RecipeScale: Ingredient Cost Calculator
AI-powered app that calculates real ingredient costs per serving by parsing recipes and matching local grocery prices, helping home cooks and meal-prep businesses understand true food economics.
The Problem
Home cooks and small meal-prep businesses have no easy way to calculate actual ingredient costs from recipes. They either manually look up each ingredient's price (tedious) or guess at costs (inaccurate). This makes pricing meal plans, comparing recipes by efficiency, or hitting target food costs impossible without spreadsheet hell.
Target Audience
Small meal-prep business owners, home cooks doing bulk cooking, fitness coaches creating client meal plans, and budget-conscious families trying to reduce food waste and spending.
Why Now?
Post-inflation, people obsess over food costs; meal-prep is booming; AI OCR and APIs are now accessible to solo builders; users have price-checking habits from inflation anxiety.
What's Missing
Recipe sites don't connect to live grocery prices; grocery apps don't understand recipes; existing cost calculators require manual data entry and don't scale to local price variation.
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