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Recipe app that matches your fridge inventory 🌿
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forage - Recipe app that matches your fridge inventory 🌿

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Log your fridge items, find recipes you can actually cook, and automatically deduct what you used. Fully features a highly polished database of nearly 900 curated recipes—no external APIs, no limits.

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Hi Product Hunt community! 👋 I built Forage to solve a simple but frustrating problem: throwing away random ingredients from the fridge just because I didn't know what to cook with them. Instead of relying on third-party recipe APIs that have strict daily rate limits or costs, I wanted something fully self-hosted. Forage runs entirely against our own Postgres database, which has been rigorously filtered and seeded with 899 highly polished, high-quality recipes (complete with images and real nutrition data), ensuring a clean and reliable user experience. Key features I'm excited about: - Smart Fridge Inventory: Supports natural language parsing (type a list, it handles units). - Intelligent "I Cooked This" flow that deducts items from your fridge. - Full ecosystem including a weekly meal planner, saved recipes, and nutrition history. It's completely free and live right now. Since I'm aiming for my first 100 users, I would absolutely love to hear your honest feedback, feature ideas, or any bugs you find! Thanks for checking it out! 🌿

the auto-deduct feature is such a thoughtful touch—keeps the inventory honest without you having to think about it. love that the recipes live locally too.

Maker

 Thanks a lot! Keeping the inventory honest with zero friction was exactly what I aimed for. Having the recipes bundled locally makes everything load instantly and keeps the experience smooth. Really appreciate the kind words!

Really like how it pulls recipes based on what's actually in my fridge. The auto-deduction after cooking is a small touch but makes it feel like it actually gets how messy my kitchen planning gets.

Maker

 Thank you so much! I'm thrilled that you like the fridge inventory and auto-deduction features. Kitchen planning can get super chaotic, so my main goal was to make tracking ingredients as seamless and hands-free as possible. Appreciate your support!

Tried it for a week and the auto-deduct feature is what hooked me, opened the fridge less and cooked more without thinking about tracking. The curated recipe list actually feels picked by a person, which is rare these days.

Maker

 Thank you so much! Hearing that you love the auto-deduct feature and the curated recipes is incredibly motivating. Thanks for the amazing support!