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Do you make a grocery list, or do you just go to the store and wing it? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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[–] 5 points 10 months ago (8 children)

One thing I wish one of the grocery list apps could do was to store recipes, then you choose which recipes you want that day/week/month whenever you go shopping, it's smart enough to know if 3 recipes need flour only put flour on once, then go through and mark ingredients you already have.

Like I can put in a recipe for penne alla vodka or fettuccine alfrado then if I select penne alla vodka it adds : Penne pasta Vodka sauce Heavy cream Mozzarella cheese Parmesan cheese Sausage

Etc to the list. Then I say actually I already have heavy cream and mark it as not needed.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    That seems like a perfectly reasonable feature list!

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Do you know of anything that does this? I'm kinda tempted to sketch out a plan to do it myself but I already have a totally different project I'm working on and struggling with.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    I use Paprika on iOS, which does this.

    • import a recipe from any URL - including source, photos, nutritional info
    • keeps a database of recipes
    • create meals or calendars of recipes
    • generate a categorized grocery list

    I have a folder full of recipe files from before I got that, but haven’t really looked yet for anyway to import those

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    I don't know of anything like that, but it seems like parsing out multiple different formats for recipe ingredient lists would be one of the major obstacles to consistency and reliability.

    I don't know much about digital recipes, other than the crap that is various websites with their ingredient list obfuscation game.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah but I'm not even asking for that. I literally want a "start recipe" button... I enter each ingredient in separate text boxes... Optional "instruction" box to paste the instructions... Later I decide "on Tuesday let's have home made pizza, then on Wednesday we'll do beef tips and noodles" and I click a check box or type in recipe name, system sees ingredients I previously entered for that recipe and adds it to grocery list.

    No web scrapping or parsing needed. I will enter the ingredients for each recipe but I only want to enter it once

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago*

    Oh yeah, I get it. On iOS I use a simple database app called Collections that I really like, I use it for mileage tracking and certain kinds of journaling or lists that need extra features like a relational key or lookups or sketch or calculation fields etc. When I can’t find an app that does what I want.

    Basically a simple roll-yer-own approach. I haven’t looked into sharing the data dynamically, though. I think Collections is iOS only, probably similar apps galore on android. https://collectionsdb.com/

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