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Cooking as a household
Practical writing on sharing recipes, planning the week, and keeping a family collection in order.
Coordinating Family Meals When Your Kids Live Far Away
When adult children live in different cities, food stays one of the threads that keeps families connected. Here is how a shared recipe app helps with the day-to-day, and the holidays.
Andrew Judd · 4 min read
The Honest Cost of a Family Recipe App
Recipe app pricing is more confusing than it should be. Per-device, per-user, free-with-paid-tier, in-app-purchase only. Here is what each model actually costs a family, and what Flour Power charges.
Andrew Judd · 4 min read
Who's Cooking Tonight? (And When Should They Start?)
Family meal planning works better when the meal plan knows who is cooking and when they need to start. Here is what that looks like in practice.
Andrew Judd · 4 min read
Why We Built Our Platform on "Boring" Technology
Why We Built Our Platform on "Boring" Technology (The Genius of JSON and Open Data) We admit it: Our data structure is boring.
Andrew Judd · 3 min read
What Happens to Your Recipes If Flour Power Ever Goes Away
A fair question with an honest answer. If Flour Power ever closes down, here is exactly what happens to your recipes.
Andrew Judd · 3 min read
Plan a Week of Meals in Five Minutes
Meal planning does not have to be a Sunday-afternoon ritual. Here is how to get from "what is for dinner this week" to a finished plan in about five minutes.
Andrew Judd · 3 min read
Why We Charge You Money (And Why You Should Be Happy About It)
Why We Charge You Money (And Why You Should Be Happy About It)
Andrew Judd · 3 min read
How to Digitize Handwritten Family Recipes
If you have a box of index cards or a binder of clippings you want to save, here is a gentle, practical guide to digitizing them so the recipes outlast the paper.
Andrew Judd · 4 min read
Stop Copying Recipes to Your Shopping List Manually
Your meal plan and your grocery list should not be two separate jobs. Here is what it looks like when they are actually connected.
Andrew Judd · 3 min read
The Privacy-First Kitchen: Why Your Recipes Are Nobody’s Business But Yours
The Privacy-First Kitchen: Why Your Recipes Are Nobody’s Business But Yours (And Why We Built a Digital Fort around Your Dinner) Imagine for a moment that your...
Andrew Judd · 4 min read