Why I built this
I was throwing out food every week and spending too much on impulse groceries. I wanted a tool that treated the kitchen like a system — inventory in, recipes through, nutrition out — and I couldn’t find one that respected my time and my budget. So I built it.
Foodie treats your pantry as a database, your recipes as queries, and your week as a constraint. The goal isn’t another recipe app. It’s to make “what should I eat” a solved problem so the rest of life gets a little quieter.
What it does today
- Plan your meals each week
- Foodie matches the best products to save on your grocery expense and minimise food waste
- Tracks cost-per-meal so you can budget without spreadsheets.
- A weekly nutrition summary that nudges, doesn’t lecture.
What’s next
The immediate focus is the basket optimisation engine — taking the per-ingredient price data already collected and solving for the cheapest store, or cheapest split across stores, for a full week’s meal plan. That’s the core of what Foodie is for.
After that: promotions as a first-class input so a Clubcard deal or multi-buy can actually flip which store wins, a household model for budget and dietary constraints, and the mobile app so the optimised list is in your pocket before you leave.