This old enamel chart lists some of the many items a household would need to run smoothly. Each item has a switch next to it which could be moved to indicate that the item should be included on the next shopping list.

These are the ones I could identify - 

'Ammonia, bacon, biscuits, blue, bread, butter, candles, cheese, coal, cocoa, coconut, coffee, corn, cornflour, currants, custard powder, dentifrice, disinfectant, eggs, firewood, fish, flour, fruit, gravy browning, herbs, honey, jams, jellies, lard, laundry, lemons, macaroni, mantles, margarine, matches, meat, milk, mustard, nutmeg, oatmeal, oil, pepper, plate , polish, potatoes, prunes, raisins, rice, sago, salad dressing, salt, sauces, sausages, soap, soda, soups, spices, spirits, starch, stationery, suet, sugar, sultanas, sweetmeats, tapioca, tea, turpentine, vanilla, vegetables, vim, vinegar, whiting.'

There are a few items here that are a  bit obscure, and some where the words are too long to fit into the space provided.

'Dentifrice' was the trade name of a type of toothpaste.

'Blue' was a substance that was put in the wash to make clothes whiter!

'Mantles' were actually 'Gas Mantles' and were used when homes had gas lighting.

'Gravy Browning' was used to make a gravy to pour over meat.