Lazy Meal is a side project I designed and built on my own. The idea came from a question I kept asking myself every evening: what’s for dinner? Most meal planning apps I tried wanted a subscription, an account, or a long setup before giving me anything useful. I wanted the opposite.
The result is a free web app where you pick a day or a whole week, add recipes yourself or hit Randomize, and get a shopping list that writes itself, with quantities merged and sorted by aisle. You can also generate a plan from your favorite recipes, or combine several filters across the most common diets. You don’t need an account to start, there are no ads, and your plan is saved on your device until you decide to sign up.
The recipe library holds nearly 300 recipes, every one under 30 minutes of active prep. Some are basic on purpose: on a weeknight, quick beats fancy. You can filter them by type and diet: vegetarian, vegan, halal, gluten free, baby friendly, and even Thermomix.
Besides the list generated from your plan, you can also keep your own separate shopping list for everything else you need to buy.
Lazy Meal also works with AI assistants. You can connect it to Claude, ChatGPT or any compatible tool and just ask it to plan vegetarian dinners for the week or add something to your list.
I handled the whole project end to end, from design to development. It’s built with HTML, CSS and JavaScript on top of a database, and the same code can be compiled directly into a mobile app. The site is available in English and French.
The project is live and actively maintained, so feel free to try it and plan your week.
