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The users will be students and young adults who buy food for themselves/their household and who are interested in staying within a budget and not wasting food they buy. May Many students in this age group live in dorms or apartments and share food storage space with others. Users we talked to all expressed frustration at the difficulty of remembering what was in the refrigerator when it is packed with other’s food. Most in this group do not cook or go through their fridge every day, making it even harder to keep track. For instance, a student recounting planning on cooking chicken after working three days straight to finish a project only to realize the chicken was past expiration and bad. These situations waste food and money for those who are likely to be on some sort of budget.
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- have access to list of food in refrigerator and and cabinets
- know who much money has been spent on food in a given period of time
- track how long food has been stored for to know when to eat or preserve
- easily access hint for preserving/cooking food to prevent waste
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- Matt is a freshman at MIT, lives in a dorm and shares a kitchen with 9 other students. He buys buys enough food for a week at a time. Matt’s hall-mates sometimes bring back leftover food from events, and he doesn’t know what to do with the extra food he bought earlier in the week.
- Sarah is a vegan living with three others in a small house in Summerville. She buys fresh greens, carrots and squash every week, but often forgets about how quickly greens go bad. She eats other food first, and only gets through half the bag of spinach before it gets slimy.
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