Hey all, I’m trying to be a little more economical and reduce the amount of food I waste, and was wondering if there were any open-source apps that can track the best-before dates of the foods I buy so I can improve my meal-planning.
I saw that there’s Best-Before on F-Droid, but the last release was in July 2022, and I was curious if there was something more actively maintained.
This popped up on my F-Droid homescreen:
Food Expirations (Remember all the expiration dates of your food stocks.)
Not sure why, but it’s not appearing either in the app or on a desktop browser for me. The link you provided leads to a 404.
On mine it’s only available from the Izzy repo, not the main fdroid one.
Edit: Here’s the source code. Try with either Izzy or Obtainium to install.
Oh thanks! First time adding a new repo to Fdroid. It works now, thanks a million!
You can still eat it after the ‘best before’ date. It might not be best, but it doesn’t immediately turn into poison.
I’m aware, just figured it would be a good idea to prioritize those things first, and also use the information I gain to figure out how arbitrary the dates given are.
For example, while logging my spice cabinet just now with the Food Expirations app, I saw that there were a few that were past due that I’m going to look into with how much longer they’d be good for.
