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Notes from building Pantensa: where nutrition data actually comes from and how far to trust it, what a shared food catalog does to a household, and why the app makes the choices it does.
- A basic grocery list for a kitchen starting from zero
A basic grocery list is what you buy when the cupboards are empty — a first kitchen, a new flat, a fresh start. Eight categories, what goes in each, why it stays generic, and where the idea stops working.
- How to make a grocery list that survives the store
A grocery list works when it is written from a plan and ordered by the way you walk the store. Build it in four passes — plan, pantry check, aisle order, one capture point — and the list stops being a wish and starts being instructions.
- Should you weigh food raw or cooked? Match the weight to the database row
Weigh food in the same state as the nutrition row you log it against. Cooking removes water, not calories, so 100 g cooked and 100 g raw are different amounts of food — and USDA publishes both.
- Why imported nutrition data is shown as a draft, not a fact
Open Food Facts and USDA disagree with each other, packages change, and serving sizes are reported in incompatible units. Here is why Pantensa imports a number as a draft you confirm.