Mealie – a self-hosted recipe manager and meal planner with a RestAPI back end

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  • mealie

    Mealie is a self hosted recipe manager and meal planner with a RestAPI backend and a reactive frontend application built in Vue for a pleasant user experience for the whole family. Easily add recipes into your database by providing the url and mealie will automatically import the relevant data or add a family recipe with the UI editor

  • cookcli

    Command line program which provides a suite of tools to create shopping lists and maintain recipes.

  • People who are interested in this may also be interested in Cooklang, a simple plain-text markdown format for recipes: https://cooklang.org/ -- doesn't get much easier than that.

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  • Recipes

    Application for managing recipes, planning meals, building shopping lists and much much more!

  • Another very similar alternative is https://docs.tandoor.dev

    I have been using it for the last months with family and friends and it works great as well.

  • awesome-selfhosted

    A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers

  • If you are looking for more selfhosted apps, checkout

    1. https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted

    2. https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

  • RecipeSage

    A Collaborative Recipe Keeper, Meal Planner, and Shopping List Organizer in PWA form.

  • grocy

    ERP beyond your fridge - Grocy is a web-based self-hosted groceries & household management solution for your home

  • I want to make a plug for Grocy[0] which has recipes and meal planning, but it's core feature is inventory. It's a lot of work to get going, but if you keep a lot of non-perishable and frozen food it can help a lot with tracking what needs to be eaten and what you have.

    [0]https://grocy.info/

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