Better Mealie MCP

Item: Better Mealie MCP
Rating: 71
Author: M8ven

Provides complete access to Mealie's API for managing recipes, meal plans, shopping lists, households, and more via natural language from AI assistants.

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// key findings

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

🔐

You'll be asked for 2 credentials: MEALIE_API_TOKEN, MEALIE_PASSWORD

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

configMEALIE_BASE_URL— e =http://host.docker.internal:9925 \

🔐 secretMEALIE_API_TOKEN— Long-lived API token (preferred) — Mealie → Profile → Manage API Tokens

configMEALIE_USERNAME— / MEALIE_PASSWORD Alternative: logs in at startup to fetch a token

🔐 secretMEALIE_PASSWORD— MEALIE_USERNAME / Alternative: logs in at startup to fetch a token

configMEALIE_TIMEOUT— Per-request timeout, seconds (default 60)

configMEALIE_VERIFY_SSL— Verify TLS cert; false to accept self-signed (default true)

configMCP_SERVER_NAME— MCP name advertised to clients (default Mealie)

configMEALIE_INCLUDE_TAGS— Expose only these API groups, comma-separated (e.g. recipes,shopping-lists). Fewer tools = leaner context / fits clients that cap tool counts

configMEALIE_EXCLUDE_TAGS— Expose everything except these groups (e.g. admin,households)

configMCP_HOST— In --http mode the bind address comes from (default 127.0.0.1;

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commit: 3681f4e02c90ce4e8387df2b43d99811b974ccd1

code hash: d179f8dd660c4f2dccebe3012968f20bc3564d889bdc36758caf4d9ef2ff5490

verified: 7/10/2026, 10:04:50 AM

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