Cook What You Have · iPhone, Android, Web
What can I cook with what I have?
Every recipe search engine asks the same thing first: list your ingredients. So you stand at the open fridge, typing in what you can see, and forget the half of it that is behind something else. Expireless already knows what you own — the suggestion comes from your own shelves, oldest food first.
The ingredient list already exists
Your fridge is the search query
A recipe generator starts from an empty box. It has no idea what is in your freezer, so it asks you, every single time, and it only ever learns what you remembered to type.
Expireless starts from the other end. Food goes in once — one photo of a shelf, a scanned receipt, or a sentence said out loud — and after that the question what do I cook tonight has an answer that already accounts for the chicken in the back and the cream that needs using.
- No ingredient typing, ever — the inventory is the input
- Suggestions weighted toward what expires first
- Covers the freezer and the pantry, not just what is visible
- Missing ingredients go straight onto the shopping list
Oldest first
The dinner that saves something
Most recipe suggestions are indifferent to time. Yours is not: the cream has four days, the chicken thighs have two, and the peppers should have been used on Sunday. Sorting recipes by what is closest to its date turns dinner into the thing that clears the fridge rather than adding to it.
According to the EPA, the average American household throws away roughly $728 of food per person a year.[1] Almost none of it is thrown away on purpose. It is thrown away because by the time anyone looked, it was too late to cook.
- Items closest to their date are used first in suggestions
- Daily alert lists what needs cooking in the next few days
- Works from a partial inventory — nothing has to be complete
A week, not one meal
Plan seven days around what is already home
One dinner is a search. A week is a plan. The weekly menu builds seven days starting from what you own, and whatever is genuinely missing becomes a shopping list — so the plan and the shop come out of the same step instead of contradicting each other in the aisle.
- Seven days built from current stock
- Only the genuinely missing items reach the list
- Shared with the rest of the household in real time
- Diet types supported, including vegan, kosher and halal
Questions
Do I have to type my ingredients in every time?
No, and that is the whole difference from a recipe search engine. Expireless keeps an inventory of your fridge, freezer and pantry, so the ingredient list is already there. You add food once — by photographing a whole shelf, scanning the receipt, or saying it out loud — and every suggestion after that is built from it.
What if my inventory is incomplete?
It still works. Suggestions come from whatever is recorded, and ordinary staples like salt, oil and flour are assumed. No household inventory is ever complete, and nothing here expects yours to be. Half a list still answers half the questions.
Does it use the food that is about to go bad first?
Yes. Items closest to their date are weighted first, so the suggestion you see is usually the one that rescues something. That is the reason to build recipes from an inventory instead of a search box.
Can it plan a whole week rather than one dinner?
Yes. The weekly menu builds seven days around what you already own and sends anything still missing to the shopping list, so planning and shopping stop being two separate arguments.
Is it free?
Tracking what you own, expiry alerts and the shopping list are free, with no ads. Recipe and weekly-menu suggestions from your inventory sit in the paid tier, together with photo, receipt and voice input.
Let the fridge answer the question
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