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SimpleeFood is a self-hosted recipe app.

Simple to run. Simple to use. Simply no bloat.

Major Features -

search and tag recipes
import recipes from a URL
fullscreen mode, for easy cooking on your tablet or phone

SimpleeFood is packaged as a docker image and can be run with docker compose.

# optional: specify which image tag to use # defaults to "latest" export SIMPLEE_FOOD_DOCKER_TAG="v1.0.0" # fetch the sample `docker-compose.yml` file in this repo curl "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/abhchand/simplee-food/refs/heads/main/docker-compose.yml" > docker-compose.yml # start the application docker compose up

View the application at http://localhost:8080/.
Log in with username admin and password sekrit. You can update this from the /settings page.
See docker hub for the list of available tags

# optional: specify which new image tag to use # defaults to "latest" export SIMPLEE_FOOD_DOCKER_TAG="v2.0.0" # fetch the image docker compose pull # rebuild and restart docker compose down docker compose up --build --force-recreate

SimpleeFood respects the following environment variables, if set:

ENV Var Description

SIMPLEE_FOOD_APP_PORT	Serve the application on a specific port. (default: 8080)
SIMPLEE_FOOD_DOCKER_TAG	Specify a tag for the docker image (default: latest). See available tags.

All recipe data is stored in a single, self-contained SQLite DB file, which can be easily backed up or restored.

sqlite/simplee_food.production.sqlite3

Questions? Need help? Open an issue on Github.

Interested in contributing to SimpleeFood or running it locally in development mode?

See DEVELOPMENT.md.

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