iPhone app PivotList - grocery shopping

A new way to look at your grocery shopping list.

Perfect if you plan your grocery shopping by recipes.

The problem:

- When meal planning - we create recipes, with products under each recipe.

however

- When shopping in the supermarket - we need to see products, with recipes under each product.

The solution:

PivotList allows you to do exactly this - view the same recipes and products, but in two different ways, depending on what makes sense in the moment.

Explanation with example:

Imagine youre planning a grocery shopping.

You have some recipes:

You would do something like:

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Guacamole

- avocados

- tomatoes

- onion

- lime juice

Avocado toast

- sliced bread

- avocados

- extra virgin olive oil

Spring salad

- cucumber

- tomatoes

- extra virgin olive oil

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You go to the supermarket and now youre in the fruit & veg area, buying tomatoes.
You need to scroll up and down your grocery list to see all the recipes which mention tomatoes (and when you put them in your basket - you need to tick them from all the different places where they appear).

Thats annoying and unnecessary.
(In this very small example its not an issue, but with 7+ recipes, each with 5+ ingredients and a few repetitions - it gets annoying quickly)

PivotList solves the issue by allowing you to pivot the data - so that the same shopping list shown above can be viewed like this:

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avocados

- Guacamole

- Avocado toast

tomatoes

- Guacamole

- Spring salad

extra virgin olive oil

- Avocado toast

- Spring salad

(list continues with all the products that are part of a single recipe, e.g.
onion, lime juice, sliced bread, cucumber)

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Now you can clearly see all the recipes for which you need tomatoes.

Try it out for yourself!

Note:

Not only for grocery shopping!

In the examples above were talking only about culinary recipes, but PivotList could be just as useful for other lists.

Questions, suggestions, issues?

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