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Remember Your Shopping List

Make associations for items you want to buy to fill your grocery cart

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Staying Sharp

Updated September 26, 2022

Updated September 26, 2022

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Picture items together by the types of food. For example, group fruits and vegetables together in your mind.
Visualize the various sections in the supermarket and put the items you need into those sections: canned beans and soup in that aisle, shampoo and soap in that aisle, and so on through the store.
If you’re baking cookies and need the ingredients, think about the flour, eggs, vegetable oil, sugar, baking soda and chocolate chips as one group, and so on for other dishes you plan to buy for and cook.

Why

Mentally grouping items together helps you remember what you need to buy. Trying to memorize a long list of items doesn't work as well together.

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