About Careme
Cook with what is fresh and nearby.
Careme helps you find nearby stores and build practical weekly recipes from in-season ingredients.
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Ethos
Home cooking wins the week.
Cooking at home is tastier, healthier, and cheaper. It builds real kitchen skills, gets partners and kids involved, and leaves room in the budget for the restaurants that are truly worth it.
Fresh matters most.
Fresh ingredients taste better, usually mean more vegetables and fewer preservatives, and arrive at the table hotter and prettier than food in a takeout tray.
The grocery store is part of cooking.
Local stores can have excellent produce, useful deals, and ingredients from nearby farms and faraway places. Seeing the green beans or salmon before buying still matters.
Restaurants and meal kits have a place.
Great restaurants are great. Meal kits can be useful. Careme aims for the everyday middle: more local, less packaging, lower cost, and food you are proud to put on a plate.
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FAQ
How does this work
- Careme checks a specific grocery store for vegetables, fruit, meat, seafood, and a few other categories.
- A lightweight model ranks ingredients for cooking fresh food at home, keeping the best options.
- The latest reasoning AI model then uses those ingredients to produce a varied set of recipes. Example prompt.
- A different AI model, Gemini, critiques the recipes for cookability.
- You add or hide recipes and build a shopping list. Don't like them? Give some guidance and tell the chef to try again.
- The recipes you add are saved to your kitchen, with a generated image and wine pairing based on what is in stock at the same store.
- You can keep asking questions on the recipe page, and the model will have context on the recipe and ingredients.
Is this free?
For now. The plan is to charge a very small monthly subscription to cover LLM costs. We could try advertising or affiliate links, but we want to focus on making good meals. If you're not the customer, you're the product.
Do I need an account?
You can view existing recipes and shopping lists, but you need an account to generate new recipes, save them, leave feedback, or ask questions.
Can I share a recipe or shopping list?
Yes. Every recipe page and shopping list has its own public link that we'll try to keep alive forever.
Is this an evil corporation that will sell my data?
So far, Careme is backed by one person. I have an LLC, but we have no intention of using anything except your feedback to improve your recipes and other people's recipes.
How do I suggest improvements?
If you're comfortable with GitHub, use the links below. Otherwise, email [email protected] for now.
How is this different than a meal kit?
Meal kits are great; my wife and I used Blue Apron for many years. But we hope Careme can be more varied, more customized to you and your local produce, cheaper, and less packaging-intensive.
Is this like Instacart?
No. See the ethos section above: we want you in the grocery store so you can get the best it has to offer. Instacart recipes are mostly prewritten, which may be very good, but they are tailored to neither you nor the store.
Can't I just use ChatGPT?
That's where this started, but I found ChatGPT did much better with real ingredients, both as a constraint and as a reason to explore. The critiquing agent and recipe questions also add a lot of value. Lastly, we can focus the UI more tightly around cooking.
Do I need special equipment?
Careme is happy to excercise your new gear if you ask it but tries to keep things to stovetop, oven and grill by default. I have an amazon list of gear for the basics.
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