How Do You Grocery Shop?

I only know one way to do it:

I make a menu for the week and go through recipe by recipe to create my shopping list. I divide the list up by section of the store (fresh produce, coolers, frozen, aisles) and try to keep items roughly in order within the appropriate sections. By "in order" I mean the order in which I'll encounter them as I race through the store shoving impulse items into my cart.

Anyway, lately I find myself lacking in time, patience, energy, and enthusiasm for menu planning and cooking. This is the last week of school and warm weather is finally here to stay (more or less). So I set myself a challenge:

This week we'll eat summer-inspired crock pot meals all week.

Features:
crock pot French dip sandwiches
crock pot chicken pizza (served over spaghetti squash or pasta)
crock pot burritos
crock pot Jamaican jerk chicken
crock pot vegetable jambalaya

Yum.

As you might expect, I usually take the meal-planning thing a bit too far. Due to my aforementioned lack of energy, I've gotten away from also planning breakfasts, lunches, snacks, and desserts in advance. But I do print out a weekly dinner menu complete with clip-art highlighting the week's key events.

My house might resemble a dusty, stinky recycle bin, but at least our food is well-organized!