How Weekly Dinner Recipes Started (and why we built it)

A few years back, Weekly Dinner Recipes didn’t start as a “startup idea” or a big grand plan.

It started the way a lot of good things do: with friends and family sharing recipes.

Someone would text a link. Someone else would drop a recipe into a group chat. Occasionally it was an email. Sometimes it was a screenshot. In the moment, it was fun — “You have to try this one!” — and then life would move on.

Until the day we wanted to cook that one amazing recipe again.

And suddenly we were doing the weekly scavenger hunt:

• Who sent it to me?

• Was it on WhatsApp or iMessage?

• Did I email it to myself?

• Was it a link… or did I save a screenshot… or both?

If you’ve ever tried to find a recipe from two weeks ago buried under 300 messages, you know how ridiculous it gets.

That was problem #1: recipes were scattered everywhere.

The second problem: planning dinner shouldn’t feel like homework

We also try to do what a lot of households do: a bit of meal planning for the week.

But planning is hard when your recipes are spread across ten different places. Even if you have good recipes, deciding what to make becomes a chore because you can’t easily browse what you’ve already saved.

So problem #2 was: meal planning felt way harder than it needed to be.

And the third problem: the grocery “admin”

Even once we picked a few meals, we still had to open each recipe and manually pull together ingredients for a shopping list.

Not hard… just annoying. Repetitive. Time-consuming.

So we started thinking: there has to be a cleaner way.

Enter: Weekly Dinner Recipes

Weekly Dinner Recipes is our attempt to make the whole flow simpler:

Save recipes → plan the week → get a shopping list

That’s it.

The core idea is simple: keep your recipes in one place, make it easy to pick what you want to cook, and cut down the grocery list effort with an automatically organized shopping list.

Here’s how it works:

1) Collect recipes

Save your favourite recipes from anywhere — so they don’t get lost in messages.

2) Plan your weekly menu

Pick what you want to cook for the week in just a few clicks.

3) Get your shopping list

Your list builds automatically and stays organized, so shopping is faster and less chaotic.

And because we’re all human and forget what we loved, there’s also a rating feature, so you can track what you actually enjoyed and build a collection that fits your taste over time.

Why we’re sharing it now

This started as something we built for ourselves at home.

But after using it for a while, a couple of friends basically said: “Okay… you need to let other people use this.”

So here we are.

Weekly Dinner Recipes is the app we wanted when we were tired of losing recipes, tired of the weekly “what’s for dinner?” stress, and tired of rewriting grocery lists.

If this sounds like you…

If you:

• save recipes in messages and can’t find them later,

• want meal planning to feel quick instead of painful,

• or just want a smoother weekly dinner routine…

Then give it a try. On the homepage you’ll see a “Start Planning for Free” button to jump in.