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Add items quickly
Scan a barcode or add an item by hand. Scanning fills in the product details and proposes an expiry date, so a full pantry is a few minutes of work rather than an evening.
Reduce food waste at home
Use food before it becomes waste.
A forgotten ingredient is hard to plan around. CookFeed keeps pantry items and expiry dates visible, so you can prioritize the food that needs attention when choosing recipes and meals.
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How it works
From input to something you can use.
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Notice what needs attention
The pantry groups items by category and surfaces what is expiring soon, so the food that needs cooking first is visible rather than buried at the back of the fridge.
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Turn them into meals
Send the priority ingredients into recipe suggestions or a weekly plan before buying more, and let restock suggestions catch what is running low.
Getting food in
Scan the barcode instead of typing.
Expiry tracking only helps if adding items is quick. Scanning a product looks it up in the Open Food Facts database, fills in the name, brand and size, picks a category, and suggests an expiry date you can adjust before saving.
A concrete example
See the kind of problem CookFeed can help with.
Starting point
Six items expiring soon
- Yogurt already past its date
- Tortillas and rice still in the cupboard
- Two weeknight dinners needed
CookFeed result
Plan around the fragile ingredients
The pantry puts the expiring items in front of you instead of leaving them to be discovered later. Those ingredients can go straight into recipe suggestions, while staples fill out the meals and the shopping list captures only genuine gaps.
- Expiry dates stay visible
- Expiring food can feed recipe ideas
- Low-stock items become a shopping list
Why CookFeed
The feature is useful because the workflow stays connected.
Less relying on memory
The pantry gives ingredients a visible place, with a banner for anything approaching its date, before they disappear at the back of the fridge.
Fast enough to actually maintain
Barcode scanning prefills the product details and a suggested expiry date, which is the difference between a pantry you keep updated and one you abandon.
Action, not just inventory
Tracked food is an input to recipe and meal-planning tools, and low-stock items can move to the shopping list in one tap.
Questions
Useful details before you try it.
Does CookFeed guarantee that food is safe to eat?
No. Expiry tracking is an organizational aid, and scanned dates are estimates based on the product category. Always inspect food and follow local food-safety guidance before eating it.
Where do scanned product details come from?
Barcodes are looked up in Open Food Facts, an open product database. CookFeed uses the name, brand and size it returns, picks a category from the product tags, and suggests an expiry date from that category. Every field stays editable before you save.
Do I need to track everything I buy?
No. Start with expensive, perishable, or frequently forgotten items. A smaller accurate pantry is more useful than a large outdated one.
Can pantry items be used by the meal planner?
Yes. Pantry items can be pulled into recipe suggestions and the weekly planner, so the food you already have shapes what you cook next.
Keep exploring
Related CookFeed workflows.
Waste-first cooking
Last night’s dinner, not tonight’s bin.
Describe what is left over and CookFeed suggests three new meals built around it, with times, the extra ingredients needed, and full instructions.
Learn more → Pantry-first cookingTurn the ingredients you have into dinner.
Add ingredients from your fridge or pantry and get practical recipe ideas shaped around your diet, servings, and available food.
Learn more → Weekly planningPlan the week around food you already have.
Create a flexible weekly meal plan around your diet, servings, schedule, and ingredients, then collect what is missing in one shopping list.
Learn more →Try the workflow with your own food.
Start with the free plan on Web, or keep CookFeed close in the kitchen on iPhone, iPad, Android phones, or Android tablets.