// the ok2eat blog
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.
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 free 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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