Does anyone self-host any recipe/meal planner/shopping list software? I’ve been looking at Tandoor or Mealie but I am not too sure which one will best serve my needs. I would really like to be able to go through my saved recipes, easily plan out a weeks worth of meals and have that exported to a shopping list of some kind.
Most of the discussion I could find online appears to be somewhat dated (2-3 years) and I know that can be a long time for some projects. Does anyone host either if these two programs and if so, which one did you choose and why? I’m open to any other projects that may be better for my use case. It would only be used on my located network and maybe accessed via tailscale occasionally. I’m fairly new to self-hosting but this is one thing that my partner was excited about. Thanks in advance!
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+1 for Mealie
Mealie +1
I’ve tried Mealie, Tandoor, Paprika and KitchenOwl. Mealie was by far the best looking, easiest to navigate and most convenient. They revamped the shopping list recently and it has replaced my old Google Keep method.
That’s good to hear that they are continuing to improve the program. I think Mealie looks the best to me too.
I use mealie exactly as your use case describes. We meal plan each week using the recipes I have saved in it and then create a shopping list of those items added to the meal plan. It works great and with docker has been easy to maintain. I used to use Nextcloud Cookbook but I like the UI of mealie better.
I think Grocy also has that functionality: grocy.info
u could prob find a way to do this with nextcloud i saw smth like this on fdroid for nextclouf
I like mealie for recipes. It has some shopping list planning but I haven’t used that.
Running it in docker is super easy.
I tried Tandoor and Mealie. Currently I use Mealie because Tandoor crapped it’s pants on me and I lost everything I had there, Mealie is simpler and allows export/import to JSON or similar so I can keep a backup that can be converted into any other format I want to.
That being said I don’t use the list feature, and we use Bring at home, so KitchenOwl mentioned here also seems like a good idea for lists and I might check it out.
For me it was KitchenOwl. It’s shopping list works and looks similar to Bring, which we had used before and made the transition for my wife easier.
