Platter Palette

Platter Palette started as a real problem at home. My wife and I do weekly meal planning, and we kept rotating through the same meals while the process of picking them felt clunkier than it needed to be. We tried a physical flashcard system — categorizing meals by effort level and drawing the next one — but it broke down quickly: a meal can only live in one category, and the manual upkeep wasn't sustainable. Platter Palette is the software version of that system, done right. Users set up a "kitchen," add their meals, tag them with as many categories as apply, and the app automatically populates a weekly calendar by matching meals to whatever constraints a given day calls for. I started it as a web app and switched to Android, since meal planning happens on the phone. Planned features include shared kitchens with role-based permissions (great for families), per-meal recipes, and automatic grocery list generation from the week's schedule — which is where the real time savings would kick in.