Group one6

Fred stops by the grocery store on the way home from work and picks up a bunch of groceries that he thinks he could use to make a wholesome meal of some kind. He then picks up the kids from their daycare and brings them home. While they watch TV in the other room, he looks quickly though the old cookbooks on his shelf, they're the bad ones that his wife didn't want when she moved out and sure enough he can't find any recipes that make sense and that he has the ingredients for.

He reaches for the phone again to speed-dial for chinese food when he notices the website advertisment on the side of the can of corn he's just unpacked. He decides to try it out.

Logging on to the website, he quickly deciphers it and sets to work entering the food he's just purchased into the appropriate page. It replies with suggestions of eighty recipes, which is far more than he expected! He figures out how to eliminate the spicy recipes on the list (since his son won't eat hot food) and browses through the ones that have a short preparation time to find a few that he feels comfortable cooking. Several recipes indicate that he needs some minor extra ingredients, like mustard, but thankfully he has a full jar of that in his fridge.

Fred prints off his selected recipes and goes back to the kitchen, determined to make a good family meal.

Heidi's back from another long day of class and is hungry. Following the bookmark she's made on her laptop, she quickly logs back into her website account and erases the few ingredients she used for last night's dinner from her list of food. She hasn't gone shopping, so she doesn't have to add anything.

Her vegetarian preferences are already saved, so a few clicks brings up the list of recipes for the food she has on hand. She sees several she has made before, but one catches her eye that sounds a little fancy. She isn't too clear on what some of the words mean, but the website assists her with definitions and some directions for the difficult steps in the recipe. Some ingredients indicate that they are substitutions, but that's no problem, so long as they work. The added advice makes the recipe more appealing, so she prints it out, complete with the expanded instructions, and wanders down to the kitchen to try and see if she can get by without setting off the smoke alarms.

Francine hasn't used the internet for much, but while watching a little TV during the mid afternoon she comes across an informercial for this new website. Curious, she types the web site address letter-for-letter into the address bar of her web browser and carefully reads the welcome page that appears.

She decides to give it a try, but when she sees the amount of information she has to enter about the ingredients she has on hand, she changes her mind. Instead, she selects a few items she uses often in her dinners and tries to ask the website what she could make with these ingredients. Its response is helpful, suggesting that if she had a few more items (which she certainly does) she could make a few different recipes. She clicks on one at random, and is greeted with an attractive recipe-style page that uses the teaspoon and pound units she is used to. Impressed, she writes the website down on a piece of paper and saves it in case she has to make an emergency dinner for guests.