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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    10 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 :)

  • noughtnaut@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    10 months ago

    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.

  • 0x0@social.rocketsfall.netEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    If you want to do a bit of engineering: CalDAV supports todo lists. I forget what server software I’ve got running, but I sync the list to my android phone via DAVx5 and tick off/add items via tasks. For other platforms you can just look for CalDAV-supported programs (most email apps.)

    • EarMaster@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      I don’t think that I will do this. It will most likely not be a better user experience than our current solution with Bring!

      But thank you for the suggestion.

    • Awe@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      This is what I have ended up running with nextcloud as the server.

      I also have home assistant syncing to CalDAV so that I can automatically create/remove tasks.

  • thisfro@slrpnk.netEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    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

  • StarkZarn@infosec.pubEnglish
    3·
    10 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
    41·
    10 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
      13·
      10 months ago

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

  • N0x0n@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    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?

    • EarMaster@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      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.

      • N0x0n@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        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 :)

    • root@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      It’s not foss or self hostable, but Flipp does this. Pulls weekly ads you can compare.