you can make a vcard and put text on it! You can make it in word or whatever you use and with a program you can make a vcard from it. You can also use that program to cut a long word document in multiple vcards. Don't know what the program is called, thrown it away , didn't used it. But search download.com for ipod, it's somewhere in the searchresults there. Anyway, put the vcard in your addresses map and your ipod see's it as an address and you got your (shopping) list!
BTW, let me know how the program is called, I could begin to use it, my christmas list is kinda long...