What it does, and why it matters
A UK household of four bins about £1,000 of food a year. WRAP puts the national figure at 4.4 million tonnes of edible food, worth £17 billion. Stockd Up tells you what you have and what to eat first, so less of it gets thrown out.
Food goes off faster once you open it. The date on the pack is for an unopened pack. Open it and you have less time. Cream is a few days. A jar of sauce is a week or two. The pack never tells you this. Stockd Up works it out from Food Standards Agency (FSA) guidance and shows you whichever date runs out first.
Frozen food does not keep as long as people think, and it depends on your freezer. Every UK freezer has a star rating from one to four, on the door or in the manual. One star keeps food about a week. Four stars keeps it months. Stockd Up asks which one you have and gives you dates to match, so it never tells you beef is fine for a year when your freezer cannot do that.
It covers the whole house. Not just the fridge. The freezer, the cupboards, the medicine cabinet, the garage and the shed.
Filling it in does not take an evening. Scan barcodes one after another without stopping and a whole shelf goes in in a couple of minutes.
Nothing leaves your phone. There is no account and no company server holding your shopping. It backs up to your own iCloud.
