Pantry & Plate

A weekly meal planner that does the shopping maths

Plan the week.
Buy only what's missing.

Put recipes on a seven-day grid and say how many are eating. Pantry & Plate scales every recipe, merges the same ingredient across meals and units, takes off what's already in your cupboard, and hands you one list in the order you walk the store.

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Free. No account. Your recipes stay in your browser.

A week plan with four meals and the shopping list it produces

The list is the hard part.

Choosing four dinners takes a minute. Then comes the arithmetic. A recipe for four, cooked for six. A cup of milk in one recipe and 200 ml in another. Garlic in three places. Half a bag of spaghetti already in the cupboard. Do it in your head and you buy a third jar of cumin and forget the onions.

400 g × 1.4 corrected to 1.5 = 600 g

1 cup + 200 ml = 1.2 cups corrected to 440 ml

need 600 g, have 500 g, buy 600 g corrected to 100 g

Four meals in. One list out.

Here is a real week from the four sample recipes, worked through the way Pantry & Plate works it.

  1. Plan.

    Pick a recipe for any breakfast, lunch or dinner, and say how many are eating. On a laptop you can drag recipes straight onto the week.

    The week: Monday dinner, Spaghetti Bolognese for 6. Tuesday dinner, Chicken Stir-Fry for 2. Wednesday lunch, Greek Salad for 2. Thursday breakfast, Overnight Oats for 2.

  2. Scale.

    Every recipe is scaled to the servings you planned. Bolognese for six instead of four is one and a half times everything.

    Bolognese for six: spaghetti 400 g becomes 600 g, minced beef 500 g becomes 750 g, onion 1 becomes 1.5, garlic 2 becomes 3, chopped tomatoes 800 g becomes 1200 g, olive oil 2 tbsp becomes 3 tbsp.

  3. Merge.

    The same ingredient from different meals becomes one line, and units of the same kind add up: a cup of milk and 200 ml come to 440 ml.

    Garlic 3 from the Bolognese and 1 from the stir-fry make one line of 4. Olive oil 3, 1 and 2 tablespoons make 6 tablespoons. 1 cup of milk plus 200 ml is 440 ml.

  4. Subtract and sort.

    Whatever your pantry covers comes off, and staples marked Always have drop out entirely. What's left is grouped by aisle in the order you walk the store.

    The pantry holds spaghetti 500 g, rice 1 kg, and olive oil marked Always have. The list: Produce: banana 1, broccoli 1, cucumber 1, garlic 4, onion 1.5, tomatoes 3. Meat and Fish: chicken breast 300 g, minced beef 750 g. Dairy and Eggs: feta 200 g, milk 300 ml. Pantry Staples: chopped tomatoes 1200 g, honey 1 tbsp, olives 100 g, rolled oats 1 cup, spaghetti 100 g, as the pantry covers 500 g. Spices and Condiments: soy sauce 3 tbsp. Already in pantry: olive oil 6 tbsp, rice 150 g.

Same answer every time. The app runs these exact rules. Try it with your own recipes

The small things a cook notices.

  • Type it as the card says.

    1 1/2, 0.5, 1,5 and 3/4 all work. Grams, kilos, ounces, pounds, millilitres, litres, spoons, cups and pieces.

  • Aisles you only set once.

    Choose an ingredient's aisle and every new recipe remembers it. Onions stay in Produce.

  • Always have.

    Mark salt, oil and the other staples once and they never clutter the list again.

  • Ticks that survive the shop.

    Tick items off in the store. Lock your phone, reload the page: the ticks are still there.

  • Copy it anywhere.

    One tap copies everything you haven't ticked as plain text, ready for a message or your notes.

  • Yours, in your browser.

    No account and no server. Export a backup file to move your recipes to another device.

  • Made for a phone in one hand.

    The week stacks into days, every button is a comfortable tap, and it follows your dark mode.

  • Works without a mouse.

    Every planning action works from the keyboard, and focus always lands somewhere sensible.

This is the real thing.

This is the actual app, running in this page. Go to Recipes and press Load sample recipes, put a few meals on the week, then open the Shopping list.

Anything you add here is saved in this browser, and you'll find it again when you open the full planner.

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One week, done well.

Pantry & Plate plans one reusable Monday to Sunday week. It doesn't fetch recipes from the web, count calories, or quietly empty your pantry when you cook. It doesn't ask who you are. It does the list, and it gets the list right.

Sunday's list, sorted.

Add your first recipe, or start from four samples and see a full list in a minute.

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Free, private, and it works on your phone.