Meal planner and grocery budget

Plan the meals once and let the shopping list follow.

Fill breakfast, lunch and dinner across the week from your own meal library. The app scales servings, totals the planned spend and groups every ingredient into a shopping list by aisle.

One-time purchase Works offline Seven days and three meal slots No account
Meal Planner dashboard showing a complete seven-day breakfast, lunch and dinner plan with £90.20 planned grocery spend against a £100 budget

The actual light-mode week plan, shown with the example household.

The week, the list and the budget

Change one meal and update everything connected to it

The week plan is the source of truth. Planned cost and shopping quantities follow the meals and servings selected.

Week plan

Fill 21 meal slots

Plan breakfast, lunch and dinner across seven days, replace a meal or add a one-off without leaving the grid.

Meal library

Keep the meals you actually cook

Store ingredients, aisle, servings, rough cost, tags and notes, with favourites and a starter library of editable UK meals.

Servings

Scale the plan for the people eating

Choose how many you are cooking for when placing a meal and scale the spend and ingredient quantities proportionally.

Budget

See the planned grocery spend

Compare the week with an editable grocery budget and see the amount left or the amount over before shopping.

Shopping list

Build the aisle list automatically

Merge duplicate ingredients, show which meals need them and add any one-off item that is not part of the plan.

Saved weeks

Reuse a plan without overwriting the current one

Save a named week, apply it later and fill only empty slots, or copy last week forward in the same way.

Meal Planner meals library showing saved meals, filters, tags, favourites and per-meal costs

Your own meal library

Find a meal by type, ingredient or tag

The library keeps reusable meals separate from the calendar, so recipes can be edited once and placed in as many weeks as needed.

  • Breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack types
  • Favourite meals float to the top
  • Quick, freezer, batch, budget, kids and vegetarian tags
  • Per-meal cost or optional ingredient pricing
  • Search names and ingredients

A list organised for the shop

See what to buy and what is already in the cupboard

Ingredients from the selected week are merged by aisle, with the source meals kept visible.

  • Tick items off while shopping
  • Mark staples as already owned
  • Exclude already-owned items from copy and print
  • Add a one-off item manually
  • Set aisle order to match the supermarket route
Meal Planner shopping list grouped by aisle with tick-off and already-have controls

One connected week

Keep the plan and the grocery total in step

The app does not maintain a second shopping list that can drift away from the meals.

  • Planned meals generate the ingredients
  • Servings change quantities and spend
  • Deleted meals disappear from the derived list
  • One-off shopping items remain available
  • Copy and print leave out items marked already owned
  • Print the meal plan separately for the fridge

How it works

Download it once and open it in your browser

No installation, app store or account is required.

Build the meal library

Add your regular meals or start with the included editable examples.

Plan the week

Choose a meal for each slot and adjust the servings for the people eating.

Shop from the generated list

Review the spend, mark cupboard items, add extras and print or copy what remains.

Private by design

Your meals and grocery figures stay on your device

The planner runs locally in your browser. It has no account, cloud database or analytics, and it does not upload meals, ingredients, plans or budget figures.

It does not import recipes or fetch live supermarket prices. Export a JSON backup when you want to move the meal library and saved weeks.

Frequently asked

Before you buy

Which computers and browsers does it work on?

It works on Windows, Mac and Linux computers in a modern version of Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox.

Does it include recipes?

It includes a starter library of common UK meals, but it is not a recipe book. Every example is editable and you can add your own meals, ingredients, costs and notes.

Does it calculate calories or nutrition?

No. It is a meal and grocery-budget planner, not a calorie, macro or nutrition tracker.

Can it import recipes or supermarket prices?

No. The app is offline and does not scrape websites or connect to retailers. You enter the prices you want to use.

What happens when I change the servings?

The placed meal cost and ingredient quantities are scaled from the meal library serving size. You can update the servings again after the meal is on the week plan.

Can I print the plan and shopping list?

Yes. The week prints as a clean seven-day grid, and the shopping list has its own print view that excludes items marked as already owned.

What is included in the download?

The single-file Meal Planner & Grocery Budget app, a quick-start guide, and licence and support details. Etsy delivers the download after purchase.

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