Self-Hosted Meal & Recipe Planning
Replaces: Paprika, Plan to Eat, Mealime, grocery app subscriptions
Self-host Mealie to manage recipes, plan meals, and generate shopping lists from your own pantry inventory.
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Phase
First Self-Hosting — needs server/hardware, 2-4h
General
Self-hosted recipe manager with meal planning, shopping lists, and pantry tracking.
- Mealie: Python/Docker, web UI. Import recipes from any URL with a single click (scrape and parse automatically). Meal planning calendar, shopping list generation, pantry inventory with on-hand flags.
- Agent integration: Hermes food-agent skill provides natural language queries ("What can I make with what I have?"), meal suggestions based on pantry contents, automated shopping list generation, and neighborhood restaurant guidance.
- API: Full REST API for recipes, meal plans, shopping lists — agent can read, create, and modify entries programmatically.
- Trade-off: Requires a running server. Recipe scraping may need manual fixes for some sites. No integration with online grocery ordering (by design — that would send your data to a third party).
- Mealie: Python/Docker, web UI. Import recipes from any URL with a single click (scrape and parse automatically). Meal planning calendar, shopping list generation, pantry inventory with on-hand flags.
- Agent integration: Hermes food-agent skill provides natural language queries ("What can I make with what I have?"), meal suggestions based on pantry contents, automated shopping list generation, and neighborhood restaurant guidance.
- API: Full REST API for recipes, meal plans, shopping lists — agent can read, create, and modify entries programmatically.
- Trade-off: Requires a running server. Recipe scraping may need manual fixes for some sites. No integration with online grocery ordering (by design — that would send your data to a third party).
Deployment
Self-Hosted
Mealie (self-hosted recipe manager + meal planning)
Prerequisites
file-sync, backup-strategy