FridgeChef
Type what's in your fridge and get one recipe back, with a photo of the dish.
What you'll build
One text box: what's in your fridge? One button. AI returns one recipe — title, ingredients, steps — plus a generated photo of the dish.
Follow the brief and the starter repo. The scope is fixed so it ships inside the build block.
“It actually used my random ingredients. And the photo looks like food.”
The polished version
Ideas to pull in over the week after the jam.
- Mode picker (quick / grandma / budget / healthy / fancy)
- Shopping list generator
- Dietary preferences
- Photo input — show your fridge instead of typing
- Save and share a recipe gallery
Things to keep in mind
- Return one recipe, not three. You are not building a meal planner today.
- Generate the dish photo. The image is what makes the result feel real.
- The culinary voice is the personality. Pick one and write the prompt for it.
- Leave out pantry, dietary and budget filters. Each one is its own rabbit hole.
Built something? Two minutes, and it lands in the showcase. Half-finished is fine.
How the session flows
Every Coding Jam follows the same shape, whichever track the room takes.
- 0:00 – 0:15Intro
Grab a name tag and a slice, say hello to the instructor, and meet the people either side of you — you'll be asking them things later, so it pays to know their names now. Low pressure, high creativity, ship something messy. Then a quick word on what the room is building tonight, and you're off.
- 0:15 – 0:30Credits & setup
The instructor shares the Google Cloud credits with the room. Everyone gets their environment ready — whichever tool they brought. Nobody should be installing anything once the build starts.
- 0:30 – 1:35Build
Heads down, and enjoy it — this is the part everyone came for. The agent does the typing; you decide what it's making. Ask the room when you get stuck; someone two seats away hit the same wall ten minutes ago. Want more structure? The codelab walks the spec-driven route — Setup → Plan → Review → Build → API → Verify — but nobody has to follow it.
- 1:35 – 2:00Share & submit
Show the room what you made — two minutes, screen-shared from your seat. Half-finished is welcome; the wobbly ones are usually the most interesting. Say what surprised you along the way, and cheer for everyone else while you're at it. Then submit your build before you leave. This is the one thing not to skip — it's what puts your name and your chapter on the showcase, and it takes about two minutes.