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A few years ago Shoppers-Friend was inspired by my daughter, who at that time, had a family of nine (9) to care for. She used a spreadsheet and index cards to create her shopping lists. Although this was a very effective method and worked well, we felt there must be an easier way, and came up with Shoppers-Friend.
Can you imagine a program that allows you to create your meals, stores all of the products to make these meals, and then creates a shopping list based upon what you plan to serve for the day, week, month, (or for as long as you want). Shoppers-Friend will even store those meals that you do not serve very often. When you are ready to use them, all you have to do is include them in your menu planner.
Shoppers-Friend will:
- Save you valuable time
- Organize your meals and recipes
- Create customizable shopping lists sorted by aisle
- Allow you to sort and print your data in any manner you want
- Save your valuable recipes
- Includes a conversion calculator for your cooking and baking needs
- Allows you to add your own conversion tables to the Volume Converter
- Saves fuel because you will be more organized leading to less trips to the store
- Stores nutritional data for healthy eating
- Stores coupon data and prints reminders on Grocery List
Making a grocery list is one of those chores that we usually have to perform at least once a week, or maybe you keep a list that gets scribbled on as you discover items that you need. While some may enjoy performing this task, I find it rather tiring and redundant. I also find that we usually forget an item or two when we go to the grocery store. This means we either immediately return to the store or simply do without until we go again.
How would you like to take out the guess work and the tedious duty of creating those weekly grocery lists? Wouldn’t it be simpler to have a grocery list that has already been designed and ready to print with a few clicks of a mouse or a few strokes on a keyboard. That is what Shoppers-Friend can do for you.
Shoppers-Friend has been designed with the idea of using ‘Customized Meals’. You design the meal which will be stored in the database and a grocery list will be created based upon your meal design. Shoppers-Friend keeps track of the products you will require for each meal based on the design that you enter when you are setting up the program. After you print a grocery list you simply check your cupboard against the grocery list and edit what you need. No guess work and no forgetting what you will need for a particular meal; Shoppers-Friend remembers for you. All your meals are stored in the program and can be used over and over again to produce grocery lists.
Yes, there is some effort on your part that is required to start using the program. Although there are over 200 products included in the program, you will need to enter or edit the products that will be specific to the meals you will create. You will only need to enter this data one time. If you intend to track pricing then you will need to keep your prices updated.
Besides tracking meals and products, Shoppers-Friend will also track nutritional values if you so desire. The program is versatile enough that you can enter as much data as you would like to use, or as little. Recipes can also be saved and later printed when needed. Coupons can be entered into the program and when you print your grocery list it will be right there under your product reminding you that you have a coupon that can be used.
You can also make lists of those non-food items. Shoppers-Friend will integrate them into your Grocery list and they will be printed along with the rest of your groceries.
Also included is a customizable ‘Conversion Calculator’ to assist in converting between the many different types of measurements required for adjusting your recipe serving amounts.