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Plan meals around the household you actually have.

An archived iPhone meal-planning prototype exploring short plans, household preferences, available effort and food that needed using. This page records the original product direction.

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Plantry combines food that needs using, available cooking effort and household preferences to propose tonight's plan.

TONIGHT'S PLAN

  • Use firstSpinach · 2 days
  • Effort25 minutes
  • PreferenceFamily favourite
Plantry on an iPhone showing a three-day household meal plan and a prompt to plan tonight's dinner.

WHY THIS EXISTS

A technically perfect meal plan can still be useless by Tuesday.

Meal planning breaks when it ignores energy, leftovers and the people around the table. Plantry treats the plan as a short household forecast, then learns from what was cooked, skipped or changed.

A useful plan adapts to the household instead of asking the household to obey it.

A SHORT, ADAPTIVE LOOP

Plan a few days. Cook what works. Teach the next plan.

The product keeps the planning horizon deliberately small, so a changed evening does not wreck an entire month.

  1. 01

    Read the household

    Preferences, available effort, seasonality and food that needs using.

  2. 02

    Propose 2–7 days

    Build a plan short enough to stay realistic and useful.

  3. 03

    Hand off shopping

    Put the resulting list into Apple Reminders.

  4. 04

    Learn what happened

    Use cooked, skipped and changed meals to shape the next plan.

HOW IT IS BEING BUILT

The household model comes before recipe volume.

The first prototypes focus on the decisions that make a plan usable: who is eating, how much effort is available, what should be used soon and what changed last time. The recipe catalogue can grow after that loop earns trust.

Household first
Preferences and constraints belong to the people, not a generic meal plan.
Native handoff
Shopping moves into Reminders instead of becoming another list to maintain.
Feedback over streaks
Cooked, skipped and changed are useful signals, not failure states.

WHERE TO GET IT  /  PRODUCT R&D

Plantry is archived. The work continues in Loami.

Plantry was an iPhone prototype exploring household meal planning. It is retained here as the starting point for Loami, which now includes household recipes and Movie Night.

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