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Notes from the kitchen
Practical, personal posts on reducing food waste, lowering grocery bills, and cooking from what's already in your fridge. New posts Tuesdays and Thursdays.
What's your fridge waste number?
USDA says the average household wastes $1,500 of food a year. Your number is probably different — sometimes much higher. Here's the math, and a 60-second quiz that does it for you.
Read post →Grocery prices keep climbing. Good Food IQ is your hedge.
USDA projects beef +9.4% and coffee +5.2% in 2026, while produce stays flat. The cheapest hedge against grocery inflation isn't coupons — it's knowing what's in your fridge and how long it lasts.
Read post →What's new in v1.26: plan your whole week in three taps
5-dinner Mon–Fri weekly meal plans, photo-to-fridge scanning that opens the camera instantly, and a refined Eat Me First flow that lets you pick which expiring items belong together. Biggest release since the v1.16 rebuild.
Read post →What we've been up to this week
1,200+ more foods with calibrated shelf life (cheddar lasts 6 months, not 14 days), natural-language search ("swiss cheese" works now), and a save-your-leftovers flow coming in the next iOS update. A short note from Greg on what shipped.
Read post →Groceries jumped 0.7% in April. Food waste just got more expensive too.
April's CPI showed the biggest one-month grocery jump in nearly four years. When prices climb and 30% of what you buy still gets thrown away, the real cost increase is much bigger than the headline.
Read post →What to eat first, before it goes bad.
Why the fridge problem is a priority problem, not an inventory problem — and how we rebuilt ok2eat around one question in v1.16.
Read post →How long does {anything} last?
A lot of food gets thrown out simply because nobody knows how long it was supposed to last. So we wired the USDA FoodKeeper dataset into ok2eat — and put a public version on the web.
Read post →How we cut our grocery bill 25% (without coupons or bulk shopping)
No meal planning spreadsheets. No bulk runs to Costco. Just one change: stop buying what we already have, and eat what's about to go bad first.
Read post →Dinner used to be "what do we want?" Now it's "what do we have?"
My wife and I defaulted to takeout because by 7pm we couldn't decide what to make. Then we changed the question.
Read post →One fridge, one list, no group chat
Multiple shopping lists, real-time sync between phones, and one-tap ordering. How ok2eat v1.1.0 stops the "did we already buy eggs?" texts.
Read post →Less typing, more cooking — what's new in ok2eat
Easier to use, easier to share, easier to take action. What just shipped in v1.0.10, plus a peek at voice add, photo-add, and the rest of the "easier" arc.
Read post →Why I built ok2eat
A forgotten avocado, $80 a month going in the trash, and the moment I realized my partner and I needed a shared source of truth for what's in the kitchen.
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