Budgeat

Your digital kitchen assistant

Cooking

Virtual Assistants

Food & Drink

Hi Product Hunt! I’m Adam, Co-Founder of Budgeat. We’re building a digital kitchen assistant to help you find recipes, create meal plans, organize your shopping list, and track what's in your pantry. Never forget about those strawberries in the back of the fridge again, and get personalized suggestions on how to use them up! 🎉 Why? One-third of all food produced globally is wasted and in developed nations households are the biggest contributors. Collectively we throw out about a third of the food we bring home and the implications are significant. Food that is wasted is responsible for 8-10% of greenhouse gas emissions and accounts for about a quarter of all freshwater use 🌎 It hurts our pocketbooks too, with each household in the U.S. wasting around $1,800 worth of food per year 💰 Plus, most of us could benefit from eating a bit healthier while simplifying our lives and saving time. We believe that these problems are completely solvable and well-worth solving, but we need better solutions to make it feasible 🙌 How? Let’s leverage technology to help us - cooking at home and managing our food is still wayyyy too manual. When you think about it, home cooking is really a big optimization problem 🎯 We’re trying to strike the right balance across a series of variables: grocery budgets, dietary restrictions, taste preferences, nutritional goals, time constraints, efficient use of the food we already have, etc. The Budgeat app helps you by taking into consideration all of these variables, matching it with a wealth of ingredient and recipe data, and providing the right bits of information at the right time. Plus, sometimes I just need to be reminded that those strawberries will be going bad soon 🍓 Key Features: 🍴 Personalized recipe suggestions based on your budget, dietary restrictions, goals, and preferences that get smarter over time as you use the app more. Plus, you can add any food you already have on hand to ensure nothing goes to waste. 🤖 Automated meal planning tailored to your needs, with the ability to customize to your heart’s content. ⚡️ Instant shopping list creation based on your meal plans. Plus you can add any additional items to create a comprehensive list. 🙌 A digital pantry to keep track of what you have and provide reminders of when things are about to expire. Items in the pantry are also considered in future meal plans, so less food ends up in the trash. 💪 Guidance on how to make the most of your food, including more and more tips, tricks, and hacks for saving food if you’re not in the mood to eat it right away (e.g. make herb cubes, blanche and freeze the broccoli, how to make a berry compote, etc.) The Path Ahead: Budgeat is still in its early days, but we’re excited for the road ahead. We’ve had a few thousand awesome people try Budgeat over the last few months and provide feedback to get us to this point, but we’re hungry for way more. Give Budgeat a try and help us build something that enables millions of people to make the most of their food 🚀