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Mealie

Cookbook and meal-planner with shopping lists and recipe import from URLs. Single container backed by SQLite — perfect for a household-scale install.

Notes

Built from the official ghcr.io/mealie-recipes/mealie image. Mealie seeds a built-in admin on first boot (its email/password are fixed by upstream and cannot be pre-set); you log in with it and change both immediately — see the getting-started note after install.

All recipes, images, backups and the SQLite DB live under the mounted data directory.

#food#recipes#household
Version
1.1.0
Source
Official — curated and signed by obacht
Runtime
Container
Devices
Pi · Linux · Mac
Project website
mealie.io

Open-source contribution

A fixed amount per install goes to Mealie, forwarded via GitHub Sponsors.

Last checked 2026-07-29

How to self-host Mealie

01

Connect a device: a Raspberry Pi, a Linux machine, or an Apple silicon Mac.

02

Click install in the dashboard. The template is signed; your device verifies the signature before anything runs.

03

Optionally attach your own domain. HTTPS certificate included, no port forwarding.

Run it on your own hardware.

Your data stays on your device. obacht handles the tunnel, SSL, and domain.

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