Keep the basics once.
Oil, salt, pasta, tinned tomatoes. Add quantities when they matter, and remove what has run out.
Pantry
Dinner starts with what is already here.
Add the staples on your shelf and the vegetables waiting in the drawer. Sugo shows which saved recipes fit tonight, and what is still missing.
Ingredients on handRecipe matchingShopping list
On hand tonight
7 ingredients / 2 recipes ready
From shelf to supper
Plan less. Cook the good thing.
Pantry matching is simple by design: mark what is available, read the match, and decide whether one missing lemon is worth the walk.
Read the match clearly.
Recipes show how much of the ingredient list is already covered, including the dish ready without a shop.
Take the rest with you.
Add recipe ingredients to the shopping list and group the errand by aisle or by dinner.
The week ahead
Pick tonight. Drop tomorrow into the plan.
Tonight
Hand-crushed tomato pasta
Tuesday
Lemon ricotta spaghetti
Wednesday
Mushroom orzo
The problem it solves
Most recipe apps answer "where did I save that thing". The harder question is the one you ask at six in the evening standing in front of an open fridge: what can I actually make, right now, without going out.
Sugo's pantry is the answer to that. You tell it what is in the kitchen once, and it compares that list against every recipe you have saved. Recipes you can cook tonight rise to the top, with the count of what they use. Recipes that are one ingredient away say which ingredient, so you can decide whether a missing lemon is worth the walk.
Keeping it current without it becoming a chore
The failure mode of every pantry tracker is the admin. If keeping the list accurate costs more than it saves, you stop, and then it is worse than useless because it is confidently wrong.
So Sugo aims low on effort. Staples go in once and stay: oil, salt, pasta, tinned tomatoes. Quantities are optional and only worth adding where running out actually matters. On sugo+ you can photograph a shelf or a shopping haul and have items read off it rather than typing them. Cooking a recipe can take its ingredients back out again.
It does not need to be perfect to be useful. A pantry that is roughly right still surfaces the right three dinners.
What it does not do
It does not track expiry dates or tell you the spinach has turned. Nothing in the app can see inside your fridge, and a date-tracking system you have to maintain by hand is exactly the chore this feature is designed to avoid.
It does not weigh what you have. Matching is on the ingredient, not the amount, so a recipe needing 400g of flour will match a jar with a spoonful left in it. Treat the match as a shortlist, not an inventory.
And it works from recipes you have saved, not from the whole internet. It is answering "what can I cook", not "what exists".
How does Sugo know what I can cook tonight?
You add the ingredients that are in your kitchen, and Sugo compares that list against the recipes you have saved. Each recipe shows how much of its ingredient list you already have, so dishes you can make without shopping come to the top and near-misses show what is missing.
Is pantry tracking free?
Yes. Unlimited pantry items and unlimited saved recipes are both on the free plan. Scanning a shelf by photo instead of typing items in is a sugo+ feature.
Do I have to enter quantities?
No. Quantities are optional and most people only add them where running out matters. Matching works on whether you have the ingredient at all, which is enough to shortlist tonight's dinner.
Does Sugo track expiry dates?
No, and that is deliberate. Sugo cannot see your fridge, so expiry would be a list you maintain by hand, which is the exact chore that makes people abandon pantry tracking. Sugo optimises for a list that stays roughly right with very little upkeep.
Can my household share one pantry?
Yes, on famiglia. Up to 20 people in one household share a pantry, meal plan, and grocery list, and everyone can edit them, so the person who used the last of the flour is the person who removes it.
What happens to ingredients I am missing?
You can add them to the shopping list straight from the recipe, and the list groups by aisle or by dinner so the errand is one pass through the shop rather than a scavenger hunt.
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Out now
Put one good dinner on the table.
Sugo is on the App Store for iPhone, iPad and Mac, on Google Play for Android, and in any browser at app.sugo.kitchen. It is free to start, so start saving the recipes you actually cook.