A weekly meal planner that builds your grocery list

The problem

Planning dinners is one job and writing the grocery list is another, and the two rarely line up. Ingredients get copied by hand, duplicates pile up (three recipes, three onions), and something always gets forgotten. Generic meal apps can feel built for someone else, with paywalls, ads, or recipes you will never cook. You want your own meals, your own staples, and a list that appears without retyping.

What we’d build

• •A week view where you assign meals to each day and save the plan.
• •A recipe library of your own meals, with ingredients and quantities.
• •An auto-built grocery list that merges duplicate items and lets you check things off.
• •A staples list so items you always have at home stay off the list.
• •One integration: email the finished grocery list to yourself or a partner.

A concrete example

A family of four wants dinners planned Sunday night. We build four screens: a week view, a recipe library, a grocery list, and a staples list. They enter about 15 regular recipes with ingredients. Each week they drop recipes onto days, and the grocery list combines quantities across meals (two recipes that need onions become one line). Staples like salt and olive oil are skipped. A button emails the list to both parents. Access is through a private link with no logins, and the plan and recipes are saved so they are there next week. We then apply two rounds of tweaks, such as regrouping the list by store section.

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