[Back to the overview](overview.md) # Question 9: Any suggestions for how to improve Shopping Lists? > Take a look at OurGroceries, it is awesome. but i guess it works a bit differently, but its very quick to add > Functionally it feels good in 1.x just some visual improvements would be nice. havent tried it out in 2.x yet > I am on 1.12.0, running in a browser (no PWA since I don't have HTTPS set up for my homelab). On mobile, shopping lists feel like thet take up a lot of space for each item, with the item name and amount, description, buttons for editing, showing the recipe the ingredient belongs to, and drag symbol. When on mobile in the store doing the shopping I really only need a checkbox, amount, and ingredient name. Maybe simplify the list and add a button for an "advanced" or "edit" mode? > Toggle showing or hiding notes imported from recipes. > Sort the ingredients and add up the quantity > Using AI to just describe the ingredients using natural language or upload a picture of the ingredients and then add them automatically to the shopping list > Per-store ordering of aisles (so the list is in order of where I plan to route throughout the store) > For me there's not much room for improvement, as I'm exporting the Shopping List into Home Assistants Shopping List. It does make sense for me, as Home Assistant offers me a local and privacy first voice assistant, that can add things to the Home Assistant Shopping List. Implementing such a feature would in my opinion not fit to Mealie. So I'd say, if you can improve the sync functionality for the shopping list in Mealie, it would be better than to try to "improve" to another voice assistant, this time for shopping lists andd recepies. Concentrate on what Mealie does really, really good: serving as a support app for all your food needs. But not for all the shopping needs. > - add a pole to write down a shop name with option to group products by that name - automatically categorize product by their kind ex. cheese, brewery, etc., with option to group them together > Make it look or feel more like Microsoft todo > Ability to add shopping list items in a conveniant way via Alexa, Siri or other speech. Although it is somehow possible with tags, I like shopping list, where I can order categories in the same order they are in a shop (e.g. vegetables, meat, drinks, spices, etc) so I have my list in the order of the shop and i can easiely work from top to bottom of my list while shopping > Maybe have some kind of household inventory in addition? > I don't use the Mealie shopping list as the stores I buy at have their own digital shopping lists in their apps. > Ingredient sterilization to make cleaner shopping lists > To me fetching recepies via url and importing them is the reason to use mealie. > I would like to see an option to set a custom label ordering per shopping list. Usecase: You have different supermarkets and for each a seperate shopping list. For the ordering of food could differ from store to store. Having the ability to re-order tags for a specific shopping list (market) would make handling this situation very convenient. A default order could be applied when creating new shopping lists > Unfortunately I've yet to use it. But I really like the idea of having it available to me once I use mealie fully. > I don't really use this feature (despite wanting to) as it is more convenient to share/sync a list with my partner on Google Keep > I cant access my Mealie outside my lcoal network as its not exposed, so It would be cool to have some sharing function so I can send the list to my phone, to someone who is at the store or to some other app, perhaps some notes or Google Keeps app (It would be even better if could be synced with some of these apps). This is something that was on my mind but I recently saw that the copy function was added which is great!! I would recommend putting all the action buttons on top of the list so I dont have to scroll to the bottom in order to perform the actions as an UX thing. I would also look forward to have it integrated with HAOS as most mealie users are self-hosted users who try to run everything locally and integrate it as much as possible, perhaps have a card for it with a sync button and the possibilty to add items through some assistant or at least to read it out loud when requested. > Unify measurements so there is no double ups of ingredients > add nutritional data, very important > I guess this would be more of a "units as a whole" thing, but I'd love to see a "Unit Conversion" thing as a whole. For example, in the shopping list, if Recipe A uses 500g Beef Mince, and another recipe uses 1kg of Beef Mince, the two would usually separate in to two Shopping List entries. It would be cool to see units combine where possible, like in the example above, the list would show either 1500g or 1.5kg Beef Mince > connections to 3rd party app / grocy > I'm still in the process of learning how best to use it, so not in a position to advise. > Little icons for each item Favorites List of regularly shopped items clearer iconography while entering a new item > 1. mass delete for Tags, i have over 300 tags and don't want to delete them all manually 2. look at this webpage (https://www.traeger.com/recipes/bbq-chicken-wings-3-wings) on the left hand side they have ingredient headings (with a different font size so it stands out) like Chicken Wing, Franks RedHot Sauce, etc. that way the ingredient list can be separated into groups. i currently add blank ingredient spaces to try and do this. 3. be able to click and drag recipe cards