Schedule Trigger Automate

Home Chefs and Meal Planners: This workflow is ideal for individuals or families who are looking to simplify their meal planning process. It caters to busy professionals, parents managing household meals, or anyone interested in organizing their weekly dinner recipes efficiently. By automating the meal planning process, users can save time and reduce the stress of deciding what to cook each week.

This workflow addresses the challenge of weekly meal planning by automating the process of creating a meal plan based on user-defined parameters. It pulls recipes from the Mealie API, randomly selects a specified number of recipes, and schedules them for upcoming days. This eliminates the need for manual planning and ensures a variety of meals while saving time.

1. Schedule Trigger: The workflow is set to automatically run every Friday at 8 PM, ensuring meal planning is done at a consistent time each week.
2. Configuration Setup: Initial parameters like the base URL for the Mealie API, the number of recipes to generate, and the offset days for planning are defined.
3. Recipe Retrieval: The workflow fetches a list of all available recipes from Mealie, allowing users to specify categories if desired.
4. Random Selection: A JavaScript code node randomly selects the specified number of recipes from the retrieved list, ensuring that users receive a varied meal plan.
5. Meal Plan Creation: Finally, the selected recipes are formatted into a structured meal plan, ready to be used for the upcoming days.