What is actually driving your food decisions?
Log each meal — cooked, takeout, leftovers, eaten out — with cost and how you felt when you decided. After 30 days, our AI reads your history and shows you the patterns. Which days you order takeaway. What energy level pushes you over the edge. Which cheap meals hit the spot. Which expensive ones didn't. No budget-shaming. No "cook more". Just your data.
"Over 30 days you logged 60 meals — 22 cooked, 18 takeaway, 20 leftovers. Average cost: cooked £4, takeaway £14. Your takeaway decisions had a clear pattern in …
6 fields. Done in 20 seconds per meal — log as you eat or batch at end of day.
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Log in 20 seconds per meal — log as you eat or batch at end of day
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AI analysis at 30 entries. Your factors, your dates, your correlations — not a generic article.
7 things Cost: cook vs takeout reveals about you.
- The cook-vs-takeout split in your own life — counts, percentages, and how the split shifts week to week
- Which day of the week your weeknight cliff lands on — Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday — and how steep it is
- What energy level pushes you from cooking to ordering — the tired-to-takeout threshold in your own data
- Your satisfaction-per-pound surprises — the cheap meals that hit the spot and the expensive ones that disappointed
- The dominant decision driver in your week — tired, planned, social, treat, or low-supplies — and what each one usually resolves to
- Cooking-as-leisure vs cooking-as-chore — whether your weekend cooking patterns differ from your weekday ones
- The energy-cost-quality triangle — for your own life, with your own numbers
Here's what arrives at 30 days.
Illustrative — your analysis uses your own data.
Your cost: cook vs takeout patterns show a clear weekly cycle. AI finds the specific factors affecting your scores — after 30 days, your data tells the story.
“"Over 30 days you logged 60 meals — 22 cooked, 18 takeaway, 20 leftovers. Average cost: cooked £4, takeaway £14. Your ta…”
People watching their own patterns.
The curious self-observer who has noticed they order takeaway more than they "should" and is suspicious of why — but doesn't want a budgeting app that lectures them, doesn't want a meal-prep system that demands Sundays, and doesn't want a "save money by cooking" framework that ignores the lived experience of being tired at 7pm on a Tuesday. The person who knows the answer is not "just cook more" but cannot quite articulate what it actually is. The person who wants to understand the energy-cost-quality triangle — what they spent, how much energy the decision took, and how good the meal actually was — in their own life, with their own numbers. This is also for the person who feels mildly guilty about takeaway spend and wants to find out, honestly, whether that guilt is doing anything useful. Often it isn't — the data tends to show that takeaway is a rational response to weeknight fatigue, and the insight is permission to stop fighting it. Sometimes the data shows the opposite — that the takeaway habit is actually about something other than tiredness (boredom, low-supplies, decision fatigue) — and that is also useful self-knowledge. Not for someone in active financial crisis — the tracker routes that user to StepChange (0800 138 1111), Citizens Advice, and the Trussell Trust food bank network gently and ambiently, and the tracker is not a substitute for real financial support.
Common questions
Is the Cost: cook vs takeout tracker medical or diagnostic?
No. Unhide is pattern-insight for self-improvement — not diagnosis, treatment, or medical advice. The AI is explicitly prompted to avoid clinician language. If something concerns you, please talk to your GP.
Does the AI see my entries?
Only when an analysis runs — triggered in-app or delivered to your email. Either way, only your logged data and history is sent, never your personal information. Your data is never used to train any AI model. Full detail in the privacy policy.
What if I miss a day or two?
No streak guilt. Your insights stay accurate; the chart just has fewer dots. The AI explicitly works around gaps in your data instead of pretending they're zeros.
When is my first AI insight free?
At 30 days of entries, and again at 180 days, on every free tracker. Free plan includes 2 trackers — upgrade for monthly or weekly AI runs.
Can I delete everything?
Yes, anytime, no questions asked. Delete a single entry, a whole tracker, or the entire account. Deletion cascades through analyses and exports.
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