✦ BUILT FOR MIXED-DIET HOUSEHOLDS

Same table.Same time.Different meals.

One person’s vegan, someone’s avoiding gluten, the kids want something else entirely. SameTable coordinates both meals into one cook — plan it, shop it, and get every plate on the table at once.

Everyone eats together again
~150 hrs est.of cooking saved a year
SameTable — tonight's parallel-cook plan
3-day streak
+50 pts · plan today
BUILT FOR HOW HOUSEHOLDS REALLY EAT

From one recipe to every plate

Pick a dish once. SameTable handles the variants, the timing and the shop — so cooking for a mixed-diet table stops feeling like running a short-order kitchen.

✦ THE HEADLINE FEATURE

Two meals.One cook.One finish.

Parallel cook mode runs a live, staggered timeline for every version of a dish. The slow track starts first, the quick one waits its turn, and the app nudges you at each hand-off — so the chicken saag and the chana saag come off the heat at the very same moment.

  • Staggered timers engineered to finish together
  • Per-variant ingredients and steps, filtered automatically
  • “Cook the gaps” — make the gravy while the chicken rests
See how parallel cooking works
Cook mode — parallel chicken saag + chana saag timers
Backed by research from
WRAPUK Food Security ReportFood Standards AgencyKantarOfgemFood Foundation
150hrsest.
Extra cooking time a year for households running two meal tracks
Est. · USDA ATUS
27%
More at the checkout for households with dietary needs
UK Food Security Report 2024
£1,000/yr
Food wasted a year by an average family of four
WRAP 2022
54%
Of UK daily calories now come from processed food
FSA / NDNS 2023
THE EVIDENCE

The real cost of cooking separately

For households with mixed diets, two dinners isn’t just inconvenient — it costs more time, money, energy and, often, worse food. Here’s what the research shows.

Time
150hrsest.
Mixed-diet households lose hundreds of hours a year to the kitchen
Running two parallel meal tracks adds 20–35 minutes of active cooking a night. Over a year that’s nearly a full working month.
Est. from USDA ERS / American Time Use Survey
Estimated — methodology availableSee the evidence
Food waste
£1,000/yr
Two ingredient lists mean more ends up in the bin
A family of four already bins £1,000 of edible food a year. Buying smaller amounts of more items, with different use-by dates, makes it worse.
WRAP 2022 · UK Food Security Report 2024
Cited — direct sourceSee the evidence
Grocery cost
27%
Two shops cost more than one combined list
Households with dietary needs pay up to 27% more at the checkout — and miss the savings of shared stocks, vegetables and sauces.
UK Food Security Report 2024 · Kantar / Veganuary
Cited — direct sourceSee the evidence
Energy
£200/yrest.
Two cooking sessions instead of one adds up
Running the oven and hob twice rather than sharing one coordinated session costs an estimated £200 a year at current price caps.
Est. from Ofgem price cap · Energy Saving Trust
Estimated — methodology availableSee the evidence
Nutrition
When cooking gets too hard, households fall back on processed food — and everyone eats worse
Cook more and you eat less ultra-processed food; make cooking complex and convenience food fills the gap. For mixed-diet homes running a short-order kitchen every night, that’s the weekly reality.
FSA: The Nation’s Plate 2022 · Food Foundation / NDNS 2023
See the evidence
54%
of UK calories come from processed food — the highest in Europe
1 in 4
adults feel processed food is their only realistic option
<1 in 10
teenagers eat their five-a-day — and it’s worsening

Figures marked est. are reasonable extrapolations from cited data and are shown with their methodology — they’re always presented as estimates, never as hard figures. Sources: WRAP, UK Food Security Report 2024, Food Standards Agency, Kantar/Veganuary, Ofgem, Food Foundation/NDNS.

Start cooking together free
Weekly meal planner — drag-and-drop slots
THE PLANNER

Plan the week in minutes

A shared, drag-and-drop week the whole household fills together. Breakfast, lunch and dinner slots — no more group-chat negotiations about who’s eating what.

  • Shared across everyone in the house
  • Balance the week at a glance
  • Reschedule with a tap
Shopping list — auto-grouped by aisle
THE LIST

Shop once, waste less

Your plan becomes a smart list, grouped by aisle and aware of what’s already in your cupboard — so you buy what you need and nothing you don’t.

  • Auto-grouped by Produce, Pantry, Dairy
  • “You already have ginger” smart swaps
  • Check off as you go
CHEF POINTS

Cooking, but it counts

Every meal you plan, shop and cook earns points. Level up from Apprentice to Head Chef, keep your streak alive, and take on quests with the household.

See the whole system
620/ 1,000 pts
Level 1 · Apprentice
3-day streak
L4
Sous Chef
12🔥
Best streak

We went from three takeaways a week to actually looking forward to cooking. The kids check the planner before I do.

Portrait of Priya M., quoted in the home testimonial.
Priya M.
Household of 4 · Manchester

Set the table.

Free to start. Plan your first week tonight and earn your first 50 Chef Points.