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APP SUMMARIES

This app allows you to check off what you have in your house and the app will generate several different cooking options. The app will also allow you to see recipes that may only need one or two additional ingredients.

This app will have a list of recipes found on the web and allow users to also upload their own recipes to collaborate with. adding recipes may have certain promotional offers – like a coupon for an ingredient. Users can also rate recipes, so you can sort recipes by star number or closest match up. this app would also allow users to enter certain food allergies into their search results.

Users can also input certain cooking options that they have (stove top, oven, microwave, etc.) After you’re finished making a meal you can rate recipe. you can filter by time takes to make the recipe

spicing up a simple meals by using the spice it function on the app.

USER SCENARIO

Jim Halbert is a grad student on a tight budget. After a long day of classes Jim comes home to realize all he has left in his kitchen is chicken, eggs, bread and a few spices. He logs in with Meager Meals and he’s able to find a list of recipes that he can make with the contents of his fridge. Jim pulls up his kitchen inventory and selects the ingredients he already has. Jim is able to star key ingredients that he primarily wants to use. when he swipes away, his ingredients have been transferred to the search bar. Jim realizes he also has bread and olive oil, so he adds it in the search bar. Meager Meals provides Jim with a list of recipes that best match the ingredients the already has. The app lets Jim know he all the ingredients needed with a checkmark and the cooking difficulty. Jim chooses oven baked chicken because he has all the ingredients and its easy. He makes the meal and likes it. Jim is able to share it to Facebook and give it his own rating.

APP NAMES

conservative cooking

half baked cooking

short chef

meager meal maker

meager meal

INTERVIEWS

Got a lot of “please make this app!”

In interviews, people asked how would the app know how to rate “easy, medium and hard”? maybe if you add your own recipe you have a series of questions to answer and then the app could generate the difficulty level? maybe have 10 questions to rate the difficulty level based on time required or specialized food utensils needed.

People also want to be able to mark recipes they were interested in without saving them to favorites so they don’t have to shuffle through all their interests to get to their actual favorite recipes.

Name: Allison Jones

Age: 36

Occupation: HR Professional at Wells Fargo

Lives in: Phoenix, AZ

Education Level: BA in Management

Allison was tasked with looking for team building exercises for her office to do together in a few months. Wells Fargo employees in her office generally get along together well, but don’t have many personal relationships with each other. She likes her job, but working for a bank can be dry and repetitive so she is hoping to find something lighthearted and fun that allows people who usually don’t work together to get a chance to interact together. She finds The Pack Shack and loves the idea that a day of team building can also serve a greater purpose of reducing food insecurity. She needs to pitch the idea to her boss and needs proof that it will in fact accomplish the goal of bringing teams in the office closer together and be a factor in helping the company’s retention rates.

Task List

• learn what the pack shack does
• learn about food insecurity in america
• determine cost of event
• connect on social media
• read about/see past parties
• see other companies that have had pack shack parties
• read blog post about parties
• share blog post
• determine legitimacy of 501c3 status
• connect on social media
• find a local food bank partner
• find out what you need to have a pack shack party
• find out about founders and mission
• inquire about having your own pack shack party
• learn about other ways to help end food insecurity