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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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Post by roel_v »

guerda wrote: post #15

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).

This was one of my main goals too (having/managing a set of known-good recipes and some way to be reminded of which ones we should come back to), and I tried many digital-only methods, but none stuck. For the past few years my strategy for this is offline-first. I have a bunch of recipes in 'enhanced Markdown' (Markdown with my own additions, very similar to Cooklang that was on here a few days ago, but that didn't exist when I started my software) and a script to make a pdf out of those recipes (a nice looking pdf, I bought some 'cookbook templates' off etsy or something similar). I print that and keep recipes in a binder, annotate on paper, and every now and then I go back and work my notes into the Markdown recipes then re-render and re-print the pdf.

Then, when I do meal planning (usually in the weekend, depends on when we have a slot for grocery delivery) we (as a family) look through the table of contents of our family recipe book/binder and we usually eat (per week) 2 to 3 recipes from there, 1 or 2 from the 'we should try these' sources (printed recipes we come across, our newspaper has recipes daily, pinterest boards, youtube videos, ...) and 1 or 2 nights we have leftovers or takeout.

This planning ties in with an offline-first grocery shopping/meal planning system that revolves around a cork board with laundry pegs to hold that weeks planning, which my children made/decorated when they were little.

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

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Post by beret4breakfast »

zakki wrote: post #2

I tried the demo but I didn’t find the meal planner. I mean let say I want to plan the meal for a month by choosing available recipe for each family member. Is it on the plan?

you need to login with the default un/pw at the top of the page

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

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Post by nkingsy »

_djo_ wrote: post #12

Not sure if it's intentional, probably not, but mealie is also the South African colloquial word for corn. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mealie

That’s funny I’ve only heard the term used to describe bad apples

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

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Post by addandsubtract »

beret4breakfast wrote: post #22
zakki wrote: post #2

I tried the demo but I didn’t find the meal planner. I mean let say I want to plan the meal for a month by choosing available recipe for each family member. Is it on the plan?

you need to login with the default un/pw at the top of the page

I'm logged in, can see the recipes and other user created meal plan pages, but don't see any way to create my own.

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

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Post by technothrasher »

_djo_ wrote: post #12

Not sure if it's intentional, probably not, but mealie is also the South African colloquial word for corn. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mealie

I started reading a bunch of 19th century safari books recently and it took me a while to figure out what the heck they were talking about lugging about all those "mealies". It obviously was some kind of staple food, and it finally dawned on me they were dried ears of corn.

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

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Post by MandieD »

pratio wrote: post #4

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?

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

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Post by dag11 »

guerda wrote: post #15

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).

For a good chunk of the pandemic I used PlateJoy which did just this. You gave it preferences, and it told you what meals you were going to make that week and a consolidated shopping list.

I enjoyed it a lot, but eventually my life got too busy to cook that often and I was growing slightly tired of the recipes, plus they got acquired so I don't know what their future holds. But maybe you'd find them valuable?

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