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Shelve is a pantry management, meal planning, and grocery list app designed to help households save money, reduce food waste, and stay organised. It gives you a clear view of what's already in your kitchen so you can make better and easier grocery shopping and meal planning decisions.

Shelve helps you track the food and ingredients you already have at home. You can add pantry items, organise recipes, plan meals, generate grocery lists, and receive reminders for food that may be approaching its expiry or use-by date. The goal is simple: help you buy only what you need and make better use of the food and items you already have.

Shelve is designed for: - Busy individuals and families - People trying to reduce grocery spending - Home cooks who want to stay organised - Meal planners - Anyone looking to reduce food waste Whether you cook every day or only occasionally, Shelve helps simplify kitchen management.

Yes! Many households and individuals accidentally purchase duplicate groceries because they forget what's already in their pantry, fridge, or freezer. Or perhaps they were unsure if it's already expired or running low, and they do not want to risk another drive to the grocery store. By keeping an inventory of your food and ingredients, Shelve helps reduce unnecessary purchases and encourages you to use existing ingredients before buying more. We can also remind you of stock levels depending on your usage so you can make informed decisions while you're grocery shopping.

Food waste often happens because ingredients are forgotten until they're no longer usable. Shelve helps you: - Track pantry, fridge, cupboards, and freezer items - Monitor expiry or use-by dates - Plan meals around ingredients you already own - Use food before it goes to waste Reducing food waste can help both your budget and the environment.

Yes! Free version of Shelve includes food planning feature that allows you to organise meals for the week and build grocery lists based on your planned recipes. Food planning can help reduce decision fatigue, avoid last-minute grocery runs, and make better use of ingredients you already have.

Absolutely, yes. Shelve can generate grocery lists based on your recipes and meal plans, helping you shop more efficiently and avoid forgetting important ingredients. Shelve automatically removes items that are already in your pantry, reminds you of items that are running low, and lists items you marked for restocking. This helps you save money on grocery and saves you time from unexpected last-minute grocery runs.

Definitely! You can save your own recipes inside Shelve and make edits or adjustments as often as you need to. You can also upload a photo of the finished meal and attach it to the recipe.

Yes. Shelve allows you to upload recipes directly from supported document formats, making it easier to import recipes you already have saved on your device.

You can add items manually, but Shelve is designed to make pantry management as simple and efficient as possible. When you first sign up with Shelve, it wouldn't have all your pantry items yet. You can easily scan the barcodes of all your pantry items so can upload them into Shelve (great way to declutter and arrange your pantry as well!). As you keep on using Shelve for your grocery shopping, meal planning, and cooking, all the grocery items are automatically updated. This means that when you finished your grocery list, we add the items automatically into your database. As you use them for cooking, you can mark them as "Used Up" or "Restock".

Yes. Shelve allows you to record expiry dates for food items so you can quickly identify ingredients that should be used soon.

Yes! Shelve offers a free plan so you can start organising your kitchen, planning meals, and managing groceries without a subscription.

The free version includes core pantry management, meal planning, recipe management, and grocery list features. Feature availability may change as Shelve continues to improve.

Most people can quickly check their bank balance, emails, or calendar—but have no idea what's currently in their pantry. A pantry inventory app helps you: - Avoid duplicate purchases - Reduce food waste - Save money on groceries - Plan meals more efficiently - Stay organised

Traditional grocery list apps focus only on shopping. Shelve combines: - Pantry inventory management - Meal planning - Recipe organisation - Grocery lists - Expiry tracking This gives you a complete picture of your kitchen, not just your next shopping trip.

Getting started is simple: 1. Download Shelve on Play Store or App Store 2. Add your pantry items 3. Save your favourite recipes 4. Plan your meals 5. Let Shelve help you make the most of the food you already have Start today and spend less time wondering what's in the pantry and more time enjoying your meals.