Vaara plans your family's week, so you can spend it with them.
Tell it your diet, household size, and cuisine.
It plans your whole week and builds the shopping list.
Send it straight to your cook, in their language.
Built by two parents trying to get through the week without losing it.
Plus a matched shopping list, protein tracking, and a plan you can send straight to your cook.
Why we built this ↓
vaara.
Why we built this
Built by two parents trying to get through the week without losing it.
"Everybody wants to save the world. No one wants to help mom do the dishes."
P.J. O'Rourke
Works like an app. No download needed.
Open in your browser — add to home screen from your browser menu for an app-like experience.
A regular Sunday lunch, not a festival. Real food, from our actual kitchen.
We're at the stage in life that can best be described in one word: chaotic. My wife Vidya and I both work. Our parents are ageing. Getting through the week requires a reward of its own.
I joke to my wife that every day is like walking on a tightrope. One thing goes awry — the cook calls and says "bimar hai didi," the nanny calls saying "akka odambe sari ille" — and we're screwed.
Meal planning is at the heart of all of this. Are we getting our protein fix? Is there variety? What to do with leftovers? How much to make for a festival?
Every Sunday, my wife makes a meal plan and asks me what to make for the week.
How Vidya plans the week
(I can't even understand my own handwriting, leave alone writing a meal plan.)
After many such instances, I got an idea for Vaara.
In Kannada, vaara means a week. This is the first version, and it might grow into something more.
Festival prep. A regular Sunday lunch. Even the little one helps chop.
This is an increasingly crowded space — which means it's a problem worth solving. I'm not a tech bro with VCs lined up. I'm like you, trying to make parts of my life simpler. I don't speak or understand tech.
I'm an AI enthusiast, but not a "let's automate life and die of boredom" fan. Vaara is a labour of love — much like how you plan your meals and run your home.
Vaara plans your family's week, so you can spend it with them.
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What you get
🍽️Weekly meal plans across 13 regional Indian cuisines — built around your diet, city, and household.
🍲Share recipes — see what other families nearby are cooking today, or post your own.
📸Snap a photo of your fridge, a handwritten menu, or last night's leftovers — Vaara reads it and plans around it.
💬Send the plan to your cook in Hindi, Kannada, or Tamil — straight to WhatsApp.
📞Call your cook, your mum, or a friend for company while you cook — not just for help.
🛒Auto-built shopping list, matched to what's actually available in your city.
💪Protein targets & health-aware picks — diabetes, thyroid, cholesterol, and more.
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Why I built this →
Meal planning's an underrated skill — somehow it never makes it onto a CV. I'm not a tech guy, I just talked an AI into building this for me. Thanks for dropping by — hope to be invited to a meal at your home one day :)
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Vaara plans your family's week, so you can spend it with them.
First 5 days completely free
No card needed to start. Plans from ₹49/week after your trial.
Hello! Let's set up your kitchen.
Takes 2 minutes. Saves hours every week.
Cooking a full meal, as usual
Mostly cooking just for myself, keep it simple & quick
Bangalore
Chennai
Mumbai
Delhi
Hyderabad
Kolkata
Pune
Kochi
Ahmedabad
Jaipur
Lucknow
Coimbatore
📍 Type my city
🇺🇸 USA
🌍 Elsewhere
Describe it in your own words — "I'm vegetarian, my husband eats egg, we love South Indian food" — and I'll fill in the details below. You can still check/adjust anything before finishing.
Tick everyone's diet. You can select more than one.
All optional — skip anything and we'll use sensible defaults.
High Cholesterol
Diabetes
High BP
Thyroid
IBS / Gut issues
Weight Loss
None
Kerala
Tamil
Karnataka
Andhra / Telangana
North Indian
Maharashtrian
Gujarati
Bengali
Experimental
Goan
North East
Coorgi
Mangalorean
Light
Medium
Hearty
Both equally
Chapati / Roti
Rice
Both equally
Chapati / Roti
Rice
No preference
Prefer no rice at night
Keep lunch and dinner separate
Reuse lunch's main for dinner when it makes sense
I shop as needed
I stock up once a week (e.g. Sunday)
I make fresh batter each time
I prep idli/dosa batter in bulk
Protein preferences
We'll plan meals toward your target and show you any gap. Extra protein comes from food, not powders, unless you tell us you use them.
How much protein do you need?
Yeah, I get it. Protein is everywhere you look. But many of us aren't getting enough of it (and extra protein biscuits don't cut it). This simple calculation tells you approx. how much protein you might need.
How we work this out
Adults need about 0.83g of protein for every kg of body weight a day (ICMR-NIN, the WHO and the EU all use this; the US uses 0.8g). That's about 46g for a woman and 54g for a man, so we plan about 50g for each adult. Children under 13 need roughly 13 to 32g depending on age, about 20g on average. Over 65, many guidelines suggest a little more.
Prefer to use your body weight? It's only used to work out your protein.
Your body weight is only used to work out how much protein you need. It's calculated on your phone and never saved or sent anywhere.
