I am currently using Bring! with my wife to organize our grocery shopping. I am looking for a self hosted alternative.
I looked at the awesome self-hosted list and tried Specifically Clementines and of course Grocy. I like that Grocy also includes meal planning although the whole inventory management is too much for us. What I don’t like is the interface for both of them. I don’t see us using this while in the store with a kid on the arm. It is way too fiddly and complicated. Also adding new items to the list is rather complicated in both apps.
Do you have any suggestions for other projects with a more user friendly interface (even if it means less features)?
Another thought: I use grocy (or at least try to use it) to have an overview of my stock and know when an open item in the fridge neeeds to be used before spoiling. But I just use a shared note on nextcloud for shopping, which is good enough for two people. But of course there is no meal planning or recipe management
I’ve been extremely fond of “Our Groceries” for many years. It strikes a sweet spot between features and simplicity of use, and the devs are very responsive and have added several features after my suggestions. Really the only downside right now is that it can’t use the front facing camera on my wall mounted android tablet for scanning barcodes.
We switched to Kitchen Owl and it works out okay. The recipe management is nice in theory, but doesn’t work well for most of our recipe sources (because of parsing issues most websites aren’t recognized and ingredient amounts are not parsed correctly for German recipes), but we usually just create an empty recipe with a link to the original. This isn’t perfect - in hindsight we should have stayed with Bring! because it just works better. We are hoping that the issues will be fixed sometime in the future although I am not sure what to expect…
Ran into a similar conundrum. We use mealie for recipe management and occasionally meal planning, but the shopping list is clunky. We resorted to just making a list on a card in Planks. Not purpose-built, but it has worked rather well for us.
I like the recipe management, but I dislike the grocery list for the same reason I don’t like Grocy. It is just too complex and hard to use in the store.
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I’ve used Homechart for a while, does lists, plans, budgets and a bunch of other stuff.
https://homechart.app/
That sounds like it is very complex, but the interface seems nice. I will have a look.
It serves as a nice aggregate hub for a lot of household tasks, although I mostly use it for the lists and recipes at this time.
I really like KitchenOwl’s shopping list interface, native iOS app, and OIDC integration. I haven’t used the budgeting or meal planning functions yet.
Obsidian?
Interesting thought. I found this blog post, but I think this is not what I’m looking for.
Another thought: I use grocy (or at least try to use it) to have an overview of my stock and know when an open item in the fridge neeeds to be used before spoiling. But I just use a shared note on nextcloud for shopping, which is good enough for two people. But of course there is no meal planning or recipe management
Are there any tools that use published store ads to help with local sales when shopping?
It’s not foss or self hostable, but Flipp does this. Pulls weekly ads you can compare.
I’m using Mealie for this, and so far suits my needs
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I’ve been extremely fond of “Our Groceries” for many years. It strikes a sweet spot between features and simplicity of use, and the devs are very responsive and have added several features after my suggestions. Really the only downside right now is that it can’t use the front facing camera on my wall mounted android tablet for scanning barcodes.
Seconded for Our Groceries. The sync between devices is great and I LOVE the barcode scanning.
I really like Our Groceries, but AFAIK it’s not self hosted nor foss
Correct, it is not.
I will have a look into it.
For meal planning and shopping lists, grocy os completely overkill.
You could look at Kitchen Owl, it even looks like bring! and you can use meal planning :)
We switched to Kitchen Owl and it works out okay. The recipe management is nice in theory, but doesn’t work well for most of our recipe sources (because of parsing issues most websites aren’t recognized and ingredient amounts are not parsed correctly for German recipes), but we usually just create an empty recipe with a link to the original. This isn’t perfect - in hindsight we should have stayed with Bring! because it just works better. We are hoping that the issues will be fixed sometime in the future although I am not sure what to expect…
Huh, sad to hear. Do the recipe sources have the recipe markup or is it parsed directly from html?
It looks promising. Thanks for the suggestion.
Been using it for a few months. It’s pretty good. A few annoying things, but my wife and I have figured out how to make it work for us
How do you do the ingredients for a recipe? Does it understand “1tbsp” and things like that?
Haven’t used recipes yet, just the grocery list
Sigh. Time to give it a crack. I was happy with bring! Now i need to change
Hehe
Haha
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https://github.com/davideshay/groceries
Update: We switched to Kitchen Owl as suggested in the comments.
Ran into a similar conundrum. We use mealie for recipe management and occasionally meal planning, but the shopping list is clunky. We resorted to just making a list on a card in Planks. Not purpose-built, but it has worked rather well for us.
I really like tandoor reciepe. Maybe not exactly what your are looking for, but who knows :).
I like how the meal planner works and that you can save your own meal reciepes, add them to a grocery list…
BUT it is maybe a bit too complex and to much features?
I like the recipe management, but I dislike the grocery list for the same reason I don’t like Grocy. It is just too complex and hard to use in the store.
Yeah, I know !
How I do it:
I bought a mobile holder for bicycles, and put it on the cart when I’m in the store. It works, its not perfect but I does what I need !
But i totally agree that the grocery list could be better integrated, but it’s FOSS, self-hosted and free. So I’m happy :)