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Mauli Patel
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Fridge to Feast AI: Your Kitchen's AI Sous Chef

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Education Track: Build Apps with Google AI Studio

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Fridge to Feast AI: Your Kitchen's AI Sous Chef

Fridge to Feast AI

This post is my submission for DEV Education Track: Build Apps with Google AI Studio.

What I Built

I built Fridge to Feast AI, an app that takes a photo of your fridge contents and turns it into a full recipe + a photorealistic image of the final dish.

I used Google Gemini Pro to identify the ingredients from the uploaded image, then generated a recipe based on those ingredients. Finally, I used the Imagen API to create a realistic image of the dish, all within Google AI Studio, no deployment needed!

Demo

https://github.com/itsmemauliii/My-Dev.io-Projects/tree/main/Fridge%20to%20Feast%20AI%20🍳🥬

My Experience

This was my first time building inside Google AI Studio, and it felt like magic. Here's what stood out to me:

  • 🔍 Image-to-Insight flow is smooth: Gemini Pro picked up small ingredients like green onions and block cheese accurately.
  • 🎨 Imagen API is insanely powerful. The generated dishes look real enough to eat.
  • 🧱 AI Studio made the entire development process feel modular, just like working with components in React or a no-code IDE, but with full control.

What I learned:

  • The quality of prompts makes or breaks your app, especially when generating images.
  • AI Studio’s built-in file structure helped keep logic, services, and components organized.
  • I now understand how to build a multimodal app that goes from image → text → image, all within one tool.

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