Family meal planning

No recipe fits
your kitchen.
So we write one —
then cook it with you.

Every other app ends where cooking begins. HomeMenu writes a recipe for your kitchen, works backwards from when you want to eat so you know the hour to start, and stays with you through the cook.

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What makes it different

Four things, and none of them is “powered by AI”.

It writes the recipe
Not a database lookup with your ingredients filtered out. HomeMenu generates a recipe for what is actually in your kitchen tonight.
It knows when to start
Tell it when you want to eat. It works backwards through every step — including the marinade that needed eight hours — and tells you the hour to begin.
It cooks for a family
Servings that scale to your household, a week you can plan, and leftovers that count as a meal instead of disappearing.
Cook Mode is a command center
Timers, parallel steps, conversions and substitutions in reach while your hands are busy — not a wall of instructions you scroll with a wet thumb.

The part nobody else does

Dinner at seven means starting at a particular hour.

Every recipe app can tell you a dish takes an hour. That is the wrong number. The one you need is the hour to begin — and getting there means counting the prep, the resting, and every passive wait in between, backwards from when people sit down. HomeMenu does that arithmetic so you are not doing it at half past six.

The card beside this is computed, not drawn: it runs the same timing helper the app’s plan does, over a real recipe.

Working backwards

Sit down to eat: 7:00 PM
Everything the day needsprep, cooking and every wait: − 1 h 5 min

So start at

5:55

However the recipe arrives

A link, a photograph, a page you have been cooking from for fifteen years, or nothing at all but what is in the fridge. Every way in lands as one recipe out.

From your pantry
It reads what you already have and writes something to cook with it.
Pick ingredients
Choose what you feel like using. It builds the recipe around them.
Paste a link
Any recipe page. It pulls out the ingredients, steps and timings.
Search the web
Describe the dish. It finds real recipes and brings one back whole.
Snap a photo
A cookbook page, a card in your grandmother's hand, a note on the counter.
Type it out
The one you know by heart, entered once and scaled forever after.
However it arrives, it lands as one structured recipe — scalable, shoppable, and ready for Cook Mode.

The part underneath

It knows what is in your kitchen

Most apps ask what you feel like eating. HomeMenu starts one question earlier — what is already in the house, how much of it is left, and what will not survive the week. That is the difference between a recipe you could cook and one you can cook tonight.