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🛒 Fridge → Meal Planner

Open your fridge, snap a photo, and our Vision AI scans every visible ingredient and generates 5 meal ideas you can cook tonight — plus a full featured recipe and shopping list.

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Drop a photo of your open fridge

Show the shelves clearly — more visible ingredients = better meal ideas

Snap Your Fridge and Get 5 Meal Ideas Plus a Full Recipe and Shopping List

Fridge → Meal Planner is the anti-food-waste tool that every household needs. Open your refrigerator, take a photo showing the shelves clearly, and the Vision AI scans every visible ingredient — vegetables, meats, dairy, condiments, and leftovers — then generates five meal ideas you can make tonight with what you already have.

Food waste is a massive global problem: the average household throws away a significant portion of the food it buys due to poor meal planning and not knowing what to cook with available ingredients. This tool solves that by treating your fridge as an ingredient inventory and applying culinary intelligence to generate diverse, appealing meal options ranked by feasibility given what's visible.

Each run also produces a featured recipe with full step-by-step instructions and a shopping list of additional ingredients that would expand your cooking options — typically just 2–5 items that would unlock 3–4 additional recipes. This makes the tool equally useful for planning a weekly shop as for deciding what to cook tonight.

⚡ How to Use

  1. 1Open your refrigerator fully and arrange items so they're visible.
  2. 2Take a clear photo showing multiple shelves — include door compartments if possible.
  3. 3Upload the photo and click "Plan My Meals".
  4. 4Review the 5 meal suggestions and the featured recipe with full instructions.
  5. 5Check the shopping list for a small investment that expands your options significantly.

🎯 Who Uses This

  • ▸Busy families who want to use up perishables before they go bad
  • ▸People learning to cook who don't know what to make from available ingredients
  • ▸Budget-conscious households reducing grocery spend through better ingredient use
  • ▸Meal preppers planning their weekly cooking from current fridge inventory
  • ▸Anyone whose fridge feels full but who "doesn't know what to eat"

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What if my fridge is messy or dimly lit?
The AI performs best with clear, well-lit photos showing ingredients distinctly. If your fridge is crowded, try taking the photo with the kitchen light on or using your phone's flash. The more ingredients the camera can identify, the more diverse the meal suggestions will be.
Q: Does it account for dietary restrictions?
The current version generates meals based on visible ingredients without filtering for dietary preferences. Future versions will support dietary profile customization (vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, halal, etc.). For now, manually review the suggestions against your dietary requirements.
Q: Can it detect condiments and sauces?
Yes — the AI identifies common condiment bottles and sauce jars that are clearly visible. Soy sauce, ketchup, hot sauce, and similar items will influence the suggested recipes. Unlabeled containers and items behind other items may not be detected.