KiasuKitchen

Meet the team

Hi! We are Code Green, a team with diverse backgrounds in design, engineering, finance and law. Like our name, we hope to design and code solutions for a greener Singapore. What we're tackling is household food waste, and we want to help Singaporeans better manage their groceries to reduce avoidable food waste.

Team members: Edward (Backend, ML), Eugene (Backend, AI), Ke Er (Frontend, UI/UX), Zhiyi (Backend, AI), Zhuo Hui (UI/UX)

Problem statement

In Singapore, households contribute significantly to food waste, discarding approximately 26,000 tonnes of food annually, valued at $342 million. This largely avoidable issue is primarily driven by overbuying and a lack of planning with purchases made at supermarkets and wet markets.

The problem is particularly prevalent in households with multiple members who purchase and cook groceries once a week or more. These households often lack effective means to track and manage their food inventory, leading to unnecessary purchases and significant waste. Poor planning in grocery shopping and meal preparation exacerbates the issue, resulting in impulse buys and the accumulation of uneaten cooked and uncooked food.

Food waste mostly gets incinerated and thrown into Semakau landfill, contributing to it filling up by 2035. We need a way to help Singaporeans play their individual part in responsible food consumption, and collectively delay that D-day for a little longer.

Proposed solution

We are designing a smart grocery tracking app to help users keep track of what they have in the fridge and when it expires. The app sends expiry reminders and help users to clear their inventory by generating recipes based on the ingredients that they have. We plan to encourage stickiness by adding gamification features like an activity streak, and adding friends to compare food waste.

Can we get Singaporeans to be more kiasu about reducing food waste? :D