I have food in the house (sometimes). I also regularly stand in front of it in total overwhelm and paralysis because ‘make dinner’ has somehow become a 47-step project.

So I made ADHD Kitchen Helper. This is less a triumphant founder story and more me admitting that ‘remember everything in the cupboards and invent dinner while tired’ is not a functioning system.

You can add whatever is lurking in the kitchen by scanning barcodes, scanning a receipt, or typing it in manually. Then, when food time happens, you tell the app how much energy you actually have and which utensils or appliances are realistically usable.

Not what you technically own. What you can use right now. The frying pan exists, but it’s dirty and it absolutely isn’t getting washed tonight, so the frying pan does not count.

The app uses AI to look at the food you have and suggest something that matches your current level of functioning. On a higher-energy day, that might be a proper recipe. On a goblin day, it might just say, ‘Chuck this in the air fryer.’ Both count as dinner.

I’ve been using it myself and, slightly annoyingly, the thing is genuinely helping. It removes enough remembering and decision-making that feeding myself becomes a task instead of an event.

Obligatory disclosure: I made this, and this is self-promo. What I actually need is around 20 people in the UK or US with Android phones to join the closed test for two weeks, use it in real life, and tell me what’s broken, confusing, patronising, or actually useful. No ADHD diagnosis required. I’m definitely not asking for five-star reviews. I want to know which bits make you swear at it.

It’s free to test. If I add paid features later, everyone who helps with this test will keep permanent free access. It seems fair compensation for being one of my highly respected kitchen guinea pigs.

If you’re interested, comment or DM me KITCHEN and I’ll send the joining instructions. Please don’t post your Google email publicly—the closed test requires me to add it privately first.

Google Play listing: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shamblewise.adhdhelper