The waste‑free weekly meal planner

The meal planner that finishes the cream.

Recipes ask for 100 ml. The supermarket sells 200 ml. Restlos plans your whole week around the packs you actually buy, then makes sure every one of them gets used. Less waste, less money spent, and no more nightly “what shall we eat?”

  • Free during beta
  • No ads, ever
  • Your data stays in the EU

01The problem

Each of us wastes nearly twice our body weight in food, every year.

Most of it does not happen in fields or factories. It happens at home, one half‑used pack at a time: the rest of the cream, the second leek, the bag of spinach we meant to cook on Thursday.

of food wasted per person in the EU every year
130kg
of food wasted per person in the EU every year
Eurostat, 2023 data
of it is thrown away in private households, more than any other stage
53%
of it is thrown away in private households, more than any other stage
Eurostat, 2023 data
worth of food lost across the EU each year
€132bn
worth of food lost across the EU each year
European Commission
spent every day just deciding what to eat
16min
spent every day just deciding what to eat
Talker Research survey, 2026

The cause is surprisingly mundane: recipes are written in grams, but shops sell in packs. No meal planner we know of does the sums in between. Restlos does.

02How it works

Four steps to a week that adds up.

  1. 1

    Tell it how you eat

    How many people, which days, lunch or dinner. Add dislikes, hard exclusions, a calorie range per portion and the cuisines you love.

  2. 2

    Get a week that fits together

    Restlos chooses dishes that share ingredients, so the other half of the cream becomes Wednesday’s risotto instead of Sunday’s bin.

  3. 3

    Shop one clear list

    Grouped by supermarket aisle and counted in real packs, not grams. Share it with a link and tick things off, even without signal.

  4. 4

    Cook, tick, carry over

    What you buy fills your pantry, what you cook is deducted, and whatever keeps rolls into next week’s plan. Nothing is forgotten.

03The difference

The AI suggests. The maths decides.

Other planners let a language model guess. Restlos lets it propose dishes, then checks every gram with plain arithmetic: package counts, leftovers, expiry dates and calories. If anything would be left over, the plan goes back for another round until the week adds up.

  • Rounded to the pack sizes on real supermarket shelves
  • Fresh items used within the week, long‑life items carried over
  • Leftovers counted as next week’s ingredients, not as waste
One week, three packs

A typical recipe plan

Cream 200 ml Mon100 ml
Mushrooms 250 g Mon100 g
Potatoes 2 kg Tue1.2 kg

1.4 kg in the bin

Planned with Restlos

Cream 200 ml MonWed
Mushrooms 250 g MonWed
Potatoes 2 kg TueNext week

Nothing in the bin

  • Cooked
  • Carried over
  • Binned

04Features

Everything a busy kitchen actually needs.

Built around one idea, that food you buy should be food you eat, and polished like a native iPhone app.

  • Leftovers roll forward

    The rest of the two kilo potato sack isn’t waste, it’s next Monday. Anything that keeps shapes the following week’s plan.

  • “Use it up” nudges

    Anything in your pantry that expires within three days is flagged, and planned first.

  • Cook once, eat twice

    Double tonight’s portion and tomorrow’s lunch is already sorted. Planned, counted and on the list.

  • Dislikes swapped, not dropped

    Can’t stand coriander? It is replaced inside the dish. Allergies and hard no’s never appear at all, not even as a substitute.

  • Portions that fit you

    Set a calorie range per portion and every dish is scaled to it. No counting, no spreadsheets.

  • Real dishes first

    Plans draw on a curated library of real recipes. AI only invents a dish when one is needed to use something up.

  • Recipes from a photo

    Snap a cookbook page, your grandmother’s handwritten card or a screenshot, and it becomes a recipe Restlos can plan with.

  • A list that works in the shop

    Grouped by aisle, counted in packs, in German or English. Share it by link with anyone; ticks sync when the signal returns.

  • Your weekly waste score

    Every week closes with a score, what carried over, and the ingredients you bin most often. Watch it improve.

  • It learns your taste

    Rate what you cook. Favourites return, and a one‑star dish is never planned again.

  • Twenty‑four cuisines

    Rotate through the world’s kitchens or pin Thai to Thursdays. Add quick, air fryer or high protein weeks.

