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A comment on Ask HN: What's a good app for grocery management?.

Re:Ask HN: What's a good app for grocery management? by ParameterOne on Thursday April 06, 2017 @04:03PM (#14054086)
Inventory app, make list of everything you would ever buy, what you have in the house, and a meal plan calendar. Then as you make dinners it will automatically deduct from inventory and possibly know what you need to buy for following week/month. If you wanted to get really crazy you could then use your old data to see that maybe you used 15 bars of soap per year and make annual purchases to fight inflation, the time spent in the grocery store, and leverage coupons.
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Re:Ask HN: What's a good app for grocery management? by ParameterOne on Thursday April 06, 2017 @04:09PM (#14054136)
and it would be even better if you could scan UPC and know how much of what you bought with expiration date included. Expiration date could maximize meal planning to minimize wasted food.
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Re:Ask HN: What's a good app for grocery management? by tue4Iezi on Thursday April 06, 2017 @05:30PM (#14054812)
Link?
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Re:Ask HN: What's a good app for grocery management? by ParameterOne on Thursday April 06, 2017 @05:36PM (#14054857)
doesn't exist as far as I know
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Re:Ask HN: What's a good app for grocery management? by pantryplan on Thursday April 06, 2017 @08:30PM (#14056016)
I'm actually working on one.

https://pantryplan.io

It uses up ingredients on hand before it starts adding new ingredients (or that is roughly what it attempts to do)

The plan is for it to plan meals, manage pantry and put out a grocery order.

It is alpha-ish but I am constantly working on it.

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Re:Ask HN: What's a good app for grocery management? by ParameterOne on Thursday April 06, 2017 @09:10PM (#14056223)
I like the meal options, is there a way to show your own recipes or use only your own recipes?
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Re:Ask HN: What's a good app for grocery management? by pantryplan on Friday April 07, 2017 @04:23PM (#14063212)
I am actually working on being able to create recipes. The one thing left to do is clean up data. I currently have ~9k ingredients and I am working on a system so it is 1:1 (eg: Not have more than 1 instance of the same ingredient worded slightly differently).

I will make an email blast to users when it is released.

Thanks for trying it out! :)

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Re:Ask HN: What's a good app for grocery management? by Odenwaelder on Friday April 07, 2017 @12:17PM (#14060961)
This is really nice, but also really buggy...
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Re:Ask HN: What's a good app for grocery management? by pantryplan on Friday April 07, 2017 @04:21PM (#14063192)
Ah, sorry! Yeah, there are definitely a few unfortunately.

Thanks for trying it out though! :) Do you remember what the bugs are so I can fix them?

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Re:Ask HN: What's a good app for grocery management? by Odenwaelder on Saturday April 08, 2017 @02:41AM (#14065674)
A big one is that I seem to be unable to add my own groceries. I type the name, a list appears, but it won't be saved. Sometimes, a page loads indefinitely.
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Re:Ask HN: What's a good app for grocery management? by ParameterOne on Thursday April 06, 2017 @09:06PM (#14056208)
signed up, checking it out
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