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AppleJacks

Contributing Member
I don't need help - just used the prefix per the forum guidelines as I am asking a few questions.

"My Pantry Tracker is a free app that helps you keep your pantry organized by keeping a detailed inventory. You can keep track of quantity, expiration dates, prices, and more. Pantry item data is quickly and easily added to the app by scanning item barcodes with your device's camera! Item data is pulled from our massive online UPC code database filled with millions of items. My Pantry Tracker app is available on mobile for iPhone and Android, as well as right in your web browser using our specialized web browser app."

So anyone using this app? My Pantry Tracker Mobile & Web App It sounds useful and interests me buttttttttt I am hesitant to tell whoever what I have. It's possible I have lived long enough to become an old fuddy duddy. Maybe without the cloud usage it is less intrusive. Any input?

Thanks
 
helen

helen

Panic Sex Lady
AppleJacks said:
I don't need help - just used the prefix per the forum guidelines as I am asking a few questions.

"My Pantry Tracker is a free app that helps you keep your pantry organized by keeping a detailed inventory. You can keep track of quantity, expiration dates, prices, and more. Pantry item data is quickly and easily added to the app by scanning item barcodes with your device's camera! Item data is pulled from our massive online UPC code database filled with millions of items. My Pantry Tracker app is available on mobile for iPhone and Android, as well as right in your web browser using our specialized web browser app."

So anyone using this app? My Pantry Tracker Mobile & Web App It sounds useful and interests me buttttttttt I am hesitant to tell whoever what I have. It's possible I have lived long enough to become an old fuddy duddy. Maybe without the cloud usage it is less intrusive. Any input?

Thanks
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To answer your question, get a cheap notebook and keep a rough running tally. You can inventory more closely whenever you like. Inventory comparisons will let you see at a glance which items you use more quickly.

Hope that helps.
 
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Luddite

Veteran Member
when something is free, YOU&your info are the medium of exchange

They probably target adds to you or send your information to marketing groups.

I don't think your purchases go straight to fema.;)

A couple of my brood use some kind of app where they take photos of all their receipts. They get some kind of credit for the exercise.

If that convenience seems valuable to YOU, use it with little worry.

As mentioned above, a good pencil, paper and willpower does the same job.

You would need to document OUT inventory same as IN. How could taking pictures while you cook be easier than a clipboard and pencil?
 
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Granny Franny

Granny Franny

Senior Member
I'm with most of the others here, pen and notebook is best. I use electronic apps for a few things, but am very selective in what I put there. Anything you put in an app can be accessed by the government with a warrant, and sometimes even without a warrant - kinda like the whole NSA Snowden debacle.
 
Hfcomms

Hfcomms

EN66iq
I wouldn't have a problem with an app like this in scanning and tracking my food storage program. I think you have the option of uploading to the cloud so you can track on multiple devices or it will just keep the database on your device. Problem for me would be it would take a very long time for me to scan and log all my stuff and since a lot of it is older it would be interesting to see if the UPC labels are accurate and whether or not the manufacturing date is included in the UPC label. Don't think so but don't know.

Everything publicly available on me leads to an address different from where I live as well as my ISP doesn't give a location even remotely close to where I live. I think it might be a great app for anyone just starting out but if you have a lot of stuff it would take a bit of time to scan everything all in.
 
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raven

TB Fanatic
OMG, is your pantry like a grocery store? How many different items can you have?
Beans - number of pounds
Spam - number of cans
Beer - number of barrels
Flour - keto means zero
sugar - see flour

done - how hard is that?
 
Millwright

Millwright

Knuckle Dragger
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raven said:
OMG, is your pantry like a grocery store? How many different items can you have?
Beans - number of pounds
Spam - number of cans
Beer - number of barrels
Flour - keto means zero
sugar - see flour

done - how hard is that?
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Look a little bit deeper.

3 fridges, 3 freezers, LTS and bulk, canned, freeze dried, etc.


If the above is all you have, it may be a good thing.

It won't take long for the zombies to ignore you...too skinny to mess with. :D
 
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FireDance

TB Fanatic
psychgirl said:
I personally prefer just making my own handwritten lists.
I love making lists.

The problem is how well I follow them and keep up lol!
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Gosh. You may need to check out your OCD-ness.

Lol. I too prefer to keep a list by hand. I also like to take a clipboard to oh, the vets, my mechanic’s, the doc’s. Anywhere I need to remember some trivia.

My clipboard has an area for extra paper or cramming notes into it as I go along. I used it in school, but it didn’t work well there. It’s great for this though.

