Community Meal Plan Generator

Name: Community Meal Plan Generator
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Author: Free N8N

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Community Contributedautomationfoodmeal-planmealierecipesschedule

Automatically generates a weekly meal plan from your Mealie recipes.

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About This Workflow

Overview

This workflow fetches recipes from your Mealie instance and randomly selects a specified number of them to create a dinner meal plan for the upcoming days. It's designed to be a community-contributed template for efficient meal planning.

Key Features

Fetches recipes from Mealie API.
Randomly selects recipes for meal plan.
Supports filtering by recipe category.
Configurable number of recipes and offset days for the plan.
Can be scheduled to run automatically.

How To Use

Import this workflow into your n8n instance.
Set up a "Mealie Header Auth" credential with your Mealie API token.
In the 'Config' node, update:
- mealieBaseUrl: Your Mealie instance URL (e.g., {{ $env.WEBHOOK_URL }})
- numberOfRecipes: The desired number of recipes for your plan.
- offsetPlanDays: The number of days to offset the plan (0 means starting today).
- mealieCategoryId: (Optional) The ID of a specific Mealie category to pull recipes from. Leave blank to use all recipes.
Configure the 'Schedule Trigger' node to your preferred execution time (e.g., Friday 8 PM).
Test the workflow to ensure it generates a meal plan as expected.

Apps Used

automation

food

meal-plan

mealie

recipes

schedule

Workflow JSON

{
  "id": "8ddeea07-70be-4d54-a392-0f475725bc3f",
  "name": "Community Meal Plan Generator",
  "nodes": 0,
  "category": "Community Contributed",
  "status": "active",
  "version": "1.0.0"
}

Note: This is a sample preview. The full workflow JSON contains node configurations, credentials placeholders, and execution logic.