to cookbooks 4. be able to mass assign tags to recipe cards. for example if i had a BBQ tag and wanted to assign it to 10 recipe cards, it would be nice to do that instead of opening up each card and making the change > Some lists are hidden by default, which is confusing I sync my lists with home assistant which is fantastic! > I do my grocery shopping online, and my shop (Sainsbury's) has the option to paste my shopping list and do a search for each line. I would like an option to customise what the generated text from mealie looks like > Ai to learn your preferred labels and then auto suggest a label for new ingredients. > At the moment, I am not using it that much. > Allow ingredients to be added to the shopping list directly from the recipe. This would save time for ad-hoc menus when you don't want to use the meal planner. > Option to auto convert free text items to categorised via natural language parser Timeline/stats for previously bought items Prices especially if integrated with a supermarket price tracker Export for online shopping > Create Pantry Section but this idea got no go-forward > Continue to sort by labels but be able to hide them. Easier reordering on mobile. > We'd like to be able to select the number of people a recipe is for when you add it to the list. Currently, most of our recipes are for 2 people so if we have guests we have to add the meal to the plan twice in order to get the correct amount of ingredients. Also, when you tick an item as done and it's attached to a recipe, that recipe information is lost if you untick it. This isn't great if you tick anything by accident, or need to check a ticked ingredient against a recipe. > Combine like ingredients from two different recipes. Meaning if two recipes call for garlic there is just one shopping list item for garlic. > I think the ingredients need to be added “correctly” from URL import instead of just a large string. > I did really like the auto shopping list based on meal plan, but I understand the logic about selecting specific meals and ingredients from those recipes. Perhaps if you could press one button and refine a list from all the recipes in the current meal plan, that would be best of both. Also, the ability to re-order or sort shopping lists. Thank you. > When adding recipes to the Shopping List, it will take about a minute to actually load the ingredients into the Shopping List section. However, the linked recipe will be visible at the bottom of the Shopping List page right away > Export/Integraion to Home Assistant ToDoS (I use the as shopping list and don't have access to mealie from extern) > The biggest think that I need is to be able to sync the shopping list between my account and my wife's account one thing that I love that is included in samsung food app is that it allows me to use the share button on a website to send the recipe to the app. I wish mealie had this same functionality > It seems (I'm still a newbie) Shopping Lists aren't immediately shared, contrary to recipes, in a group. If that's correct, it's counterintuitive. > 1. Please add more entry type/food type on planner. In Poland the main dish is at 1-4 P.M. It's called obiad but it's related to lunch. But because it's main meal, we usually have 2 dishes: soup (zupa) and the second dish (drugie danie). It would be great to have separate entry type for soups and the second dished. So in generally, please allow to define own entry types in planner (like in Tandoor Recipes). 2. In ingredients list please add better support for non-english languages with more complicated grammar like Polish. We say: * 1 szklanka cukru / 1 cup of sugar * 2 szklanki cukru / 2 cups of sugar * 3 szklanki cukru / 3 cups of sugar * 4 szklanki cukru / 4 cups of sugar * 5 szklanek cukru / 5 cups of sugar * 6 szklanek cukru / 6 cups of sugar etc. * 1/2 szklanki cukru / 1/2 cup of sugar Antoher example: * 1 marchewka / 1 carrot * 2 marchewki / 2 carrots * 3 marchewki / 3 carrots * 4 marchewki / 4 carrots * 5 marchewek / 5 carrots * 6 marchewek / 6 carrots etc * 1/2 marchewki / 1/2 carrot So we have: * form for 1 * form for 2,3, 4 and fractions like 1/2 * form for 5 and more > I just submitted a survey, but forgot to mention this: dragging and dropping items to organize them within shopping lists is *extremely* clunky, especially if you use a trackpad or touchscreen. I often have to click on the box for moving the item at least 3 times before it actually lets me move it to where I want to. Then, it’s hard to get it to the right place if the list is long, because the screen doesn’t scroll in the way you’d want (it scrolls at a static rate but doesn’t stop scrolling once it’s started unless the item is dropped, causing the entire process to repeat). > I would love the ability to set a default order for how items with labels are ordered automatically when added. I organize my shopping lists by type (e.g., “Dinner List”) to make it easier when exporting items to the lists. But this means shopping for items can be tough, since I have to switch between lists. Being able to set it so that the “Vegetables” label automatically comes right before the “Grains” label would be amazing. I would also love a way to create or see a “parent” list that simply contains all of the unchecked items from all lists (as a stretch goal, it would be nice to be able to exclude lists) using the above ordering. Then I would no longer have to switch between lists. > I would like to disable all this not realy usefull stuff via env. > Mealie has done a great job. If you have to ask questions, I hope to support the