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The waste‑free weekly meal planner

The meal planner that finishes the cream.

Recipes ask for 100 ml. The supermarket sells 200 ml. Mealpakt plans your whole week around the packs you actually buy, then makes sure every one of them gets used. Less waste, less money spent, and no more nightly “what shall we eat?”

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01The problem

Each of us wastes nearly twice our body weight in food, every year.

Most of it does not happen in fields or factories. It happens at home, one half‑used pack at a time: the rest of the cream, the second leek, the bag of spinach we meant to cook on Thursday.

of food wasted per person in the EU every year
130kg
of food wasted per person in the EU every year
Eurostat, 2023 data
of it is thrown away in private households, more than any other stage
53%
of it is thrown away in private households, more than any other stage
Eurostat, 2023 data
worth of food lost across the EU each year
€132bn
worth of food lost across the EU each year
European Commission
spent every day just deciding what to have for dinner
16min
spent every day just deciding what to have for dinner
Talker Research, survey of US adults, 2026

The cause is surprisingly mundane: recipes are written in grams, but shops sell in packs. No meal planner we know of does the sums in between. Mealpakt does.

02How it works

Four steps to a week that adds up.

  1. 1

    Tell it how you eat

    How many people, which days, lunch or dinner. Add dislikes, hard exclusions, a calorie range per portion and the cuisines you love.

  2. 2

    Get a week that fits together

    Mealpakt chooses dishes that share ingredients, so the other half of the cream becomes Wednesday’s risotto instead of Sunday’s bin.

  3. 3

    Shop one clear list

    Grouped by supermarket aisle and counted in real packs, not grams. Share it with a link and tick things off, even without signal.

  4. 4

    Cook, tick, carry over

    What you buy fills your pantry, what you cook is deducted, and whatever keeps rolls into next week’s plan. Nothing is forgotten.

03Your kitchen, in numbers

What does waste cost your household?

A rough estimate for a typical European home. Adjust the settings and see what halving your food waste would be worth.

Compared with most homes, you throw away

Based on 69 kg of household food waste per person per year (Eurostat, 2023 data) and an average value of €2.28 per kg (European Commission: 58 million tonnes worth €132 billion).
Eurostat · European Commission

Food binned per year 138kg
Worth about €314
Halve it with Mealpakt and keep 69 kg · €157 every year Start saving

An estimate to give you a sense of scale, not a promise.

04The difference

The AI suggests. The maths decides.

Other planners let a language model guess. Mealpakt lets it propose dishes, then checks every gram with plain arithmetic: package counts, leftovers, expiry dates and calories. If anything would be left over, the plan goes back for another round until the week adds up.

  • Rounded to the pack sizes on real supermarket shelves
  • Fresh items used within the week, long‑life items carried over
  • Leftovers counted as next week’s ingredients, not as waste
One week, three packs

A typical recipe plan

Cream 200 ml Mon100 ml
Mushrooms 250 g Mon100 g
Potatoes 2 kg Tue1.2 kg

1.4 kg in the bin

Planned with Mealpakt

Cream 200 ml MonWed
Mushrooms 250 g MonWed
Potatoes 2 kg TueNext week

Nothing in the bin

  • Cooked
  • Carried over
  • Binned

05Features

Everything a busy kitchen actually needs.

Built around one idea, that food you buy should be food you eat, and polished like a native iPhone app.

  1. Pantry

    • Potatoes 1.2 kg
    • Basmati rice 350 g
    • Onions 3

    Planned: Monday’s potato soup

    Leftovers roll forward

    The rest of the two kilo potato sack isn’t waste, it’s next Monday. Anything that keeps shapes the following week’s plan.

  2. Use it up

    • Spinach 2 days
    • Greek yoghurt 3 days
    • Feta 6 days

    Cooked first: Wednesday’s risotto

    “Use it up” nudges

    Anything in your pantry that expires within three days is flagged, and planned first.

  3. Tonight

    • Leek and potato gratin × 2
    • Portion for tomorrow Lunch

    One pan, two meals, nothing left

    Cook once, eat twice

    Double tonight’s portion and tomorrow’s lunch is already sorted. Planned, counted and on the list.

  4. Thai green curry

    • Coriander Parsley
    • Peanuts Never
    • Coconut milk 400 ml All of it

    Your taste, the same dish

    Dislikes swapped, not dropped

    Can’t stand coriander? It is replaced inside the dish. Allergies and hard no’s never appear at all, not even as a substitute.

  5. Waste score

    96
    Last four weeks
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    Most binned lately: fresh herbs

    Your weekly waste score

    Every week closes with a score, what carried over, and the ingredients you bin most often. Watch it improve.

  • Portions that fit you

    Set a calorie range per portion and every dish is scaled to it. No counting, no spreadsheets.

  • Real dishes first

    Plans draw on a curated library of real recipes. AI only invents a dish when one is needed to use something up.

  • Recipes from a photo

    Snap a cookbook page, your grandmother’s handwritten card or a screenshot, and it becomes a recipe Mealpakt can plan with.

