Use it or lose it.

Student builds a free app to stop student houses wasting food Tautvydas A., a first-year Entrepreneurship student at a Dutch university of applied sciences, has built Fridgeroo, a free app that tells you what to eat before it goes off. Most food in student houses isn't thrown away because it's bad. It's thrown away because nobody remembered it was there. Fridgeroo keeps a simple list of what's in the fridge, freezer and cupboard, and sends a reminder the evening before something goes off. "So much food is overproduced, and people keep buying things they don't need because they forget what they already have at home," says Tautvydas. Adding food takes seconds: tap items from a list, scan a barcode, or just say what you bought. The app guesses how long each item keeps, suggests recipes from what's there, and lets a whole house share one fridge and one shopping list. Fridgeroo is free, runs in any phone browser with nothing to download, and is available in English, Dutch, Lithuanian and Russian. Try it at fridgeroo.netlify.app. Screenshots and more about the app: frigeroo-about.netlify.app.