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Mealie – a self-hosted recipe manager and meal planner with a RestAPI back end

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Re: Mealie – a self-hosted recipe manager and meal planner with a RestAPI back end

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I love it, I'm hosting a version for me at https://food.modispub.com/

The recipe importer is great, I was using paprika but there's always the issue of sharing the recipe with your friends. Here, I can share the recipe where they don't even have to login. The UI is responsive on the phone and the collapsing steps feature is just great. I'm not using the shopping list and meal planner on a daily basis.

Re: Mealie – a self-hosted recipe manager and meal planner with a RestAPI back end

#5
This is so cool! Got it running locally and it has all the features that my girlfriend and I would need. We're usually doing this planning on paper and it's quite some time involvement to be fair. This can massively help. Thank you for the DB + API as well.

Re: Mealie – a self-hosted recipe manager and meal planner with a RestAPI back end

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Why do meal and recipe planners pop up here so frequently?

I think its finally time to convert your 'family recipes' book to your own database to share with the family.

And there aren't many good free solutions out there that are user-friendly and accessible everywhere easily. Desktop apps don't cut it anymore especially now that you want to share something in your family's chat group.

People have also started gathering/modifying their own recipes from sites all over, so importing recipes is becoming crucial, especially with certain diets and a personal plan.

Re: Mealie – a self-hosted recipe manager and meal planner with a RestAPI back end

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Why do meal and recipe planners pop up here so frequently?

It's a spicier version of ToDo app that you build to test out new stack. Sick of doing another todo app for learning experience, but this time with Rails+Vue instead of Symfony+React? Let's make a recipe site instead, this one has pictures!

I know, I've built one myself when learning new stack. Way more fun than todo app.

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