What you find when you tidy up
Three out-of-date yoghurts and an open bag of rice from a year ago. By the time it turns up, there's nothing to be done.
Pantry
Find out before you throw it away
Food gets thrown away at home for a very simple reason: nobody knows what's at the back of the cupboard until it's already past its date.
What happens without it
Buying what you already have
Without knowing what's left at home, you buy just in case. And what was already there goes off anyway.
How it gets sorted
It warns twice and no more
When it comes within three days, and on the day itself. What's already past doesn't warn again: nagging every morning about the yoghurt nobody threw out is the quickest way to get the alerts that matter ignored too.
One alert, not fifteen
After the weekly shop, fifteen things can come into range at once. They're grouped into a single alert per home: “3 items go off today”, with the names inside.
It refills when you do the shop
When you close the shop, what you bought goes into the pantry with its quantity. There's no second list to keep.
And what runs out goes back on the list
If you set a minimum on an item, when it drops below that it reappears on the shopping list on its own.
The full cycle
- You buy itWhen the shop closes, the items go into the pantry.
- You give it a dateTo whatever goes off —the fish, the dairy— as you put it away.
- It warns in timeThree days before and on the day. With room to use it, not to bin it.
- It goes back on the listWhatever drops below the minimum reappears for the next shop.
Questions
- Do I have to enter everything in the house?
- No, and we don't recommend it. What's worth entering is what goes off and what can't run out. A full pantry inventory is work nobody keeps up for more than a fortnight.
- What time does it warn?
- In the morning, at 08:30 and in your home's time zone, which is when something can still be done: use it at lunch or write it down. An alert at ten at night is only good for binning the thing.
- Can I turn these alerts off?
- Yes, per person and per home. Someone might want their flat to tell them everything and their family house nothing.
Start free, no card
Setting up a home takes under a minute, and you decide later whether you need anything more.