yeah ok. Most of the time, i just point mealie to a website to import the recipe. That said, you can copy and paste the ingredients and methods using the bulk import. It is a bit finicky, but not too bad.

Some few sites, and reddit comments, don’t have marked up recipes. My paid option can parse those, but for selfhost options, I need to paste. I have not seen another option that even allows bulk import, so mealie is cream of the crop there ;)

Auto-scaling is nice to have, but I only use it like twice a year, so I can live without it.

For Shopping lists, my workfow is to create a 3-4 day meal plan twice a week, then go through the recipes and add what I need to the list, paid option looks like this:

That is slightly less comfortable in mealie, but it works.

But the label/aisle sorting is pretty recent, and that’s where it falls apart:

The commercial solution is amazing at sorting items into categories (I did nothing but go trough 3 recipes and select the ingredients I wanted for the shopping list):

Okay, I guess I could live without that. But then I’d need it to be superfast to sort the list myself. That means drag-and-drop, not click edit, click category, click selection, click save. That takes up way too much time. And at the supermarket, I need things sorted by aisle (the shopping list also allows me to sort the aisles according to the supermarket order).