MealCues is an AI-powered meal planning app that generates recipes using a user’s health profile and available inventory/pantry items.

The goal of the MVP was to reduce meal-planning decision fatigue and minimize ingredient waste through personalized, pantry-aware recipes

Tech: Lovable AI, Supabase, Vercel, Open AI API

1. Problem

Users frequently buy healthy groceries but still struggle with:

• When user say “What should I cook today?”
• Forgetting whats in their fridge
• Wasting ingredients due to expiry
• Not knowing how to cook in line with their health goals

This leads to:

• Daily decision fatigue
• Wasted money on ingredients
• Stressful, last-minute cooking choices, or ordering via food apps or comfort food

Opportunity:

Create a calm, guided, personalized meal planner that uses what users already have and recommends meals aligned with their fitness goals.