Forum Discussion
How Are You Using To Do for Shopping Lists?
What we have done that addresses some of your concerns is that I use a single To Do for a recipe and then use Steps to ID the things that we need to get to make that recipe. I then use the Favorite flag to move things to the top of the list when needed.
I don't mark the task as complete until everything is completed.
I don't do meal planning, but if I were to do so, then I could use a Planner Board and have those appear in the To Do App when they are assigned to someone. Alternately I could see a process where you create your meals in Planner and then use a Flow to read the meals from Planner and then aggregate the items that you need to purchase from those tasks and create a purchase list in To Do which you can then use at the store with each item you need to buy listed once. The interesting approach there would be that if you wanted to make say French Bread Pizza, and also say Pepperoni rolls each Planner card would have Pepperoni and thus it would add it twice to your To Do list. You could use a lookup list in SPO to organize it with departments at the store so you can organize your list in the sequence you work through the store. that is a lot of work, but it would be cool. I could even see using a lookup table to add the aisle for each item once you know it.