PAK’nSAVE is helping customers become even more saving-focused with the Savey Mealmaker. This easy-to-use web tool uses the latest stick innovation to create recipes from your home food.
Using the magic of AI, the Savey Mealmaker generates an easy-to-make recipe that uses ingredients that might otherwise be thrown away, along with a few basic pantry staples that most kiwis have at home. Simply add leftover ingredients to the Savey Mealmaker, and it generates a recipe on the spot.
A minimum of three ingredients are needed to create a Savey Mealmaker recipe, and if it’s delicious, customers can save and share the recipe.
According to a Kantar New Zealand Food Waste Survey conducted by Rabobank and KiwiHarvest in April 2022, New Zealand households throw out around $1500 worth each year. The food isn’t off, it’s just forgotten in the fridge, or people aren’t sure what to do with it.
That’s why PAK’nSAVE encourages people to shop for their fridges and pantry before returning to another shop.
PAK’nSAVE Senior Marketing Manager Lauren Ness said this was another way that PAK’nSAVE was saving Kiwis money and helping to reduce food waste.
“Not only is the Savey Mealmaker perfect for using up those forgotten ingredients at the back of your fridge, but it’s also great to have in your back pocket for all those other occasions during the year when there are lots of leftovers, like throughout the summer break or Easter weekend,” said Ness.
“Your leftovers can be seasoned and spruced up and transformed from drab to fab, all with the help of the Savey Mealmaker.”
A few team members at PAK’nSAVE Thames have been getting right into Savey Mealmaker, turning leftovers into beautiful dishes, including Leftover Chicken Fried Rice and Coconut Banana Bread Pudding.
PAK’nSAVE Thames owner-operator Matthew Heap said that everything PAK’nSAVE does is to save customers money.
“Part of that is ensuring that nothing goes to waste,” stated Heap.
PAK’nSAVE Thames is on a mission to reduce food waste and already does many things in the store. Bananas that ripen in-store go into our freshly baked banana bread, if an egg breaks in a carton, the rest of the eggs from the carton go to the bakery, and unsold hot cooked chickens are shredded as toppings for pizzas. Anything close to its best-before date goes to the store’s local food rescue to share it with those in the community who need it most.
“It’s great to see what we’re doing in-store helps our customers, our community and the environment, and now, we have a new Savey Mealmaker recipe tool that builds on all that great work.”
