FoodiePrep
FoodiePrep is an AI meal planner and recipe manager. It imports recipes from any website, social video or photo, builds pantry-aware weekly plans with its Chef Foodie assistant, and generates aisle-sorted shopping lists across iOS, Android and web.
What is FoodiePrep?
FoodiePrep is an AI meal planner and recipe manager published by Refactor Consulting Ltd, a UK company trading under the FoodiePrep name. Its organising idea is that a saved recipe should lead somewhere: the app takes recipes in from almost any source, then carries them through planning, shopping and cooking instead of filing them away.
Import is the widest part of the product. A recipe can arrive from any website URL, a YouTube video, an Instagram reel, a TikTok, a Facebook post, a Pinterest pin, a photograph of a recipe card or cookbook page, or pasted text. The AI extracts ingredients, instructions and nutritional information into an editable card.
Planning is handled by Chef Foodie, the assistant the publisher describes as agentic: one request produces a seven-day plan, schedules the meals on your calendar, builds the shopping list and flags what your pantry already holds. Onboarding collects goals, diet, allergies, cooking skill and calorie or macro targets, and more than ten eating styles are supported with explicit thresholds, from keto under 30 g of carbohydrate a day and high-protein at 150 g upwards to Mediterranean, vegan, vegetarian, paleo, gluten-free, low-carb, family and a budget mode aimed at around three pounds a meal.
The pantry is the differentiator the publisher leans on hardest. You add what you have by typing it or by pointing the camera at products or a shelf; the app then prioritises recipes that use it and, when a plan reaches the shopping list, removes what you already own. The list is grouped by supermarket aisle, syncs across devices, exports to reminders and notes apps, and in five countries can be sent straight to a retailer's online basket, Tesco, Walmart and Woolworths among them. A step-by-step cooking mode keeps the screen awake while you work.
Underneath, the publisher names OpenAI for recipe and plan generation, Stability AI for imagery, Supabase for storage, Stripe for web payments and RevenueCat for mobile subscriptions. FoodiePrep runs as native iOS and Android apps and on the web. The pantry is deliberately user-curated: it reads no receipts and deducts nothing as you cook, which the publisher states openly.
What it does
- Generate a personalised seven-day meal plan in seconds from your diet, allergies, cooking skill and macro targets
- Import a recipe from any website URL, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Pinterest, a photo or pasted text
- Extract ingredients, instructions and nutritional information automatically into an editable recipe card
- Track what is in your pantry and surface recipes that use ingredients you already own
- Build an aisle-sorted shopping list with pantry duplicates already stripped out
- Send the finished list to a supermarket's online basket in the UK, US, Canada, Australia or New Zealand
- Ask the Chef Foodie assistant cooking questions mid-recipe and get substitution suggestions
When to use FoodiePrep / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if FoodiePrep is the right fit.
When to use FoodiePrep
- Home cooks who save recipes from TikTok, Instagram or YouTube and never get round to cooking them
- Personal trainers and strength coaches planning meals around calorie and macro targets
- Households managing allergies or a restricted diet, from keto and vegan to gluten-free and low-carb
- Students and other budget-conscious cooks, who get a budget mode aimed at around three pounds a meal
- Anyone trying to cut food waste, since the shopping list is checked against a declared pantry before you buy
When not to use FoodiePrep
- Professional kitchens, caterers and nutrition practices: the licence covers personal, non-commercial use only
- Cooks who want an automatic inventory, since the pantry is typed in or scanned, never read from receipts
- People who want to publish their own recipes, as the platform accepts no user-submitted recipes or comments
- Developers looking for an API, and buyers who need a published price before they subscribe
- Under-18s, excluded by the privacy policy, and users needing an interface language other than English
How to use FoodiePrep
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Create an account, which is required; no payment card is needed for the free tier
- Work through the onboarding: goals, diet, allergies, cooking skill, and calorie or macro targets
- Declare what is in your pantry, either by typing items in or by scanning them with the camera
- Import the recipes you already keep, from a URL, a social video, a photo or pasted text, or pick from the library
- Ask Chef Foodie to sort your week, or simply tap generate
