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A meal-prep grocery list that starts at the shop, not the stove

Grocery Planner · free · no signup

The free part is the shopping list, not the recipes

Meal prep gets sold as a recipes problem — five identical containers, five identical photos on someone's feed — when the actual bottleneck for most people is Sunday's supermarket trip. A meal-prep grocery list is worth more upfront than any recipe, because you can't prep five days of lunches without first buying for five days of lunches, and buying badly ruins the batch before the oven's even on.

The Grocery Planner's meal-prep basket does exactly that part for free: set your targets and it builds a shopping list plus a full nutrition analysis for the week, sized so a batch actually holds together rather than just looking neat in containers. Worth being upfront about the split, though: the AI that turns that basket into written-out meal-prep recipes is a paid step on top (Basic and above), while the basket and its analysis — which is actually most of the work — are free. Just try it, build the basket at no cost, and decide afterwards whether the recipes are worth paying for.

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Common questions

Is meal-prep grocery planning free?
The shopping basket and its nutrition analysis are free, no signup needed. Turning that basket into written-out AI recipes is a paid step on top; the free basket alone is enough to shop and prep from.
How much food should I buy for a week of meal prep?
Enough to hit your targets across every meal you're prepping, not just enough for one day repeated five times — portions creep without a plan. Set your targets above and the free basket sizes the shop for you.
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