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...
Once Grocy was installed there were two pieces of housekeeping to do to it before it could help with the housekeeping. The first was to localise it and the second to drop out unwanted features of the program to create a more streamlined interface. All of the information on how to complete this is on the Documentation tab (red circle) and the alterations are made on the Configuration tab (green circle). The instructions in the Configuration section of the Documentation tab look a little daunting at first. But there is no need to tackle all of them in the first instance and, from my reading, there didn't seem to be any reason why the settings can't be altered at a later date if need be. To localise Grocy only the culture and currency options on the Configuration page need to be altered. The program defaults are for USD and US English ( en ). To get proper money and the King's English it was just a matter of typing in the 3-letter currency code GBP and choosi...