Build a simple weekly dinner planning tool for my wife
My wife handles dinner for our family of 5 every single night and honestly it's killing her. Not the cooking — she's a great cook — it's the DECIDING. Every day after work she just stands in the kitchen looking defeated trying to figure out what to make for 3 kids who all want different things. I made her a spreadsheet once. She looked at it, looked at me, and said "honey, this is not it." Fair enough. She needs something actually useful — not another spreadsheet from her well-meaning husband.
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She plans on Sundays for the whole week. Drag-and-drop meals across days would be amazing. A grocery list that auto-generates from planned meals is the dream. Our youngest is 4 and picky — tagging "kid-friendly" would help. No login required.
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Hey Evan!
Built a dinner planner for your wife. No more standing in the kitchen looking defeated.
Dinner This Week - 3 tabs, zero decision fatigue.
1. Plan Tab (weekly view)
- All 7 days laid out as cards (Sunday through Saturday)
- Today is highlighted
- Tap "+" on any day to pick a meal from the library
- Shows meal name, emoji, and "KID" tag for kid-friendly options
- Remove meals with the X button
2. Meals Tab (the library)
- Pre-loaded with 10 family-friendly starter meals: Mac & Cheese, Chicken Nuggets, Spaghetti & Meatballs, Tacos, Pizza Night, Grilled Chicken Salad, Stir Fry, Fish Sticks & Fries, Quesadillas, Soup & Sandwiches
- Each meal has: name, emoji, full ingredient list, and kid-friendly tag
- Filter by "Kid-friendly" to quickly find meals the 4-year-old will eat
- Add your own meals with custom ingredients
- Edit or delete any meal
3. Grocery Tab (the magic part)
- Auto-generates a grocery list from whatever is planned for the week
- Each item shows which meal it's for ("for: Tacos, Quesadillas")
- Shared ingredients across meals are combined (no duplicates)
- Tap to check items off while shopping
- Badge on the tab shows how many unchecked items remain
How she uses it:
- Sunday: open the app, tap Plan
- Tap "+" on each day, pick a meal (filter Kid-friendly for the picky eater)
- Hit the Grocery tab - list is already done
- Go shopping, check things off
- Each night, just look at today's card. Decision already made.
Design:
- Warm terracotta + navy color palette
- Big tap targets, mobile-first
- Bottom sheet meal picker (slides up from bottom)
- No login, no account, no server
- All data saved in browser (localStorage)
- Works offline after first load
To use: Save the attached HTML file, open in phone browser, add to home screen. Done.
She can add her own meals over time - the more she adds, the more useful it gets. The starter meals are just to get going on day one.
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