Sofra

A household kitchen planner - what is in the kitchen, what each person at the table has accepted before and the week's nutrition feed one ranking, and how tonight's plate went feeds back into it.

Sofra is our household's kitchen system. What looks like three wishes — use what is in the kitchen, cook what people will actually eat, and keep the week's nutrition in balance — is one system, and two of them pull against each other: the surest way to get a plate eaten is to repeat what has worked, and trying something new means stepping outside it. So all three feed a single ranking whose output is tonight's plate, and how that plate went feeds back in.

Three decisions follow from that. The unit is the week, not the meal: a rolling seven days is measured, because how much anyone eats at one meal is theirs to decide. Nutrition is kept in bands, not grams, because nobody knows how much each person took from a shared pot, and a precise-looking number would only pretend to measure it. And each person's history of what they accepted is not a report; its job is to change which recipe comes first tonight.

How it runs: one computer at home serves the app from a single SQLite file, the phone joins over the home Wi-Fi only when asked, with the national food composition table and barcode lookups beside it

It runs on one computer at home with no account and no cloud, and uses TÜRKOMP, the national food composition table, for what each ingredient contains. We have only just started using it, so it is not public yet.