RE: Need help to automate my food management.

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

A couple of things that cropped up as issues last time that you may also
wish to consider were things like:

If you buy a dozen eggs and scan in the barcode for that then how do you
"scan out" just one egg?

If you buy - say - meat or cheese from the deli ... How do you keep track
o=
f
that as you'd need to decode the barcode which has both the product ID and
price embedded in it.

Phil

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> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]=20
> On Behalf Of Stuart Billinghurst
> Sent: 14 March 2006 09:50
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Need help to automate my food management.
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> What this would require is a database of barcodes though,=20
> does such a thing exist and is it compressive enough?
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> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]=20
> On Behalf Of christopher purves
> Sent: 14 March 2006 09:40
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Need help to automate my food management.
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> It would actually really help us. My wife does the waitrose=20
> shop every sunday night but the nanny uses most of the food=20
> up in the week for the kids
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> so by the time I get involved usuing up a few things she=20
> really has no idea what we need. If there was a list ready=20
> and waiting of what had gone it would make life much easier.
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> >From: Lehane Kellett <lehane@xxxxxxx>
> >Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> >To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> >Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Need help to automate my food management.
> >Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 09:30:58 +0000
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> >Lots of ways to do it, depending on cost and effort-
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> >Add a 'keyboard wedge' scanner to a PC, these come up on=20
> ebay for =A310 up.
> >Everything you scan looks like a keyboard input. Or use a
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> >scanner and one of the input interfaces. Either way a simple=20
> piece of=20
> >software (or even Excel will do the job).
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> >Next up the scale is to get a secondhand Palm PDA with built=20
> in scanner
> >- again
> >these are around secondhand, made by Symbol. There's=20
> software, such as=20
> >Scanlite, which will do the job and Hotsync the list into=20
> whatever you=20
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> >At the top end, one of the new Windows 2003 PDA's from
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> >browser application _and_ use them for home automation=20
> control. But not=20
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> >There are a number of failed companies in the retail=20
> industry that have=20
> >tried keyring scanners, etc., but not got anywhere.
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> >And the big question, do you really want the same can of beans
again?
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> >Lehane
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> >christopher purves wrote:
> > > I would be very interested in this. Ideally a scanner in=20
> the kitchen
> >that
> > > you zap barcodes of stuff we have run out of thatg build=20
> a shopiing
> >list.
> > > Something like that.
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> > > C
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> > >
> > >> From: Andy <andysideas@xxxxxxx>
> > >> Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > >> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > >> Subject: [ukha_d] Need help to automate my food
management.
> > >> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 21:36:30 +0000
> > >>
> > >> We've all seen 'the tech house of the future' on TV
shows.
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> > >> It seems to me that I've been waiting ever since
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> > >> in the 80's. I even remember them talking about being=20
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> > >> a button on a TV trailer and have it added to a=20
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> > >> years, and I see Sky now have this feature !
> > >>
> > >> Anyway, back to the topic.
> > >>
> > >> I'm your bog standard bloke. Stuck at home with no idea
what
> >ingredients I
> > >> have in stock, and even once I've sifted through the
cupboards I=20
> > >> still don't know what to cook !
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> > >> So I know we're not there yet where were are able zap=20
> barcodes and=20
> > >> have
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> >the
> > >> fridge suggest recipes. But can anyone recommend
anything that is
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> > >> today?
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> > >> I've only seen one website where you can enter
ingredients and=20
> > >> search
> >for
> > >> recipes, but its pretty rubbish.
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> > >>
> > >> Hope I've got the question across in this long winded
email......
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