Help
Help
Short answers to what comes up most. If yours isn't here, use the Feedback tab on any page inside the app, or write to jon@blubberroom.com.
Getting started
- Add the people who eat with you, under People. Names are enough; they don't need accounts.
- Put five or six dishes in the recipe box. Start with the ones you could cook without looking anything up.
- Open the week and click an empty slot. Pick a recipe, or type what it is if it isn't a recipe.
Nothing is required. A week with three dinners in it is a useful week.
Connecting Claude or ChatGPT
Add https://mealgrep.com/mcp as a custom connector, sign in when it sends you here, and the tools appear in your chats. Setting it up has to happen on a computer; after that your phone works too. The full walkthrough is here.
To cut it off, go to Settings → Agents and disconnect it. Access stops there and then.
The terminal client
There's a small CLI called mpx that speaks to the same API with a key you create under Settings → Agents. It isn't packaged for install yet, so ask me if you want it.
Questions
A slot is empty and I don't want it
Leave it. Empty means undecided, which is honest. If you never plan breakfast, turn that slot off entirely in Settings → Household and it stops appearing.
We ordered in. What do I put?
Type the food in as a plain label — "Thai", "pizza" — and mark it as bought out with the prep switch. It counts in the week's totals, and the eat-out ratio on the stats page is the number I'd watch.
What's the difference between planned and eaten?
Planning is what you intended; the status on each food is what happened. Marking things eaten or not eaten is what makes the plan-versus-actual comparison mean anything, and it's two taps on the grid.
One of us eats something different
On the meal, each person is set to share it, have a variation, have their own plate, or skip. If a swap is permanent — rice instead of pasta, every time — put it on the person as a standing substitution and apply it to a meal in one click.
Why can't the assistant invent a recipe?
Because the recipe box is a closed set, deliberately. A plan should come out of what your family already eats. It can add a recipe if you ask it to, and then plan with it.
My plant count looks too low
Only tagged food counts. A recipe carries its plant list; a food typed in as "Thai" contributes nothing until someone says what was in it. You can edit the recipe, or ask the assistant to fill the tags in.
I want my account deleted
Write to jon@blubberroom.com and I'll delete it and everything in it. There's no button for it yet.