Build Log · June 19, 2026
ForgeHome Meal Engine — Session 2
AI meal planning is live. Courtney says what she made, Claude learns the family's taste, and next week's dinners plan themselves. The grocery list writes itself too.
- forgehome
- meal-engine
- ai-patterns
- grocery
- New API routes shipped
- 4
- Dinners Claude suggests per week
- 7
- Input modes: single day, week capture, voice
- 3
- Type errors at deploy
- 0
New API routes shipped
Dinners Claude suggests per week
Input modes: single day, week capture, voice
Type errors at deploy
Timeline
Start
Picked up from Session 1 retro
Meal log + feedback engine already live. Next: plan generation + grocery list.
20 min
/api/meals/plan built
Pulls last 30 dinners + feedback, computes Landon dislikes + family favorites, season-weighted Claude prompt
40 min
/api/meals/grocery built
Takes approved meal names, Claude extracts combined ingredient list for 4 people, saves to grocery_items
1h
MealPlanPanel + GroceryList components
Generate → review 7 suggestions → approve → build grocery list. Checklist with check-off + manual add.
1.5h
WeekCapture + parse-week API
Voice/text across multiple days. 'tacos Tuesday, pasta Wednesday' → Claude assigns each meal to the right date.
2h
Page wired + build clean
All components on /meals. Zero type errors. Clean production build.
End
Deployed to home.forgekits.build
4 new routes live. Courtney can plan next week right now.
“The plan generator launched with real data on its first click. That's the flywheel.”