Mealie instead of Plan to Eat

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Collect recipes, plan the week and turn it into a shopping list, together with everyone in the household. Your recipes move over directly.

about €4.00 / month All the pricing details

What you get out of it

  • Your recipes come along from the export
  • Weekly plan and shopping list for the whole household
  • No subscription, the recipes live in your database

Plan to Eat and Podless

Plan to Eat and PodlessPlan to EatOn Podless
Where the data livesPlan to EatOn the provider’s serversOn PodlessIn your own instance in the EU
Source codePlan to EatNot open to readOn PodlessOpen, you can read what runs
Ads and profilingPlan to EatPer the provider’s termsOn PodlessNone
Your own domainPlan to EatUsually not offeredOn PodlessIncluded, certificate too
Getting out againPlan to EatAs far as the provider allowsOn PodlessSFTP, database, backups to your storage
If it gets shut downPlan to EatYou have to moveOn PodlessYou decide when you leave

Bringing your data over from Plan to Eat

Mealie has a dedicated migration for Plan to Eat. Upload the export there and the recipes land in your collection.

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