Re: Need help to automate my food management.

[Lehane Kellett <lehane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The retailers are, quite understandably, very protective about
their product files and prices.

So, no public database of bar codes, descriptions  and prices
for all the major supermarkets likely anytime soon.

Keeping any DIY database up to date with new products, flash
packs, product substitutes, WIGIG's etc., would be impossible.

And unless you always shop at the same place or buy branded,
the Tesco beans have a different bar code to the Sainsbury's...

Lehane



Stuart Billinghurst wrote:
>  What this would require is a database of barcodes though, does such a
>  thing exist and is it compressive enough?
>
>  Many thanks,
>
>  Stuart.
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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 sunday night but the nanny uses most of the food up in the week
>  for the kids
>
>  so by the time I get involved usuing up a few things she really has
>  no idea what we need. If there was a list ready and waiting of what
>  had gone it would make life much easier.
>
>  Chris
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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-
> >
> > Add a 'keyboard wedge' scanner to a PC, these come up on ebay for
> > =A310 up. Everything you scan looks like a keyboard input. Or use
a
> > serial scanner and one of the input interfaces. Either way a
simple
> > piece of software (or even Excel will do the job).
> >
> > 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 you 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
> >> kitchen
> > that
> >> you zap barcodes of stuff we have run out of thatg build a
> >> shopiing
> > list.
> >> Something like that.
> >>
> >> C
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> >>
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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
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> >>> 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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> >>> in the 80's. I even remember them talking about being
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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
what
> > ingredients I
> >>> have in stock, and even once I've sifted through the
cupboards
> >>> I still don't know what to cook !
> >>>
> >>> So I know we're not there yet where were are able zap
barcodes
> >>> and have
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> > the
> >>> fridge suggest recipes. But can anyone recommend anything
that
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> > possible
> >>> today?
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> >>> I've only seen one website where you can enter
ingredients and
> >>> search
> > for
> >>> recipes, but its pretty rubbish.
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> >>> Hope I've got the question across in this long winded
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