RememberTheBioMilk

• “Make adequate nutrition as easy as eating fast food!”
• “Let the user combine his knowledge about good food with the knowledge of the device”
• “Support the user, don’t boss him”

• The problem of bad nutrition is not due to stupid or uninformed people, it is because people are simply to lazy for a adequate nutrition.
• Often people are not only to lazy to cook, they are also to lazy to only think about what they can cook.
• Nearly everbody remembered situations where they went shopping spontaneously ( after work/university etc. ) and had no ideas about recipes or whats in their fridge
• Some would prefer automatic object recoginition for the fridge, so recipe suggestions would be easyier to realize

General Information

• Gender?

• Age?

• Family status?

• Children?

• Education?

• Profession?

• Personality? (spontaneous,creative,structured,organized) (1-5)

Cooking, health and sports

• How often do you cook yourself?

• Do you use organic ingredients? (1-5)

• How much time do you spend in cooking per meal?

• How much money do you spend in average per meal?

• How often do you go shopping for food per week?

• Tell us something about your preferences and what you don’t like to eat.

• How many different recipes do you know by heart?

• Do you eat the same meal multiple times during a week? Why?

• Would you like to uses more regional and seasonal ingredients?

• In how many different shops do you buy food?

• How often do you eat fast food?

• Are you strived to life healthy? (1-5)

• What do you do, to keep yourself healthy and fit?

• Do you regularly do sports? How often?

• What kind of sports?

• Do your sports activities influence your nutrition? (1-5)

• Do you always carry your cellphone with you?

The first success story includes the basic features of our system. Which are the recipes database and a mobile device used as a shopping list.

The second and more advanced success story shows a guy who does not know what to eat after work. This could result in buying some fast food. Using our system the guy gets all the informations he needs to decide what to eat. The is no need to go home and check the content of the fridge. He can directly buy all the ingredients that make a tasty and healthy meal. Fast food is avoided because fast food is no longer the “easiest” way to get sated.

John is 30 years old. He is single and working from 7 a.m. till 6 p.m. in an office. In the evening he often meets with friends in the gym or for playing squash. Because most of the supermarkets in his area close at 7 p.m., he goes shopping after work on his way home. He is very ambitious concerning sports and work, hence he is interested in healthy cooking and food.

Becky is a 40 years old married housewife and mother of 3 children. Her prior interest is the health of her family. She always wants to cook healthy meals, especially for her children. But she also has to take care of her husbands preferences for noodles. He often goes jogging and cycling and so he needs many carbohydrates. So every monday Becky makes a cooking and shopping plan for the whole week and arranges with her husband on which days he wants to make sports. For her children the variety of the meals is very important. During the week Becky often is driving her children to different activities or to school. Sometimes when she is nearby the super market, she spontaneously goes shopping and buying fresh things.

Jörg is 23 years and studying computer science. He is extremely interested in sports and healthy cooking. But unfortunately he is non creative, unorganized and not a good cook. Hence he needs suggestions for recipes and support to remember all the things he has to buy for the recipes. Also some advice while he is cooking is necessary.

• Database for recipes and food values
• Mobile access to the content of the fridge
• Special recipe suggestions depending on:
  • The users sports activities
  • Seasonal and regional available ingredients
  • The things the user has already in the fridge

• Possibility to make meal plans with shopping lists for some periods
• The cooking recipe for todays meal will appear on a large display in the kitchen
• Planning for multiple users (entire family)