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Show HN: Meals You Love – AI-powered meal planning and grocery shopping

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Post by tylertreat »

Meals You Love is a meal planning app that creates weekly meal plans tailored to your tastes and dietary preferences. It integrates with Kroger and Instacart's APIs so you can add your meal plan groceries directly to your cart. You can also import your own recipes to include alongside AI suggestions.

I originally built this to help my wife with meal planning and grocery shopping. We were always struggling to decide what to make and inevitably forgot ingredients. Most meal planners felt too rigid or generic, and few handled the grocery side well (or at all). We've also used meal kits like Home Chef in the past but they end up being quite expensive and produce a comical amount of packaging waste, plus you still wind up needing to purchase groceries anyway. In all honesty, I also wanted an excuse to try building something "real" using AI and to see if it could be used in an actually useful manner.

Would love feedback from anyone interested in food, meal planning, or product design!

Tech stack:

- Cloud Run

- Firestore

- Vertex AI / Gemini

https://mealsyoulove.com

Show HN: Meals You Love – AI-powered meal planning and grocery shopping
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Post by yesfitz »

It would be helpful to have a step-by-step walkthrough on the site (video or screenshots). The "How It Works" section is a little vague to suit that bill.

I'm looking for both an example of what to expect and inspiration for how I could be eating with your service.

I'd also recommend focusing on the API integrations, and/or whatever other features separate elevate this beyond asking $LLM for a weekly meal plan and shopping list taking into account dietary preferences.

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Post by no_wizard »

How is this any different from say ollie.ai? This looks alot more like a funnel for grocery delivery combined with recipe database functionality not dissimilar from apps like Paprika.

The big push on the website from my impression is that its a funnel to Instacart or Kroger. Does it limit its recipes to whats in stock around me? How accurate is the stock levels shown in the app?

Are you only limited to Kroger or Instacart to see what groceries are required for a recipe?

I didn't see any outward showing of family sharing either, such as a meal calendar.

Can you speak to how it handles dealing with preferences, e.g. no gluten or seafood? This is critical in surfacing recipes, to me accuracy on this is very critical.

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Post by tylertreat »

yesfitz wrote: post #4

It would be helpful to have a step-by-step walkthrough on the site (video or screenshots). The "How It Works" section is a little vague to suit that bill. I'm looking for both an example of what to expect and inspiration for how I could be eating with your service. I'd also recommend focusing on the API integrations, and/or whatever other features separate elevate this beyond asking $LLM for a weekly meal plan and sh…

Totally agree on a video walkthrough, and it's on my list. I've mostly been putting it off because I'm not sure if I'm capable of making a polished enough presentation, which is a bad excuse.

Also 100% on messaging to differentiate from just using an LLM to do this yourself. This one feels a bit harder to me because I think it perhaps is not obvious until you get into the product and use it for a bit, though the integrations are a pretty good concrete example.

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Post by tylertreat »

soared wrote: post #6

I want to thank you for telling us Kroger has an API. This excites me.

It's actually a pretty decent API. I've hit some quirks with it, but for the most part works reasonably well overall. The best part about it was there were no hoops to jump through to start using it.

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Post by davidw »

soared wrote: post #6

I want to thank you for telling us Kroger has an API. This excites me.

Albertsons (and also Safeway) has a kind of hidden API that I use to pull all my grocery purchases into a Postgres DB in order to see what's what.

https://bsky.app/profile/davidwelton.bsky.social/post/3m34al...

Re: Show HN: Meals You Love – AI-powered meal planning and grocery shopping

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Post by mattmanser »

We really need this as my partner hates the idea of a regular meal plan, but then struggles every week to decide on a plan.

So I threw one together myself, but never quite finished it off, so very keen to use yours!

But the setup for this is overwhelming, so many forms. And then the meal plan is taking ages to generate.

I'd have bounced long ago if I was a normal person.

So it finally finished and I mentioned we regularly have a roast on Sunday, Monday or Tuesday and it decided to suggest a roast on Sunday and Tuesday.

Also image loading is very slow.

Think it's a great idea, generally looks pretty good, etc, just definitely look at the setup. I do think it pretty bloody slow though, and I'd love to switch meals, on mine you could just swipe left or right on a meal, it had actually generated 10 auggestions per day that you could rotate through to sorts customize it yourself. I didn't use AI on the fly though, I just had AI generated 1,000s of options up front and then randomized it.

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