Product guide
SousMate is designed as one connected cooking loop. The plan informs the shopping list, the pantry improves the recommendations, and finishing a recipe prepares the next decision.
Plan
The core planner turns each breakfast, lunch, and dinner into a structured choice instead of a blank search box.
Weekly planner
Free members can plan today and tomorrow, with up to three committed meals each week. Plus and Pro open the full seven-day view, with up to 15 or 21 committed meals. Each meal slot holds three effort routes.
Three effort routes
Rather than forcing one answer, SousMate offers recipes across three time ranges. On a short day, the ranges compress to fit your available window.
Planner controls
Refresh all three routes for one meal, pin a specific recipe into a slot, search the validated recipe library, or move planned slots around your week. Committed and cooked slots are protected from accidental replacement.
Start-time reminders
For a committed meal, SousMate calculates the reminder from meal time, prep time, cook time, and a 15-minute buffer. Notifications are scheduled in your detected local timezone.
Pantry
SousMate avoids spreadsheet-style inventory. It focuses on whether an ingredient can support a meal and updates that state as you cook.
Rapid pantry
A categorized ingredient list makes quick pantry updates possible. Normalized base ingredients connect everyday names and recipe ingredients without treating every package variation as a new item.
Voice inventory
Speak a natural grocery note. SousMate sends the transcript, not stored audio, for structured extraction, then lets you review and remove anything incorrect before saving.
Pantry matching
A percentage compares required recipe ingredients with current inventory. Optional items and assumed staples are excluded so the number reflects meaningful meal coverage.
After cooking
Marking a meal cooked records it in history and reduces the meal-count availability for the non-optional ingredients used. That keeps the next plan closer to the actual kitchen.
Decide now
The weekly plan remains the center of SousMate, but not every cooking decision starts on Sunday.
What to Eat
Answer questions about meal type, hunger, temperature, flavor, base, and adventurousness. A deterministic scorer ranks validated recipes using those answers, preferences, recent history, and pantry match.
Voice Quick Pick
Speak ingredients, a time constraint, and an optional meal type. AI converts the sentence into structured fields, then the standard recipe system filters and ranks three results.
Cook
A committed recipe becomes a working surface for prep, technique, timing, and adjustments.
Full recipe
Commitment unlocks exact ingredient amounts, complete steps, approximate nutrition per serving, and the calculated start time. The recipe remains available through the plan and your authorized history.
Guided cooking
Guided mode breaks instructions into sentences, keeps the display active, shows ingredients referenced in the current step, and recognizes written cooking times for optional timers.
Sous Chef
Ask about a substitute, technique, adjustment, or problem. The assistant receives the current recipe, relevant pantry context, dietary needs, and allergens. It is instructed to stay within cooking and the active dish.
Safety substitutions
A flagged ingredient can open a pre-built request for an appropriate substitute. This path is available on all plans and does not count against Sous Chef message limits.
Remember and prepare
Committed meals connect to shopping, nutrition, saved recipes, and cooking history.
Shopping list
For committed, uncooked meals in the current week, SousMate totals required ingredients, subtracts pantry meal counts, removes bulk items, and groups what remains by category.
Nutrition
Nutrition views total the approximate values attached to committed recipes. History depth varies by plan, from one week on Free to four weeks on Plus and thirteen weeks on Pro.
Saved recipes
Bookmark recipes and preserve accepted substitutions. The saved library supports 5 recipes on Free, 15 on Plus, and 30 on Pro.
Cooking history
Cooked recipes can include a rating and notes. The Settings view shows the most recent 5 entries on Free, 15 on Plus, or 30 on Pro.
Three plans
All plans include the safety foundation, voice pantry entry, and a real planning experience. Plus and Pro expand the week, tools, and usage limits.
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