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ThunderSizzleyesterday at 3:23 PM0 repliesview on HN

Not really. Groceries have to be planned based on existing pantry state (current manual analysis), and future desired meals. Then produce a delta of what you have and what you want for those different meals.

Then you have a shopping list. You can do the shopping digitally now a days, but once it's delivered, now you have to organize it into the pantry existing stock, probably with a way to ensure older items are used first. This might involve separating out certain ingredients into smaller packaging and freezing some for later use.

That is all very manual, and I don't see how digitizing one part greatly simplifies it, especially if the digitization is error prone.

In a high enough income state, the answer is you hire a personal household chef or something like that. That isn't digitizing the problem- that is outsourcing it.