Pantry Raider

A self-hosted food tracker that helps you manage what is in your fridge, reduce waste, and plan meals. It runs entirely on your own hardware with no required cloud dependency, built on Grocy for inventory, with recipes, meal planning, and shopping built in and an optional local LLM.

What Pantry Raider adds on top of Grocy:

• AI photo import. Photograph a pile of groceries and queue them all for review at once, without typing.
• Barcode scanning with LLM enrichment. Scan by camera, USB scanner, or manual entry; Open Food Facts provides product data and an optional LLM pass cleans up messy names.
• Kitchen kiosk and Stream Deck. A dedicated countertop control surface with a Glance home screen that builds itself from your pages, plus an optional custom Start Page that works like an on-screen Stream Deck.
• Home Assistant integration. A native HACS integration that pairs from the kitchen screen and exposes your food counts, timers, thermometer readings, and screen controls as entities, with on-screen notifications and camera pop-ups.
• Recipe suggestions from what you have. Ranks your recipe library by how much of each recipe is already in stock, surfacing items that expire soon, with a step-by-step Cook wizard to land you on tonight's dish.
• Label and document printing. Print food and spice labels with a drag-and-drop label designer, set up a Bluetooth label printer right from Settings, and send a recipe or document to a regular printer.
• Bluetooth kitchen thermometers. Read meat and probe thermometers, including the ThermoPro TempSpike and Govee grill thermometers, locally, with doneness presets, a ready-in estimate, and target alerts on the Timers page.

Where to go next

• First run and zero-touch setup: what a new install sets up for you, so you never have to sign in to Grocy or Mealie by hand.
• Platforms and deployment: the server and Raspberry Pi appliance modes, hosting the stack, AI providers, Home Assistant, and HTTPS.
• Recipes: built in, Mealie optional and the Cook page and Cook wizard: where recipes live and how the app turns your stock into something to make.
• Reducing waste: extending and adjusting best-by dates: the sniff test on the Expiring list, tossing what went bad and watching the Waste summary, marking a package opened, and how moving food to the freezer shifts its date for you.
• Printing labels and documents: the label designer, adding a printer, and sharing printers across your devices.
• Bluetooth kitchen thermometers: reading probes on a Pi or through Home Assistant, with targets and alerts.
• Personalization and on-screen features: themes, background images, the navigation editor, the Glance home and Start Page, the screensaver (including your own photos), shared kitchen timers, weather, and on-screen Home Assistant events.
• Device resources: the live view of what your machine is doing.
• Settings matrix: every persisted setting and where it can be edited across the three deployment modes.
• Hardware: the appliance hardware, supported peripherals, and building the SD-card image.
• The HTTP API reference.

The project source and issues live on GitHub. Pantry Raider is free for home use; if it has earned a spot on your counter, you can buy the developer a coffee ☕.