There’s a store like half a block from my apartment, so I just treat it like an external pantry.
I keep a list that is shared/synced with my s/o via a self-hosted KitchenOwl instance. I’ve been slowly porting my recipes over to it as well. Overall very satisfied and it works well.
Yep, this method works really well in a busy schedule.
My spouse and I use iOS so we share lists that we dictate to: “add onions to the grocery list” or “add vitamin c to the pharmacy list” is pretty adhd friendly, and updated live so if one is shopping, that’s inevitably when we remember something and the other one of us can update the list without texting.
I like kitchen owl, but have to use iOS for various reasons, and it’s pretty low friction, even autoorganizing the list by section of store to make it easier when roaming the aisles.
All our recipes are in print or our heads at this point so we don’t need a list-from-recipe feature.
And just like that, I found a replacement for bring…
Now to convince the wife. Any QoL improvements?
When I first deployed to my VPS the iOS client would keep auto updating and then refusing to connect to the older version deployed (android client had no issues) - they were pushing updates often. I setup a chron job to pull the latest docker image and restart the containers, no more problems. Dunno if that is still necessary or not.
Same, but we use OneNote.
Christ, why is everything a fucking docker image these days?
Maintainability and reproducibility by the software maintainers.
It does have several package formats on their github.
My family always made a very careful list which was followed when grocery shopping.
Now that I do my own shopping I also make a list, on my phone though. I note down only the very essentials and leave most things open to what I can find whenever I get to shop. For example, I really need eggs and deodorant so I write that, but if I need veg I don’t list the type of veg, I just note “veg on special” and make my choice on the spot.
A little of both. As a mom you get used to doing a mental inventory of what you have and what you need to create meals for everyone while trying to reduce waste
Yes
Finally an answer I can relate to.
Wing it
I did worse than wing it actually… half of the groceries I got over the past few weeks were from Too Good To Go, so near-expired food that the grocery store winged-it for me💀
Maybe I should check out their grocery options. I’ve mostly been using Too Good to Go for like a pizza @ $4.
Grocery list and I take a pen along and mark everything off when it goes into the cart.
Yeah, I’m old.
I’d love to have a database with all my recipes with ingredients and add them at a click of the button. The problem is I have a fairly well stocked kitchen and I still need to go through the list anyway to make sure I’m not buying anything I already have. So having a computerized system really doesn’t save me any time.
I make a menu that includes two breakfasts (6 and 9 am) a lunch (11) and six dinners. I account for what i have and list the rest of the needs. Then i go shopping and add two treats(for snacking or dessert) and two beverages (oj, pop, prebrewed coffee, rtc) and a freezer pizza.
If i have to go back that week for anything, i fucked up.
two breakfasts
I stopped winging it after all too often ending up with both a fridge full of rotting produce and yet also nothing to eat. Turns out grocery shopping needs some strategy that I can’t do without help.
AnyList has been an awesome tool for me. It’s got all my recipes, a meal plan building to sketch out the next week, and builds a shopping list so I can only buy the things I will for sure cook with.
It’s also made me realize I’m not about to buy fresh herbs or green onions when they’re only going to be used as a bit of garnish for one dish.
For me the meal planning is more important than the shopping list.
Even with a list I still may get a bunch of random stuff and no meals. But if I know what meals I want to make, I can do a decent job even winging it
It’s a bit of both. We do have a list with the staple items and foods we buy and we check it to see if our pantry needs refilling but other than than we just take what we think would be good and/or useful
yes. I have this botepad on the fridge whenever I notice something is needed I write it down and when I go to the store I just grab that list, anything I didn’t/couldn’t get I try to write back down. I tend to forget to get the list so I half wing usually to poor results
Both.
My grocery list is just to prevent me forgetting the main points. So three items on the list “cat litter, dinner somehow, bake a cake” turns into any number of things bought as I decide on what to make for dinner and which cake to bake while shopping.
List
I make a list of the things I need, organized by the places I need to stop and buy them and a list of the things I need to do
