A Chance To Win A Consume Within Promo Code With A Retweet Or Comment
January 10, 2011
AppAdvice has teamed up with Unibyte in order to offer you a chance to win one of five (5) promo codes for Consume Within for iPhone and iPod touch ($2.99).
Food waste is a big problem for many families, having to throw away tons of unused products that simply never got used before spoiling. Vegetables, fruits, and dairy products can have especially short shelf lives.
The two main reasons are buying in bulk and purchasing on sale goods to save and stay within a tight grocery budget. While the previously mentioned types of foods have short shelf lives to begin with, typically, those put on a discount are being done because the expiration is quickly nearing, even before you get it home.
Reducing food waste is a major issue; it costs the average family with children $1000 a year and has serious environmental implications too. If we all stop wasting food that could have been eaten, the CO2 impact would be the equivalent of taking 1 in 4 cars off the road. A recent study by the Environmental Protection Agency estimated that Americans generate roughly 30 million tons of food waste each year, which is about 12 percent of the total waste stream ...The numbers seem all the more staggering now, given the cost of groceries and the emerging food crisis abroad. In the UK, it's estimated that households throw away 8.3 million tonnes of food every year.Amongst the regular "penny pinching" shopping habits, wouldn't ti be nice to avoid wasting those deals you strive so hard to get? Wasting one tomato here or there may not seem like a lot but it adds up quite quickly. Using Consume Within can help keep track of expirations much more easily and quickly, even when you're at the supermarket. Consume Within can keep track of foods stored in the fridge, freezer, and cupboards. Keep track of all of your food, plus quickly find out which will be expiring within the next couple days. You can enter food using the pre-entered choices, plus the option to manually enter items, or scan them using custom 2D barcodes. Each pre-defined item has a generic picture but you can add your own. You can acquire these convenient stickers two ways, either print out a free sample sheet or order in packs of 150 with adhesive backing for $2.99/£1.79 from www.consumewithin.com. Attach these stickers to the product packaging to use your iPhone to quickly scan and identify products after you've assigned them. If you'd like to give this money and environment saving app a try, go get your no cost copy of Consume Within Lite in the App Store now. Consume Within Lite offers the same benefits of the full version except that it will only allow you to track up to four items. Consume Within and Consume Within Lite are designed for iPhone and iPod touch running iOS 3.2 or later. Custom item photos and sticker scanning require an iDevice with a built-in camera, such as the iPhone or fourth generation iPod touch. To have a chance at winning one of two Consume Within promo codes, simply hit that blue tweet button near the bottom of this page or retweet this post from your favorite Twitter app before 11:59 PM PST tonight (January 10th). We will then search the Twitterverse for all of the retweets and randomly choose our lucky winners. The winners will be notified via Twitter, so please be sure to follow us so we can send you your promo code via a direct message. Non-Twitter users and those of you who want to increase your odds of winning can simply leave a relevant comment below before 11:59 PM PST tonight to have a chance at winning one of the other three Consume Within promo codes. Feel free to participate in the giveaway via either or both methods. Only one entry per person per method is allowed, totaling up to two entries per person if using both. [gallery link="file"]
