Mission: eliminate fridge fatigue by turning what's already in the kitchen into chef-quality recipes, and make restocking missing ingredients nearly effortless.
Technical detail (architecture, schema, API) lives in specs.md in the project repo. This document covers what I'm building and why.
I'm building a mobile-first web app that keeps track of a user's pantry, generates recipes from what they already have, and produces a shopping list for whatever is missing with a one-click path to a filled grocery cart.
The goals are simple: cut meal decision fatigue, raise the odds that "cook from what I have" actually works, reduce food waste through expiration awareness, and make replenishment a single tap instead of a planning session.
People often have ingredients on hand but still don't cook because:
The Scrappy Student. Budget-conscious, limited tools, wants recipes that use exactly what's in the dorm.
The Overwhelmed Professional. High decision fatigue, values speed, will trade customization for one-click convenience.
The Sustainable Cook. Focused on reducing waste, wants expiration tracking and "use soon" nudges.
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