It seems to be a great intimidation tactic in certain situations. You can actually get notes from almost all those places, but my car guy? He really doesn’t like that I write all his BS down w date and time. Then I scribe a handy dandy notebook and take it all back with 8 x 10 glossies and well, even though it would probably fall under a he said/she said thing in court it just keeps his EXTREMELY large tales a bit in line. He tells many trivial stories about lots of things, not just cars. (Let me tell you about his drone.)

I Scribble looking as witchy and serious as I can during these times and then ask questions that I generally don’t need to know; scribble those and store in my compartment. Then THEY wonder what they just said that was so important.

Yes, you could record, but I find the other method more interesting. Besides, it keeps me occupied while blabbing continues.

I have also had doc notes come in and they will say that they discussed x with me when they just made that up so it doesn’t look like we talked about dogs and kids almost the entire time to the insurance ppl. All that goes together with lab results so I can see what is going on later down the road.

I don’t especially like this idea of the app. Too many hands in the soup. And with all the things that have been sucked down from the ether and used against people, well no. I don’t think I’d bother. Nothing is free.

Please PM me if you would like to donate loose leaf paper to my cause.
 
psychgirl

psychgirl

Has No Life - Lives on TB
FireDance said:
Gosh. You may need to check out your OCD-ness.

Lol. I too prefer to keep a list by hand. I also like to take a clipboard to oh, the vets, my mechanic’s, the doc’s. Anywhere I need to remember some trivia.

My clipboard has an area for extra paper or cramming notes into it as I go along. I used it in school, but it didn’t work well there. It’s great for this though.

It seems to be a great intimidation tactic in certain situations. You can actually get notes from almost all those places, but my car guy? He really doesn’t like that I write all his BS down w date and time. Then I scribe a handy dandy notebook and take it all back with 8 x 10 glossies and well, even though it would probably fall under a he said/she said thing in court it just keeps his EXTREMELY large tales a bit in line. He tells many trivial stories about lots of things, not just cars. (Let me tell you about his drone.)

I Scribble looking as witchy and serious as I can during these times and then ask questions that I generally don’t need to know; scribble those and store in my compartment. Then THEY wonder what they just said that was so important.

Yes, you could record, but I find the other method more interesting. Besides, it keeps me occupied while blabbing continues.

I have also had doc notes come in and they will say that they discussed x with me when they just made that up so it doesn’t look like we talked about dogs and kids almost the entire time to the insurance ppl. All that goes together with lab results so I can see what is going on later down the road.

I don’t especially like this idea of the app. Too many hands in the soup. And with all the things that have been sucked down from the ether and used against people, well no. I don’t think I’d bother. Nothing is free.

Please PM me if you would like to donate loose leaf paper to my cause.
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Nope.
I done used all my note paper up, especially the lined, large size sticky notes.
The paper must be lined, preferably in a pretty color.
Those are the bomb.

Thanks for asking!
:flngl:
 
Kathy in FL

Kathy in FL

Administrator
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AppleJacks said:
I don't need help - just used the prefix per the forum guidelines as I am asking a few questions.

"My Pantry Tracker is a free app that helps you keep your pantry organized by keeping a detailed inventory. You can keep track of quantity, expiration dates, prices, and more. Pantry item data is quickly and easily added to the app by scanning item barcodes with your device's camera! Item data is pulled from our massive online UPC code database filled with millions of items. My Pantry Tracker app is available on mobile for iPhone and Android, as well as right in your web browser using our specialized web browser app."

So anyone using this app? My Pantry Tracker Mobile & Web App It sounds useful and interests me buttttttttt I am hesitant to tell whoever what I have. It's possible I have lived long enough to become an old fuddy duddy. Maybe without the cloud usage it is less intrusive. Any input?

Thanks
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I use an excel spread sheet created many moons ago by I forget who. I have customized it repeatedly. All of the formula are already in the correct "cells" so all I have to do when adding a new item is copy and paste. It has columns for Goal Amount, How Much On Hand, and Still Need. You tell it how many people you have adults/children, and pets.

However, the one thing about an inventory is this ... it is only useful if you keep it up to date.

So this is what I do. I track long term storage items that don't get used in our regular meal plans. That has become fewer and fewer items as I enforce "store what you eat, eat what you store" but a general idea of how much "extry" I have does help for the quarterly review and restock.

And I don't just track food but things like toothbrushes, hygiene supplies, medications and supplements, unopened cleaning supplies, etc. This is where the primary problem lies for our household. Everyone has access to this stuff and gets into it without letting me know it so my inventory is always off by quite a bit.
 
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