* People come in with empty boxes and leave with meals * Able to cook there? Still a grocery store? * Provide customizable recipes * Some variables within the recipe * Recipes depend on region/availability of food * App that maintains/keeps track of how much they eat - Will people use it? * Tips around food - Who is this for? Sports game today? * Brand like a regular fast food/packaged food - looks less expensive and more acceptable * Easy instructions to cook and put together * Plan ahead of time - pick up in the morning or save in the morning, just heat up * Buy one week s worth of food and stock up * Buy in bulk, save for multiple meals * Share with the rest of community - go to somewhere else/another store for different recipes/food choices * Like a pharmacy, order and pick-up * Cafeteria in schools, set meals for day of the week * Sell junk food? * Organize by time to prepare, nutrients, body type or lifestyle?
1. Provide Customizable Recipes Some variables within recipe to allow different nutritional needs, recipes depend on region/availability of whole food (different every season/store) and people shares bulk food, taking only what they need for the recipe (shares with the rest of community) 2. Organize food by time to prepare/body type & lifestyle/type of nutrients Tips around food on how to cook the specific food (more flexible/ creative for consumers? Would it become a hassle?) 3. Planning one week of meal, buy in bulk Set meal plans made in store, customized to lifestyle needs, buy food in bulk to cook the meals for a week provides tips on preparing food ahead of time (eg. making more than enough dinner and then save for breakfast) 4. Jars/Containers with recipes, just pick up ingredients and go home to cook Defines the recipe by container and the container will make it easier to understand how to put the food together. 5. Special counter for quick grab and go Attach quick-cooking recipe so that people can remake it at home if they like (skip cooking process), the recipe will use the bulk food that can be bought from the store
There were still too many ideas in each direction, so there was still a need to narrow it down to 3 main directions.
FILL UP THE BOX The grocery store sells the bulk food and organizes it so that the community can share, for example, you don't need to use a whole lettuce if you don't need the whole thing. People just take what they need. Consumers buy boxes where it corresponds to their daily recommended servings according to Health Canada, where they fill up the different sections that correspond to the category of food they have to fulfill. In addition, there's info-graphics on the box which suggests some ingredients which would be suitable for that gender and age group. It's possible to add simple instructions on how to prepare the food. Aside from the individual portions, moms can even buy the food in family packs where can buy enough food to cook dinner for the whole family. The branding will be fun and quirky with a sense of humour. Simple graphics and colourful scheme can engage and help the consumers to read the information that is presented on the boxes.
CHEAP MEALS The main selling point of this concept is that, for about $5, people can buy convenient and healthy/balanced meals without spending too much time or money. The way it works is that the store will have the raw base, like oatmeal, sandwich, or spaghetti and these will come with the basic ingredients that are already fairly healthy. The meal will cost the base price of $5, and according to how much the consumer feels like they should eat, they can add/change the ingredients in the meal for a small amount of price to increase the nutritional value of the whole meal. If they want to add a snack on the side, even if they want to eat it later, they can also add it for an extra small price. The store acts like a fast-food take-out store but what it more special about this concept is that they can bring home the raw material to cook later at home. It's like buying a pack of instant noodles, you still have to cook it, but everything is portioned for you so it saves a lot of time in cooking. Plus, all the ingredients that the store uses will be things that are unprocessed and fresh. The branding of the store will be more down to earth and made to look cheap cause of the whole "cheap food" concept.
NO-THINK MEALS My mom actually inspired this direction, she complained that she didn't know what to cook for dinner because it seems like she's cooking the same stuff over and over again, therefore she lost the motivation to cook. From my research, the thing that stood out to me was that eating healthy could be really easy if meals were planned ahead of time and people can get by with only cooking once per day in larger portions, and then saving and just re-heating things up after. No-think meals is an electronic way of sharing and planning meals weekly to find out exactly how much whole food you need to buy in a week to produce that weekly meal plan. On the website, people can create an account; add the number/ profiles of people that live in the household. And weekly, they can just choose from our database of user-submitted recipes based on how long it takes to cook and how well it fits their profiles. Some recipes can even be made in bigger portions to carry over to the next day breakfast, to eliminate the cooking in the morning. Users can submit recipes that are in one person portions and the fields provided can create warnings if the recipe doesn't contain enough nutrients/ingredients from each of the food groups. A sort of grocery store can be attached to the website, allowing the user to place an order of their weekly meal plans. The user can just go an pick up their food weekly and the grocery store don't have to waste any food. Users who submit recipes to the site can earn credits to buy food from this store. When people receive the bulk of food, they can refer back to the website to learn how to cook it. The branding will make the food look as light and fresh as possible and the website should reflect the easiness of the whole process.
Although I started the project wanting to take the physical packaging approach, it was soon apparent by feedback that it was not going to be effective in solving my design problem. A majority of the feedback leaned towards the website/app ideas and so I decided to take that approach because it made sense if younger adults were my target audience.
Aside from the technical how to cook, I wanted to add social media to it to encourage discussion and hype it up for people to learn more about the food.
I wanted to find a new name for freestyle cooking, but, even after mind-mapping it, freestyle was simple to understand and catchy enough to be the title of the website
I was personally intrigued by the style of oldschool recipes that were made with type-writer/ hand-written and paired with beautiful photos of food. It portrayed a great sense of personalness to it and it was very clean-looking. Although I dropped the type-writer aesthetics later, the hand-written style was still kept.
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The feedback I got back was that the site was looking too systematic and that the freestyle concept was not showing through yet. So I took a step back and did some more research on existing programs which tackle the same amount of information and how they present the info to the users. Some sites and apps (I use an android) I looked at were: Mint, Nosh, Jamie Oliver, Allrecipes: Dinner Spinner, Wunderlist, GrocerySmart, Knowledgebook: Cooking.
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What was missing in my site was the messiness and the whole-heartiness of food that I wanted to portray in freestyle and it was difficult to find the right images for them online. So, I decided to take my own.
Although I d like to take my own photos and be dedicated to that, to take all the photos for the scope of the project is not realistic. I sourced other free images onlline.
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I personally feel that my project leans more towards the exploratory side, although I would have love to settle with a solid idea from the start and slowly work my way towards a solid end product, I would not have gotten this far without all the exploring that I did. I think there is a good amount of things that could be reduced down and then the branding of the site could be rocked out more. If I were to expand on the site, I would look at how it can integrate with grocery stores and how it can be campaigned to advertised to the younger adults about this site.