MealBase is the shared kitchen for people who live together. Scan the fridge, cook what is already in, waste less food, and shop the supermarket once — in the order you actually walk the store.
Suggestions use the fridge, freezer and pantry — not a recipe internet that assumes you own za'atar and a mandoline.
Cut food waste
Cook what is already in before it turns. Use-soon sits at the top of the kitchen, not the back of the fridge.
Spend less
The list is the gaps. You stop buying a third bag of rice because nobody checked the pantry.
Fewer emergency dinners
Suggestions use current stock only, so tonight is cooking — not another delivery because the cupboard felt empty.
One walk around the store
Produce first, household last. No doubling back for the lemons, and no aisle you can skip because you already have it.
What it does
Built for the moment you open the fridge and hope dinner is already in there.
Scan
Photograph a shelf, a receipt, or a plate.
MealBase reads the labels. Stock goes into the fridge, freezer, pantry or spice rack. A photo of dinner logs calories for whoever ate it.
Add stock
Log a meal
Inventory
One kitchen, always up to date.
See what you have by location, mark used or wasted, and stop buying a third bottle of soy sauce.
Tonight
Dinners from what is already in.
Suggestions use current stock only — not a fantasy cupboard. Cook, and it comes off the inventory for everyone.
Shopping
Shop the gaps, in walk order.
Missing bits become a list ordered as you walk the supermarket — produce first, household last. Tick it off, scan the till, stock comes home.
Fruit & vegetables
Lemons × 2
Fresh meat & poultry
Chicken thighs
Tins, pulses, pasta, rice
Passata
Nutrition
Calories for each person, not a shared blob.
When you cook, MealBase can log a portion for every household member. Anyone who skipped dinner can take theirs off.
Calories · protein this week
Household
Share with a join code.
Partners, housemates, family. Everyone sees the same fridge, the same list, and who changed what.
Join code
K7M4
Store walk
Shop once. Walk the supermarket in order.
MealBase builds the list from what you do not have, then sorts it as you actually walk the store — produce at the door, cupboard in the middle, household last. Aisles you can skip stay off the list, so you spend less time, less money, and bring home less that will go off.
01Fruit & vegLemons
02BakeryAlready in
03MeatChicken
04DairyAlready in
05FrozenPeas in freezer
06CupboardPassata
07DrinksAlready in
08HouseholdSkip this aisle
One path through the store
Walk this wayPick upAlready in stock
How it works
Three steps, then dinner.
01
Scan what you have
Open the fridge, a cupboard, or a receipt. MealBase files it by location so the household can see it.
02
Cook from stock
Ask for dinners. You get meals you can actually make tonight. Cooking deducts the ingredients.
03
Shop only what's missing
The list is the gaps, in supermarket aisle order. Finish the shop and the kitchen is whole again. You spend less because you are not buying what you already own.
From households
“We stopped buying food we already owned.”
We used to open the fridge, stare, and order a takeaway. Now we scan the shelf on Sunday and actually cook what is in. The bin is quieter. So is the argument about who was meant to shop.
PPriyaFamily of four, Manchester
The join code is the whole point. My partner adds milk, I tick it off in the store, and nobody texts ‘do we have onions?’ from aisle four. The list walks the supermarket so I do not double back.
TTomTwo-person household, Bristol
I was buying the same spices every month because I could not see the rack. Photographing the cupboard once saved more than the condiment aisle. Dinners come from stock, not from a recipe that assumes I own a mandoline.
AAishaHouseshare of three, Leeds
Ready when you are
Stop wasting food. Spend less. Cook from the kitchen you already have.
Sign in with Google, make a household — or join one with a code — and scan the first shelf.