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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 want to make a plug for Grocy[0] which has recipes and meal planning, but its core feature is inventory. It's a lot of work to get going, but if you keep a lot of non-perishable and frozen food it can help a lot with tracking what needs to be eaten and what you have. [0] https://grocy.info/

Damn! Now I discovered a new rabbit hole I want to enter, and I don't know if I really like it!

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

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If one of these recipe apps integrates the diagrams from Cooking For Engineers, it'll be perfect. Example: http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/268/Buffalo-Chicke...

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

I read an interview where the website maintainer said they create the tables manually in HTML, but I’m not sure if that’s still the case.

It would be cool to generate them from some sort of dependency list.

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

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I've been using (and even built!) recipe organizers and complex meal planners for about a decade now. Recently I decided, screw it, and just powered up a little self-hosted wiki. Now I have a section for all the meals that we like to make, that everyone likes to eat and I copy/paste them in.

The epiphany was that 99% of the recipes I was storing were crap and I was wasting my time with a dedicated system. The wiki has about a dozen recipes now, with a new one getting added once a month, tops. It's really not so much work that I need a dedicated app just for recipes. Plus, wikis have really good change tracking, so I'm able to make little modifications without worrying about losing access to the original.

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

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When I started cooking I thought I needed something like this -- but what I found was that when keeping a recipe collection, over time I ended up with 10 different recipes for roasted brussels sprouts with different flavors mixed in and had slight variations on the basic technique. What I actually ended up wanting as I cooked more was to keep track of the basic technique I used when I made really good roasted brussels sprouts, along with a bunch of notes different variations or flavors to use with that technique, rather than a bunch of individual recipes.

Personally, I've found switching to using something like Notion or Evernote as more of a cooking 'notebook' than a recipe collection -- where you are not forced into traditional recipe structure for each page -- has worked really well for keeping track of stuff like this.

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

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People who are interested in this may also be interested in Cooklang, a simple plain-text markdown format for recipes: https://cooklang.org/ -- doesn't get much easier than that.

Oh man, if this rendering was somehow integrated into Wiki.js, it would be a perfect storm. I may have to look into how to do that.

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.

Nice recipes and photos! Is your config publicly available, as in, how you went from their docker-compose to a snazzy subdomain behind https? Or did you use SWAG for the reverse proxy?

Hey there, Yes, I'm using SWAG, it has the mealie proxy-conf available. I just renamed it to my domain and that's it. My config isn't public at the moment but I'm working towards it.

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.

Upvoting just for having proper Toum at the top of the recents :) Kudos for knowing what Keshik is too! Also thanks for sharing - there are a bunch of cool recipes there.

Thanks, I've been able to focus on my cooking and I've fallen in love with the cuisine.

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

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Another very similar alternative is https://docs.tandoor.dev I have been using it for the last months with family and friends and it works great as well.

Tandoor also looks interesting. Could you take a quick look at mealie and make a comparison between the two?

Not a head to head comparison, but having used many different recipe managers, Tandoor is the one I landed on. I think the ability to colocate ingredients alongside steps is very helpful for longer recipes.

Demo recipe screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/ZUeTQ8C.png

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

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post #34

I want to make a plug for Grocy[0] which has recipes and meal planning, but its core feature is inventory. It's a lot of work to get going, but if you keep a lot of non-perishable and frozen food it can help a lot with tracking what needs to be eaten and what you have. [0] https://grocy.info/

Oh wow. So I recently built something similar for my own needs[0]. It's strictly mobile right now, but it serves my needs to get reminders on when things are about to go bad. Will have to dig into this app to see if I can integrate it

[0] https://grocerytimer.app

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