The Meal Plan VaultThe Meal Plan Vault
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    Buy milk??
    Recipe...
    Groceries!
    6:30 PM!
    What's 4 dinner?
    3 missed calls
    What's for dinner?!

    A meal planner your agent can actually use.

    39 tools at one MCP endpoint, on every plan including Free. Works with Claude and ChatGPT, or Meta Muse over the REST API. Every call is logged for you to check.

    See the tools

    Four steps between you and a week of dinners.

    1. 1.

      Stock the vault

      Paste a link, photograph a handwritten card, drop in a TikTok, or save from any cooking site. What comes back is a real recipe with ingredients, steps, and timings, not a screenshot.

    2. 2.

      Fill the week

      Move meals around the calendar yourself, put the choice to a household vote, or hand the whole week to your agent and check its work afterwards.

    3. 3.

      Get the list

      Every ingredient across the week rolls into one grocery list. Duplicates merge, quantities add up, and everything lands under the aisle you'll find it in.

    4. 4.

      Cook and check off

      Step timers while you cook, and a patient cook on call for substitutions and scaling. Tick items off at the store from your phone, or let your agent do it.

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    Hand the week to your agent. Watch it work.

    Your agent

    Connected to The Meal Plan Vault over MCP

    39 tools

    You said

    Plan dinners for next week. Keep Tuesday meatless and use up the chicken in the fridge.

    Tool calls

    Your vault, live

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    Dinners · week of Aug 3

    Mon

    Chicken Tacos

    Tue

    —

    Wed

    —

    Thu

    —

    Fri

    —

    No grocery list yet.

    Ask the agent to build one. Try “Build the list”.

    This is the same data the app uses. Your agent can change it, and every call it makes gets logged for you to check.

    “I plan our week from my phone now. I tell Claude what we've already got in the kitchen, it fills in the nights, and the grocery list is ready before I get to the store.”

    M
    MichelleFounder, household of three

    Your kitchen has an API now.

    39 tools over MCP, on every plan including Free.

    Paste this into any MCP client, then approve the connection.

    15 read24 write
    https://www.mealplanvault.com/mcp
    Verified withClaudeClaude CodeChatGPTCursorGooseZed
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    The Meal Plan Vault

    All toolsAsk
    Add grocery list itemAsk
    Add grocery list to store cartAsk
    Add pantry itemAsk
    Add recipe siteAsk
    Check grocery list itemAsk
    Copy meal plan weekAsk
    Create grocery listAsk
    Create recipeAsk
    Delete grocery listAsk
    Find recipes on saleAsk
    Find recipes with ingredientsAsk
    Get day nutritionAsk
    Get grocery listAsk
    Get meal plan nutritionAsk
    Get meal plan weekAsk
    Get prep dayAsk
    Get recipeAsk
    Get recipe site feedAsk
    Hide recipe from site feedAsk
    Import recipe from urlAsk
    List grocery listsAsk
    List meal prepsAsk
    List pantry itemsAsk
    List recipe sitesAsk
    List recipesAsk
    List store connectionsAsk
    Plan meal prepAsk
    Price grocery listAsk
    Refresh store sale itemsAsk
    Remove grocery list itemAsk
    Remove meal plan entryAsk
    Remove meal prepAsk
    Remove pantry itemAsk
    Remove recipe siteAsk
    Save recipe from siteAsk
    Set meal plan entryAsk
    Update meal prepAsk
    Update pantry itemAsk
    Update recipe notesAsk
    Disconnect

    This is Claude on iOS, connected. Every tool shows up by name and you set the permission on each one.

    Using Muse? It connects too.

    Muse doesn't add MCP servers. It builds its own connector from an API spec, so the vault publishes one. Create a token in settings, send Muse one message, and it gets the same 39 tools.

    Muse setup guideAgent API docs
    1. 1

      Create a token

      Settings → Connections → API access. Read-only by default, and you pick when it expires.

    2. 2

      Send Muse this message

      Create a custom connector for The Meal Plan Vault using the OpenAPI spec at https://www.mealplanvault.com/api/agent/v1/openapi.json. It uses a Bearer token — I'll add it to the credential store.

    3. 3

      Paste the token when Muse asks

      It goes into Muse's secure credential store, not the chat. Its calls show up in your activity log like any other agent's.

    Everything the vault can do, as tools.

