What is best way to track not only food item, but also how much it costed per pound.

[mpl...@gmail.com]

Guys hi,

Before i was tracking food in 1 single account

Expenses:Personal:Food

But than i tried to split them in particular food categories

Expenses:Personal:Food:Fruit:Apples

Expenses:Personal:Food:Meat:Beef

etc

And found out that this way i can see much more clear picture and that i started to care how much i actually paid per pound.

i've found out that often price on same food item can very greatly (apples can  cost 0.99lb, 1.49lb and 1.99lb for same variety even in same market)

What's the best way to track it?

Let's say now i have

2019-03-01 * "Key Foods"
  Expenses:Personal:Food:Fruit:Apples     4.17 USD
  Assets:Cash                                       

2019-03-15 * "Key Foods"
  Expenses:Personal:Food:Fruit:Apples     6.44 USD
  Assets:Cash  

2019-04-01 * "Key Foods"
  Expenses:Personal:Food:Fruit:Apples     8.01 USD
  Assets:Cash  

And there is no way to tell which of these transactions were a good buy (for 0.99lb), and which were a more careless buy (for 1.99lb).

[Zhuoyun Wei]

The proper way to do this is to use price notation "@" and "@@". But that may be an overkill since you may have many different items to track.

Another method would be to write the information you would like to keep in the metadata.

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[mpl...@gmail.com]

"The proper way to do this is to use price notation "@" and "@@". But that may be an overkill since you may have many different items to track. "

-could you explain why is it overkill? I look up your suggestion in Beancount Syntax Cheat Sheet and seems like i can do

2019-04-01 * "Key Foods"
  Expenses:Personal:Food:Fruit:Apples     6.44 USD @ 1.49 USD
  Assets:Cash

2019-04-01 * "Key Foods"
  Expenses:Personal:Food:Fruit:Apples     8.01 USD @ 1.99 USD
  Assets:Cash 

etc

"Another method would be to write the information you would like to keep in the metadata."

-meta data can be put only 1 time per transaction, correct?

So if i have several posting/accounts in 1 transaction, example

2019-04-01 * "Key Foods"
  Expenses:Personal:Food:Fruit:Apples     8.01 USD

  Expenses:Personal:Food:Meat:Beef      24.63 USD

  Assets:Cash 

than i won't be able to put separate meta data for each?

What i do now is

2019-04-01 * "Key Foods"
  Expenses:Personal:Food:Fruit:Apples     8.01 USD ; 1.99 lb
  Expenses:Personal:Food:Meat:Beef      24.63 USD ; 5.99 lb
  Assets:Cash 

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[Martin Michlmayr]

* mpl...@gmail.com <mpl...@gmail.com> [2019-04-16 05:22]:

> "Another method would be to write the information you would like to keep in
> the metadata."
> -meta data can be put only 1 time per transaction, correct?

You can.

> So if i have several posting/accounts in 1 transaction, example

2019-04-01 * "Key Foods"
Expenses:Personal:Food:Fruit:Apples 8.01 USD

weight: 1.99

Expenses:Personal:Food:Meat:Beef 24.63 USD

weight: 5.99
Assets:Cash

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