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

> grocery shopping.

Is there a highly configurable app for sorting groceries? I’m currently using the pro version of copymethat [0], and it does a decent job of figuring out what aisles certain products belong to, and then let me sort those aisles however I want.

But what I can’t do, is telling it that I don’t have "eggs & dairy" but instead those are two sections in different places (and still properly sorting). I also can’t save separate orders for the aisles, one REWE has aisles sorted X Y Z, the other might be X Z Y. And I also want it to know about some local brands. "Deit" (German no sugar soda) gets currently sorted into "Other" by default, while I want it to be in "Beverages"

I even tried to make something like that myself, but besides my lack of knowledge of ML, I also had issues getting the proper data in a clean format, I ended up having to create a 100 item dataset which then (either in general or because I didn’t know what I was doing) was not enough to get good results.

[0]: https://copymethat.com/

A theory: recipes are algorithms (and datastructures), and every human programmer -- and all their friends and family -- have to eat. So there's a reasonable likelihood that programmers will (consciously or unconsciously) pattern match that and develop systems to assist.

If I remember correctly, Doug Engelbart's Demo[1] included a feature to organize a shopping list.

And the history of Elasticsearch[2] also began with recipes.

[1] - https://www.dougengelbart.org/content/view/209/448/

[2] - https://www.elastic.co/about/history-of-elasticsearch

What I really would like is a recommendation engine for me personally. Basically: This is what you could cook today (you haven't cooked this for a long time, but like it or so).

Tandoor also looks interesting.

Could you take a quick look at mealie and make a comparison between the two?

That's quite an interesting system. Is it a specific markup language being used to generate or store them?