Fw: Need help to automate my food management.

[Gareth Cook <g@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Worth swiping one of those sainsburys hand held things to see if you
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reverse-engineer it :-)

Of course, youd take it back afterwards.

G.

Gareth Cook
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ukha_d@xxxxxxx
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What this would require is a database of barcodes though, does such a=20
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exist and is it compressive enough?

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-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] 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.

It would actually really help us. My wife does the waitrose shop every=20
sunday night but the nanny uses most of the food up in the week for the=20
kids

so by the time I get involved usuing up a few things she really has no=20
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what we need. If there was a list ready and waiting of what had gone it=20
would make life much easier.

Chris


>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 ebay for =A310
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>Everything you scan looks like a keyboard input. Or use a serial
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>and
>one of the input interfaces. Either way a simple piece of software
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even
>Excel will do the job).
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>Next up the scale is to get a secondhand Palm PDA with built in scanner
>- again
>these are around secondhand, made by Symbol. There's software, such as
>Scanlite, which will do the job and Hotsync the list into whatever
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>want.
>
>At the top end, one of the new Windows 2003 PDA's from Intermec,
Symbol,
>et al., have a scanner and WiFi built in. You can scan into a browser
>application
>_and_ use them for home automation control. But not cheap.
>
>There are a number of failed companies in the retail industry that have
>tried keyring
>scanners, etc., but not got anywhere.
>
>And the big question, do you really want the same can of beans again?
>
>Lehane
>
>christopher purves wrote:
> > I would be very interested in this. Ideally a scanner in the
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>that
> > you zap barcodes of stuff we have run out of thatg build a
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>list.
> > Something like that.
> >
> > 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 Tommorows
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>TV
> >> in the 80's. I even remember them talking about being able to
press a
> >> button
> >> on a TV trailer and have it added to a schedule. Well god
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> >> years, and I see Sky now have this feature !
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> >> Anyway, back to the topic.
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> >> I'm your bog standard bloke. Stuck at home with no idea
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>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
barcodes and=20
have

>the
> >> fridge suggest recipes. But can anyone recommend anything
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> >> today?
> >>
> >> I've only seen one website where you can enter ingredients
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>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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