Food & Recipes

Eat what you buy: Leftover recipe web sites & AI recipe generators

Leftovers in plastic containers

We all have leftovers and a lot of us don’t think of them fondly. But leftovers don’t have to be the meals we dreaded as kids. Now we can use specialized searches and AI options for a better use for your leftovers.

AI recipe generators

AI keeps improving and we have a few options to test. Of course you can always just open ChatGPT, but these specific apps may give you better results:

Hellmann’s Meal Reveal lets you take a photo of your refrigerator’s contents and shoots out options. Of course, I can’t help but feel these may have mayo as an ingredient!

Fridge Leftovers AI is an app that, similarly, has you take a photo of your fridge’s contents and then lets you select what you’d like to use. The free version allows you analyze 15 images.

Leftover search engines

Here are a few sites that can help:

LeftoverChef: Turn Leftovers into Gourmet Meals is an app, but you type in ingredients.

LeftOver Chef is not associated with the app above, but rather is an Instagram with great ideas)

Love Food Hate Waste

Big Oven (has a leftover search engine)

Recipe Goldmine

AllRecipes Everyday Leftovers

If you have any favorite left over sites, please share!