New in 1.0.12 · Multi-Ingredient Search
Cook what you have.
Skip the store run.
Pick the ingredients in your kitchen. Our matcher ranks recipes by how many you already own — so dinner happens tonight, not after another shopping trip.
14-day free trial · Pairs with Pantry Scan
How it works
Three taps to tonight's dinner.
Step 01
Open the Broc Wand
Tap the floating broccoli button in the bottom-right corner, then tap “Search recipes by ingredients.”
Step 02
Pick what's in your kitchen
Choose 3-5 ingredients you actually own — leftover chicken, that half onion, the spinach about to wilt. Pantry Scan results auto-populate here too.
Step 03
Recipes ranked by overlap
Every result shows an “X/Y in pantry” chip so you know exactly how complete a match is — and what you'd still need to grab.
Why it matters
Other apps assume you'll just go buy more.
Type a recipe name into any other app and you get a shopping list — even if you already own 80% of the ingredients. The implicit assumption: you'll drive to the store, you'll spend the money, you'll eat it next week.
BiteCaddy flips the question. Tell us what you already own, and we tell you what to cook with it — ranked by completeness. The chicken in your fridge becomes dinner tonight, not a forgotten loss next week.
Cook tonight, not tomorrow
No 'just one ingredient missing' problem. Recipes are ranked by what you already own, so you can start cooking now.
Cut food waste
Use what's about to go bad before it does. Every recipe match is a save from the trash can.
Pair with Pantry Scan
Scanned your fridge with Pantry Scan? Those ingredients pre-populate the picker. Zero typing.
Without multi-ingredient search
- ✕ “What's for dinner?” → 45 min of scrolling
- ✕ Recipe wants 14 ingredients; you have 10
- ✕ Chicken expires while you order DoorDash
With multi-ingredient search
- ✓ Pick 5 ingredients → ranked matches in seconds
- ✓ “8/12 in pantry” chip on every result
- ✓ Cook tonight using what you already own
What you can match by
Anything already in your kitchen.
The matcher works on anything you'd actually find on a shelf or a fridge drawer — not just headline ingredients.
Fresh produce
use up wilting greens, ripening fruit, that half onion
Leftover proteins
Tuesday's chicken → Wednesday's bowl
Pantry staples
rice, pasta, beans, canned tomatoes — already paid for
Freezer finds
frozen shrimp, that bag of peas, last month's ground beef
Soon-to-expire dairy
the cheese, the yogurt, the cream you forgot about
Half-used condiments
the open jar of pesto, the sriracha, the half lemon
Better together
Snap. Match. Cook.
Combine multi-ingredient search with Pantry Scan and the whole loop closes in under a minute. Photograph your fridge, pick five items from the detected list, get a ranked recipe — without typing a single ingredient.
See how Pantry Scan works →FAQ
Quick answers
How does the ranking work?
We score recipes by how many of your selected ingredients each one uses (overlap_count) and the percentage of the recipe's ingredient list you cover (overlap_pct). Higher overlap floats to the top.
How many ingredients can I pick?
Pick 3-5 ingredients per search for the cleanest ranking. Fewer than 3 dilutes the signal; more than 5 starts to over-constrain. The picker shows a recommended range as you select.
Does it work with my Pantry Scan results?
Yes. Items detected by Pantry Scan land in your pantry sub-tab, and the multi-ingredient picker pulls from that same pool. Scan once, search many times.
What if no recipes match well?
If no recipe uses 3+ of your selected ingredients, we show partial matches with their pantry-coverage chips so you can see what's close — and what extras you'd need to grab.
Stop pretending you'll cook that recipe next week.
Pick what you have. Get dinner ranked by overlap. Cook tonight.
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