Recipe Import

Add recipes any way you want

MyRecipeHQ accepts recipes however you find them — no reformatting required. AI handles the extraction.

Take a photo with your phone camera and AI extracts the recipe
Paste a screenshot or drop in any URL — we read the page for you
Type recipes in manually with our built-in editor
Upload a PDF cookbook and extract multiple recipes at once
Crop and frame photos before saving
Editable tags — cuisine, protein, meal type — on every recipe
AI detects multi-component meals and offers to split into separate recipes
Duplicate detection prevents importing the same recipe twice
Share any recipe with a link — no account needed for the recipient

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Camera or screenshot

AI-extracted in ~3 seconds

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URL import

Paste any recipe URL

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PDF — 3 recipes found

Batch imported

Ingredient Overlap

Plan meals that share ingredients

The core of MyRecipeHQ. See at a glance which meals stretch a single grocery run further — and which combos reduce waste the most.

Ingredient overlap counts show exactly how many items are shared across your week
Auto-plan fills your entire week maximizing shared ingredients (Max tier)
Pick a recipe and get instant suggestions for what pairs best from your library
Multiple courses per meal — entree, side, dessert/snack in one slot
Anti-repetition — won't suggest the same meals you had recently
Savings summary shows shared ingredients across the week

This week's overlap

🧄 garlic ×4 🫒 olive oil ×3 🧅 onion ×3 🫚 ginger ×2 🍋 lemon ×2

✓ Suggested addition

Vegetable Stir Fry

Shares garlic + ginger + soy sauce with Tikka Masala

Pantry Tracking

Know what's in your kitchen before you shop

Log what you buy, track when it expires, and get alerts before good food goes bad.

Unlimited items across fridge, freezer, and pantry sections
Expiration date alerts — days in advance, not the day of
Fresh / Expiring / Expired status at a glance
Suggest recipes that use what's about to expire
Tap "Mark as Cooked" on a planned meal and your pantry updates automatically
Snap a photo of your fridge — AI identifies items, tap how full each is, pantry stocked in seconds

All Fridge Freezer Pantry Expiring

Chicken breast

2 lb · Fridge

Fresh

Spinach

1 bunch · Fridge

Expires today

Milk

0.5 gallon · Fridge

Expired

Olive oil

1 bottle · Pantry

Fresh

AI Suggestions

Three ways AI tells you exactly what to cook

MyRecipeHQ's AI recommends what to cook based on what you have, what you're already planning, and what's about to expire.

Get Suggestions — tap any planner slot and recipes are scored by pantry match and ingredient overlap with your week. Best fits rise to the top automatically
Separate Entrée and Side tabs so you can fill each course independently
Swap any planned meal for a better-fitting one without disrupting the rest of your week
Cook From My Kitchen — AI generates complete meals from your pantry ingredients, including entrée and side pairings (Max tier)
All suggestions draw from your own recipe library — no algorithm pushing random outside results at you

Get Suggestions

Monday · Apr 7

Entrées Sides

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Lemon Garlic Chicken

6 of 7 pantry ingredients · 3 shared

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Chicken Tikka Masala

8 of 12 pantry ingredients · 4 shared

🍳 Cook From My Kitchen

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Garlic Butter Shrimp + Rice

AI-generated · uses 5 pantry items

Meal Planning

Your week on one screen

Plan your week day by day to match your shopping rhythm. Set seed meals and AI fills the rest with overlap optimization. Max auto-plans your full week from scratch.

Rolling 7-day view — always a full week on one screen
Set seed meals, AI fills the rest with overlap optimization
Full week auto-plan from scratch — AI pairs entrees with cohesive sides and skips sides for complete meals like pot pies
Meal view — dedicated cooking screen for the recipe you're making
Recipe notes and ratings
Calorie and macro estimates on every recipe
AI-generated recipe images
Dinner-focused by default — no empty breakfast/lunch clutter
Add breakfast or lunch for any day with one tap
Navigate forward and back by week

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Monday · Apr 7

Entrée

Tikka Masala

Side

Garlic Naan

Shopping List

From plan to store in one click

Generate your shopping list directly from planned meals. Items are AI-categorized by store layout so you can shop aisle by aisle, not recipe by recipe.

One-click generation from all planned meals
AI-categorized by store layout — produce, dairy, meat, frozen, pantry staples
Smart purchase quantities — recipe calls for 4 cloves garlic? Your list says 1 bulb
Flags items you may already have in your pantry
Check off items at the store
Move purchased items to your pantry with automatic expiration tracking
Snap a photo of your whiteboard or handwritten list — AI reads it and adds items
Add items manually for anything extra you need

≡ Meats

chicken breast (1.0 pound) ≡

salmon fillet (2.0 piece) ≡

≡ Produce

garlic (1 bulb) ≡

Everything built around how you actually cook