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Family dinner planner

Dinner Dilemma

Plans the week from the meals your family already loves, and writes the grocery list for you.

Platform
Web, installable on any phone
What we did
Product design, Brand, Web app, Recipe import
Built with
Next.js, Clerk, Neon Postgres, Drizzle, Vercel Blob, AI SDK
Dinner Dilemma homepage with tonight's dinner on a phone

Dinner Dilemma keeps a family's rotation of real meals, fits them around soccer nights and pizza Fridays, and turns the week into one grocery list grouped by aisle. The whole plan shares with a single link.

  1. 01

    Busy Tuesdays get quick meals

    Tell it once how your week goes. Busy nights get 25-minute dinners, a big Sunday cook becomes Monday's leftovers.

  2. 02

    A grocery list that writes itself

    Every ingredient for the week lands on one list by aisle, each line showing which dinner needs it. Two meals need lemons? One line.

  3. 03

    Start with what you already make

    Paste a recipe link and the meal, photo and ingredients come across. No giant recipe database to wade through.

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Setting up how your week usually goes
A grocery list that writes itself, grouped by aisle
Busy Tuesdays get quick meals
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The grocery list grouped by aisle

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