That makes perfect sense and I'm happy to comment on your list. Though I might not have very much useful commentary. You never know, though!

I suspect that you're more likely to have opinions at, say, a bookstore, or a makeup place, than the grocery store, but I could be wrong. ...I assume you can't taste things even if I were to, say, rub a little bit of cinnamon on your page, but it occurs to me to check.

It would probably be an interestingly novel pigment, but I could not taste it, no.

If there are any weird pigments you've heard of but never gotten to try, and you'd like to, let me know!

Actually, this might sound weird, but could you put a drop of that opaque stuff you covered up Realism with on a page somewhere? It looks neat but I can't see it very clearly through all the ink underneath.

Oh, sure! 

She gets out the wite-out again and paints a little swipe of it onto the page. 

Thanks! It has such an interesting texture...

It's called liquid paper sometimes.

Neat! ✨

She puts the notebook and also a different, blank, non-magical notebook in a canvas tote bag, then adds her wallet because it would be weird to not have that on her to go shopping with, and then she goes to the grocery store.

In addition to writing down everything she picks up, she also adds a list of things she would like to pick up that she can't find at this particular grocery store. Some of them are unsurprising and she'll probably have to visit specialty groceries, but some she's probably going to end up trying walmart for or something. 

The grocery store has a small aisle of various school supplies, including wite-out. She draws a small heart next to that one as she writes it down. 

♡

She makes notes of dependencies--she was able to pick up a can opener and plenty of other kitchen utensils, but the grocery store did not have microwaves or modern ovens. 

...

How is "held" defined, do I need to be able to pick things up? 

she asks, circling "stove + oven"

It will work less well the farther you are from having the object meaningfully in your inventory, so to speak.

Do I need to worry about picking things up and putting them down without buying them working less well than it could?

No, it's about the immediate kind of possession where you have hold of something, not the more abstract kind where you have ownership of it.

Gotcha...would it work better if I managed to scoot an oven onto a dolly and pushed it around a bit?

I think it might work better but still not necessarily reliably.

Okay, I'll see what I can find about converting traditional oven cooking instructions into toaster oven, or even campfire cooking. Or...dutch ovens? Are those meaningfully different from regular ovens? I am not expecting you to answer that.

I think a dutch oven isn't really an oven? I don't know why I know this.

Checks out. 

She hits up a craft store after the grocery store, continuing to make inventory notes as she goes. She makes particularly sure to pick up bookbinding supplies. 

It's neat hearing about all the different kinds of things there are that you want to have!

It's not just things that I definitely want now; picking an object up is such a small investment of energy that it makes sense to try to get everything I might conceivably want at some point in the future!

Very reasonable of you! ♡

If I have an idea for the power or drawback I'm trying to build for you, should I wait until you tell me you're home again to put it in the list?

That would probably be the most convenient way of doing it, yeah.

Okay, I'll do that then.