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20 October 2026

A cup of flour weighs what flour weighs

• A cup of flour is priced as flour, not water. The shopping list priced a recipe's cups and spoons as if everything weighed what water does, so a cup of flour was counted as 250 g when it is about 125 g, and a cup of grated cheese, rice, oats or sugar was just as far out. Baking lines on the list were overstated, and a pantry line could ask for two bags when one was plenty. Flour, sugar, rice, oats, butter, grated cheese, cocoa, breadcrumbs, nuts, pulses, honey, baking powder, salt, ground spices and the like are now weighed the way a cook measures them. Anything it doesn't know is counted as before.
• The mayonnaise you chose is priced wherever mayonnaise turns up. Picking a product for a staple only counted when a line was called exactly what the staple is, so a recipe line reading "mayonnaise, to serve" was priced from the store's cheapest guess instead of the jar you buy. A line now reaches your staple when it is the same thing written with a plural, a size or how to prepare it, and is priced from your product. It stays strict about different things: Chicken stock is never priced from the chicken you chose. A nickname such as Mayo still needs linking to the staple once.
• A can of tomatoes is priced from a tin. A recipe's 1 can chopped tomatoes was priced from a punnet of fresh cherry tomatoes, and 1 can pineapple pieces from a $10.90 tub of fresh cut pineapple. A line counted in cans, tins or jars is now priced from the tinned or jarred one, so the tomatoes are $0.94 and the pineapple $1.78. If the store sells no tin of it, the line is priced from the fresh one as before.
• Chops and fillets counted on a line are priced. 8 lamb loin chops or 4 salmon fillets against meat sold by the kilo had nothing to weigh, so the line showed the price per kilo and was left out of the total. A chop, a fillet, a chicken breast or thigh, a steak and a shank now count as what one usually weighs, so 8 loin chops at $39.99/kg read about $28.79. Sausages are still counted against the pack.
• Cream, breadcrumbs, baby spinach and chilli powder find the right product. At Woolworths, cream was priced from full-cream milk, at about a third of what cream costs, and breadcrumbs, baby spinach and chilli powder found nothing, because the store calls them Bread Crumbs, Fresh Salad Baby Spinach and Chilli Ground. Each is now priced from the real thing. Chilli powder reads Ground chilli on the list, and flaky puff pastry reads Puff pastry.

19 October 2026

Ticking off the shop with no signal

• Tick lines off with no signal. Ticking a line on the shopping list in a supermarket with no reception put it straight back with Couldn't tick off, so the list stopped working halfway down the aisles. A tick or an untick now stays put with no signal, is kept if you close the app, and reaches everyone else's list once your phone is back online. If someone else changed the same line in the meantime, your tick is the one that counts. Adding and removing lines still needs a connection.
• The feedback sheet on Android looks like the rest of the app. Shaking the phone to send feedback opened a purple and white sheet that belonged to no screen in The Saucery. It is now drawn on the same page, in the same ink and type, and follows your Appearance setting.
• A recipe's menu opens under its button. On Android, the ⋮ button sits at the top right of a recipe, but its menu of Edit, Cook with Whisp, Add to Meal Plan and the rest opened at the left edge, over the photo. It now drops from the button you tapped.
• An ingredient a recipe uses twice is offered once. A stir-fry that wants cornflour in the marinade and again for the sauce listed Cornflour twice when you added it to the shopping list, so unticking it once left the other one ticked. The sheet now shows one line with both amounts added together (2 tsp and 1 tsp is 3 tsp), and ticking or unticking it covers the whole recipe's worth.
• Recipes open quickly while your store's prices update. Each morning, and whenever you pick a store, The Saucery matches your recipes to that store's products. While it was doing that, opening the app worked out every recipe's specials one at a time, and the recipe book and home screen could take several seconds to appear. All the recipes on a screen are now priced together, so they load as fast during an update as at any other time.

18 October 2026

Deleting from a list someone else is changing

• Deleting a shopping line while someone else changes the list no longer closes the app. On iPhone, swiping a line and tapping Delete while another person in the family was ticking or removing lines could close The Saucery. The line now leaves the list as soon as you tap Delete, and comes back with a message if it could not be deleted. Deleting a line someone else has just removed is no longer an error.