Overview
What the project is designed to do
A local-first pantry and meal-planning product that turns reviewed ingredients into recipe discovery, exactly three explainable meal proposals, a private saved library, and a practical weekly plan.
The complete experience works without secrets using eight original recipes, deterministic proposals, local pantry state, and JSON portability.
Optional TheMealDB discovery, image assistance, and AI Gateway generation enhance the product without autonomously changing the pantry or plan.
Problem
What needed to change
Meal-planning tools can require accounts, upload household data, or hide how suggestions were produced before users can get practical value.
Solution
How the release responds
Keep pantry, saved recipes, ratings, notes, and plans in the browser; make every assisted result reviewable; and provide deterministic proposals when external services are absent.
Key features
What visitors can use
- Local pantry with import and export
- Recipe search and optional catalogue discovery
- Exactly three reviewable meal proposals
- Private saved recipes, ratings, and notes
- Seven-day meal plan and shopping list
Implementation
How it was built
- 01
A dependency-free generator produces 20 canonical documents.
- 02
Four functions expose health, optional recipe discovery, proposal generation, and image assistance.
- 03
Input limits, ingredient review, deterministic fallbacks, and scoped storage keep optional assistance controlled.
Architecture
Delivery shape
Static generated pages and versioned local state form the base product, with four narrow Vercel Functions for optional external assistance.
Product boundary
What this release does not claim
- No accounts, database, billing, cloud pantry, public recipe publishing, analytics, or ads
- No nutrition, allergen, medical, or autonomous pantry-mutation claims
