If you have more than one pet, you already know the annoying part of tracking food: it isn't remembering what a pet eats, it's remembering it twice. The same pouch of wet food gets logged under Luna's page and again under Milo's, the bag of kibble in the pantry is either "in stock" or "not," depending on which list you last updated, and nobody can say for certain whether you're actually about to run out. Nutrition is our answer to that — a shared household food inventory, built around how pet owners actually shop and feed, not a per-pet diet plan.
How it works
Food in PetMemo belongs to your household, not to a single pet. Add a food item once — its name, brand, type, package size and photo — and then link it to whichever pets actually eat it. Two cats sharing the same pouch of Whiskas is one food item with two links, not two separate entries that quietly drift out of sync.
Each link carries the details that are per-pet: roughly how many times a day that pet gets it, a free-text note on portion size ("half a pouch mixed with a handful of kibble"), and whether they actually like it — loves it, neutral, or won't touch it. The shared item carries what's shared: stock on hand, a low-stock threshold, and price.
What Nutrition tracks
Household inventory
Every food, brand, type and photo, shared across pets
Per-pet portions
How much, how often, and how it's actually fed
Preferences
Whether each pet loves it, tolerates it, or won't eat it
Stock levels
What's on hand, and a low-stock threshold you set
Feeding log
A day-by-day record of what was actually fed
Real food cost
Pulled from logged expenses, not estimated
Why there's no calorie counter
Most pet nutrition tools lead with calories, grams-per-day targets, and projected feeding schedules. We deliberately left that out. Real feeding varies too much from meal to meal — a pouch split unevenly between two cats, a handful of kibble topped up "by eye," a raw portion trimmed differently each time — for a projected number to mean much in practice. Rather than ask you to log data precisely enough to feed a formula, Nutrition tracks what you can actually and honestly record: what's stocked, roughly how it's portioned in your own words, and whether it's running low.
That's also why portion size is a free-text field instead of a number-and-unit picker. "Three-quarters of a pouch mixed with 60g of dry kibble" is how people actually feed their pets, and it's more useful six months from now than a gram figure that was never quite accurate to begin with.
A feeding log, separate from the daily routine
The per-pet portion notes describe the routine — how a pet is usually fed. The feeding log is different: it's an optional, timestamped record of what actually happened on a given day, with its own free-text note. Log a feeding when it's worth remembering — a smaller portion because a pet seemed off, a new food tried for the first time — without having to log every single meal to get value from the feature.
A History page lets you filter that log by date range — today, the last 7 or 30 days, or the current month — grouped day by day, so you can answer "did anyone feed the cats yet?" or look back over how a diet change went.
Stock that doesn't reset itself
Stock lives once, on the shared food item, not duplicated per pet. Set a low-stock threshold when you add a food, and PetMemo flags it — on the item itself and in a cross-pet "needs restock" list — once you're below it, with a separate flag for out of stock entirely. When you buy more, "Restock" adds a new package's worth on top of what's left, rather than overwriting it, so a partially-used bag doesn't get reset to zero by mistake.
Cost, from what you actually spent
Nutrition doesn't estimate a cost-per-day either, for the same reason it doesn't estimate calories — it would be a guess dressed up as a number. Instead, every food item has a "Log expense" shortcut that pre-fills PetMemo's existing expense form, so a bag of food you buy becomes a real, dated expense in the food category. The Nutrition overview then shows your actual month-to-date food spend, pulled from those logged expenses — the same numbers that already roll up into your overall spending view.
Every food item can also store a photo of the ingredients or nutrition label on the packaging — handy for remembering exactly which formula a picky eater tolerates, or for double-checking an ingredient list months after the bag is long gone.
Where to find it
Open any pet's profile and look for the Nutrition button — it shows everything that pet is fed, its stock status, and a "Log Feeding" shortcut right there. For the household-wide picture — every food item, which pets it's linked to, and what needs restocking — there's a dedicated Nutrition page in the main navigation.
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Track what your pets actually eat
Nutrition is free for all PetMemo users. Open a pet's profile and add their first food in under a minute.
Open PetMemoFrequently asked questions
Does Nutrition count calories or suggest a diet?
No, and that's on purpose. Real feeding amounts vary too much meal to meal for a calorie target to stay accurate. Nutrition tracks what's stocked, how a pet is fed in your own words, and whether it's time to restock — not a projected diet plan.
Can two pets share the same food without duplicating it?
Yes — that's the core of how it works. A food item belongs to your household and can be linked to as many pets as actually eat it, each with its own portion notes and preference, while stock is tracked once on the shared item.
How does PetMemo know what I spend on food?
It doesn't estimate it. Each food item has a shortcut to log a real expense in the food category, and the Nutrition overview shows your actual month-to-date spend pulled from those logged expenses.
What happens to a food item if I remove it from one pet's diet?
Only that pet's link is removed. The shared food item, its stock, and its link to any other pets are unaffected — nothing gets deleted from the household inventory.
Is Nutrition free?
Yes, Nutrition is included free for PetMemo users, the same as the rest of the app.
Curious how Nutrition fits with the rest of PetMemo — vet visits, medicines, and expenses? Check the features page.