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Plan the week before the week bites back.
The Meal Planner is the kitchen counterpart to our homestead — a small, calm app for thinking about dinner once a week instead of seven times a week at 5 p.m. with the freezer hanging open.
A whole week, on one screen
One plan, seven dinners, zero arguments.
Each day gets a meal — pulled from your saved recipes or a quick free-text note. Copy last week as a starting point, swap in a couple of new ideas, and the week is planned in five minutes.
Once the plan is set, the shopping list is one tap away.
Pantry-aware
Cook from what's already on the shelf.
The shopping list and the pantry talk to each other. You only buy what you actually need, and you can plan meals around what's about to come out of the freezer.
What it does
Useful, small, calm.
Plan the week before it bites back
Drag recipes onto days, mark leftover nights, copy last week and tweak. The plan becomes the shopping list — not a separate thing you have to maintain.
Recipes with diet tags
Save recipes once. Filter by diet (Keto, Carnivore, and the rest), tag, or search by name. Import recipes from a URL or starter pack instead of retyping them.
Pantry that actually knows what's on the shelf
Track what's in the pantry, freezer, and canning shelf, with low-stock thresholds. The shopping list factors in what you already have, so you're not buying another bottle of cumin.
Shopping list that thinks in aisles
Items grouped by section so you're not crisscrossing the store. There's a dedicated shop mode for when you're actually in HEB and the cart is squeaking.
Multi-week planning
Generate a shopping list for this week — or this week and next, together — so a Costco run actually covers fourteen days of dinners.
Print-friendly view
A clean printout of the week's plan for the fridge, because not every member of the household runs on an iPhone.
Import & export your data
Bring in recipes you already have. Export your plans, recipes, and pantry whenever you want. Your kitchen, your data.
No accounts to sell, no ads to dodge
It's a planning tool, not a content platform. We're not interested in sponsored chicken thighs.
Built for ourselves
From our kitchen to yours.
The Meal Planner is the app we use in our own kitchen on the homestead. It's shared carefully — no ads, no upsells, no chicken-of-the-month club. If it helps another household stop fighting with dinner, that's plenty.