    Recipes

    • readlist_recipes
    • readget_recipe
    • readfind_recipes_with_ingredients
    • writecreate_recipe
    • writeimport_recipe_from_url
    • writeupdate_recipe_notes
    • readlist_recipe_sites
    • readget_recipe_site_feed
    • writehide_recipe_from_site_feed
    • writeadd_recipe_site
    • writeremove_recipe_site
    • writesave_recipe_from_site

    Meal plans

    • readget_meal_plan_week
    • readget_day_nutrition
    • readget_meal_plan_nutrition
    • writeset_meal_plan_entry
    • writeremove_meal_plan_entry
    • writecopy_meal_plan_week
    • writeplan_meal_prep
    • readlist_meal_preps
    • readget_prep_day
    • writeupdate_meal_prep
    • writeremove_meal_prep

    Grocery lists

    • readlist_grocery_lists
    • readget_grocery_list
    • readfind_recipes_on_sale
    • readlist_store_connections
    • writerefresh_store_sale_items
    • writeprice_grocery_list
    • writeadd_grocery_list_to_store_cart
    • writecreate_grocery_list
    • writeadd_grocery_list_item
    • writecheck_grocery_list_item
    • writeremove_grocery_list_item
    • writedelete_grocery_list

    Pantry

    • readlist_pantry_items
    • writeadd_pantry_item
    • writeupdate_pantry_item
    • writeremove_pantry_item

    Things you can stop doing yourself.

    Plan next week's dinners around what's already in the vault, and keep Tuesday meatless.
    Turn next week's plan into a grocery list sorted by aisle.
    Import this recipe I just found and put it on Thursday.
    I'm batch-cooking chili on Sunday. Make it cover lunch Monday through Thursday.

    You can check its work.

    Sign in, or hand over a scoped token

    MCP apps connect with OAuth 2.1 and PKCE. Agents like Muse get a token you create, can keep read-only, and can revoke. Your password never touches either.

    Your permissions, inherited

    An agent gets the same household role you have. If you are a viewer, its agent can read the plan and nothing else.

    Approve tool by tool

    Clients like Claude list every tool by name and let you set each one to ask first, always allow, or off.

    Reads and writes are separate

    A read-only connection cannot reach a single write tool. The scope is enforced on the server, not in the client UI.

    Every call logged

    Reads and writes both land in an activity log in your dashboard, with a timestamp and the name of the agent that made the call.

    Revoke in one tap

    Disconnect an agent and its tokens stop working immediately. The record of what it did stays.

    Start free, MCP includedRead the connection guide

    Rather do it yourself? The week is yours to move around.

    Week of January 6

    2025

    8 meals
    planned
    ~3.1 hrs
    cook time
    15 items
    on list
    Mon
    6
    Tue
    7
    Wed
    8
    Thu
    9
    Fri
    10
    Sat
    11
    Sun
    12
    Breakfast
    French Toast
    French Toast
    Lunch
    Caesar Salad
    Dinner
    Chicken Tacos
    4-1
    Pasta Carbonara
    Grilled Salmon
    Beef Burgers
    3-0
    Mushroom Risotto

    Your Recipe Box

    Drag recipes to plan your week

    8 recipes
    Chicken Tacos
    25 min4
    Easy
    4-1
    Pasta Carbonara
    30 min4
    Medium
    Veggie Stir Fry
    20 min2
    Easy
    Grilled Salmon
    25 min2
    Medium
    French Toast
    15 min4
    Easy
    Caesar Salad
    10 min2
    Easy
    Beef Burgers
    20 min4
    Easy
    3-0
    Mushroom Risotto
    45 min4
    Hard

    Save any recipe you love. From handwritten cards to TikTok reels.

    Grandma's Apple Pie

    From Mom's Recipe Box

    Ingredients:

    • • 6 cups sliced apples
    • • 3/4 cup sugar
    • • 2 tbsp flour
    • • 1 tsp cinnamon
    • • 1/4 tsp nutmeg
    • • 2 pie crusts
    • • 2 tbsp butter

    Directions:

    • 1. Preheat 425°F
    • 2. Mix apples w/ spices
    • 3. Fill crust, add butter
    • 4. Top crust, crimp
    • 5. Bake 40-50 min

    "Made with love"

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    once it's read off the photo

    Reads recipes from:

    Recipe cardsCookbooksMagazinesScreenshotsInstagram reelsTikTok videos

    Photo import is part of Premium

    Let the household pick. Skip the dinner debate.

