Mealie MCP server

This is a helper that connects your AI assistant to Mealie, the recipe manager you run yourself. Once it is set up, you can ask your AI in plain words to find a recipe, import one from a website, or plan your meals for the week. It is handy if you keep your recipes in Mealie and would rather chat than click around.

What this MCP server does

You ask your AI something like find me a pasta recipe or add this recipe to my shopping list. The AI passes your request to this helper program. The helper talks to your Mealie instance using a special password called an API token. Mealie sends the answer back, and the helper hands it to your AI, which shows it to you in the chat. For things that change your data, like deleting a recipe, the helper can ask you to confirm first.

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What you can do with it

• Search your recipes and read their ingredients and steps
• Import a new recipe from a website link
• Import a recipe from a photo or from pasted text
• Plan meals for the week and see what is on today
• Build a shopping list from your meal plan
• Tidy up tags and categories
• Rate a recipe or leave a comment

Try asking your AI

• “Find me a quick vegetarian dinner from my recipes”
• “Import this recipe from this link and add the tag weeknight”
• “What meals do I have planned for today”
• “Add the ingredients for tonight's dinner to my shopping list”

What it gives back to you

You get answers in the chat: lists of recipes, the full ingredients and steps of one recipe, your meal plan for a day or week, or the contents of a shopping list. When it changes something, like adding items to a list or updating a recipe, it tells you what it did. Some results also come back as tidy structured data, so your AI can use them without guessing.

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Who it's for

People who run their own Mealie recipe collection and want to search, import and plan meals by chatting with their AI instead of clicking through the app.