Best Before: Emergency Supply

Most pantry apps tell you what you have. This one tells you whether it is enough. Enter how many people you are and how many days you want to cover. Every one of the seven categories then carries a target amount — grain products, vegetables, fruit, drinks, dairy, protein, fats — scaled from the Vorratskalkulator, the supply calculator published by the German federal food and agriculture ministry, which budgets 2,200 kcal per person per day. What you add is measured against that target, so the question the app answers is not only “what do I have?” but “how far does it get us?” SOURCE, AND WHO WE ARE NOT The amounts come from the official German government supply calculator, published here: https://www.ernaehrungsvorsorge.de/private-vorsorge/notvorrat/vorratskalkulator Best Before: Emergency Supply is a private app. It does not represent any government entity or public authority, it is not affiliated with one, and no authority has reviewed, approved or endorsed it. The same source and the same note are shown inside the app, under the info button. WHAT IT DOES • A target, not a guess. Your household size and the days you want covered decide every amount in the app. • A traffic light per category, for how full it is: red when there is nothing usable, orange below half, yellow from half, green from 95 %. What is close to its date is counted beside the colour, not folded into it — being told to eat something up is a different message from being told to go shopping. Each card also names its case in words, so the colour is never the only signal. • A tin of stew is three foods at once. Enter it once — name, weight, date, and the percentages the label already declares — and it counts in every category it belongs to. One name, one reminder, one deletion for the whole tin. • Expired stock does not count. A shelf of tins that ran out last year is not a supply, and the app will not report it as one. • Reminders that arrive on their own. They are handed to your phone in advance, so they come even if you have not opened the app for weeks. One reminder per category and date: five tins sharing a date make one notification, not five — and one per ready meal, however many categories it spans. • A lead time that fits the food. A month's warning suits a tin and is useless for a pack of cheese with ten days left. New entries get a lead derived from the shelf life that is actually left, and you can change it per item — from three months down to the day itself. • Two taps for an amount. Pick the pack size, set the count. Anything unusual goes into a keypad built into the form, so nothing hides behind the system keyboard. • Whatever the list does not name goes under "other" — with a name of your own, so it is still recognisable a week later. • Units you would say out loud. Litres for drinks, kilograms above two, grams below. YOUR DATA STAYS ON YOUR PHONE No account, no sign-up, no server, no tracking, no advertising. Everything is stored locally on your device. Moving to a new phone: export your stock to a file and import it on the other side. TWELVE LANGUAGES German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Czech — categories and foods included, not just the buttons. The amounts are a general recommendation. Baby food, special diets and medication are not covered by these categories, and the app says so where it matters.