About Spoon & Ledger
One app for the whole job of feeding a household: deciding what to eat, having it in the kitchen, cooking it, knowing what everyone ate, and knowing what it all cost.
The spoon is the cooking. The ledger is the record of what was planned, bought, cooked, eaten, thrown out and spent, kept in one place so each part can explain the others.
Why it exists
Feeding a household is one job that usually lives in six places: recipes saved in one app, the week planned in another, a shopping list in a third, calories in a fourth, the pantry in someone's head and the budget nowhere at all. None of them know about each other, so everything is typed twice, the chicken goes off because nobody connected it to Thursday's dinner, and the grocery bill is a surprise.
Spoon & Ledger puts it all on one plan and one list of ingredients. A recipe, a pantry shelf, a receipt and a logged meal all point at the same garlic, so when one changes the others already know.
What it does for you
Less thrown away
It knows what is in the fridge and when it goes off, and puts leftovers and things due soon onto nights in the plan before they turn — and tells you what keeps getting binned.
Less spent
Prices come from your own receipts, so every meal and every week has a real cost against your budget, and it will point out a cheaper swap when the week runs over.
Less typed
Plan a week and the shopping list writes itself, minus what you already have. Cook a meal and the pantry comes down and everyone's calories are logged.
Eating to a goal, without a second app
Calories and macros per person, against their own targets, from the meals you planned and cooked — with a banana or a takeaway two taps away.
Fewer decisions at six o'clock
Empty dinners get suggestions — what uses what is expiring, favourites you have not had in a while, a side for a main on its own — and the week is decided when you have time.
One household, one picture
Everyone at the table shares the plan, the pantry and the list. Each phone remembers who is holding it, so logging and the numbers are that person's.
How it behaves
- It does not make things up. A price it does not know says so — "6 of 10 items priced" — rather than guessing, and an estimate is always marked as one.
- Nothing happens without you. Suggestions are proposals: nothing is planned, moved or bought until you accept it, and a no is remembered.
- Your data is your household's. Each household's copy has its own database and password. Nothing is analysed for any purpose but showing it back to you, and outside services are sent only what their one job needs — a barcode, a search term, a list's lines.
- It says where it is rough. The roadmap lists what is not finished, because a tester who hits an edge unwarned stops trusting the rest.
Who it is for
Anyone who cooks most nights and would rather decide once a week than every evening at six: one person, a couple, a family with a child who eats half a portion. Counting calories is optional and per person, so the one who tracks sees their numbers and everyone else just eats. It works on a phone in the kitchen or the aisle, and on a computer for planning the week.
Getting started
- Add a few recipes you already cook — paste a link from almost any recipe site.
- Plan a week on the Ledger: a few dinners is enough to start.
- Shop from the list on Shop, then mark meals cooked as you go. The pantry, the calories and the costs fill in from there.
It gets more useful with use: the price book learns from your receipts and the suggestions from what you actually cook, so the second month is better than the first week.
Where it is going
Spoon & Ledger is in early testing and changes most weeks, shaped by what testers run into. What is next is on the roadmap, what is already here tab by tab under features, and what is kept and where under privacy.
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