Pro tip: Using Midjourney to generate food pics makes Mealie look (more) awesome. reddit / selfhosted ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ForeverWinter · 2023-11-14 01:58 Prompt: ". Photorealistic. White background." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PowerfulAttorney3780 · 2023-11-14 04:03 Really cool! Looks straight outta FFXV! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- everybanana · 2023-11-14 04:44 Nice idea. Would be useful for my recipes that don't have a picture. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FanClubof5 · 2023-11-14 04:59 If you are comfortable using docker then I highly recommend using... https://github.com/AbdBarho/stable-diffusion-webui-docker If you have a graphics card its super easy to setup and start playing around. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- just_some_onlooker · 2023-11-14 05:33 What's mealie? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- lmm7425 · 2023-11-14 05:37 https://github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie ---------------------------------------------------------------------- autisticit · 2023-11-14 06:29 Clever! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- finrodchen · 2023-11-14 07:15 Really useful AI tip ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mezutelni · 2023-11-14 07:56 I though that it's screenshot from just eat, talking about some restaurants using AI for their food lol Yet, now i'm pushing another app on my homelab and preparing to make my GF use it along with me ---------------------------------------------------------------------- katbyte · 2023-11-14 08:19 Ooo this looks really interesting, I finally got a 2nd gpu for a windows gaming vm meaning it sits idle much of the time. I’m going to try this out tomorrow Any other projects you recommend that I could throw at it? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Kiwi-TK- · 2023-11-14 09:51 I honestly rather have real pictures of the meals, that way I know what I'm cooking :D ---------------------------------------------------------------------- phlooo · 2023-11-14 10:30 Is Mealie better than Tandoor? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- T3KO · 2023-11-14 12:20 Trying to decide betweeen mealie, tandoor and kitchenowl right now. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BitlessByte · 2023-11-14 12:27 Definitely mealie is the way to go! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- infeasibility · 2023-11-14 12:36 Where can I enter that prompt to test it? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Cylian91460 · 2023-11-14 13:32 Go search unlicensed image instead of using midjourney, there is a LOT of license issues with AI (because companies who make them are actively doing illegal things) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- chandz05 · 2023-11-14 13:51 I experimented with both and settled on Mealie. Only thing missing for me is SSO/OIDC, otherwise it's perfect for my needs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- chandz05 · 2023-11-14 13:52 Came here to say this :) dark theme with real pictures looks slick to me ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SonicIX · 2023-11-14 14:38 He is putting these images in Mealie for his personal use. Why would he need to worry about licensing the images? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CSedu · 2023-11-14 15:21 Love Mealie to death, but the developer is backing off further development to do other projects, so plan accordingly. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- zanfar · 2023-11-14 15:43 I'm trying to answer that question right now and have read every review or comparison of either I can find on this sub. Here is my take: It is entirely up to your personal preference and situation. For all major features, both are equally functional. Both have demos, so use both of them and find out. Tandoor's UI felt more clunky to me, and I can't get it to display a recipe with ingredients on a single screen, so I'm going with Mealie. Other people like Tandoor's more granular ingredients/instruction organization. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- canoxen · 2023-11-14 15:50 I test drove both and the thing that pushed me towards tandoor is that mealie doesn't have standardized sizes in the recipes. Instead of selecting units of measure from a drop down, it's just an open text field. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Itsthejoker · 2023-11-14 16:00 Fuuuuuck. Do you have a source for that? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NowanIlfideme · 2023-11-14 16:06 I think it's more a moral stance rather than legal. :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SonicIX · 2023-11-14 16:07 This is literally just generating pictures of food for personal use…. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- volthunter · 2023-11-14 16:38 Anti ai is at the point where its gone full brain rot and they no longer have any reason for their beliefs apart from what they were told on twitter by people you'd avoid on a train ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Midnight_Rising · 2023-11-14 18:03 I mean, if it's a recipe that you've made and you want a picture of it, there's a good chance that you aren't good enough at food photography to make it seem anything other than a bowl of generic bits-- I know I'm terrible at it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Kiwi-TK- · 2023-11-14 18:07 I'm terrible too, but at least it's the reality and you don't expect any magic food ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Akmantainman · 2023-11-14 19:35 Likely from this post [https://github.com/mealie- recipes/mealie/releases/tag/v1.0.0-RC1](https://github.com/mealie- recipes/mealie/releases/tag/v1.0.0-RC1) I'm the maintainer and author of that post and I don't think the parent comment is fair to what I wrote. We now have 3 total maintainers including myself and the project is still actively developed, bug fixes from me, and features from the community. It's not like I just archived the repository and said good luck everyone! I'm also not even leaving the space. I switching my focus to a top- down re-think of a Recipe Manager with a cloud-hosted offering to sustain development long term for the eventual open source self-hosted offering. There's more information in the post I linked, or you can checkout the landing page for the new project [https://recipinned.com/](https://recipinned.com/) I wouldn't worry about Mealie going anywhere anytime soon, tons of people use and it I'm still working on recruiting more maintainers so I'm not the only one keeping the project alive. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CrustyBatchOfNature · 2023-11-14 19:41 Same here. I wanted a simple view more like a recipe book and Mealie hits that right out of the park. I am running the omni-nightly in docker though which had an update 2 months ago vs the 2 years for the normal latest. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Itsthejoker · 2023-11-14 20:06 Ahh! Okay, thank you, that makes sense. I've been a happy user of Mealie for a while — still running 0.5.6, which probably means I need to upgrade eventually. I completely understand needing to focus on funding; I hope the adjustment works for you! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- T3KO · 2023-11-14 20:54 Right now I like KitchenOwl the most. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- canoxen · 2023-11-14 20:56 How come? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- T3KO · 2023-11-14 21:11 Active development, nice ui, simple to use. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- canoxen · 2023-11-14 21:12 Oh nice, I'll have to check it out ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SenatorBagels · 2023-11-15 07:46 The others are under active development, too. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Perpetual_Nuisance · 2023-11-15 07:48 When I add a dish, I add my own picture of it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- visualdescript · 2023-11-15 10:54 Not that hard with phones these days. Good lighting, plain background, chuck phone in photo mode, auto filters. Done and dusted. Even if it's not great, like you said, it's real!