- Review the seven-day plan the AI returns, complete with recipes, instructions and nutrition
- Swap any meal you do not fancy with a single tap
- Open the shopping list, already grouped by aisle and stripped of what your pantry covers
- Send the list to a supermarket's online basket, or share it to your reminders or notes app
- Cook in step-by-step mode, asking Chef Foodie questions as you go
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Import coverage is genuinely broad: social video, any website URL, and photographs of printed recipes
- The pantry feeds the plan and the shopping list, rather than only a suggestion feed
- One tool covers the whole chain, from deciding what to eat to shopping to cooking
- A permanent free tier with no payment card required, plus a seven-day trial of the paid tier
- The shopping list hands off to real supermarket baskets in five countries
- GDPR compliance is claimed explicitly, third-party recipients are named, and data is not sold
- Native iOS and Android apps alongside the web app, with sync across devices
Cons
- No price is published anywhere: the pricing section renders in JavaScript and no figure appears in the page source, the comparison articles or the FAQ
- The site names the same two tiers two different ways, Taster and Nutrition Pro in one place, Starter and Premium in another
- No automatic inventory: the pantry is maintained by hand, with no receipt scanning and no deduction as you cook
- No browser extension, so importing happens inside the app rather than from your desktop browser
- All sales are final and no refunds are offered on subscription fees
- No postal address appears anywhere on the site, and the entity named in the terms differs from the one in the footer
- The stated minimum age contradicts itself between documents, and there is no DPA, no Article 27 EU representative and no security certification
Pricing & Plans
FoodiePrep operates a permanent free tier that requires no payment card, covering up to five recipes and a weekly meal plan. The paid tier adds unlimited AI recipe generation, unlimited meal plans, pantry-aware generation and advanced nutritional information, and can be tried free for seven days with a card on file, cancellable before the trial ends. Billing is monthly or annual depending on the plan chosen, taken through Stripe on the web and RevenueCat in the mobile apps. No amount is published: the pricing section renders client-side and no figure appears in the page source, in the publisher's own comparison articles or in the FAQ, so the entry price of the paid tier cannot be stated here. All sales are final and no refunds are offered.
- up to five recipes
- a weekly meal plan
- recipe books
- basic planning and supermarket cart links
- with no payment card required
- unlimited AI recipe generation
- unlimited meal plans
- pantry-aware generation
- advanced nutritional information and the full AI feature set
- Seven-day free trial of the paid tier
- card required to start
- cancellable at any time before it ends
- Billing monthly or annual depending on the plan chosen
- through Stripe on the web and RevenueCat in the apps
- No price is published for the paid tier
- and the site uses two different names for the same two tiers
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how FoodiePrep handles your data.
GDPR overview
Compliance is claimed in plain terms. The privacy policy states that FoodiePrep complies with the GDPR, names its legal bases (consent, contractual necessity and legitimate interests) and enumerates the seven data-subject rights, all exercised through info@foodieprep.ai. Replication to the United Kingdom, United States and Australia via Supabase is covered by Standard Contractual Clauses, and encryption in transit and at rest is described. The gaps matter as much as the claims: no data protection officer is named, no Article 27 EU representative is designated even though the publisher is a post-Brexit UK company, no data processing agreement is offered, no retention period is quantified, and no certification such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001 appears anywhere. Facebook Pixel, Microsoft Clarity session replay and PostHog are all active.
Who owns the data?
Refactor Consulting Ltd owns the platform, its trademarks and its software, including the mobile and web applications. The terms go further on AI output: users cannot submit their own recipes or comments, and any content generated with the AI tools is owned and moderated by FoodiePrep, which reserves the right to use, modify and display it as part of the Service. Personal data is treated separately. The privacy policy states plainly that user data is not sold to third parties, and names every recipient: Supabase, Stripe, RevenueCat, OpenAI, Stability AI, Microsoft Clarity and PostHog. On termination, the terms promise that all user data is permanently deleted from the publisher's systems.