  • Change it in plain words

    Reroll a day, drop an evening, or simply write “something lighter on Friday”. Then lock the week.

05Why not just…

Other apps plan meals. Restlos plans the shopping basket.

Popular planners are good at recipes and lists. What people tell us they miss is everything in between: the half‑used packs, the leftovers, the subscription that grows every year, and the uneasy question of where their data ends up.

See the full comparison
Typical planner Restlos
Recipes in grams, shopping in guesswork Every dish planned around real pack sizes
Leftovers are your problem Leftovers become next week’s ingredients
Features disappear behind paywalls Free during beta, core planner free for good
Data on servers outside Europe Hosted in the EU, with European providers

06Made in Europe

Your kitchen stays in Europe.

What you eat says a great deal about you: your health, your religion, your budget, your family. That is why every byte of Restlos is stored in the European Union, with European companies, under European law.

  • Hosted in the EU

    All data lives in EU data centres run by European providers. No transfers to third countries, no small print about “adequate safeguards”.

  • No ads, no data sales

    We earn money from people who use Restlos, never from advertisers, retailers or data brokers. You are the customer, not the product.

  • No trackers

    No analytics scripts, no pixels, no fingerprinting. Even this website sets no cookies, which is why you have not seen a cookie banner.

  • GDPR by design

    We collect only what planning needs: an email address, your preferences and your plans. Ask, and all of it is deleted.

€Every euro we spend on infrastructure stays with European businesses.

07Our mission

A Europe where nobody throws away half a bag of spinach again.

Food waste is not a moral failing. It is a planning problem, and planning problems can be solved with good software. We want to put that software in every European kitchen.

  • ½

    Halve the food waste of every household that plans with Restlos.

  • 30 %

    Help the EU reach its binding 2030 target: a 30 % cut in food waste per person in shops, restaurants and homes.

  • 4 days

    Give back the time people spend each year deciding what to eat.

  • 100 %

    Prove that everyday software can be designed, built, hosted and funded in Europe.

These are goals, not measured results. We will publish our real numbers as soon as the beta produces them.

08Pricing

Free while we grow. Fair when we’re grown.

We would rather be honest than clever about money.

When we leave beta

Later

Fair

  • The core planner stays free
  • An optional plan for heavy AI use and extras
  • Priced for households, not for growth charts
  • Cancel in one tap, export your data

Our promise: no ads, ever. No selling of data, ever. Nothing you rely on today will be quietly locked away tomorrow.

For funders and partners

Help us make waste‑free planning a European standard.

Households cause more food waste than any other part of the chain, yet they receive the least practical help. Restlos is ready to grow from a beta into public infrastructure for Europe’s kitchens: more countries, more languages, a measured impact study. We are looking for EU programmes, foundations, retailers and investors who want to make that happen.

Read our mission and roadmap

09Questions

Good questions.

Is Restlos really free?

Yes. During the beta every feature is free, with no limits and no ads. When we leave beta, the core planner stays free and an optional paid plan will cover heavy AI use and extras. Beta members will hear about it well in advance.

Which devices does it run on?

On iPhone, and in any modern browser on Android, Windows, Mac or Linux. A native Android app is on our roadmap.

Does it only work for German supermarkets?

Pack sizes are currently modelled on German supermarkets, and the shopping list comes in German or English. More countries’ supermarkets are next on the list.

Is the app available in German?

The app interface is in English today, while the shopping list can be in German or English. A full German interface is on the roadmap.

Can my partner or flatmates use it too?

Share the shopping list with a link that opens in any browser, no account needed. Full shared households with several accounts are coming.

Do I have to count calories?

No. Setting a calorie range per portion is optional. If you do, Restlos scales every dish to fit, so you never have to count anything yourself.

Can it cater for vegetarians or allergies?

Exclude any ingredient, meat or fish included, and it will never appear. Dislikes work more gently: they are swapped for something similar inside the dish.

What happens to my data?

It is stored in the EU with European providers and used only to plan your meals. We never show ads and never sell or share your data for marketing. Ask, and we delete everything.

This week, waste nothing.

Plan your first week in two minutes. Free during beta, no card required.