IBD-friendly meal planner

Overview

A recipe collector and meal planner app that helps you gather recipes from all sorts of sources, adapt them to your nutritional goals, and plan meals for the whole family—taking into account everyone’s different needs. It’s a personal side project.

Approach

This project started from a personal need—planning weekly meals for my family takes too much time, and existing tools don’t really solve it. So I’m building my own and seeing if it could help others too.

The MVP is a recipe collector: paste any recipe, it gets parsed with natural language recognition, and you can adjust it for nutrition, household needs, and generate a shopping list.

Long-term, I want to pull recipes from different sources, replace Trello, and plan meals based on time, recent meals, and what’s in the fridge. And just as important—it should be joyful to use, with beautiful illustrations, a warm tone, and fun microinteractions.

Solution

It’s still work in progress! I’m building it on weekends, using the project to explore new front-end tools while working toward something that saves me (and maybe others) time every week.