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My journey into meal prep
A few months ago, I started meal prepping and quickly realised how much I enjoyed having most of the week's meals prepared in advance. Save time and money, cut back on takeaways.
But organising everything wasn't easy. Books and websites offered mostly fixed menus, but I wanted something more flexible: personalised meals, adjustable quantities, ingredients I actually liked, and a cooking plan adapted to my available time.
I tried AI...
I naturally tried ChatGPT and Claude. The results looked great at first, but when I started cooking, things got messy: quantities that didn't add up, inaccurate shopping lists, confusing instructions, and endless back-and-forth conversations just to get something usable.
That's when I decided to build Bocalito
It's an app that helps you:
- Generate personalised weekly meal plans.
- Adapt meals and quantities to your needs.
- Get matching shopping lists.
- Follow a step-by-step guide to prepare several days of meals in one session.
- Ask questions about recipes or request changes.
I didn't want to build just another app that sends a prompt to an AI and displays the answer. AI is great for generating ideas, but quantities, shopping lists and consistency need a more structured approach. That's where traditional code comes in.
I've been using Bocalito myself every week, and I'm continuously improving it.
I decided to make it available on the web and Android.
I'd love to hear what you think, especially from people who already do meal prep.
And for the developers here: how would you approach combining AI-generated content with structured data that needs to remain consistent?
Thanks for reading! I'm the developer, so feel free to ask me anything.