The over purchasing of food results in a chain reaction where grocery stores are over-stocking to meet consumer demands, and suppliers are over-producing to meet the demands of grocery stores. If we are able to control what we buy, and only purchase what we need we can take advantage of this chain reaction to lower the demands throughout the chain and reduce the amount of domestic food waste. This project explores how people are contributing to food waste, the solutions that are used to reduce food waste and how effective they are.

The result is a mobile application called Scrap Gourmet. The app has four simple features that assists users to reduce food waste by telling the user what they have purchased, what was wasted and solutions to maximize the usage of the foods that might otherwise be in the garbage.