Track What Is On Hand

Inventories help you track what food you have available so meal planning can connect to real ingredients in your kitchen.

What Inventories Track

An inventory can represent a pantry, refrigerator, freezer, cabinet, or another place where you store food.

Inventory items can include:

• Item name
• Quantity
• Location
• Expiration date
• Whether the item is opened

Locations can be simple, such as "pantry," or more specific, such as "freezer, top shelf."

Create and Organize Inventories

Signed-in users can create inventories from the Shopping Lists page to track what food you have available. You can add items manually, edit quantities or locations, and move items or whole locations when your storage changes.

Use separate inventories when it matches how you shop and cook. For example, you might keep one home inventory and another for a shared vacation kitchen.

Inventory Maintenance

The maintenance view helps you find expired items and review reconciliation tasks.

Reconciliation tasks are reminders to resolve inventory questions that Wen Dinner could not safely handle automatically, such as an ingredient mismatch or an uncertain deduction.

Share Inventories

Inventory owners can share access with other signed-in users. Shared inventories are useful for households and shared kitchens.

Before sharing, review the inventory contents and remember that invited users may be able to see item names, quantities, locations, and dates.

Connect Inventory to Meals

Meals can use an active inventory. Wen Dinner can compare planned meal ingredients against inventory and help create shopping lists for what is missing.