Supper Sorted was started, because I was tired of trying to figure out what to make for supper every night. I am a mom of three boys, so I need to cook healthy meals, but I also need quick and easy meals. I found myself not only shopping every day, but making the same boring meals over and over again.
I tried buying ready made meals, but it worked out more expensive and my family didn’t always like the taste. They wanted my cooking. (We all have our own style and add our own flavour to our cooking.) I then tried a service where they deliver a box of ingredients and recipes, but quite often I would end up throwing food away that my kids or I didn’t eat. And I still had to adjust the recipes, because feeding 4 males, I need a recipe for 4-8 not 4-6.
So I started planning my weekly menus and worked out a shopping list. When I used it I could shop once a week instead of daily! I started noticing that I was saving money on groceries each week! We were also not throwing away as much food as we used to. And we were eating interesting meals for a change. Another bonus is that I also had so much more time on my hands.
Another surprise that I did not expect is that I lost weight. Taking the stress out of deciding what to make for supper means we regularly ate healthy balanced meals instead of throwing together a quick unhealthy meal or last minute convenience foods. I lost 11kg in one year without making any changes to my diet.
People I knew started noticing and pretty soon I was emailing my weekly menu plan and shopping to a regular database each week. It was time consuming to compile the shopping lists manually, so being a web developer with my own web development company, I was able to make Supper Sorted a lot more functional online, with customizable meal plan and shopping list. Now you don’t have to wait for your weekly email. You can access the supper sorted meal plan, recipes, shopping list and so much more from your phone, tablet or PC at any time and create custom meal plans and shopping lists.
For me Supper Sorted was never about building an income, (I run my own company for that) but to have a really great service that saves time, saves money and ends the daily struggle of deciding what to make for supper! So when I saw that there was a problem that needed solving, I knew Supper Sorted could be the solution.
I keep seeing non profit organisations asking for donations. One in particular that struck me was an animal shelter that I had adopted two rescue dogs from, posted on Social Media asking for food and donations as they only had a few days food left. My thought was what if everyone who follow their page just gave a little each month, they would have enough. Then over the next few months two shelters closed, including the one where we adopted our dogs.
I realised that Supper Sorted could make a difference by giving people something of value for their donations. If you are getting something that is worth more than you are paying, you will be happy to keep paying for it. This mean the organisation will get regular funding and families can save time and money on meal planning!
The reality is that a platform of this size requires a team to maintain it. For it to survive it needs to be self sustaining, so our priority is to price Supper Sorted as low as we can while still maintaining a great service and being able to pay a good portion to organisations that are in need of financial assistance.
