ChefBuddy
In DevelopmentAI-powered recipe manager inspired by Paprika V3 - Smart meal planning with automated pantry tracking
Overview
A recipe manager that does the tedious parts itself. Existing apps scrape recipes off the web and misfile the results, so you end up correcting ingredient lists by hand. ChefBuddy runs scraped pages through a language model to extract and summarise them properly, then plans meals and tracks what is actually in your pantry.
What it does
Recipe capture
Cheerio pulls the page, the OpenAI API turns it into structured fields. That fixes the misclassification that made the manual cleanup necessary in the first place.
Meal planning
Suggests plans from stated preferences and what is already in the pantry.
Pantry from receipts
OCR on a photographed grocery receipt updates stock, and flags ingredients that are missing or past their date.
Versioned schema
Recipes are stored against a versioned JSON schema, so changing how the model extracts data does not invalidate everything already saved.