UPDATE:

Read our Kitchen Confessions blog for current apps to help prevent wasted food!

For that edition, we took a superficial dive into the wild-wide-world of digital food tools, and came up with a brief listing of ones we’re either currently using or are willing to try out. In particular, we looked for app developers with a well-stated commitment to our shared mission — empowering folks to waste less food and save money at home, everyday!

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Here are three free, handy ways to reduce wasted food in your home by using the magic of technology.

  Food Keeper

Use this app as a technological companion to our Smart Storage materials listed on our home page. This tool was developed by the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, with Cornell University and the Food Marketing Institute. They describe their app as helping people understanding storage.
It is available as a mobile application for Android and Apple devices and as a website.

Click here: https://www.foodsafety.gov/keep/foodkeeperapp/index.html

 

Big Oven

350,000+ recipes at your fingertips! Just pop in a couple of ingredients that are lying around the house, and Big Oven will do the work for you of finding the perfect recipe. It’ll provide you with a grocery list that you can organize by recipe or by department. The grocery list can be shared within your household too!!
Big Oven can be used on Apple, Android and Windows operating systems.

Click here: https://www.bigoven.com/mobile/getbyos

 

OLIO

With over 400,000 users and nearly 630,000 portions of food shared, this app is doing some heavy lifting reducing wasted food. The concept is that you can share any unwanted food with your neighbors, and vice versa. Welcome to the sharing economy!
OLIO is Apple and Android device compatible.

Click here: https://olioex.com/