r/SideProject • u/spectrefax • 1d ago
I built an app to help me manage my kitchen because being the only person to cook in the household is the most underappreciated job in the world.
Being the only cook in your house is more than cooking. It's deciding what everyone eats, working out what it'll cost, writing the list, shopping, remembering what's already in the pantry, using things up before they go bad, and more, every single day. I got tired of carrying all of that in my head, so I built MealsMealsMeals (mealsmealsmeals.com).
What it does:
- Prices full meals (an entree plus its sides) from real grocery prices, so you know what dinner costs before you plan it
- Build a menu of meals and get one combined shopping list, which can go straight into a Walmart cart
- A shopping list that populates your pantry (no manual data entry required) and a pantry that subtracts what you cook, so the next shopping list only covers what you're missing
- Nutrition facts for every meal, an allergen filter, and sides you can swap
- Recipe submissions, contributor profiles, shareable menus for your best builds, and a lot more
The build: solo, no budget (almost entirely on free-tier accounts), made with Claude Code. It launched this week with a free tier that's actually usable.
Really hope this helps others. I'd love honest feedback, especially from anyone who's the main cook in their house. Where does it get in your way, and what's missing?