MyKitchen

Quick add

The fastest way to stock your kitchen is the always-visible text bar at the top of the Kitchen page. Type a comma list — “milk, 2 lb chicken, 3 eggs” — and every part becomes its own inventory row in one submit. Already have that item? Quick add bumps its quantity instead of creating a duplicate.

Staples

For stocking many items at once, the staples picker offers a searchable list of common pantry ingredients — up to 500, ranked by how commonly they’re used, sorted Popular or A-Z. Tap the ones you have and add them all in a single batch. Open it from the “More kitchen actions” menu (the ⋮ button at the top of the Kitchen page) → “Stock staples.”

Receipt scan

Photograph or upload a grocery receipt and FoodGenie reads each line, guesses a storage location and expiry date for it, and hands you a review screen before anything is added — one commit stocks your kitchen and checks off the matching items on your shopping list at the same time. Open it from the “More kitchen actions” menu (the ⋮ button at the top of the Kitchen page) → “Scan a receipt.”

The same menu also has “Kitchen check” — a short, guided sweep through your existing inventory (confirm what’s still around, clear out what’s gone) when you’d rather audit than add.

Expiry estimates

Add an item without picking a date and FoodGenie fills one in for you, based on the kind of food it is — milk gets a short shelf life, salt gets a long one. It’s a starting guess, not a food-safety verdict.

• 01

  Correct one item

  Every item’s expiry date is a plain, editable date field — change it anytime from the add or edit screen.
• 02

  Correct several at once

  Quick chips — Today, 3 days, 1 week, 2 weeks, 1 month — or a custom date, for setting dates on a batch of items in one pass.

The Food Log, on cook-confirm

Mark a planned meal as cooked and FoodGenie asks what to do with each ingredient it used — per item, not all-or-nothing. Perishable ingredients you confidently have on hand — meat, dairy, fresh produce, never a pantry staple like salt or flour — start pre-checked for Remove, so most cooks only need to glance and save.

• 01

  Remove

  Take it off your kitchen inventory — you used what you had.
• 02

  Add to list

  Put it on your shopping list — you’re out and need more.
• 03

  Both

  Remove it from inventory and add it to your shopping list.

Change any pre-checked row with a tap, or tap “Leave everything” to clear them all at once. “Just log it” records the cook with no inventory changes at all, and “Not now” closes the sheet without saving anything — including the note.

Use it up

Food about to expire gets an actionable “Use it” button, not just a warning. Tap it on anything you can eat as-is and a small menu offers two real next steps:

• 01

  Add to a meal

  Drops it straight onto an open slot in your Meal Planner.
• 02

  Find recipes that use it

  Jumps to Explore, filtered to recipes built around that exact ingredient.