    M
    D
    E
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    G
    5 household members voting
    15 votes cast
    Voting ends Sunday 6pm
    Leading the vote

    Chicken Tacos

    25 min
    +4
    4 up, 0 down
    Who voted
    MMom
    DDad
    EEmma
    JJake

    Veggie Lasagna

    45 min
    +1
    2 up, 1 down
    Who voted
    MMom
    EEmma
    JJake

    Fish & Chips

    30 min
    0
    2 up, 2 down
    Who voted
    DDad
    GGrandma
    EEmma
    JJake

    Pizza Night

    35 min
    +2
    3 up, 1 down
    Who voted
    DDad
    EEmma
    JJake
    MMom

    Cast your vote above. The winning recipe gets added to next week's meal plan automatically.

    What's in the app.

    Recipe import

    • Photo import

      Premium

      Photograph a handwritten card, a cookbook page, or a magazine, and it reads the recipe off the photo.

    • Link import

      Premium

      Paste a recipe link. Ingredients, steps, and nutrition come back as a recipe you can edit.

    • Instagram and TikTok import

      Premium

      Paste a reel or TikTok link. The recipe is pulled from the caption, the comments, or the video frames.

    • Chrome extension

      Premium

      Save from 500+ cooking sites. When it spots a recipe on the page, one click saves it.

    • Bulk import

      Premium

      Move your whole collection over from Paprika, Mealie, Tandoor, Crouton, or a CSV file.

    Grocery shopping

    • Lists from the meal plan

      Free

      Built from the week's meals. Ingredients merge and sort by store section.

    • Barcode scanning

      Free

      Scan a package with your phone's camera to add it to the list.

    • Pantry

      Free

      Move what you bought off the list and into the pantry, and see what expires this week.

    • Meal prep

      Free

      Cook a batch on Sunday and spread it across the week's lunches. The list buys it once.

    • Price tracking

      Premium

      Track grocery prices over time and see an estimated total before you shop.

    Help while you cook

    • What can I make

      Free

      Type what's in the fridge and your recipes come back sorted by how few things you'd need to buy. Premium reads it off a photo of the fridge.

    • Substitutions

      Premium

      Out of an ingredient? Get swaps that hold the dish together.

    • Scaling

      Premium

      Cooking for 2 or 20? Scale a recipe and the grocery list follows.

    • Dietary changes

      Premium

      Rework a recipe to be vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, or keto.

    • Pairings

      Premium

      Wine, drink, and side dish suggestions for the meal.

    • Prep-ahead plans

      Premium

      What to make ahead so a busy night only needs the last few steps.

    • Cooking questions

      Premium

      Ask about technique or food safety while the pan is on.

    Household

    • Shared access

      Premium

      Up to 10 household members share recipes, meal plans, and grocery lists.

    • Meal voting

      Premium

      Everyone votes on meal requests. By Sunday the week's plan writes itself.

    • Roles

      Premium

      Admin, editor, or viewer. Decide who can change recipes and plans.

    • Day themes

      Premium

      Set up Taco Tuesday, Meatless Monday, or any themed day with its own icon.

    • Diets and allergies

      Free

      Set the household's diets and never-include list once. Recipes that break them are flagged, and one filter hides them.

    On the family calendar

    • Wall calendars

      Free

      Put the week's meals on a Skylight, Hearth, Mango, DAKboard, or Cozi screen. The app has steps for each one.

    • Google, Apple, and Outlook

      Free

      Subscribe once and changes show up on their own. Show every meal or just dinner, all day or at mealtimes.

    • Kitchen display

      Free

      Open one link on a wall tablet or Echo Show for today's meals in big type, the week ahead, and a recipe view you can cook from.

    Organizing recipes

    • Tags

      Free

      Tag by cuisine, diet, difficulty, or any category you make up.

    • Collections

      Free

      Group recipes into cookbooks, like weeknight dinners or holiday baking.

    • Printed cookbooks

      Premium

      Turn a set of recipes into a PDF cookbook with your own cover and layout.

    • Ratings and notes

      Free

      Rate recipes, add notes, and see which ones the household keeps asking for.

    Connect your agent

    • Built-in MCP server

      Free

      Paste one URL into any app that speaks the Model Context Protocol, such as Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, or Cursor.

    • Plan meals by chat

      Free

      Ask for “dinners next week using ground beef and chicken” and it writes them into your real meal plan.

    • Grocery lists by chat

      Free

      Your agent builds the week's list from the plan, then checks items off as you shop.

    • Meal prep by chat

      Free

      Say you're making chili Sunday for four lunches. It fills the slots and shops for one batch.

    • OAuth sign-in

      Free

      OAuth 2.1 with one-tap revoke. The agent sees only what you approve.

