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Who is enjoying good success with Mealie's Meal planner? Does anyone have advice on how to tighten up the rules? I don't quite have as many queries as the Kodi or navidrome smart playlist function to (demo.mealie.io)
submitted 5 days ago by fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I am using home assistant as the trigger, telling mealie to add random meal plans for X amount of days. One for a dinner and two sides.

All that is left is to have mealie's rules set up a little better, or perhaps tag food in new ways i haven't thought of yet.

either way, who else out there is enjoying having mealie take some decision paralysis off their hands?

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[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I mostly use it to track (and tweak) recipes that are safe for me with my food allergies, and from that perspective its great. Despite having all kinds of options to OCR recipes, import them, whatever, my wife just... hasn't bothered.

So I haven't really used the meal planner yet, I need to get her using it more often :)

[–] jabeez@lemmy.today 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

options to OCR recipes

Is this in app, or an add-on or something? Haven't seen it, have been using Mealie for a while, this would be awesome!

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Native feature

Works with any openai compatible endpoint, I use local ollama on an m2 mac mini (I still need to move things over to llama.cpp fully on there). It can also do audio transcriptions for a video, though I only use it for images (usually a screenshot of something my wife got sent by a friend that came from instagram or whatever).

[–] jabeez@lemmy.today 2 points 4 days ago

Ah, thanks, never even really looked further than AI.

[–] fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip 2 points 5 days ago

OH this is excellent use case!

similar boat here, wife forgets about mealie sometimes.

I will try to contribute to your wiki!