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My house has, on occasion, toyed with the idea of making a piece of software to keep track of what we have on hand and match it with dishes that would use these
by kd0amg 16y ago
My house has, on occasion, toyed with the idea of making a piece of software to keep track of what we have on hand and match it with dishes that would use these ingredients, but it always seems like keeping the inventory up to date would be a large enough component of the work that it's not worth doing.
- sophacles 16y agoSo if you are willing to be anal enough to make sure things are always "in thier place" and have a few webcams to spare, you could have the webcams point at the food storage locations. This could do a large part of the inventory management automatically... at least have a "present/not present" bit for ingredients.
- calvarez 16y agoIs the primary problem that you're out of ingredients and don't realize it, or that you see a bunch of ingredients and aren't sure what to do with them?
- kd0amg 16y agoBoth are actually pretty frequent, but with a grocery store a block or so away, the latter is more of a problem. The current instance is chicken broth, a baguette, and spinach (and I returned home this afternoon to discover that somebody had bought more spinach), which are probably just going to get used for separate dishes.
- joh6nn 16y agothis works out a little better if you go shopping with recipes in mind. that way, as the days/weeks go by, and you're looking at the food on the shelves, you already know at least one recipe that they can be used for. this might be a little harder to keep working for an entire household (eg, someone doesn't get the memo that a particular ingredient is for a particular recipe), but that's perhaps something that can be solved internally