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My wife and I have tried several systems and applications at this point. We go grocery shopping together, just us, no kids. For us, the shopping experience is
by bnf 7y ago
My wife and I have tried several systems and applications at this point. We go grocery shopping together, just us, no kids. For us, the shopping experience is important. It's got to be fast and synchronize quickly.
My favorite app is listhero. https://listhero.de https://listhero.de Fast, simple and secure. Each list can easily be managed for adding new items, checking them off the list or recovering an item from a "recent items" (done/purchased). There's nothing too fancy here. The great feature is how fast the spa is.
But the list app is just where we share the info. It's our shared process which works best for us.
Everything on the list is grocery shopping related except for three lists: 'meals', 'pantry' and 'freezer'.
Could it be fancier? Could managing our meals automatically add items not in Pantry to our list? Maybe but those systems always seem too complicated and we've tried several (most recently 'plan to eat' which we paid an annual subscription). Getting the shopping right is paramount for us. Raw speed of the UI is the best feature of ListHero.
The Meals list is the heart of the process. We have 23 meals on there. If it's time to shop we can quickly decide on a few meals, check the pantry and freezer and then just add items we need to baking, grocery, meat, etc..., almost always by clicking an item from the 'Recent Entries' section.
If we were feeding larger groups of people with a restaurant or a college meal coop where we shared the cooking and managed volume orders I'd want something fancier that managed meals and ingredients and shopping a bit better.
But for my wife and I this relatively simple works great. Most of the recipes are in our heads. The list app helps us to manage a shared mental model. We enjoy our kitchen heartily.