Announcing Meze

A meal planning platform that optimizes for nutrition, wellbeing, budget, and culinary curiosity

I’m building Meze, a meal planning platform that connects your nutrition goals to actual meals on your plate. The problem: most apps are fragmented—recipe databases, grocery list makers, calorie trackers—each solving one piece while you do the mental work of connecting them. Meze treats meal planning as a single flow from goal to groceries to prep, automatically scaling portions to hit your macro targets within 5% accuracy.

The Problem

Meal planning is deceptively complex:

  • Nutrition is overwhelming: Tracking macros, understanding micronutrients, adjusting portions for your body
  • Planning takes time: Deciding what to eat, when, and how much
  • Shopping is inefficient: Creating lists, avoiding food waste, managing costs
  • Cooking coordination is chaotic: Especially for households with multiple people

Most apps solve just one piece—they’re recipe databases or grocery list makers or calorie trackers. None of them connect the dots from goal to plate.

What Meze Does

Meze approaches meal planning as a complete flow:

Plan → Set nutrition goals, create personalized meal plans that scale portions to match your targets (within 5% accuracy)

Order Groceries → Generate smart grocery lists with exact quantities to minimize waste

Prep → Get step-by-step prep instructions optimized for efficiency, with batch processing across meals

Cook → Coordinated cooking schedules with timing and technique guidance

Store → Optimal storage guidelines, expiration tracking, and consumption reminders

Clean → Efficient cleanup checklists and kitchen inventory management

The key insight: nutrition-based meal scaling. Meze automatically adjusts meals to match your daily nutrition goals. Instead of generic serving sizes, you get portions calibrated to your specific calorie and macro targets.

Current State

Meze is in active development. The core data models are in place, and I’m using it for my own meal planning. The goal is to build something that solves my own meal planning friction first, then expand from there.

Tech Stack

  • Next.js 15 with React 19 on Cloudflare Workers
  • SQLite with Drizzle ORM
  • TailwindCSS