Family meal planner that knows who is cooking.

Plan the week’s dinners, put a name against each night, and let the shopping list build itself from what you picked.

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This week9 – 13 March
MonSausage traybakeRRowan
TueDal and riceDDev
WedLeftovers·Nobody
ThuFish pieRRowan
FriPizza, from the freezerDDev
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Pick the meals. Hermo does the rest of it.

1

Save your go-to recipes

The ten you actually cook. Paste a link, or send a photo of the page in the book, and it comes back as a proper recipe.

2

Fill the week

Drop them on yourself, or connect Claude or ChatGPT and ask it to draft the week from your recipes and your calendar. It shows you the table before anything is saved.

3

Say who is cooking

A name against each night, or a rota that repeats. Tuesday is always Dev, and nobody has to remember that.

4

The shopping list writes itself

Every ingredient from every recipe you picked, combined and totted up, on the shared list.

“What’s for dinner” is the easy question. Who’s making it, and how, are the other two.

All three are a message away, from whoever is standing in the kitchen.

WhatsApp · 17:30Time to start the fish pie. It needs about 40 minutes.
am I cooking??
You are, tonight. Dev has Thursday.
how do I cook that
Oven 200C. Poach the haddock in milk for 8 minutes, mash on top, 25 minutes until the top colours.
Whoever is cooking is the one asking, and they need not have been the one who saved it.

Ask what is on and who is on it.

Tonight, tomorrow, the whole week. The answer comes back with the cook, so nobody is working out whose turn it is at half five.

Ask how to make it.

The method, the sides, how much for four. You saved the recipe three weeks ago and you are not going to find it with your hands covered in flour.

A nudge when it is time to start.

Set it for the night you are cooking, or have it repeat. It arrives on WhatsApp, so you get it wherever you are rather than when you next open an app.

Change your mind out loud.

“Swap tonight with Thursday” moves the whole thing, the recipe, the sides and the cook with it.

A name on the night, or a rota that runs itself.

And a shopping list that adds up what the week actually needs.

8 sausages
Red onions ×6
New potatoes 2 bags
Red lentils 500g
Tinned tomatoes ×3
Smoked haddock
Everything from Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, combined. Six onions, not two plus four.

Put a name on each night, or set a rota.

Lunch and dinner can have different cooks on the same day, and a night can be nobody’s, which is what leftovers are for.

Cooking is one of your areas.

Weekday cooking sits on the board like anything else, so when it changes hands the whole week’s rota goes with it. Ownership Board →

One list, properly added up.

Three recipes wanting onions become one line with the right number on it, on the shared shopping list. Shopping list →

Or have your assistant draft the week.

Connect Claude or ChatGPT and ask it to fill the week from your saved recipes and your diary. It proposes, you look at the table, and only then does anything land. Works with ChatGPT & Claude →

Meal planner questions, answered.

Is the meal planner on the free plan?

Yes, the planner and your saved recipes are. Saving recipes from a link or a photo comes with the paid plans, with a 14-day free trial.

Can both of us add recipes?

Yes. It is one saved recipes for the household, not one each. Both of you can add from the web, and on the paid plans by pasting a link or sending a photo on WhatsApp.

Can I add my own recipes manually?

Yes. Type one in at hermo.ai any time, or paste a link or send a photo on the paid plans.

Does the meal plan suggest meals automatically?

Hermo does not decide for you. What you can do is connect Claude or ChatGPT and ask it to draft a week from your saved recipes, your calendar and what you usually cook. It shows you the whole week as a table first, and nothing is saved until you say so.

Never get asked “what shall we have for dinner” again.

Pick the week’s dinners, say who is cooking each night, and let the shopping list write itself.

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