Americans that have a rainy day food storage are seeing food and money go to waste because they do not have an easy way to track their food purchases, organize their current food storage inventory, and track expiration dates of food products so that they can consume the food before it expires. What food buyers need is a way to track and organize food items that they purchase for storage. We want to enable this with a mobile application that has the following key features:
Buyers can automatically populate the tracking tool with food type, amount, expiration date etc. by scanning in an item so they do not have to manually enter in the data
Maintaining an up-to-date list of current food items in storage
List will be easily accessible while out shopping or at home
List will be easily accessible while out shopping or at home
Ability to share list with other family members via application or static list
Alerting buyers of upcoming food expirations
Ability to sort list by expiration date, scan-in date, item name, etc.
Recipe suggestions for soon-to-be expiring food in storage
Ultimately, it is important for families and individuals to have a solution to help them use the food in their long term storage before it goes bad in order to save thousands of dollars on food costs and more efficiently utilize the available food resources.
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Prototype
Task 1 - User’s ability to add and view food storage inventory conveniently.
Options View
Scan Barcode Screen
Scan Successful View
View of Current Inventory
Task 2 - Providing users with expiration date information and alerts regarding upcoming expiration dates.
