Plan your family's meals once. Reuse the system forever.
Mealstead turns your week into reusable meal blocks, then builds one merged grocery list across Costco, Trader Joe's, and wherever else you shop. Set it up once. Eat well all week — then most weeks take under five minutes.
Join the waitlist — first 100 households get Homestead tier free for 3 months.
The problem
Every other planner assumes you want something new every night. You don't. You want a system that runs itself — the same lunch Mon–Thu, the dinners that actually work, a grocery list that already knows you buy zucchini for three recipes. Instead of re-planning from scratch every Sunday, you just pick the week and go.
What it does
Build once, reuse forever
Save your week's structure as a template, or save a whole favorite week ("Easy Costco Week," "Busy Week") and rotate it. Planning becomes picking, not deciding.
One grocery list, math done for you
Merges duplicate ingredients across recipes, scales to your household size, and rounds to what you'd actually buy. Zucchini: 6 — not six separate lines from six different recipes.
Split by store, no second app
Group items by Costco / Trader Joe's / Whole Foods / Other. Add milk or diapers in two seconds from anywhere in the app. Everything lives in one list.
Built by a parent who fed four people off a single Google Sheet for two years — then turned it into an app so nobody else has to.
Simple pricing
Free
$0
Always free
- ✓ Weekly meal planner
- ✓ Recipe library
- ✓ Basic grocery list
- ✓ 1 active week at a time
- ✓ 1 template
Homestead
$3.99/mo
or $34/yr — save $14
- ✓ Unlimited weeks
- ✓ Reusable week templates
- ✓ Favorite weeks & rotation
- ✓ AI recipe import
- ✓ Store grouping
- ✓ Family sharing
The paid tier is called Homestead — because that's the whole point.