    In the kitchen

    • Nutrition

      Premium

      14 nutrition values per recipe, including calories and macros.

    • Daily goals

      Free

      Set calorie and macro targets and see each planned day against them.

    • Step timers

      Free

      A timer on each step that needs one.

    • Hands-free cooking

      Free

      Steps read aloud. Say “next” or “start timer” with your hands full.

    • Cooking log

      Premium

      Record when you made a recipe, how it went, and what to change next time.

    • Equipment lists

      Free

      See what a recipe needs on the counter before you start.

    • Accent colors

      Free

      Pick the accent color the app uses.

    • Analytics

      Premium

      See what the household cooks most and which recipes are favorites.

    Pricing that fits the way you cook.

    MonthlyAnnual

    Free

    $0
    • Up to 50 recipes
    • Weekly meal planning
    • Grocery lists from meal plans
    • Recipe imports from links, text, and files
    • Missing steps, times, and tags filled in
    • Recipe image generation
    • “Try something new” discovery
    • Connect your AI agent (MCP)
    • Web and mobile access with sync
    Start free

    Premium

    $2.99/month
    • Everything in Free
    • Unlimited recipes
    • Import from 500+ recipe sites
    • Custom cookbooks
    • Up to 10 household members
    • Recipes from photos, even handwritten cards
    • Household voting
    • Printable cookbooks
    • Analytics and insights
    • Priority support
    Start 7-day trial

    Need a refund? Contact us and we'll review it.

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    Things people ask before signing up.

    Still curious? Read the full story.

