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Getting started with Grocy

Rather than jumping in headfirst and running amok in the cupboards with mobile apps and barcode scanning. I thought it was probably better to get the basics of Grocy sorted out, adding extra functionalities once the groundwork was laid. To start with I chose a single barcoded product that is either entirely unused or used, depending on whether beans on toast are on the menu. The menu options on the left are broken down into four groups; a Stock overview and Shopping list , which are concerned with what is and what should be in the cupboards; Recipes and Meal plan , to organise your food planning; Purchase , Consume , Transfer and Inventory , which are the basic operations used to manage stock levels; and Manage master data , which is a group of data table entry functions that are used to set up Grocy to organise your food stocks. Our first task, then, was to get baked beans added to the list of products that Grocy is managing. To do this I opened Manage master data > Produ...