My sister is coming into town for our huge family reunion this Saturday and we are scrambling to get the food situation sorted before she even gets here. There is gonna be about 22 people at the house and we are on a super tight budget—honestly trying to keep the whole cookout under $300 which is basically impossible with how much meat costs these days. We are planning a massive Walmart run because it is the only place near me here in Columbus that isnt going to charge an arm and a leg for bulk supplies.

Im basically torn between a few ways to handle the shopping list. I looked at Instacart because I know they have that Group Cart feature where I can just send her a link and she adds her specific brand of chips and drinks, but man, the markups on there are crazy and the delivery fees would eat up like 10% of our total budget. Option two is just using a shared note on our iPhones and just copy-pasting but that is such a huge pain because then I have to manually search for every single item she wrote down once I get into the Walmart app and half the time what she wants isnt even in stock or the price is different than she thought. My other thought was just giving her my actual login info for the Walmart app so she can add things herself but that feels super sketchy and I am worried it will glitch out or lock me out if we are both logged in adding things to the cart at the same exact time from different states.

I really want to stay within the Walmart ecosystem to save the cash but I cannot find a share cart or collaborative list button anywhere in their interface and I am starting to panic a little bit because I need to place this pickup order by tomorrow night to get a decent time slot for Friday. Is there any actual way to create a collaborative list or a shared shopping cart on Walmart so we can both see what is being added in real time? Or am I stuck doing the manual back-and-forth thing?