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Manna Cooking — Recipes, customization & groceries – all in one app
Manna is about making food easier, no matter your desire, lifestyle or dietary needs. Swipe on recipes to discover your next meal. Swap out recipes ingredient to meet your needs. Shop for groceries with just one click.
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@ashleymarinep Your search is over! Welcome to the community. Appreciate the love
I would pay for an app or app clip that would scan barcodes on ingredients in my pantry, spice drawer or cupboard. Scan and recognize fresh veggies and fruit and then suggest recipes on what is recognized.
This looks great! For items not available on Amazon Fresh, are there plans to integrate additional carts (Walmart, Target, local supermarkets)?
@amullins Definitely! Unfortunately the space is pretty new so a lot of those companies don't have grocery APIs yet. But one of our major goals is to make it as accessible as possible for anyone in our community
Looks great, Rachel. It seems like a one stop solution for the user's food journey. All the best!
Oooh I love cooking apps and this one appeals to me, because "Manna is about making food easier" - I'm also lazy, hehe. Thanks for a new app to try, congrats on the launch!
Wow! Being able to add the ingredients directly to an Amazon cart and have them delivered to your door is very cool. Meal prep kits have exploded in popularity during the pandemic, but they're rather wasteful. Streamlining finding a recipe, making alterations, ordering the products, and cooking with them upon arrival, all from one app, seems like a great alternative. Kudos!
@matthew_ritchie Thanks a lot Matthew! Spot on assessment too. In meetings I often explain it like having a meal kit where you pick exactly what you want and nothing else
@josh_abady Cool! I don't believe we have Amazon Fresh in Canada (I think you can only non-perishable items), but I think that integration is really cool. I imagine being able to integrate with other grocery stores that offer online ordering and deliveries could open up the doors for you business wise, too. Congrats again on the launch!
@matthew_ritchie Is there a grocer in Canada that would be ideal from your perspective/do you already order online from one? I used to live in Montreal and I want to make sure we approach that market soon
@josh_abady I personally don't because there's one a block from my house and they don't even have BOPIS. I think it's still a bit of a mess out here though. I know Walmart Canada has the whole process pretty nailed down. And speaking of Montreal, the province of Quebec seems a lot more advanced than others provinces when it comes to the apps they partner with—for instance, a lot of them partner with those apps that aim to eliminate food waste, but I haven't seen similar adoption in Ontario. I think Metro, IGA, and Walmart could be good options. Loblaws and Sobeys are the other big chains, of course, and own the majority of the smaller chains.
@matthew_ritchie Super helpful context thank you. Also I noticed that too! I was in Montreal in 2017 and the tech integrations were already getting popular
Manna is about making food easier, no matter your desire, lifestyle or dietary needs. We're on a mission to change the way people discover, cook and shop for food. Our goal is to connect people with recipes, community and convenience.
The Problem: Recipes online are as ubiquitous as they are broken. There's 2 crucial points of disconnection: going from seeing dishes on social media to actual recipe URLs, and from finding recipes to shopping for the ingredients.
In the current landscape, if I'm scrolling through Instagram, or Pinterest I often find recipe content that looks delicious. But the recipe isn't actually attached to the content. There's a link to another link to a website, and from there the expectation is that I print it out. On top of that, I some food allergies and there's no way for me to modify the recipe to my needs.
An even bigger pain point is shopping for ingredients from recipes. Statistics show that over 80% of American shoppers use recipes as their starting point for online grocery shopping (Source: Chicory). But in the current landscape, I have to manually go through and select each ingredient and quantity one at a time, which is tedious and creates massive drop off.
Manna Is The Solution: We're the first platform to solve the missing links in a user’s food journey. We take people through the entire lifecycle of food: from search and discovery, to shopping and cooking, to customizing and sharing.
The fundamental goal of Manna is to streamline the entire food experience into one platform. People can use our one app instead of five to: Discover (Yummly) Organize (BigOven), Meal Plan (Mealime), Share (Instagram) and Shop.
With Manna, creators can attach recipes directly to the videos/photos they create. Home cooks can save those recipes easily, customize them to their needs and automatically shop for ingredients.
On Manna, any recipe is instantly shoppable. Doesn't matter whether the recipe came from Bobby Flay or Bobby in Iowa, just click the grocery cart and we handle the rest.
@rachel_abady This is an incredibly creative idea! It is a one-stop shop for your entire food experience. Kudos to the team !
@rachel_abady I don't think the disconnect you pointed out actually exists, For example Yummly does meal planning + ingredient checkout (with 3 more big groceries than you support).
I have to try this, at first I feel like is not filling a gap, but we'll see!
@andy_wong4 Thanks so much Andy! I have some sweet gluten-free recipes in my cookbook if you're looking for more. I'm @mannajosh
Looks nice and easy to use. Regarding the "swap" feature, does the App recommend alternative ingredients to use if you don't have a particular one or does the user need to type what to swap with? Looking forward to exploring it!
@pedrobh hey Pedro! right now the swap requires user inputs, but we're looking toward building AI that can offer suggestions for swapping based on your preferences.
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