Custom items

Add anything to your grocery list that isn’t tied to a recipe — household supplies, one-off purchases, a bottle of wine for dinner.

Add an item from the Groceries page

Type into the Add a custom item… field at the top of the Groceries page.
Press Enter or tap the +.

The item joins the list right away and lands in Miscellaneous unless Mirepoix already knows where you keep it (see below).

If you’ve set up stores and you’re shopping one of them, the new item is also placed at that store — so it’s ready to buy on this trip. See Grouping by store for choosing which store you’re shopping.

Add an item from anywhere in the app

Press / (or tap the search icon) to open the search overlay. Type what you need, then tap a row under Add to grocery list.

If the name matches an ingredient Mirepoix knows, it joins your list as a tracked item — like a recipe ingredient. An unfamiliar name joins as a custom item instead. Either way you stay on the page you started from.

Place an item in an aisle

A new item lands in Miscellaneous unless Mirepoix already knows where you keep it. Place it once with its ⋮ menu (see below) and that aisle is remembered — the next time you add the same name, from the Groceries page or the search overlay, it lands there on its own.

So adding “Cascade” the first time drops it in Miscellaneous. Move it to “Cleaning Supplies” once, and every future “Cascade” you add goes straight to Cleaning Supplies.

In the search overlay, a small pill on the right of each row shows where the item will land. Miscellaneous is left blank.

Move an item to a different aisle

Open the item’s ⋮ menu on its Groceries row.
In the Aisle field, pick an aisle from the list or type a new name.
Tap Move.

The item jumps to that aisle right away, and the choice is remembered for the next time you add it. A name you haven’t used before creates the aisle — see Aisle order to rename or reorder it later. You need to be online to move an item.

This Aisle field shows when you have no stores set up. Once you add stores, the ⋮ menu lists them under Available at instead. Check the ones where you can get the item, and it shows up on those stores’ lists. Aisles are then set per store, on each store’s lens. See Grouping by store.

How custom items behave

A custom item sits on your Groceries list until you tap it off. It stays visible, crossed out, for an hour after the check in case of a mistap. Tap the checkbox again within that window to put it back on the list. After the hour, the row drops off the Groceries page.

If you add a name that’s already on the list — because a checked recipe calls for it, or because you already added it yourself — your second add folds into the existing row. Adding “olive oil” twice doesn’t create two lines. If your second add uses a different capitalization of the same name, the new capitalization wins — re-add a custom item with the case you want to fix it. (A different name, not just a different case, is treated as a new item.) See how a name is capitalized.

To remove a custom item without checking it off, open its ⋮ menu and tap Remove from list. The confirm dialog appears, the row leaves the list, and no supply state changes.

After you check a custom item off, it stays in your kitchen’s records even after it disappears from the page — so the same name is remembered if it comes back. A plain one-off you’ve never placed prunes itself 45 days after you last touched it. One you’ve placed in an aisle (or at a store) is kept for as long as that placement stands, so its remembered aisle is there whenever you add it again.