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Welcome to CookEat — the platform where real home cooking meets AI. Whether you’re discovering new meals, creating your own recipes from photos, or planning your week, this guide will help you get the most out of every feature.

Getting started

CookEat is built around four main pages — Discover, Plan, Shop, and Create — plus Cook, where you follow recipes step by step.

  1. Discover. Head to Discover and explore — search by name, filter by cuisine, dietary needs, allergens, spice level, or cost. Like and save recipes that catch your eye.
  2. Cook. Open Cook to view your saved recipes with photo-synced, step-by-step instructions — perfect for following along in the kitchen.
  3. Plan. Drag recipes into your weekly grid to organise breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks across the week.
  4. Shop. Turn your meal plan into a shopping list and find the best prices (coming soon).
  5. Create. Snap photos of a dish and let Sous Chef turn them into a full recipe with ingredients, steps, and nutrition.

You can browse recipes without an account, but signing in unlocks saving, creating, and planning.

Home

The home page is your launchpad. It highlights what CookEat offers and gives you quick links to every section. If you ever get lost, the navigation bar at the top is always there — on any page, on any device.

Discover

Discover is where you find your next meal. Search thousands of recipes and narrow results with powerful filters until you find exactly what you’re after.

Filters at your fingertips

  • Search — type a recipe name, ingredient, or keyword.
  • Cuisine — pick from 24 cuisines (Italian, Japanese, Mexican, Indian, and many more), each with its own icon.
  • Occasion & course — filter by meal time (breakfast, lunch, dinner) or course type (starter, main, dessert).
  • Dietary & lifestyle — Vegan, Vegetarian, Gluten-Free, Keto, Kosher, Halal, and more.
  • Free-From (allergens) — toggle any of the 14 UK major allergens: Peanuts, Tree Nuts, Milk, Eggs, Gluten, Crustaceans, Molluscs, Fish, Soya, Celery, Mustard, Sesame, Sulphites, and Lupin.
  • Spice level — Mild, Medium, or Hot.
  • Cost — Budget, Medium, or Premium.
  • Servings — cooking for 1, 2, 4, or 6.

Your personal collections

Toggle the quick-filter buttons at the top to view only:

  • My Recipes — recipes you’ve created.
  • Favourites — recipes you’ve liked.
  • Saved — recipes you’ve bookmarked for later.

Get the most out of Discover

  • Combine multiple filters for precise results — for example, Vegan + Gluten-Free + Budget + Under 30 min.
  • Click any recipe card to see full details in the side panel without leaving the grid.
  • Use the heart icon to like a recipe, or the bookmark icon to save it to your collection.

Cook

Cook is your kitchen companion. Open it when you’re ready to start cooking — everything is laid out so you can follow along without scrolling back and forth.

Four-card layout

Every recipe is presented in four clear sections:

  1. Hero photo — the main image of the finished dish.
  2. Info & features — servings, prep time, cook time, difficulty, cost, dietary tags, allergen warnings, and a nutrition summary (calories, protein, carbs, fat, fibre).
  3. Ingredients — a clean, scannable list with quantities.
  4. Step carousel — swipe or click through step-by-step photos, each with matching instructions underneath.

Navigate your recipes

  • Use the arrow buttons to move between recipes (shows "3 / 12" so you always know where you are).
  • Use the same quick filters as Discover — My Recipes, Favourites, Saved — to narrow your list.
  • Search within your collection by name or ingredient.

Get the most out of Cook

  • Use the step carousel dots to jump to any step — each dot shows a step number badge so you can track progress (e.g. "Step 3 / 8").
  • Allergens are highlighted so you can spot them at a glance.
  • Like or save recipes directly from the Cook page — you don’t need to go back to Discover.

Plan

Plan is your weekly meal planner. Organise breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks across seven days using a simple drag-and-drop grid.

The weekly grid

The grid shows Monday to Sunday as columns and four meal rows: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and Snack. Each cell is a drop zone — drag a recipe into any slot to plan that meal.

The recipe strip

At the bottom of the page, a scrollable strip shows all your available recipes. Filter them by:

  • Search — find recipes by name.
  • Servings — match the number of people you’re cooking for.
  • Cost — stick to a budget.

Save and revisit

  • Click Save to store your plan in the cloud. It loads automatically next time you visit.
  • Use the week arrows to plan ahead — each week has its own saved plan.
  • Rename your plan by clicking the plan name pill.

Get the most out of Plan

  • Click a meal row header (e.g. "Breakfast") to filter the recipe strip to only breakfast-suitable recipes. Click again to show all.
  • On mobile, long-press a recipe card to start dragging it.
  • Drag a recipe onto a filled cell to replace it, or click a filled cell to remove it.

Shop

Shop turns your meal plan into a smart shopping list and helps you find the best prices across stores. This feature is coming soon.

  • Auto-generated lists — ingredients from your weekly plan, combined and grouped so you buy only what you need.
  • Price comparison — see prices across partner stores and pick the best deal.
  • Buy directly — order ingredients from partner stores without leaving CookEat.

Create (Sous Chef)

Sous Chef is CookEat’s AI-powered recipe creator. Upload photos of a dish you’ve cooked and Sous Chef will analyse them to generate a complete recipe — title, ingredients, step-by-step instructions, nutrition, and more.

How it works

  1. Upload photos — drag and drop or browse to select your images. Supported formats: JPEG, PNG, HEIC, TIFF, WebP. You can upload as many photos as you need.
  2. Generate — Sous Chef analyses every photo, identifies ingredients, and writes step-by-step instructions matched to each photo.
  3. Review & edit — adjust the generated title, ingredients, steps, servings, prep/cook times, dietary tags, and allergen information until it’s exactly right.
  4. Save & publish — save to your collection as a private recipe, or publish it for the entire CookEat community to discover.

Tips for better recipes

  • More photos = better results. Take photos throughout the cooking process — raw ingredients, mid-cook, and the finished dish.
  • Good lighting helps. Clear, well-lit photos give Sous Chef more detail to work with.
  • Include packaging. If you’re using branded or packaged ingredients, a photo of the label helps with accurate identification.
  • Order matters. Upload photos in the order you cooked — Sous Chef uses the sequence to match each step to the right photo.
  • Always review. AI is clever, but you know your recipe best. Check quantities, timings, and seasoning before publishing.

Membership

CookEat offers three tiers — Free, Premium, and Creator — so you can choose the experience that fits your cooking journey.

View full membership comparison →

My account

Tap the profile icon in the top-right corner to manage your account. From there you can update your details, review your preferences, and manage your saved recipes.

Sign in / Sign up

Sign in with your Google or Microsoft account, or create an account with email and password. Signing in unlocks saving, creating, planning, and all personalised features.

Forgot your password? Use the reset link on the sign-in page — you’ll receive an email with instructions.