Cooking with your leftovers

What's for dinner tonight? Verdish is a zero-waste cooking app: snap your fridge and it suggests three recipes using what you already have, with nothing to buy. Less waste, more ideas.

1. Snap your fridge

Door open, light on: one to three photos of the fridge, the door or the cupboard, taken on the spot or picked from your gallery. Hidden information in the photo, including GPS location, is removed before it's sent. No photo to hand? Type your ingredients in.

2. Check the list

The ingredients we spot appear, with the ones to check at the top. Fix a name or a quantity, remove items, add more. Recipes are built from your confirmed list and your basics, not from the photo.

3. Three recipes from your leftovers

Verdish suggests three recipes based on your cravings, your time and your skill level. Each one only uses your list and your cupboard basics (salt, oil, pepper…, which you can set in the app): nothing to buy. Every recipe tells you how many of your fridge ingredients it saves, for example "Uses 5 of your 7 ingredients".

4. Cook step by step

Cooking mode guides you step by step, timers included. When your dish is ready, take a photo: the jury of four characters scores it out of 10.

Allergies and diets

Tell the app your allergies, from the fourteen allergens listed by EU rules, and your diet: vegetarian, vegan, pescatarian, no pork or no alcohol. It leaves out recipes with an ingredient that contains what you avoid and, to be safe, those using an ingredient it doesn't recognise. It doesn't know brands or traces: always check the labels, Verdish can't guarantee a dish is free from allergens. Details: what the app does, and what it can't do.

What about the photo of my fridge?

It's only used to list your ingredients. It's deleted right after analysis, and within 24 hours at the latest if the analysis was interrupted.

How much does it cost?

Scanning and recipes are free, as is the full jury, with up to five verdicts a week. Out on Android in late November 2026, on iPhone later.

Transparency: recipes are generated by artificial intelligence.