PLANKA and Home Assistant: From meal plan to shopping list
I’ve been meal planning for years because it reduces the daily stress of deciding what to eat, cuts food waste, and helps us keep track of what we have. However, my process was very manual: I created a note card on my phone for each week, listed the meals, and then turned that plan into a shopping list. We tried several home-management projects available online, but most were too complicated to set up and would have been difficult to maintain. Because we already use PLANKA boards to manage household projects and tasks, I began experimenting with a meal-planning board that could also capture ingredients and automate the shopping list. That experiment became the PLANKA-based meal-planning add-on for Home Assistant. One meal plan, in the place we already look The aim was to make meal planning easier to use day to day, without having to jump between separate systems to check what’s for dinner, work out what to buy, and keep an eye on grocery spending. The result is a Home A...