Households find weekly meal planning and grocery shopping tedious
People responsible for feeding themselves or others want to spend less time deciding what to cook and getting the right groceries. They describe meal planning and prep as burdensome, and want meal plans to account for food already at home and turn into a delivery order or shopping list. Grocery delivery can reduce store trips, but shoppers also want an easier way to spot savings.
For households planning and preparing regular meals. Mentioned from Jan 2024 to Sep 2026 on Bluesky and Hacker News.
6 different people described this problem in 6 separate discussions.
- Indie fit
- 4.0/10
- Pain
- 5.3/10
- Frequency
- 7.0/10
- Willingness to pay
- 4.1/10
- Momentum
- 5.6/10
- Who pays
- Consumers
- Competition
- High
- Build difficulty
- Medium
What people said
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What I want is the opposite to what you're asking for - let me dump a rough meal plan into whatever thing is doing this giving an overview of what meals I want to cook this week and then have it go place an order with the supermarket for delivery of the necessary ingredients taking into account what I've got in the hou…
I would gladly pay for an app that helped me save $15 a week in groceries
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