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The iWhisk Field Manual Part 06 · The long game Section 6.06

6.06

Part 06 · The long game · Impact

Kitchen impact, and the money number

What you used, rescued and tossed over thirty days, and an estimate of what that was worth.

Where this is in iWhisk

Journey, Kitchen impact

The last card on Journey is the only one that talks about money. It covers a rolling thirty days and counts three outcomes.

A card headed last 30 days, Kitchen impact, reading: what was used, rescued, or tossed, honest updates make waste goals more useful. Three counters read 0 used, 0 rescued and 0 tossed. Below, estimated value rescued is zero dollars and estimated value tossed is zero dollars. A closing line reads: tossed food never removes progress, it helps iWhisk set better waste and savings goals.
Screen 6.06a Tossed is counted, and costs you nothing The card asks for the truth and then declines to punish it. Tossed food never removes progress is printed on the card itself rather than buried in a policy, because an app that quietly penalised honesty would only teach you to stop being honest.

6.06.1

Used, rescued, tossed

  • Used. You cooked it or otherwise finished it.
  • Rescued. You used it in the short window before its use-by date, which is the food most likely to have been wasted.
  • Tossed. It went in the bin, and you said so.

Expiring is something that happens to food. Used and tossed are things you report. iWhisk cannot tell the difference on its own, which is why the number is only as good as your honesty, and why being honest is free.

6.06.2

The dollar figures are estimates

Both money figures are labelled estimated, and they mean it. Where iWhisk captured a real price from a receipt it uses that one. Where it did not, it uses a typical price for that kind of food.

Treat them as the shape of the thing rather than an accounting record. They are good for noticing that you keep throwing away one category of food. They are not good for your tax return.

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This is not your Skill Points totalMoney saved and Skill Points are separate figures measuring separate things, and one never converts into the other. See 6.01.