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👆 Slide left or right to set your target
Food only
We use protein powder too
Any style
Omelette
Boiled
Scrambled
Bhurji
Poached
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Which meals do you need planned?
Untick what you handle yourself — like office lunch.
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Breakfast
Morning meal
🍎
Snack
Mid-day bite
🍱
Lunch
Afternoon meal
🌙
Dinner
Evening meal
Almost there — this is the good part
Tell us what you love to cook. Just what comes to mind — even 3 or 4 dishes per meal is enough to start. You can always add more later from the app. The more you share, the better your plan gets.
📷 Prefer a pic?
Take a photo of your handwritten meal plan, a recipe book, or your fridge — Vaara will read it and fill your dishes automatically.
Reading your photo...
Add or capture more of what you eat at home — the more Vaara knows, the more personalized your recommendations get.
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🔒 I hate spam as much as I hate Monday morning meetings. Your email won't be sold or shared — ever. I'll only use it for the odd update on what's changing with Vaara, and to help you get your plan back if you switch devices.
Before you continue
Hey — quick thing. Some phones quietly clear app data after a few days of no use, which would wipe your saved dishes and plan without warning. Add your email and I can always bring it back for you.
It also genuinely helps me know real people are using this, and lets me reach you if something's broken — that matters a lot right now.
No spam, ever — just this.
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🎧 Cooking tonight? Something to listen to
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🥘 What can I cook right now?
Shopping's not done and you've just got whatever's in the fridge — tell me what you have and what you're in the mood for, or snap a photo.
🔖 Add your inspiration
🔍 Get a recipe for anything
Want to cook something that's not on your plan? Type the dish name and get real ingredients and steps.
Surprise me — something outside your usual
🥦 What veggie side today?
Pick a vegetable and get a quick side dish suggestion that pairs with your meals.
This Week's Shopping
✓ Tick what you're buying locally · Tap BB to order online
Send Plan to Your Cook
Pick a language, choose whole week or just today, and copy the message for your cook.
English
हिन्दी
ಕನ್ನಡ
தமிழ்
Whole week
Just today
Your plan will appear here once generated.
🎙 Got a voice reply from your cook?
Upload their voice note (Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, or any Indian language) — we'll translate it to English. Clips longer than 30 seconds won't work yet.
Daily reminder
Get a notification each day at a time you choose, showing what is cooking today. Tap it to send the plan to your cook.
Remind me
🥘 Batch Cooking Planner
Pick your dishes, get a cook order and storage guide. Make once, eat all week.
2 days
3 days
5 days
What's in your fridge?
Type an ingredient. Get ideas for what to cook with it.
Kids Lunch Box
Get a week of tiffin ideas based on your child's age. Balanced, practical, and things kids will actually eat.
1–3 years
4–8 years
9–12 years
Eggetarian
Vegetarian
Vegan
💡 Works best in decent light — a dim fridge, a poorly-lit pantry, or a photo taken at night can make it harder for Vaara to read what's there. If a scan comes back empty or wrong, try again somewhere brighter. Any issues? Let me know!
📷 Scan What You Have
Fridge, pantry shelf, counter, a grocery haul you just brought home — anywhere your veggies and ingredients are sitting. Vaara will suggest what to cook with what's there.
What Vaara sees
What you can make
📋 Import a Meal Plan
Pick a photo from your gallery of a handwritten or printed meal plan and Vaara will read it and import it as your week.
Vaara read this plan. Tap Use This Plan to import it.
🔖 Save something you found
Found something on Instagram, YouTube, a blog, or just remembered a dish? Name it, add a link if you have one, and it stays here so you don't have to go hunting for it again.
Vaara is reading your photo...
Special Occasions
Planning for a crowd? Tell Vaara the occasion and get a full menu with quantities scaled to your headcount.
Kids' Class Lunch
Dinner Party
Festival / Puja
🌼 Onam Sadya
🐘 Ganesh Chaturthi
🦚 Janmashtami
Birthday Party
Office Potluck
Sunday Family Lunch
Bulk Cooking / Meal Prep
🦃 Thanksgiving
🪔 Diwali Party
🏈 Game Day
Veg
Eggetarian
Non-Veg
Vegan
Jain
South Indian
North Indian
Mixed
Continental
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Meal planning. Sorted.
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🎯 Vaara Concierge
Your kitchen, fully handled. Not another plan you have to check. We build the week, brief your cook on WhatsApp ourselves, and tell you exactly what to order and when. You just eat well.
A weekly plan built around your household's real patterns, not generic suggestions
We message your cook directly every week. You're not the go-between
We tell you exactly what to order and when (Blinkit/Zepto/Instamart)
Going on holiday or don't need meal plans for a while? Plans are paid with a payment link and do not renew automatically, so nothing is charged unless you pay again. Marking your plan paused only changes the label in this app.
🌍 Paying from outside India
Billed in USD via PayPal. Same plans, same features — just priced for your currency.
Something not working?
Found a glitch or something looks off? Tell me right away — I'll fix it fast.
