Eat healthy.
Spend less.
Get your weeknights back.
Hestia does all three.
Hestia plans all 21 meals a week, holding the diet your family was handed and a grocery bill that runs well under the USDA's $230-a-week benchmark. And it shows you the math behind every plate.
The doctor handed you a diet. The grocery store handed you a bill. We hand you the week.
First month free in the app. No card, nothing renews on its own. Your receipts decide.
Your week
Thrifty plan · family of 4
Cardamom Braised Chicken Curry
Mon · Dinner
Chilled Cabbage & Tomato Soup
Tue · Lunch
Soy-Maple Tofu & Veg Kebabs
Wed · Dinner
Capsicum & Tomato Bread Salad
Thu · Lunch
$140 under the USDA benchmark · 21 meals planned · leftovers already scheduled
Four real Hestia recipes with their real grades. The $90 covers a whole week: all 21 meals.
USDA Thrifty benchmark
$230
per week
Example Hestia week
$90
per week
In this modeled week: about $140 below that USDA benchmark.
Actual savings depend on your starting spend, pantry, and adherence.
Both are one week for a family of four: breakfast, lunch, dinner, and sides. All 21 meals.
The same modeled family’s first five weeks. Week one will not be $90, and we say so up front. By week 4 this family’s pantry had 80 staples stocked; the dark bars are the weeks after that, when the grocery list gets shorter.
Honest note: $90 is the modeled 50-week planner average for a family-of-four thrifty plan, measured against the USDA Thrifty Food Plan benchmark of $230/week. Actual savings depend on local prices, pantry use, and whether the plan gets cooked. Savings are estimates until receipt-verified. Baseline: USDA Thrifty Food Plan, two adults and two children.
Skeptical? Good.
Don’t take our word for it. Bring the receipts.
We know how $90 a week sounds. The plan behind it has been stress-tested across tens of thousands of simulated household-years, and you still should not take it on faith. That is exactly why the first month is free: no card, four grocery weeks, and your own receipts decide.
Before you shop
Every item is priced before you go. These are real lines from the sample week.
Whole week, 21 meals$89.25est
After you shop
Your store’s real prices replace ours, line by line. This column is yours to fill.
Your totalyour receipt decides
Modeled planning examples, not guarantees. Your numbers come from your store, your pantry, and your receipts.
What $90 a week looks like
A whole week of meals. Not a couple of plates.
A $90 week covers every meal for a family of four: 21 in total, a main and a side at each, snacks included. The six plates here are real Hestia recipes with their real Ember grades, the kind of food the planner draws from. The full sample plan shows one complete week, grocery list and all. Dish images are AI-generated illustrations.
AMon · Dinner
Teriyaki-Lemon Grilled Salmon
ATue · Dinner
Cardamom Braised Chicken Curry
AWed · Lunch
Vegetarian Borscht
AThu · Dinner
Red Curry Beef Noodle Bowl
AFri · Dinner
Lemon-Garlic Grilled Shrimp Kebabs
BSat · Lunch
Classic Chicken à la King
Real recipes and real Ember grades. Sample week shown; your plan is built from your household, diet, and pantry.
Cook once
You cook on your day off, so you don’t cook on theirs.
Set a leftover slider. At 75%, Hestia plans a Sunday batch big enough to carry the week, then schedules exactly when you eat it. Tuesday’s lunch and Thursday’s dinner are on the calendar before Monday starts. It repairs the plan around a soccer game or a late shift, so nothing gets cooked for a table that’s empty.
2 hrs
one Sunday cook
10 min
most weeknights
0
“what’s for dinner” panics
See it work
Drag the slider. Watch your week change.
No signup, no catch. Slide toward Sunday and watch six weeknights turn into heat-and-eat. This is the part that hands you your evenings back.
Illustrative. Your real plan fits your household and your schedule.
Three families. One plan.
The whole job, not just one part of it.
For the family comparing food quality
Food-quality information should not require a second grocery budget. Hestia plans a week around whole-food preferences using ingredients from regular grocery stores. Ember keeps nutrition and processing tradeoffs visible while the budget stays in view.
For the family doing math at the register
A family-of-4 grocery week is where small decisions stack up fast. Hestia builds a lower-cost plan from store-aware estimates, pantry items you already paid for, and receipt verification after you shop.
For the family throwing out $1,500 a year
Hestia estimates what a planned week needs, accounts for who is home, and schedules expected leftovers into later meals. In a 50-week planning simulation where scheduled meals were cooked and leftovers were eaten within their storage window, modeled spoilage was under 1%. That is a model, not a promise of household results.
How it works
Not magic. Math.
It plans for who’s actually home.
Per-person portions and attendance are part of the math. One kid skipping Tuesday dinner? The plan repairs itself before you shop, so nothing gets cooked for an empty chair.
It uses what you have.
Hestia tracks your pantry and builds plans around what's already in your kitchen. Week to week, it knows what you have, what you used, and what's getting close to its end date.
Leftovers are part of the plan.
When the plan calls for a roast chicken Monday, Tuesday’s lunch and Wednesday’s soup are already in the plan, sized to use what’s left. Not leftover guesswork, not a Tupperware graveyard.
Under the hood
An engine, not a list of recipes.
Hestia can compare nutrition and processing, plan around recorded pantry amounts, schedule expected leftovers, learn receipt-backed price signals, and award eligible Rewards contributions under the program terms. That's a lot. Let us show you.
Explore every featureMove a slider and watch a week re-solve in real time.
Earn while you shop
The prices get sharper every time someone shops.
Hestia starts with careful estimates and confirms them with real receipts and barcode scans from families like yours. Take a quick price check at the store, earn points, and redeem them for gift cards. The next family planning a week in your zip code gets your confirmed price, not a guess. You shop the way you already do; the plan gets smarter, and you get paid a little for it.
Your account identity is not included in partner reports. Hestia keeps your name and email with your account. Eligible contribution data is used only under the choices and safeguards described in the Privacy Policy, and partner reports exclude account credentials and direct identity.
The whole picture
Everything your kitchen needs. One app.
Meal Planning
An extensive, ever-growing recipe library. 21 meals a week, planned around your household, your goals, and what's already in your kitchen.
Shopping List
Auto-generated, organized by aisle, with estimated pricing and store-aware comparisons where data is available. You see the expected cost before you go, then receipts sharpen it over time.
Pantry Tracking
Real quantities, expiry awareness, even the condiments. Hestia knows what you have so it doesn't ask you to buy what you don't need.
Nutrition Goals
Macro targets, Ember nutrition-and-processing scores, and Nutri-Score ratings. See how your planned week compares before you commit to it.
Less Waste, Week After Week
Expiring items get used first. Proteins are planned across multiple meals. The freezer is part of the strategy, not an afterthought. The average family throws out about two pounds of edible food a week, roughly $1,500 a year. In a year-long simulation of real Hestia plans, less than 1% of the food purchased was wasted.
Household Aware
Per-person portions, allergy filters, attendance tracking. One household member skipping dinner Tuesday? Hestia has the data needed to repair the plan before you shop.
Real receipts, not reviews
We won’t show you a fake five-star wall.
We’re new, and we’d rather earn it. Cook a few weeks, then snap your before-and-after grocery receipt and post it with #HestiaReceipts. We feature the real ones, real names and real dollars, right here. The proof comes from families like yours, never from us. And every receipt shared helps turn $90 from a careful estimate into a confirmed number for your zip code. Be one of the founding families.
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