Your pantry-first cooking companion
Cook with what you already have.
ChifChef keeps track of your pantry and finds the recipes you can make tonight, so less food goes to waste and dinner stops being a guessing game.
Tomato
Expiring in 2 days
01Pantry
Know what's in your kitchen, and when it's on the turn.
Add groceries in a couple of taps and ChifChef estimates when each one goes off, from how long that food usually keeps where you store it.
- Shelf life estimated for the fridge, pantry and freezer
- Expiring items surface first, so the spinach gets eaten before it wilts
- Know Sukuma Wiki or Nyanya? Search finds ingredients by their local names too
Cabbage
Expired 1 day ago
1 pc
Fridge
You have 2 expired items
02Chif
Ask Chif what's for dinner.
Chif starts from what is already in your pantry. Leave out what you are saving, add what you just bought, and swipe through recipes ranked by how much of each you can already make.
- Ranked by how much you already have, not how many items match
- See exactly what's missing before you commit
- Recipes with an ingredient from your allergy list are flagged
Ghee Rice
Contains Cashew Nuts03Receipt scan
Snap the receipt. Skip the typing.
Photograph your shopping receipt and ChifChef turns the lines into pantry items: names, amounts and where they go. The dish soap and crisps are set aside, and you check everything before it's added.
- Reads supermarket shorthand like “COCONUT CRM 400ML”
- Anything it isn't sure about is marked for a second look
- The photo is read once and never stored on our servers
FRESH MART
08/10/2026 18:42
FRESH CREAM MILK 1L135.00
TOMATOES LOOSE 0.75KG90.00
COCONUT CRM 400ML160.00
PISHORI RICE 2KG420.00
DISH SOAP 750ML210.00
TISSUE 10PK399.00
CRISPS SALTED100.00
TOTAL KES1,514.00
04Plan
Plan the week. Shop only the gaps.
Put recipes on the days you'll cook them, then generate one shopping list for the whole week. Anything already in your pantry is left off, so you buy what's missing and nothing twice.
- Breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks, Sunday to Saturday
- Set servings and add notes for each meal
- Share the list to whoever's doing the shopping
Shopping list
Only what your pantry is missing
05Cookbook
A cookbook that writes itself as you cook.
Every recipe you cook becomes a book on your shelf, and every time you cook it adds a page: a photo of the plate, how it turned out and what you'd change next time.
- Books grow thicker the more you cook them
- Stamp a page “Make again” or “Too long” and see it next time
- When you finish cooking, take what you used off your pantry in one tap
Page 3 of 3
Wednesday, 8 October
What I changed
Extra ginger, less chilli for the kids.
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