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)?
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 :)
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
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Haha
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.
I really like Our Groceries, but AFAIK it’s not self hosted nor foss
Correct, it is not.
Seconded for Our Groceries. The sync between devices is great and I LOVE the barcode scanning.
I will have a look into it.
I’ve used Homechart for a while, does lists, plans, budgets and a bunch of other stuff.
That sounds like it is very complex, but the interface seems nice. I will have a look.
I’m using Mealie for this, and so far suits my needs
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
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.
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.)
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.
Obsidian?
Interesting thought. I found this blog post, but I think this is not what I’m looking for.
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 :)
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.
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
Can’t wait to tell my wife she has to create a merge request to change our plans for tonight. 😉
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.
I’ve decided that I just want to go with a pure grocery list app that doesn’t have anything extra, so I tested a few apps. I ended up with listonic and we’ve been using it for over a year now. Maybe it’s what you’re looking for!