Reuse rights
The licence granted to the user is limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable and revocable, and covers personal, non-commercial purposes only. Reproducing, modifying, adapting, translating, distributing, selling, renting or sublicensing any part of the service is prohibited, as is reverse engineering it or removing proprietary notices; automation tools and bots are barred from the site. Within those limits, sharing is generous: recipes can be shared with family, friends, other FoodiePrep users, or publicly through a shareable link, and the team's own curated library on the public recipes page works exactly that way. What the terms do not permit is reusing the generated content commercially or building a derivative product from it.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
Storage sits with Supabase, named explicitly in the privacy policy, and the publisher says data may be transferred and replicated to the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia. Standard Contractual Clauses are cited as the safeguard for those transfers. Security is described in general terms: encryption in transit over SSL/TLS and at rest, access restricted to authorised personnel, and regular security assessments. Payment details never reach the publisher, since Stripe handles web payments and RevenueCat the mobile subscriptions. The governing jurisdiction is the United Kingdom, where Refactor Consulting Ltd is registered, and disputes go to UK courts. Two caveats are worth noting. The domain resolves to a US address on Amazon's network flagged as anycast, which identifies a CDN point of presence rather than a storage location, so it says nothing about where records actually live. And no certification, whether SOC 2, ISO 27001 or any other, is claimed anywhere on the site, which carries no trust or security page at all.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting FoodiePrep.
- The terms disclaim all liability for injury, illness or death arising from preparing or eating a generated recipe
- Allergy filtering is declarative, and the site itself asks you to review each recipe and consult a medical or nutrition professional
- Quantities transcribed from cooking videos deserve a check before you cook, as the publisher concedes accuracy is high but not perfect
- Subscribing with no published price, on a card-backed trial that renews if you forget to cancel, where all sales are final
- A detailed dietary profile covering restrictions, allergies and weight goals sits with a publisher that lists no postal address and offers no DPA
- Advertising and session-replay trackers are active, namely Facebook Pixel, Microsoft Clarity and PostHog
- Handing every food decision to the assistant can erode the cooking judgement the app is meant to support
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Very low. There is nothing to install beyond an app download, and nothing at all if you use the web version. An account is required, but no payment card for the free tier. A short onboarding collects your goals, diet, allergies and cooking skill, after which plans generate on demand. The only slightly laborious step is the first pantry entry, typed in or scanned with the camera. No API keys, no configuration and no server settings are involved anywhere.
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Frequently asked questions
What does FoodiePrep actually do?
Where can I import recipes from?
How does the pantry feature work?
Is there a free plan, and what does it include?
How much does the paid plan cost?
Can it handle allergies and specific diets?
Can I send my shopping list to a supermarket?
Is my data used to train AI models?
Is there a mobile app, and is there an API?
Should you pick FoodiePrep?
FoodiePrep answers a real problem: recipes saved from social feeds rarely turn into dinner. By importing from almost any source and carrying the result through a pantry-aware plan, an aisle-sorted list and a supermarket basket hand-off, it covers a chain most recipe apps break halfway. The pantry check before you shop, and the seven-day plan produced from a single request, are the parts that earn the AI label rather than decorate it.
The reservations are mostly about disclosure rather than capability. No price appears anywhere on the site, not in the pricing section, which renders client-side, nor in the FAQ, nor in the publisher's own comparison articles, so nobody can know the cost before reaching a payment screen, and all sales are final. The site also names the same two tiers two different ways, Taster and Nutrition Pro in one place, Starter and Premium in another, which reads like pages updated at different times.
The corporate footprint is thin for a service that profiles diets, allergies and weight goals. No postal address appears on any page. The terms name Refactor Consulting Ltd while every footer says Foodie Prep Ltd. The minimum age is 18 in the privacy policy and unrestricted in the terms. A UK publisher claiming GDPR compliance designates no Article 27 EU representative and offers no data processing agreement, and retention is described only in principle, with no period given.
One more thing worth knowing: the comparison articles that supply much of the detail above are the publisher's own blog posts, which rank FoodiePrep first while disclosing the conflict. Taken together, this is a capable consumer product with a free tier worth trying, wrapped in paperwork a careful buyer should read first.
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