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Mealie

Material design inspired recipe manager with category and tag management, shopping-lists, meal-planner, and site customizations. Mealie is focused on simple user interactions to keep the whole family using the app.

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Product Overview Mealie is a self-hosted recipe manager and meal planner that offers a comprehensive solution for managing recipes, meal planning, and shopping lists. The application features a RestAPI backend and a reactive frontend built in Vue for an intuitive user experience. With Mealie, users can easily add recipes to their database by providing URLs or using the UI editor.

Main Features

  • Recipe Management: Import recipes from various sources using the built-in recipe scraper or create new ones using the UI editor.
  • Meal Planner: Create meal plans for the week, month, or year and schedule notifications with third-party services using webhooks.
  • Shopping Lists: Generate shopping lists based on your meal plan to help you plan your grocery trips.
  • User Management: Add users with sign-up links or create new ones in the admin panel. Manage groups and share recipes and meal plans within the family.
  • Rich User Interface: Enjoy a beautiful and intuitive user interface for creating, editing, and deleting recipes.
  • Automatic Backups: Keep your data safe with automatic backups in any format supported by Jinja2 templates.

By self-hosting Mealie, users have full control over their recipe management and meal planning experience. With its simple user interactions, Mealie is designed to be accessible for the whole family.