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Meal plans and grocery lists

Help figuring out what to eat.

Chowdy plans your meals, turns them into one grocery list, and adjusts when your schedule does. A different meal each day, or the same lunch five times — whatever actually fits.

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For iPhone.

The Library tab: a recipe book with search, meal-type filters, and recipe cards showing cook time and calories.
The Today tab in Chowdy: the active meal plan, a note that the grocery list is ready, and today's breakfast, lunch and dinner with buttons to mark a meal eaten or swap it.
The pantry: items on hand grouped by category, including a cooked dish ready to eat and staples such as cornstarch and chicken broth.

How it goes

Plan. Shop. Cook.

Use all of it, or just the part you need.

  1. Plan the days you want

    Fill as many meal slots as you want. Swap one you’re not in the mood for, skip a night you’re eating out, and leave the rest empty — a half-full plan is a valid plan.

    • 1 to 14 days
    • Breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks
    • Batch cooking
    The Plan tab: a seven-day meal plan listing each day's breakfast, lunch and dinner, with a button that adds the plan's ingredients to the grocery list.

  2. One grocery list

    Everything your plan needs, combined and grouped by aisle, minus what’s already in your pantry. Shop it yourself, or send it to a connected Kroger cart.

    • Pantry left off
    • In-Store Mode
    • Shopping-day reminders
    In-Store Mode: the grocery list as a checklist by aisle, with a count of items left and three items marked as bagged.
    The Shop tab: a grocery list grouped by department, each item showing its quantity and the recipes it is for.

  3. Cook from your own Recipe Book

    Save recipes, scale the servings, and add your own notes and ratings. Change an ingredient and Chowdy saves it as your version. Cook Mode walks you through a recipe one step at a time.

    • Scale the servings
    • Cook Mode
    • Notes and ratings
    A recipe page for chicken tikka masala: cook time, servings, estimated nutrition per serving, and buttons to shop for it or add it to a plan.

  4. Chef, if you want it

    Chef can build the plan, adjust it, or find something that uses up what you have. It suggests; you decide. Every one of its actions has a manual equivalent, so nothing is locked behind it.

    • Part of Chowdy Pro
    A conversation with Chef, the in-app assistant, answering a question about what to make with chicken and rice already on hand.

The smaller things

Also in the app.

  • Pantry tracking

    So you don’t buy what you already have.

  • In-Store Mode

    A checklist built for walking the aisles.

  • Batch cooking

    Make extra once and schedule the leftovers.

  • Targets, if you want them

    Calorie and macro targets. Enter your own or use the built-in calculator.

  • Reminders

    For shopping day and prep day.

  • Filters

    By meal type, time, cuisine, and calories, or by diet: vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, keto, paleo, and more.

Good to know

Fair questions.

Something else? The support page has more, including how to manage a subscription or delete your account.

Is Chowdy free?

Chowdy is free to download. Planning, grocery lists, the pantry, and your Recipe Book are free. A Chowdy Pro subscription adds Chef, Auto-shop, recipe import from a link, a photo, or a description, and pantry updates from a photo of a receipt or a shelf. Pro is billed through Apple, and the current price is shown in the app and on the App Store.

Do I have to use Chef?

No. Chef is the in-app assistant: it suggests and you decide, and anything Chef can do you can also do by hand. Chef is powered by AI and can make mistakes, so always check ingredients against your own allergies and dietary needs.

How long can a meal plan be?

From 1 to 14 days, with breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks. Fill as many slots as you want and leave the rest empty.

Which grocery stores does it work with?

The grocery list works anywhere. It is grouped by department, and In-Store Mode turns it into a checklist built for walking the aisles. With Chowdy Pro, Auto-shop can add your list to a Kroger cart, including Kroger-family stores such as Ralphs and Fred Meyer. You review the cart and check out with Kroger.

Is Chowdy a diet or calorie-counting app?

No. Chowdy is a planning tool for anyone who wants help deciding what to eat. Calorie and macro targets are there if you want them. Chowdy does not give medical or nutrition advice.

Ready when you are.

Chowdy is free to download for iPhone. Planning, grocery lists, the pantry, and your Recipe Book are free.

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