    What is The Meal Plan Vault?
    The Meal Plan Vault is a household meal planning application built for families, shared households, and the AI agents they delegate to. The app ships with a built-in MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, so any MCP-compatible agent (Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Cursor, Goose, Zed) can connect over OAuth and use the same 39 tools the app itself uses to read recipes, fill in the weekly meal plan, and build and check off grocery lists. Everything an agent does is recorded in an activity log you can audit in your dashboard. On the human side, every household member can help plan meals, vote on what to eat, and manage shared grocery lists, with recipe import from over 500 websites and from photos of handwritten cards, and a drag-and-drop weekly meal calendar. The MCP server is included on every plan, including the free one; Premium is $2.99 per month with a 7-day free trial.
    What can an AI agent actually do in The Meal Plan Vault?
    A connected agent gets 39 real tools over the MCP server, 15 read and 24 write, not a scraped view of your screen. It can search your recipes by title or tag, read a recipe in full with ingredients and instructions, read any week of your meal plan, schedule a meal into a specific day and slot, clear a slot, repeat a past week, create a recipe, import a recipe from a URL, add notes to a saved recipe, create a grocery list with ingredients consolidated by aisle, add or remove items on a list, check items off while you shop, delete a list, and keep the household pantry up to date with what is on hand and when it expires. That means you can say things like “plan next week around what is already in the vault and keep Tuesday meatless,” “turn that plan into a grocery list sorted by aisle,” or “I am at the store, check things off as I go,” and the agent picks the tools itself. Because the agent writes to the same database as the app, changes show up right away for every household member, and the whole household sees the plan your agent built.
    Is it safe to give an AI agent write access to my meal plan?
    Delegation only works if you can audit it, so The Meal Plan Vault is built for that. Connections use OAuth 2.1 with PKCE, which means your password is never sent to the agent and there are no API keys to copy around. Access tokens expire every hour and rotate on every refresh. Read and write are separate scopes, so a read-only connection physically cannot reach any of the 24 write tools, and each connection in your dashboard is badged with which access you approved. An agent inherits your household role and nothing more — a viewer’s agent can read the meal plan but cannot change it, and no agent can see households you are not a member of. Every single tool call is written to an activity log with a timestamp, the agent’s name, whether it was a read or a write, and whether it succeeded, all visible on the Agents page in your dashboard. Revoking a connection invalidates its tokens immediately, and the activity log survives the disconnect so the history stays intact.
    How does household voting work?
    Household voting is how The Meal Plan Vault settles the nightly “what’s for dinner?” debate. During the week, any household member can browse recipes in your shared vault and vote on meals they would like to eat. Each member gets a set number of votes per week, and they can distribute them across different recipes. By the time you sit down to plan the week’s meals, you can see exactly which dishes your household is most excited about, so you can build a plan around them. The voting results are displayed visually so you can quickly see the most popular choices. Children and partners who might not want to actively plan meals can still participate by simply tapping a thumbs-up on recipes that appeal to them. It means fewer complaints and more meals people actually look forward to.
    Can I import recipes from any website?
    The Meal Plan Vault’s recipe import works with over 500 recipe websites and food blogs. Paste the URL of any recipe page and it pulls out the title, ingredients list, step-by-step instructions, serving size, prep and cook times, and nutritional information. It skips the ads, comments, and life story around the recipe. Beyond website import, The Meal Plan Vault also supports photo import: snap a picture of a handwritten recipe card, a cookbook page, or even a recipe from a magazine, and it reads the recipe off the photo into a searchable recipe you can edit. You can also manually enter recipes or import them in bulk from other recipe management apps. All imported recipes are fully editable, so you can adjust ingredients, scale servings, add personal notes, and organize them into collections and tags.
    Is The Meal Plan Vault free?
    Yes. The Meal Plan Vault has a free plan you can use indefinitely. The free plan includes up to 50 recipes in your vault, weekly meal planning with our calendar view, grocery lists generated from your meal plans, recipe imports from links, text, and files, recipe enhancement, recipe image generation, and the MCP server so your own AI agent can work with your vault. No credit card is required and there are no time limits on the free plan. For households that need more, Premium at $2.99 per month adds unlimited recipes, recipe import from any website, and custom cookbooks, plus up to 10 household members, household voting, photo-to-recipe extraction, custom cookbook printing, analytics and insights, and priority support. Premium comes with a 7-day free trial: full access to every feature with no credit card required. We also offer annual billing at $29.99 a year, which saves about 16 percent compared to monthly payments.
    Can I use Claude, ChatGPT, or other AI apps with The Meal Plan Vault?
    Yes. This is the point of the product, not a bolt-on. The Meal Plan Vault includes a built-in MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, so any MCP-compatible AI app (Claude Desktop and Claude.ai, Claude Code, ChatGPT Connectors, Cursor, Goose, Zed, and many others) can plug directly into your account. Setup is one URL: paste https://www.mealplanvault.com/mcp into your client, sign in, and approve the connection. Once connected you can say things like “plan dinners for next week using leftover chicken,” “generate a grocery list from this week's meal plan,” “add chicken thighs and lemons to my Sunday list,” or “save this recipe I just found,” and the agent reads and updates your real meal plans, recipes, and grocery lists. Connection is one-click via OAuth 2.1 with no API keys to copy, every call the agent makes is logged on the Agents page in your dashboard, and you can revoke a connection at any time. The MCP server is included on every plan, including the free plan, at no extra cost.
    Can I show our meal plan on a Skylight, Hearth, or other family wall calendar?
    Yes. Every household member gets a private calendar link (an iCal subscription) for the meal plan. Paste it into the Skylight, Hearth Display, Mango Display, DAKboard, or Cozi app and the week's meals appear on the family screen next to everything else, then update on their own when the plan changes. The same link works in Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, and Outlook, which is how meals reach an Amazon Echo Show or a Cozyla display. You choose which meals to show (for example, dinner only) and whether they appear as all-day items or at set mealtimes like 6:00 pm, and each event lists servings, prep and cook time, and the main ingredients. The meal plan page has step-by-step setup for each display. For a wall tablet, an Echo Show, or a DAKboard Website block, there is also a full-screen kitchen display: open one link and it shows today's meals in large type, the coming week, and a read-only recipe view to cook from, with no sign-in on the device. If a link is ever shared by mistake, reset it and the old one stops working. Calendar sync and the kitchen display are included on every plan, including Free.
    How is The Meal Plan Vault different from other meal planning apps?
    Most meal planning and recipe apps like Paprika, Plan to Eat, and AnyList are designed for individual cooks tapping through their own recipe collections. The Meal Plan Vault differs in two ways. First, it is agent-native: a built-in MCP server exposes the app's own tools to any AI agent you connect, so planning the week, importing a recipe, or building the grocery list is something you can delegate in a sentence instead of doing by hand — and an audit log shows exactly what the agent did. Competing apps offer no agent interface at all, which leaves an AI assistant guessing from screenshots or retyping your plan into a chat window. Second, it is built for households rather than solo cooks. Every feature revolves around collaboration: household voting lets all members participate in deciding what to eat, shared grocery lists update in real time as anyone makes changes, and role-based permissions (admin, editor, viewer) ensure everyone participates at the right level. Automated grocery lists are generated directly from your weekly meal plan and can be exported or shared with anyone. These household-focused capabilities are simply not available in individual recipe management apps.

    Let it run the week, or run it yourself.

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