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by carrigan 2975 days ago
Thank you very much! I'd love to hear about what you come up with for recipe management.
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Right now I'm going very low tech for recipe management...I send a DM to my SO on slack. That's most of what we use the DM for, an archive of things we've made. We mostly need a bigger screen in the kitchen that stays on while making a recipe. A Microsoft Surface we have laying around will be used for that.

I'd like to do a database of products purchase, purchase date, price paid, scan a barcode and mark it as consumed, and calculate typical consumption rate of the products.

I will keep things pretty simple, either a sqlite database that stays local or a LAMP setup so I've got access to an inventory list at the store along with "price check" functionality.

I'm working on this idea too! Hit me up on gmail! Love to chat.
Apparently many grocery store chains offer APIs where you would be able to download information on what you bought. Anybody know more on this?
I checked Aldi and two regional grocery stores near me...no public API. One does have a delivery service, but that API is closed off it looks like.