Everything people ask us before they start.

Five questions, and none of them are about calories. The first asks whether your household eats mostly local Ghanaian food, mostly continental, or the honest mix most homes actually run on. The second shows you real dishes, waakye, jollof, banku and tilapia, kontomire, light soup, and you pick the ones you want to see more of.

The last three cover how long you realistically have to cook on a weekday, how many people sit down to eat, and what you want out of the week. It takes under two minutes and you can retake it whenever your household changes.

No. You can take the quiz as a guest and get a full plan without handing over an email address or a phone number. Nothing is held back behind a sign up wall.

Creating an account later keeps your plan, your saved recipes and your addresses across devices, and it means you lose nothing if you change phones. That is the only reason to make one.

Your answers are read against a library of dishes written for Ghanaian kitchens, and every slot you asked for gets filled. The plan balances what you said you liked against the time you said you had, so a Tuesday with forty minutes does not get a dish that needs two hours over the fire.

It also keeps variety honest. You will not get jollof four days running, and the heavier cooking lands on the days you told us you have room for it.

Yes. The horizon is yours: a week, a fortnight, a month, or the four days until payday. Plans are not locked to seven days, because kitchens are not run in seven day blocks.

Whatever horizon you choose, the plan keeps moving. By the time you reach the end of it, the next stretch is already there.

Swap it. One tap gives you alternatives that fit the same slot, the same household size and the same amount of time, and nothing else in your plan moves.

Swaps are also the most useful thing you can teach ChopTime. What you replace tells it as much as what you keep, so the plan sharpens every time you do it.

They are written for a Ghanaian kitchen, in Ghanaian measures, by people who cook this food. A bundle of kontomire, not two hundred grams of leafy greens. Three cups of fermented corn dough. A thumb of ginger. Six kpakpo shito.

Every step also carries its own timing, so you know before you start whether tonight is a thirty minute night or a two hour one. Turning banku takes thirty minutes and the recipe says so rather than pretending otherwise.

Every recipe says what each ingredient is doing, so you can judge a substitute instead of guessing. Where a swap is already common in Ghanaian kitchens, the recipe names it.

If you are shopping through ChopTime, the basket only offers what can actually be delivered, so you will not plan a meal around something unavailable.

The recipe already knows what it needs, so the basket builds itself. You get the ingredients for the meals you actually planned, in market units, at household quantities. A bundle, a bag, a pack, a jar.

Shop one recipe or the whole week. Anything already in your kitchen can be skipped so you do not buy it twice, and from a product you can go back out into the other recipes that use it, which is usually how the next plan starts.

Accra. That is where we deliver today, and we would rather say so plainly than imply more.

The planning and the recipes work wherever you are, including for Ghanaians cooking home food abroad. Only the shopping is tied to Accra, and more of Ghana follows as we grow.

Mobile Money or card, whichever you actually use. Mobile Money is how most households in Ghana pay and it is treated that way here, not as an afterthought behind a card form.

Tell us and we will put it right. Message us on WhatsApp at +233 55 557 6869, or write to hello@choptime.app with your order and what happened.

A person reads it. There is no ticket number to quote back at us.

Yes, and it is a setting rather than a guess. Tell ChopTime about needs such as no pork, no shellfish, vegetarian, pescatarian, gluten free, dairy free or a nut allergy, and the plan respects them from then on.

Fasting and religious observance work the same way. Set it once and the plan works around the days and hours you keep, instead of asking you to work around the plan.

Full cooked meals. Today ChopTime brings you the ingredients for the meals you planned; next you will be able to order the finished dish itself, cooked and sent to you, from the same plan.

Put your name down for early access on the homepage and we will write to you when it opens in your part of Accra.

Yes, for the parts that travel. The taste quiz, the plans and the whole recipe library work wherever you are, which matters if you are cooking home food in a kitchen far from home and want to get it right.

Shopping and delivery are Accra for now, so you would buy locally and use ChopTime for the planning and the cooking.