I find it hard to find recipe ideas that just serve one person, I know it is easy to take a recipe that serves 4 people and dividing everything by 4 but then I would have a lot of left over ingredient that I wouldn't know how to use. I want simple recipes that are tasty and healthy that I can quickly make for myself however, I find that they are hard to come across.
BBC good food only has 51 recipes under this category which at first sounds like a lot but in terms of weeks this would only do for 10 weeks providing you likes every meal suggested and only needed 5 meals a week. However a lot of the recipes are for very basic meals which you'd usually have for lunch and not an evening meal such as omelettes, boiled eggs, salads.
Whilst researching this I thought about the new Jamie Oliver book which contains recipes that only use 5 ingredients. I though these would be good simple recipes to look at as they wouldn't create much waste as a lot of them serve 2 so would only need halving.
- 150 g dried tagiatelle
- 3 higher-welfare sausages
- ½ a bunch of fresh flat-leaf parsley (15g)
- 1 large free-range egg
- 30 g Parmesan cheese
However how would you half an egg and a sausage without wasting the rest?
Key Tracker
This idea already exists and needs a key fob to correspond with.
To do list
A lot of apps already exist that do this therefore it is a bit of a boring app and will be scrapped.
Food sharing/ exchange
An app for this already exists so it's hard to know how this could be done in a different way therefore I won't continue with this.
Step by step baking
This does exist already but it is very basic and doesn't work very well, it is a Great British Bake Off app but it could be done a lot better and be made more appealing.
Overall the look of the app is constant and on the surface it appears well made. However when you actually go to use the app and follow the recipe it becomes very basic. The instructions for each step are very long and you find yourself losing your place in the little paragraph that has been provided, there are also no visuals provided on each step therefore theres no clue to what the step it you have to actually read it to find out. This isn't very convenient if you're in a rush or want to make something quickly. Another flaw is that there are a limited amount of free recipes provided on the app. Instead you have a few basic free ones to chose from and the other more exciting ones have to be payed for. I can see why as they cant give every recipe away for free but they need to make it more exciting and to give the consumer a reason to buy it and make them buy it without hesitating. If there was some interesting illustrations running along side the steps in the recipe it would become more desirable and people would be more likely to buy it as they want to reveal the unique art work.
Overall the look of the app is constant and on the surface it appears well made. However when you actually go to use the app and follow the recipe it becomes very basic. The instructions for each step are very long and you find yourself losing your place in the little paragraph that has been provided, there are also no visuals provided on each step therefore theres no clue to what the step it you have to actually read it to find out. This isn't very convenient if you're in a rush or want to make something quickly. Another flaw is that there are a limited amount of free recipes provided on the app. Instead you have a few basic free ones to chose from and the other more exciting ones have to be payed for. I can see why as they cant give every recipe away for free but they need to make it more exciting and to give the consumer a reason to buy it and make them buy it without hesitating. If there was some interesting illustrations running along side the steps in the recipe it would become more desirable and people would be more likely to buy it as they want to reveal the unique art work.
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