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)?

  • thisfro@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    6 months ago

    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 :)

    • EarMaster@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      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…

      • thisfro@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Huh, sad to hear. Do the recipe sources have the recipe markup or is it parsed directly from html?

  • StarkZarn@infosec.pubEnglish
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    6 months ago

    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.

  • mlaga97@lemmy.mlaga97.spaceEnglish
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    6 months ago

    My partner and I use a pinned issue as our grocery list on our git repo for managing our household. All running on top of a self-hosted gitea instance.

    Great for being able to create git issues for honey-dos as well as having automations for creating issues for recurring tasks.

    “Hey we need to take X to the vet for Y sometime next week” “Oh yeah, can you go ahead and put in a ticket?” Amd vice versa

    • EarMaster@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Can’t wait to tell my wife she has to create a merge request to change our plans for tonight. 😉