Weekly Meal Plan

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Weekly Meal Plan

A week of dishes, turned into one list of ingredients.

It runs entirely in this browser tab: nothing you type is uploaded, and every figure it gives says whether it is arithmetic or a rule of thumb.

What it takes

A line with a colon starts a dish and is named by what comes before it; every line after that is an ingredient and a quantity.

An example

Monday: chilli
chicken thighs 600
rice 300
tinned tomatoes 800
onions 200

Wednesday: soup
carrots 500
onions 200
stock 1000
bread 400

Friday: pasta
pasta 500
tinned tomatoes 400
cheese 150

Settings

People
A number from 1 to 20.
The recipe is written for
How many the recipe as written feeds. A number from 1 to 20.
Group by
Choices: Aisle, Dish, Name.
Show the week
On or off. Starts on.
Combine repeated ingredients
On or off. Starts on.

How to use it

  1. Paste your text into the box above, or open a file.
  2. Adjust the settings beside it until the result is what you wanted.
  3. Copy the result, or save it as a file. The result updates as you type.

Questions

Is my recipe uploaded anywhere?
No. The whole application is carried as WebAssembly and runs on your own device. There is no server to send anything to, and none of these tools makes a network request while it works.
Why does it ask me for the calories instead of knowing them?
Because a food table large enough to be useful is larger than this whole application, goes out of date, and differs by country and by brand. The figures on the packet in front of you describe what you are actually cooking; a table would describe something like it.
Is the cooking time safe?
It is a starting point. Roasting times depend on the shape of the joint, how cold it went in and how honest the oven is, and none of those is a number this tool has. The safe internal temperature is printed beside every time for exactly that reason: a thermometer decides, and the clock only says when to check.
Why do some of the tools refuse a number I asked for?
Because the answer would have been unsafe or meaningless. The fermentation tool will not go below the salt concentration the published guidance sets, and the tools that divide by a portion refuse a portion of nothing rather than printing an infinity.

Other tools for planning and cost

Cost per Serving
What a plate costs, and the difference between margin and markup.

Shopping List
A list grouped the way a shop is laid out, and totalled.

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