Should be easy to use, remember what I bought before and propose things that are probably running out (based on my personal buying frequency), and allow sharing the list between multiple people. Ideally also allow adding recipes for meals that I cook often.
At that point, you might as well get Mealie.
- Recipe manager (with online recipe parsing so you don’t have to read everyone’s life story)
- Equipment and ingredient lists per recipe
- Meal planner so you can plan out a week of meals
- Shopping lists by adding item by item or actually linking recipes and automatically importing all of the items
- Different users and access control, OIDC, backups, and most modern features.
I think out of the 3 kitchen and recipe managers I know, Grocy sounds most like it.
What I wish existed was a self-hosted version of OurGroceries.
If you want self hosted, I’d second all the Grocy comments. I don’t use it because it isn’t simple enough for my family, but I did like it.
I love OurGroceries!!! It’s so handy. ngl…the app would be worth an annual subscription and makes me wonder how they keep their app running with just a one-time payment.
I think the closest to you requirements will be Grocy. You can define list of products you use, current stock, rules to add product to the shopping list based on amount, what to do when you move product between storage locations (e.g. move from freezer to fridge), etc. There’s also a mobile app. Having said that I stopped using it after couple months. Few reasons: mobile app had no offline mode, mobile app was not compatible with the latest app server version, I had many issues setting up current stock (many times I had to manually adjust the amounts after using consume/purchase option). Overall I like the idea but it didn’t work for me.
