Mealie MCP is a server that connects an MCP client to a self-hosted Mealie instance, allowing you to manage recipes, meal plans, shopping lists, and organizers.

Recipes

• List/search recipes with optional filters (search term, category, tag, pagination)

• Get full details of a recipe by its slug

• Create a new blank recipe by name

• Import a recipe automatically from a URL

• Update a recipe's fields (description, yield, ingredients, instructions, etc.)

• Delete a recipe

• Get nutrition info for a recipe

Meal Plans

• Get today's meals from the meal plan

• List meal plans filtered by a date range

• Create a meal plan entry (date, meal type: breakfast/lunch/dinner/side, optionally linked to a recipe)

• Delete a meal plan entry by ID

• Add a random recipe to the meal plan for a given date

Shopping Lists

• List all shopping lists

• Get a specific shopping list and its items by ID

• Create a new shopping list

• Add all ingredients of a recipe to a shopping list (with optional scaling)

• Add a single item to a shopping list (with food, note, unit, and quantity)

• Check/uncheck a shopping list item

• Delete a shopping list

Organizers

• List all recipe categories

• List all recipe tags

Provides tools for interacting with a self-hosted Mealie instance, enabling management of recipes (list, search, create, import from URL, update, delete), meal plans (get today's meals, list date range, create/delete entries, add random recipe), shopping lists (list, get, create, delete, add recipe ingredients, add single item, check off items), and organizers (list categories and tags), as well as retrieving recipe nutrition information.

1. Click on "Install Server".

2. Wait a few minutes for the server to deploy. Once ready, it will show a "Started" state.

3. In the chat, type @ followed by the MCP server name and your instructions, e.g., "@Mealie MCP list all my recipes"

That's it! The server will respond to your query, and you can continue using it as needed.

Here is a step-by-step guide with screenshots.