Platewise — Meal Planning with Grocery Price Comparison

What we're building

An app that turns your dietary preferences, calorie goals, and budget into a personalized weekly meal plan — with estimated ingredient costs compared across local grocery stores, nutrition tracking, and budget optimization built in. Built for people feeling the pinch of higher food costs.

Current focus — MVP

The first working version we build now: a single-page web app where you set a weekly budget, a daily calorie target, and diet preferences (balanced / vegetarian / high-protein / gluten-free), and get a 7-day meal plan back — recipes with ingredient amounts, estimated cost per meal, weekly total vs. your budget, and calories/protein per day. It runs on a starter database of recipes with sample prices for a few example stores, clearly labeled as samples until real local pricing is wired in. The whole loop is clickable end-to-end: preferences → plan → cost → nutrition → budget. Real grocery price feeds, per-store comparison, and deeper budget optimization come after we've got that loop working.