Zensical ships a redesigned "modern" theme: a flat header that uses the page
background color and the Inter typeface, rather than Material's colored app-bar
and Roboto, and it keeps links / the nav active-item pill / the announce banner
on its default indigo accent. The mealie palette and custom.css load fine, but
the modern theme no longer wires --md-primary-fg-color to the header, and the
indigo accent clashes with the brand orange.
- mkdocs.yml: set theme.font to Roboto / Roboto Mono (Zensical honors theme.font)
- custom.css:
- restore the orange app-bar (.md-header/.md-tabs) from --md-primary-fg-color
- brand the accent (links, nav active pill, announce banner) by overriding
--md-typeset-a-color and --md-accent-fg-color[--transparent]; the
[scheme][primary] selector matches the theme's own (0,2,0) rules so it wins
in both light (mealie) and dark (slate) modes
- make the announce banner text adaptive so it is readable in light mode
(was hardcoded light-gray, invisible on the modern theme's light banner)
- ai-providers.md: fix a broken self-referential link surfaced by Zensical's
build check ("backend configuration" now points to backend-config.md)
Verified with headless-Chrome screenshots in both light and dark mode:
`zensical build` is clean ("No issues found"); Roboto fonts, orange header/tabs,
orange links, and a readable announce banner in both schemes.
Mealie
A Place For All Your Recipes
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About The Project
Mealie is a self hosted recipe manager, meal planner and shopping list with a RestAPI backend and a reactive frontend built in Vue for a pleasant user experience for the whole family. Easily add recipes into your database by providing the URL and Mealie will automatically import the relevant data, or add a family recipe with the UI editor. Mealie also provides an API for interactions from 3rd party applications.
Key Features
- Recipe imports: Create recipes, by importing from a URL or entering data manually
- Meal Planner: Use the Meal Planner to plan your what you'll cook for the next week
- Shopping List: Put the necessary ingredients on your Shopping List, organised into sections of your local supermarket
- Cookbooks: Group recipes into Cookbooks based on your own criteria
- Docker: Easy Docker deployment
- Localisation: Translations for 35+ languages
Contributing
Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated. If you're going to be working on the code-base, you'll want to use the nightly documentation to ensure you get the latest information.
- See the Contributors Guide for help getting started.
- We use VSCode Dev Containers to make it easy for contributors to get started!
If you are not a coder, you can still contribute financially. Financial contributions help me prioritize working on this project over others and helps me know that there is a real demand for project development.
Translations
Translations can be a great way for non-coders to contribute to the project. We use Crowdin to allow several contributors to work on translating Mealie. You can simply help by voting for your preferred translations, or even by completely translating Mealie into a new language.
For more information, check out the translation page on the contributor's guide.
License
Distributed under the AGPL License. See LICENSE for more information.
Sponsors
Huge thanks to all the sponsors of this project on Github Sponsors and Buy Me a Coffee. Without you, this project would surely not be possible.
Thanks to Depot for providing build instances for our Docker image builds.

