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Menucesta.es

Plan your week, fit the menu to your profile and compare what your shopping basket really costs.

StatusPrivate beta · legal review
RoleProduct, design and engineering · solo
MarketSpain · supermarkets with an online shop
The product

The week is the product, not an isolated recipe.

Menucesta.es turns a goal, a calendar and a budget into a realistic week: dishes, quantities, reused ingredients and a basket costed by whole packages.

The IA Chef Nutricionista feature generates the plan for each profile; the nutrition rules, the allergies and the shopping calculation stay outside the model and are checked deterministically.

Filipino chicken adobo cooked in a pot and portioned into containers for batch cooking.
Chicken adobo · high-protein batch cooking. 4 servings · 558 kcal and 47 g of protein per serving · 4 days in the fridge · freezable.
Basket savings

The same menu does not cost the same in every supermarket.

Menucesta compares the whole basket across Spanish supermarkets, using real package sizes instead of theoretical prices per gram. That is what lets it recommend where to buy the week and how much it saves against the alternatives.

It compares

  • Available products and package sizes
  • Total cost of every package
  • Missing items and the substitutions needed

You decide

  • The cheapest complete basket
  • The saving against each alternative
  • Whether splitting the shop is worth the effort
Weekly basket · 24 productsBest option
Supermarket A24 of 24 products
Supermarket B23 of 24 · 1 substitution
€€
Supermarket C24 of 24 products
€€€
Saving detectedCompared basket against basket
Visual example; it does not show live prices.
Technical foundation

Data engineering before AI promises.

FastAPI and Python, PostgreSQL with vector search, Redis and Celery for scheduled work, SQLAlchemy and Alembic, Next.js and React, Docker Compose and mobile packaging from a single codebase.

The list is not what matters: what matters is the discipline of idempotent ingestion, deterministic calculation, validators, replay-resistant payments and clear limits on what a model is allowed to do.

Evidence
Curated recipes1,154
Supermarket products14,839
Historical price points665k
Backend tests308

Built solo: product, architecture, backend, frontend, data engineering, mobile packaging and legal pages. The figures are a snapshot of the project, not a commercial promise.

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