Meal planner for the week with shopping list integration

[Qwekkeboom]

I am currently using an app called recipe keeper which is quite nice and has a lot of the features this project has. However, one feature this project lacks is a meal planner. I would like to be able to have an overview of the next few day or week where I can plan ahead what i will eat. This can also be linked to the shopping list so you can plan your meal, add all to the shopping list, review and go shop for your groceries.

[daviddehoog]

I'm new to cookcli and to cooklang generally.

I think some of this functionality is available in the cookcli server, though it's perhaps not clearly advertised.

If you create/put a .cook file under the base recipes directory then it should appear in the cookcli server web interface, alongside the sub folders and individual recipes. If the .cook file includes a meal plan for today's date, the server web interface will also highlight that at the top of the page. You can see examples of these in some of the screenshots in the documentation in the repository.

Each .cook meal plan then appears as a consolidated, single item in the shopping list bit of the web interface.

You can edit existing .cook files using the server web interface too. (I haven't tried using the "Add recipe" feature to create a .cook file, yet.

[dubadub]

Yes, that's correct. If file has a '*.menu' extension it will be recognised as a meal plan. Essentially it's the same Cooklang format, but apps render it differently.

[dubadub]

Here's an example file https://github.com/dubadub/cookbook/blob/main/Plans/3%20Day%20Plan%20XIV.menu#L5

[daviddehoog]

Just bringing across relevant bit of discussion from 380:

I was imagining adding recipes to a shopping list using the web interface, and then having a button to "save" that collection as a .menu file. (So essentially, compiling a .menu file with the web interface recipe selections, rather than marking up a .menu file manually through text input.) Then, the .menu file would be saved and I could open it and convert it to a shopping list again, based on the current pantry at another time.