A SMALL TOOL FOR THE FOOD ALREADY IN YOUR KITCHEN
What's for dinner?
What's for dinner?
Start with what's left.
Yesterday's rice. Half a tomato. The last bit of cheese. Put them in and find something to make before another good ingredient ends up in the bin.
Find a meal01 / THE KITCHEN
What do you have?
Match your food against 106 meal ideas. Add several ingredients together; your kitchen list stays in this browser.
Add your food
Check your food
Add a date for cooked leftovers or raw meat and fish.
Your kitchen 0
Nothing here yet. Add your food above.
A meal you could make
WAITING FOR FOODStart with your food list.
Paste what's left in your kitchen. We'll look for meals you can make from it.
MAKE THIS WITH WHAT YOU HAVE
From your kitchen
What to do
Want to use more of the list?
Make a plan for your next two meals. Each ingredient gets used once.
02 / YOUR NEXT TWO MEALS
Two meals. No double counting.
Here is one way to split up the food you entered. You can change your list and build the plan again.
WHY GOAL 12?
The food we already bought is the place to start.
Households made up 60% of global food waste in 2022, according to the UN. Goal 12.3 is about cutting that waste at the consumer level. The EPA's advice is practical: keep a list of food to use up and plan meals around it. That's what this tool helps you do.
A quick food-safety note
Keep raw meat separate from food you can eat as-is. Check its temperature with a food thermometer when cooking. Cooked leftovers should be refrigerated promptly, used within 3–4 days, and reheated to 165°F / 74°C. If you're unsure how something was stored, leave it out.
Safe cooking temperatures ↗