ThaliBudget

ThaliBudget is a mobile + web app that helps households cook Indian food affordably without wasting ingredients. You set your city, household size, dietary preferences (veg/jain/eggetarian), and weekly time constraints. The app builds a realistic Indian meal plan (breakfast, lunch, dinner) that reuses ingredients across dishes (e.g., one onion-tomato base becomes multiple gravies) and generates a consolidated shopping list with approximate local pricing. It also suggests smart substitutions when prices spike (tomatoes, onions) and offers “batch-cook” steps to cut weekday effort. This is a combination app: traditional planning + AI-assisted recipe/plan generation and substitution logic. It’s not trying to be another recipe feed; it’s a practical cost-and-time optimizer for Indian home cooking with minimal friction and clear savings.