Show HN: Mealplannr – turn YouTube chef videos into weekly meal plans

I built Mealplannr because I wanted to cook more food from chefs I like, without spending 30–60 minutes every week planning meals and writing shopping lists.

The app lets you follow YouTube chefs, find videos with usable ingredients in the description, and save recipes into your own cookbook.

From there, you can generate a weekly meal plan and shopping list. The list is auto-categorised, deduplicated, and can remove common pantry items. There’s also an optional weekly email that generates a plan and list and sends them to your inbox, mixing new discoveries with recipes you already saved.

I now use it for my own weekly shop. It has cut planning down to a few minutes, while helping me add fresh recipes to my regular rotation.

It’s still early, but I’d love feedback on the core workflow.

You can head straight to chef section via https://mealplannr.io/discover (default lands on mealplannr)