The Pantry App brings more order and organization to food storage. The app offers two key benefits: It helps prevent food from going unnoticed past its expiration date, resulting in less waste. And it allows you to strategically build up supplies for specific periods during times of crisis.
The Pantry App Provides Clarity & Control
Whether it’s the basement, pantry, freezer, or garage—gone are the days when food could hide undiscovered for months in the farthest corners of shelves and drawers: With the help of the Pantry App , you can comprehensively track all your supplies and view their best-by dates. Even those who want to build up specific stockpiles—for example, to prepare for “shopping-free periods”—are well-equipped with this app.
- The Speisekammer app is designed to track the food supplies of a household or community, record their storage location and best-by dates, and thus provide an up-to-date overview of the stock situation.
- Food items whose best-by dates are about to expire are flagged. Users can then incorporate these into their meal plan as soon as possible. This helps app users avoid so-called food waste—that is, having to throw food away.
- For everyday meal planning, it’s important to know what’s in the house. With the help of the Speiskammer app—provided it’s kept up to date—you get a precise overview of which foods are available for cooking and which you still need to buy.
- Thoughtful and well-managed pantry management makes a difference in your wallet: less food is wasted, and you shop more strategically. Another benefit: shopping planning and time spent at the store become much more efficient.
- Times of crisis—such as lockdown measures like those during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020—can be managed more easily if your pantry management is planned transparently—at the very least, you shouldn’t fall into a calorie deficit. The Pantry App calculates the necessary energy intake for a specific period based on the age, gender, height, and weight of the people living in your household.
- The only extra effort required to maintain the database is this: When shopping, you must register the products and assign them a storage location, and when you use them, delete the item from the database.
Special Features of the App
The Speisekammer app is a web application that has been available for free since September 2019. In this version, anyone can test the basic features—for an unlimited time. However, the number of products is limited to a total of 30. Most households exceed this storage limit. If you want more, you can sign up for a Speisekammer Premium subscription or, for up to five people, the Family subscription.
- The great thing about the Speisekammer app: it’s not overwhelming for anyone, yet the system still offers plenty of sophisticated features for tech-savvy users. Creating typical individual storage locations is easy using simple icons. At the same time, the Premium version offers the option to differentiate between many different storage locations.
- Registering your pantry items is very quick using your phone’s barcode scanner. The data, images, package sizes, and nutritional information are provided via the open-source database from OpenFoodFacts.org.
- If a food item isn’t listed there, all details can be entered manually via the input form. Adding personal photos of the product is also possible with a Premium subscription.
- Especially smart: The Speisekammer app runs both as a web app and, since late October 2021, as a native app on iOS and Android systems. This allows users to view their inventory simultaneously across a variety of user interfaces.
- It’s rare for just one person to handle all the shopping. With data synced across a single account, information is instantly updated and displayed on every device, no matter where users are. This makes it easy to avoid duplicate or excessive purchases by different shoppers.
- The Speisekammer app’s roadmap sets the direction. And there’s still plenty in the pipeline that can make everyday kitchen life and household chaos less stressful in the future, such as the automatic creation of shopping lists based on inventory analysis.
- Equally appealing: The app’s developers are already considering integrating recipe suggestions. When a food item’s expiration date approaches, users can quickly find a suitable way to use it in a meal. Subscribers automatically get to enjoy all the app’s new features.
- Incidentally, the app isn’t just for food. Personal care products like shampoos, toothpaste, sunscreen, and the like, as well as medical products, can also be entered into a personal database, managed, and tracked using this app.
