Peanut didn't start as a meal plan

Peanut didn’t start as a meal plan

Most meal plan apps start with recipes.

Peanut didn’t.

Peanut started with a fridge that kept filling up with food nobody really wanted to eat.

Half-used ingredients.
Good intentions.
Meals that sounded right on Sunday and felt wrong by Wednesday.

So instead of asking “what should we cook?”, Peanut asked a different question:

“What actually happens after we buy food?”

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Most food waste isn’t about bad planning

It’s about small mismatches.

Meals that take more energy than the day has.
Recipes that work once but never again.
Food bought for a single idea that never quite happens.

Peanut doesn’t try to fix this with more options.

It fixes it by paying attention.

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What Peanut actually does

Peanut looks at what’s already in your kitchen.

Not a theoretical pantry.
Not a shopping list you’ll forget.
What you actually own right now.

From there, it suggests meals that:

• use what’s already there
• fit the kind of week you’re having
• match what your family usually finishes

When you cook something, Peanut remembers.
When you skip it, Peanut notices.
When you tweak it, Peanut learns from that.
When nobody eats it, Peanut remembers harder.

No extra steps.
No “training mode”.
You just cook like you normally would.

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Patterns matter more than preferences

After a few weeks, patterns start to show up.

Not just what your family eats — but when things work.

Busy days.
Low-energy evenings.
Meals that only succeed on weekends.
Meals that look good on paper and fail every time.

Peanut learns those patterns and quietly stops suggesting things that don’t survive real life.

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Less waste is a side effect

When meals get cooked and eaten:

• food stops rotting in the fridge
• shopping gets simpler
• the weekly bill drops without trying

Peanut doesn’t optimise for novelty.

It optimises for meals that actually happen.

That’s the whole thing.

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No dashboards. No hype. No chasing trends

Peanut doesn’t gamify dinner.
It doesn’t flood you with choices.
It doesn’t try to impress you with graphs.

It just pays attention over time and adjusts.

Quietly.
Incrementally.
Week by week.

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Who Peanut is for

Peanut works best for people who:

• are tired of wasting food
• don’t want to think too hard about dinner
• want fewer decisions