  • A list that works in the shop

    Grouped by aisle, counted in packs, in German or English. Share it by link with anyone; ticks sync when the signal returns.

  • It learns your taste

    Rate what you cook. Favourites return, and a one‑star dish is never planned again.

  • Twenty‑four cuisines

    Rotate through the world’s kitchens or pin Thai to Thursdays. Add quick, air fryer or high protein weeks.

  • Change it in plain words

    Reroll a day, drop an evening, or simply write “something lighter on Friday”. Then lock the week.

06Why not just…

Other apps plan meals. Mealpakt plans the shopping basket.

Popular planners are good at recipes and lists. What people tell us they miss is everything in between: the half‑used packs, the leftovers, the subscription that grows every year, and the uneasy question of where their data ends up.

See the full comparison
Typical planner Mealpakt
Recipes in grams, shopping in guesswork Every dish planned around real pack sizes
Leftovers are your problem Leftovers become next week’s ingredients
Features disappear behind paywalls Free during beta, then an affordable base plan
Data on servers outside the EU Hosted in the EU, with EU providers

07Made in the EU

Your kitchen stays in the EU.

What you eat says a great deal about you: your health, your religion, your budget, your family. That is why every byte of Mealpakt is stored in the European Union, with EU companies, under EU law.

  • Hosted in the EU

    All data lives in EU data centres run by EU providers. No transfers to third countries, no small print about “adequate safeguards”.

  • No ads, no data sales

    We earn money from people who use Mealpakt, never from advertisers, retailers or data brokers. You are the customer, not the product.

  • No trackers

    No analytics scripts, no pixels, no fingerprinting. Even this website sets no cookies, which is why you have not seen a cookie banner.

  • GDPR by design

    We collect only what planning needs: an email address, your preferences and your plans. Ask, and all of it is deleted.

You decide what happens to your data.

See what we store, correct it or delete all of it. One message is enough, and a person answers it.

How we handle privacy

€Every euro we spend on infrastructure stays with businesses in the EU.

08Our mission

A Europe where nobody throws away half a bag of spinach again.

Food waste is not a moral failing. It is a planning problem, and planning problems can be solved with good software. We want to put that software in every European kitchen.

  • ½

    Halve the food waste of every household that plans with Mealpakt.

  • 30 %

    Help the EU reach its binding 2030 target: a 30 % cut in food waste per person in shops, restaurants and homes.

    Read the source

  • 4 days

    Give back the time people spend each year deciding what to have for dinner.

    Read the source

  • 100 %

    Prove that everyday software can be designed, built, hosted and funded in the EU.

These are goals, not measured results. We will publish our real numbers as soon as the beta produces them.

09Pricing

Free while we grow. Fair when we’re grown.

We would rather be honest than clever about money.

Right now

Beta

Free

  • Every feature, no limits
  • iPhone and web app
  • Shopping list sharing
  • Founding members hear about any plan first
Start planning

When we leave beta

Later

Affordable

  • A base plan that always stays affordable
  • Optional extras for heavy AI use
  • Priced for households, not for growth charts
  • Cancel in one tap, export your data

Our promise: no ads, ever. No selling of data, ever. And a base plan every household can afford.

10Questions

Good questions.

Is Mealpakt free?

During the beta, yes: every feature is free, with no limits and no ads. After the beta there will be a base plan that always stays affordable, priced for households rather than for growth charts, plus optional extras for heavy AI use. Beta members will hear about prices well in advance.

Which devices does it run on?

On iPhone, and in any modern browser on Android, Windows, Mac or Linux. A native Android app is on our roadmap.

Does it only work for German supermarkets?

Pack sizes are currently modelled on German supermarkets, and the shopping list comes in German or English. More countries’ supermarkets are next on the list.

Is the app available in German?

The app interface is in English today, while the shopping list can be in German or English. A full German interface is on the roadmap.

Can my partner or flatmates use it too?

Share the shopping list with a link that opens in any browser, no account needed. Full shared households with several accounts are coming.

Do I have to count calories?

No. Setting a calorie range per portion is optional. If you do, Mealpakt scales every dish to fit, so you never have to count anything yourself.

Can it cater for vegetarians or allergies?

Exclude any ingredient, meat or fish included, and it will never appear. Dislikes work more gently: they are swapped for something similar inside the dish.

What happens to my data?

It is stored in the EU with EU providers and used only to plan your meals. We never show ads and never sell or share your data for marketing. Ask, and we delete everything.

Sources

Every figure on this page links to its source. Checked September 2026.

  1. Eurostat: 130 kg of food wasted per person annually in the EU, 16 October 2025
  2. European Commission: Food waste
  3. Talker Research: Seafood ranks among Americans’ most satisfying end‑of‑week meals (survey of 2,000 US adults), 25 June 2026
  4. Official Journal of the European Union: Directive (EU) 2025/1892 amending Directive 2008/98/EC on waste, 10 September 2025
  5. European Commission: Food waste reduction targets
  6. European Parliament: Parliament adopts new EU rules to reduce textile and food waste, 9 September 2025

This week, waste nothing.

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