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ExpiryMate: Food Tracker

Launching today

Track food, plan meals, and waste less

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Track food, plan meals, and waste less

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How much food do you throw away simply because you forgot it was there? ExpiryMate helps you track what’s in your fridge, freezer and pantry, see what expires next, plan meals, and build a smarter shopping list so you buy only what you need. Scan barcodes, share with your household, get timely reminders and turn forgotten groceries into meals instead of waste.

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Launch tags:Android•Productivity•Food & Drink

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Most food waste starts with five harmless words: “I forgot we had that.” I kept seeing the same pattern: food hidden at the back of the fridge, groceries bought twice, and ingredients expiring because there was no simple way to see what needed using first. That is why I built ExpiryMate. The idea was not just to create another expiry-date tracker. I wanted to connect the entire household food cycle: know what you already have, see what expires next, turn those ingredients into meal ideas, and maintain a shopping list based on what you actually need. The biggest challenge was making food tracking useful without turning it into another daily chore. ExpiryMate has evolved around reducing that friction through barcode scanning, reminders, shared household access, storage zones and a shopping list that works alongside the food tracker. I’m launching it here because I would genuinely value feedback from people who want to waste less food—or simply want to stop discovering forgotten groceries one day too late. What is the one feature that would make ExpiryMate indispensable in your home?

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3d ago

love how it nudges you to use up what's about to expire with meal suggestions instead of just flashing a red warning. that little pivot from guilt trip to actually helping you cook is such a thoughtful design choice.

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1h ago

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@asyaerbilen Thank you — that’s exactly the kind of experience I was hoping to create. I wanted ExpiryMate to feel helpful rather than make people feel guilty for forgetting something in the fridge. The meal suggestions can already use what you have and let you add missing ingredients directly to the shopping list. I’d be curious to know which approach would feel more useful to you: suggestions that use mostly what is already available, or recipes that introduce a few extra ingredients for more variety?

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41m ago

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3d ago

What food do you throw away most often—and why?

Food waste rarely feels like one big decision.

It is usually a forgotten yoghurt, half a bag of vegetables, leftovers pushed behind something else, or an ingredient bought for a recipe that never happened.

But those small moments add up.

While building ExpiryMate, I started thinking less about expiry dates themselves and more about why perfectly usable food becomes invisible.

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3d ago

What makes you abandon a food-tracking app?

Food tracking sounds useful until maintaining the tracker becomes more work than the food it is supposed to save.

That has been one of the hardest problems while building ExpiryMate.

Recording an item once is easy. The real challenge is keeping everything accurate after groceries are bought, food is moved between the fridge and freezer, something is partly used, or another household member finishes it.

A tracker can have expiry reminders, barcode scanning, meal suggestions and a shopping list but none of that matters if people stop updating it after the first week.

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3d ago

Should a shopping list know what you already have?

Most shopping-list apps begin with a blank list.

But your kitchen is not blank.

There may already be pasta in the cupboard, vegetables that need using, milk bought by another household member, or an ingredient sitting in the freezer that everyone forgot about.

That made me question whether a shopping list should be separate from a food tracker at all.

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