Self-Host Mealie: Recipe Manager | TinyPod

Mealie is a self-hosted recipe manager and meal planner. Import recipes from any URL, plan meals, and generate shopping lists.

What Is Mealie?

Mealie is a recipe manager that lets you:

Import recipes from any website with one click

Organize recipes in cookbooks and categories

Plan meals for the week

Generate shopping lists from planned meals

Share recipes with family

Why Self-Host Recipes?

Recipe websites are full of ads and life stories before the actual recipe

Bookmarked recipe pages disappear or change

No single app has all your recipes

Cloud recipe apps often have premium tiers

Features

Recipe Import

Paste a URL from any recipe website. Mealie extracts:

Ingredients list

Instructions

Cooking time

Servings

Nutritional information (if available)

Photos

No more scrolling past a 2,000-word essay about someone's grandmother to find the ingredient list.

Meal Planning

Drag recipes onto a weekly calendar

Repeat favorite meals

Share the meal plan with your household

Shopping Lists

Generate from planned meals

Combine ingredients from multiple recipes

Check off items as you shop

Manual additions for non-recipe items

Cookbooks

Group recipes into themed cookbooks:

Quick Weeknight Dinners

Holiday Recipes

Baking

Meal Prep

Multi-User

Family members get their own accounts

Shared recipes and meal plans

Different permissions per user

Deployment

1. Deploy Mealie on TinyPod

2. Start importing recipes from your favorite websites

3. Organize into cookbooks

4. Plan your first week of meals

5. Generate a shopping list

Resources: 1 CPU, 512 MB RAM.

API

Mealie has a full API. Integrate with:

Home automation (display today's recipe on a kitchen screen)

Grocery delivery services

Custom shopping list apps

Self-Hosting Mealie: Recipe and Meal Planning