Milton in a buckets then put through a quick wash once the smell got unbearable!

I remember in the late 1960s Asda in Cross Gates, Leeds in what used to be a cinema! My late MIL always referred to 'going to the Gem' as that had been the cinema I assume.

If you haven’t seen it, I think a lot of people on this thread would enjoy “Back in time for the Corner Shop”. BBC 2 programme with Sara Cox and a family who were given a corner shop to run, each week it was set up as from a different decade, going back at least 100 years, so they traced the evolution of how we bought and sold food and ran small businesses. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt11854780/

And there's also The 1970s supermarket:

https://www.channel5.com/show/the-1970s-supermarket

The good thing about a name like Rice Krispies, from the manufacturer’s point of view, is that you can trademark it. It would be too generic as Rice Crispies “m'lud, the defendant says that his product is made of rice, and is crispy, so he can describe it as such”