Green Egg Shopper – iPhone App to Help Reduce Food Waste & Save Money
(PRWEB) December 22, 2010
Mobile phone apps have become a significant part of lifestyle and give people the ‘tool’ to manage it more effectively.
Green Egg Shopper helps save money and reduce food waste in 3 simple steps.
Create shopping lists. Creating a list helps plan in advance and avoid impulse buying.
Users can set Use by/Best Before/Expiry of perishables as they buy/pick items while shopping.
Check the list of items near expiry anytime. Checking it before planning meals is a good idea.
The app comes with many more features to make shopping an enjoyable experience, while giving users better control over their shopping habits, like users can track how much they have spent on groceries. The website for the app http://www.GreenEggShopper.com has more information on the app, some useful tips and new features ‘coming soon’.
Stop Wasting Food is a non-profit consumer movement that is working to bring food waste into focus and put a stop to food waste. Today Stop Wasting Food counts over 7000 members, including Danish top politicians and food personalities. Stop Wasting Food has put food waste on the agenda in more than 60 Danish media and has spoken at several major events, including the Climate Change Conference as well as in the European Parliament in Brussels. In March Stop Wasting Food will publish a leftover cookbook by major Danish food personalities and the publishing firm Gyldendal. See more on http://www.stopspildafmad.dk/inenglish.html
“Food waste is a rather serious problem in Denmark, and each year Danes throw thousands of tons of good edible food in the bin, equalling many billions of kroner a year – and in particular around Christmas where food waste is at its peak. Especially now, during the financial crisis you should pay extra attention to your budget. An important part of the fight against food waste has to do with planning. This is why the Green Egg Shopper iPhone application can help consumers do their planning in a better way and get an overview of the purchased items, thereby helping to reduce food waste. Throwing food in the bin is the same as throwing money in the bin – and in the end, you only cheat your own wallet,” says Selina Juul, founder of the Stop Wasting Food movement.
Jonathan Bloom an expert on food waste and author of ‘American Wasteland’ says on his blog http://www.wastedfood.com “The Green Egg app helps avoid food waste in a few, neat ways…. More impressive, though, is its handling of expiration dates. The app allows you to set the expiration date on items after you buy them. You can see what’s expiring by perusing the “Use Me Now” list and plan/act accordingly. And it’s all very easily customized–you decide how long before “expiration” a food item goes on the list.”
The localized version of the app will help reaching more people and will make it easier for people to get more out of the app.
“We would like to see people use this app to make a difference in their food consumption habits and save money. With the onset of Christmas & New Year parties, or as a New Year’s resolution… this may be a good time to start” says Prac, co-founder of Wise Banyan Tree
As a CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR offer the app is available at HALF PRICE (£1.19/US$ 1.99) for a limited period from 20th Dec 2010 till 20th Jan 2011.
The app can be downloaded from iTune store
http://itunes.apple.com/app/green-egg-shopper-shopping/id393794174?mt=8
The Stop Wasting Food movement is a non-profit organization that supports the fight against food waste, and it therefore makes no money on the sales of this application.
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