RECIPES MODULEfor the dishes your family actually makes
The family cookbook that does the maths.
Save grandma’s banana bread, the blog curry and the soup off the back of an envelope. Then scale any of them to the people at the table, the tin in your cupboard, or the bananas going brown.
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- 3 waysto scale: by servings, by total amount, or by what you have
- g ↔ kggrams, millilitres and spoons convert as you scale
- 1 photois all it takes to save a recipe
- 0sums done on the back of an envelope
NEW · WORKS IN CHATGPT & CLAUDE
Photo in.
Recipe out.
Grandma’s handwritten card, a page from a cookbook, a link to a blog post with a life story on top. Send it to your AI assistant and it lands in FamilyWell as a clean recipe, ready to scale.
- Snap it, paste it or say itA card, a cookbook page, a link, or dictate it while you stir.
- Send it to ChatGPT or ClaudeFamilyWell is connected once, with the permissions you pick.
- Saved to the family cookbookAmounts split into numbers and units, so the calculator works from day one.
01 · THE CALCULATOR
One recipe. Any amount.
Zero maths at the counter.
Pick how you want to scale and every ingredient follows. Grams turn into kilos, spoons round to the nearest quarter, eggs to the nearest half, and “to taste” stays to taste.
| Grandma’s banana breadmakes 1 loaf · 10 slices | AS WRITTEN×1 Grandma’s note1 loaf |
SERVINGS×1.5 Cousins are staying15 slices |
TOTAL×2.5 School bake sale25 slices |
I HAVE…×2 The bowl went brown6 bananas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| bananas | 3 | 4½ | 7½ | 6 |
| flour | 250 g | 375 g | 625 g | 500 g |
| eggs | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 |
| brown sugar | 100 g | 150 g | 250 g | 200 g |
| baking soda | 1 tsp | 1½ tsp | 2½ tsp | 2 tsp |
| butter, melted | 115 g | 173 g | 288 g | 230 g |
| salt | a pinch | a pinch | a pinch | a pinch |
Units convert themselves
1,250 ml becomes 1.25 l, 1,200 g becomes 1.2 kg. Say you have 0.4 kg of flour and it knows that’s 400 g.
Rounded like a cook would
Spoons to the nearest quarter, eggs to the nearest half, grams to the gram. Nobody measures 3.2 eggs.
Some things never scale
Mark the vanilla pod or the one bay leaf as fixed, and it stays put whatever you make.
Grandma’s banana bread
Prep 15 min · Bake 60 min · 1 loaf
Grandma’s handwritten note, saved by Sarah. Even better on day two.
INGREDIENTS
- 6 pcsbananas · mashed
- 500 gflour
- 4 pcseggs
- 200 gbrown sugar
- 2 tspbaking soda
- 230 gbutter · melted
- salt · a pinch
02 · ASK, DON’T CALCULATE
“I have 6 bananas
going brown.”
Say it the way you’d say it in the kitchen. Your assistant scales the recipe with the same calculator the app uses, then puts what’s missing on the shopping list at the new amounts. Untick what’s already in the cupboard.
03 · THE REST OF THE COOKBOOK
Everything the recipe tin did.
Plus search.
Paste a list
No assistant handy? Paste the ingredients and FamilyWell splits them into amounts, units and sections like Dough and Filling.
Search by what’s in the fridge
Find recipes by title, tag or ingredient. Type “courgette” and see every way the family cooks it.
A public link for the cousins
Send grandma’s recipe to anyone. They can read it, no account needed.
Family, invited or private
Shared with the whole family by default. Keep the experiments to yourself until they work.
Cooking mode
Open a recipe full screen in ChatGPT or Claude and tick off each step as you go.
Nothing gets lost
Deleted the wrong one? It waits in Recently deleted for 30 days.
Grandma’s recipes
deserve better than
a drawer.
Snap the first card tonight. By the weekend the whole family cookbook can scale itself.
$5/mo or $45/yr hosted · free to self-host · every module included