Pantry & Plate: An AI Kitchen Assistant That Actually Knows What's Expiring Tomorrow

This is a submission for the Notion MCP Challenge What I Built I buy in bulk at Costco to save money. The problem: tracking 100+ pantry items, remembering what's expiring, and figuring out what to cook for a two-person household with different food preferences. Pantry & Plate is an AI-powered pantry tracker and meal planner that eliminates that cognitive load. It parses grocery receipts using Claude's vision, tracks expiry dates in Notion, and runs an agentic chat assistant that knows exactly what's in my kitchen, what needs to be used first, and what my partner won't eat (mushrooms, shrimp, brussels sprouts). Here's what makes it different: when I ask "What can I make tonight?", the agent doesn't guess. It queries my actual Notion databases — pantry items with real expiry dates, my household preferences, my planned meals for the week — then reasons over the results before suggesting anything. The agent might respond: "The Italian sausage expires in four days. How about a quick sausage