MyRecipeHQ started with a simple problem: I'd plan a week of dinners, buy all the ingredients, and then life would happen. A spontaneous dinner out, a busy Wednesday, a late meeting — and suddenly that bunch of cilantro, the fresh salmon, the spinach I had big plans for were quietly going bad in the fridge.
The apps I tried were built around collecting recipes, not cooking them. They had beautiful interfaces and zero help with the actual problem: planning meals that made sense together, tracking what I had on hand, and not throwing $50 of groceries away every week.
So I built MyRecipeHQ — a tool focused on home cooks who buy fresh ingredients and care about not wasting them. No social features, no algorithmic recipe feeds. Just a useful kitchen companion.
It's used daily in my own kitchen. I hope it earns a place in yours.
Home cook, meal planner, and the person behind every feature in MyRecipeHQ. I built this because I was tired of watching good food go to waste in my own kitchen.
The average American household throws away nearly $1,500 in food every year. MyRecipeHQ exists to change that, one meal at a time.
Source: NRDC, "Wasted: How America Is Losing Up to 40 Percent of Its Food"