Here’s a suggestion from a GLC reader named Jewel about how to shop for someone who doesn’t speak the same language as you do:
take digital snapshots of each product she uses, put them into a mini-album; she can select the photos of items she wants and put them into an envelope, or you can keep a ‘shopping’ mini-album for the moment and a main-album that contains everything.
This answers an email I received in October: A visual grocery list? (scroll down to bottom of the page).