Apply HN: Don't wast your food, get it tracked

Re:Apply HN: Don't wast your food, get it tracked by rkho on Thursday April 07, 2016 @05:40PM (#11450939)

Whenever I return from grocery shopping, my first instinct is to throw it all in the fridge as fast as possible so I can continue with whatever it was I was doing before I left.

However, I am very guilty of buying too many fruits and salad mixes and letting them expire before eating them.

If I were to get into the habit of actually scanning everything I buy before storing it, how would this work? Would I scan a UPC? Would some sort of image recognition tell what I scanned and assign it an arbitrary expiration date?

I like the idea, but I'm wary of spending time scanning everything.

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Re:Apply HN: Don't wast your food, get it tracked by trtobe on Friday April 08, 2016 @05:39PM (#11458263)

I agree spending hour(s) scanning or tapping is not the solution. Be fair we will be lazy to do so.

First I wanted to know if the idea got traction before investing time on it.

I was thinking about image recognition but still we have to spend time to store all the data.

I was more thinking approaching providers/supermarket to add this information on the receipt so you have just to scan it to get all needed information but this doable is worth to ask.

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