Meal Planner & Pantry

Answer "what's for dinner?" once a week. A meal planner plans menus from what's actually in the pantry, keeps taste memory, and the grocery list writes itself.

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Meal Planner & Pantry running in your browser on sample data. Use the page, or talk with the meal planner beside it: the conversation is scripted for this preview, and the changes stay in the page.

What’s inside

The crew

Meal Planner Crew leadA practical meal planner who answers "what's for dinner?" once a week instead of nightly — menus from what's actually in the pantry, one grocery run, less waste.

Plans it follows

Plan the Week's DinnersTurn the pantry's real state into a planned week of dinners and one grocery list: check what is stocked, low, and out, plan seven dinners that use what is on hand and fit the household's tastes and schedule, write the menu onto the week, and produce a grocery list that covers the gaps.

Actions the crew can take

Set menuSave a day's dinner to the kitchen board (day: monday..sunday).
Pantry addAdd a pantry staple to the board, or set its level if it is already there (stocked, low, or out).
Pantry levelChange a staple's level on the board as the kitchen changes (stocked, low, or out).
Kitchen statusTonight's dinner, the open days, what's in stock, and the grocery gap.
Grocery listThe shopping run: everything low or out.

Each action is a small script that changes the app’s files, checked by Gezel’s security settings before it runs.

Files it keeps

Plain files in the project folder you can open, back up, and read: menu.json, pantry.json.

Start one

Download Gezel for Mac, Windows or Linux. It’s free.
Choose New project, then Home & Family, then Meal Planner & Pantry.
Answer its question: Who eats here?
Your meal planner takes it from there, on the model you choose.