What’s in My Fridge? Recipe Finder From Your Ingredients

Quick answer

Not sure what to cook? Tick the ingredients you have in your fridge, freezer or pantry and the What’s in My Fridge tool instantly suggests 2–3 recipes you can make right now — highlighting anything you are missing. Free, no sign-up.

Answer the daily “what’s for dinner?” question in seconds. Select what you already have and this free tool tells you what can I make with the ingredients I have — real recipes matched to your ingredients, with the shortest shopping gap first.

How to use What’s in My Fridge

  1. Tick your ingredients from the categories (vegetables, dairy, proteins, pantry).
  2. Watch the recipes update instantly as you select.
  3. Pick a recipe — green tags are ingredients you have, and anything missing is listed clearly.
  4. Start cooking — each suggestion includes a quick method.

Key features

Why cook with what you already have?

Building meals around your existing ingredients saves money, saves a supermarket trip and cuts food waste. Once you have picked a recipe, scale it to your household with the recipe scaler or convert any measurements with our cups to grams converter.

Frequently asked questions

How does the What’s in My Fridge tool work? Tick the ingredients you already have from the list and the tool instantly matches them against its recipes, showing the 2–3 you can make with the fewest missing items.

Is it free to use? Yes — it is 100% free, needs no sign-up and works instantly in your browser on any device.

What if I am missing one ingredient? The tool still suggests near-matches and clearly lists what you would need to buy, so you can decide whether it is worth a quick shop.

Can it help reduce food waste? Absolutely. By building meals around what you already have, it helps you use up ingredients before they spoil and cuts down on waste and spending.

Written by Norman

Norman is a full-stack software engineer who builds precise digital tools for real-world kitchen challenges, born from his own struggles converting US recipes to metric mid-bake. When he's not debugging code, he's perfecting sourdough and pastry recipes, turning measurement frustration into foolproof, data-driven baking success.