About MealHuddle
Made by one family, for yours
I'm Grant: a cook, a father of three, and the person who builds MealHuddle. We're its heaviest users.
Why it exists
My wife and I have planned our meals together for over fifteen years. We never found an app for it. Most of them are built for one person, or for one parent running the kitchen alone, and we are two people who both like to cook, with three kids at the table. So we kept planning without one.
Then the kids arrived and the routine set in: the same meals, week after week, with little variety. That is normal with kids. But we wanted some variety back, and we wanted to remember what they liked and didn't like. Honestly, we wanted that for ourselves too.
MealHuddle is the app we wished we had. It helps a household plan together, lets everyone at the table rate a meal, makes it easy to adjust a recipe to your own tastes (we do it constantly), and lets you filter by difficulty and see what you've actually made. The point was to take the mental load out of planning and to keep a record of what we cooked.
It also opened the door to fun. Short Order is the night we hand the kids a menu and some coloring sheets and serve them like a restaurant. They loved it.
Who it's for
Households. One person can use MealHuddle, but the kind of planning it does works best with two or more people at the table: a couple who both cook, a family with kids who have opinions, a house that shares the shopping.
MealHuddle is the app we wished we had.
Where it's going
Three things I want it to become over the next year or so.
Planning that remembers for you
Fill a week from the meals your household liked and hasn't had in a while, so the routine stops being the same meals every week. It is hard to know what was a hit, what was a dud, and when you last had it. The app should remember.
Cooking for a family on a real budget
The costs are different when you cook for five. Some nights are worth a splurge; other nights we just want cheap and fast. The plan should know the difference.
A test kitchen at home
I'm a cook at heart. I want to create dishes from scratch, as a challenge and for the joy of it, with a notebook that keeps the flavor notes, the opinions and what to try next. The Recipe Notebook is the first piece of that.
See the Recipe Notebook
How it's funded, and what I promise
By me. MealHuddle started as a passion project for my family, and I share it with others. I work on it on my own, with help from friends who have an eye for design or product, and with heavy input from my wife and kids.
Most people use MealHuddle for free, and that costs something to run. If you find it useful, paying for Pro is a way to show it. I priced Pro as low as I could while still supporting the app. When you pay, you keep MealHuddle free for others, and you show me the work is appreciated. You are supporting a very small business, not a big one.
I'm not a big business, and I'm not looking to sell your data. When I use other apps I'm as concerned about privacy as anyone, and I believe software should be made with empathy for the person using it, not with an eye on how to squeeze every dollar out of them.
- Your data is always yours, private to you and the people you choose to share it with.
- No ads, and nothing about you is sold to anyone.
- You can export your recipes, plans and lists any time, from Settings.
Say hello
Questions, bugs, ideas: use the Feedback button in the app (the speech bubble at the top). This is not a normal app; what you write there comes straight to me.
I hope to keep this going for a long time. I enjoy it. Thank you for cooking with it.
Grant
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Free for every household. Pro is there when you want it.
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