Your ingredients.
Tonight’s inspiration.

From cupboard to cooking

How to find a meal with what you have

1. Select ingredients and cookware. Tell Your pantry what is available in your kitchen.
2. Pick your match mode. Flexible welcomes missing ingredients; Exact requires the core ingredients; Survival narrows the choice to easy dishes taking 30 minutes or less.
3. Review and cook. Check ingredients, optional extras and tools, then open the dish in the recipe builder.

Common staples are assumed by the matcher. Check each recipe before cooking, and use its missing ingredients to plan a shopping trip.

Start with two ingredients, see a real dinner idea

Eggs and tomatoes can become Tomato Scrambled Eggs. Pasta and tomatoes point toward a tomato pasta, with garlic still to add. Compare three worked examples, their cookware and missing ingredients before opening your pantry.

Make “what’s for dinner?” a smaller decision

Roll Tonight’s Menu to combine courses and pin a dish you like. Or spin the cuisine decider wheel when you want a fresh direction. Browse the community recipe feed, then keep favorites close for another evening.

Make more of your kitchen

• Find recipes with ingredients you already have

  Use Kitchen Diary’s pantry and cookware matcher to compare dishes, see missing ingredients, and choose a meal you can make.

• Build a step-by-step recipe you can cook again

  Organize a recipe into preparation, cooking and finishing steps with ingredients, tools, actions and timing in Kitchen Diary.

• What should I cook tonight?

  Choose dinner with a pantry match, a balanced menu roll or Kitchen Diary’s cuisine decider wheel.

Kitchen Diary questions

Can I find a recipe without buying every ingredient?

Flexible mode helps you discover dishes using ingredients you have while showing missing items. Exact mode requires the core ingredients and cookware. Optional extras are shown separately.

Can I use Kitchen Diary without signing in?

You can explore the pantry, recipe builder and dinner decider without an account. Your device keeps pantry selections, favorites and cooking history. Sign in to access the account features when available.

Can I write my own recipe?

Yes. Build steps around ingredients, tools and actions, and add cooking settings such as heat and timing. You can also start from a pantry dish and adapt its steps.

Does the pantry include different cuisines?

The built-in pantry collection includes dishes across cuisines and meal types, from breakfasts and snacks to mains, sides, soups and desserts. The community feed offers further recipes to browse and search.