# Pilot Surveys

Two short surveys: **before** participants start using Meal Mate, and
**after** they've used it for the pilot period. Keep both under 2 minutes to
complete — short surveys get completed, long ones don't.

Suggested tool: a Google Form per survey, with the participant's assigned
ID (not name) as the first field so before/after responses can be matched
without storing personal data in the spreadsheet.

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## Pre-pilot survey ("Before")

1. Participant ID: ____________
2. Group: ⬜ A — Student   ⬜ B — Family
3. Household size: ____________
4. On average, how many minutes per week do you spend deciding what to cook? ____________
5. In a typical month, how often do you exceed your food budget?
   ⬜ Never ⬜ Rarely (1 month in 4) ⬜ Sometimes (about half the time) ⬜ Often (most months) ⬜ Always
6. In a typical week, how many times does food go to waste (spoiled, cooked but not eaten, etc.)? ____________
7. How confident are you that your current meals meet your nutrition needs?
   ⬜ Not at all ⬜ Slightly ⬜ Moderately ⬜ Very ⬜ Completely
8. What's your biggest frustration with meal planning today? (open text)

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## Post-pilot survey ("After")

1. Participant ID: ____________ (must match the pre-pilot ID)
2. How many weeks did you actively use Meal Mate? ____________
3. On average, how many minutes per week do you now spend deciding what to cook? ____________
4. Over the pilot period, how often did you exceed your food budget?
   ⬜ Never ⬜ Rarely ⬜ Sometimes ⬜ Often ⬜ Always
5. Over the pilot period, how many times per week did food go to waste? ____________
6. How confident are you that your meals meet your nutrition needs now?
   ⬜ Not at all ⬜ Slightly ⬜ Moderately ⬜ Very ⬜ Completely
7. Did you use the Shopping List feature? ⬜ Yes, every week ⬜ Sometimes ⬜ Never
8. Did you like/dislike meals to personalize recommendations? ⬜ Yes ⬜ No
9. Would you keep using Meal Mate after the pilot? ⬜ Yes ⬜ No ⬜ Maybe
10. What would make Meal Mate more useful to you? (open text)

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## Scoring guide

For each participant, compute:

```
planning_time_change   = before.q4 - after.q3          (minutes/week saved)
budget_overrun_change  = before.q5 - after.q4           (scale step improvement)
wastage_change         = before.q6 - after.q5           (times/week reduced)
```

Average these across all completed pairs per group (A and B separately, then
combined) and drop them straight into `metrics-tracker-template.csv`.