Repast
The catalog

A recipe catalog of 10,000+ real, published dishes

An AI that writes recipes can produce anything, including a dish that does not work. Repast can only choose, never compose — so what the catalog contains is what the app can ever put in front of you. This page is that catalog, measured.

A Repast recipe page for Steakhouse-Style Bavette Steak, showing its serving-size options, declared allergens and ingredient list with quantities.
10,000+published recipes, each with its own photography, serving sizes and prep time
23,675photographs, each with its own rights record
1,366distinct foods, which is what makes one grocery row per ingredient possible
61cuisine tags across the catalog

What every recipe carries

  • The serving sizes it was published with. 71% offer more than one, which is what lets a household change size without changing dish.
  • A real prep time. Median 30 minutes, taken from the source rather than estimated by us.
  • Steps with their photos. A median of 6 steps, and 8,631 of those steps across the catalog contain a duration that becomes a tappable timer.
  • Per-serving nutrition as published. A label from the recipe, not a measurement of your plate, and never an estimate from a photograph.
  • Allergen labels in four states. Including the two that mean the record is silent — set out in full on the allergen page.
  • A rating, where one exists. 75% have one; the rest show nothing rather than a default.

The rule that keeps a recipe out

A recipe reaches the app only if it has at least one real step and a positive calorie value. Entries with empty steps, empty nutrition or all-zero placeholder nutrition stay in the source data and never enter planning, the grocery list or the iOS content pack. That rule is what removed 122 entries from the 7,441 in the corpus.

A second, subtler gate sits behind it. Whether a recipe is good enough to keep and whether a given serving size can produce a complete grocery list are two different questions. The planner prefers yields that can; the others remain searchable and choosable by you, with every incomplete line marked rather than filled in.

What the mix looks like

5,908 recipes are omnivore, 860 vegetarian, 551 pescatarian and 158 vegan. American and North American tags dominate, followed by Italian, East Asian and Mexican — so a week feels like the food a household in the United States actually eats, not a tour of one cuisine.

The catalog is US English, with imperial units. Recipes say zucchini rather than courgette, scallion rather than spring onion, and shrimp rather than prawn. Oven temperatures are in Fahrenheit and quantities in cups and ounces. The app works anywhere; the vocabulary and the oven dial are American, and there is no substitution layer yet.

Chosen for you, not searched for

Everything in the catalog is a published recipe with its own steps, quantities and photography. The planner picks from it; it cannot compose a dish, which is exactly why a Repast week has prep times that hold up and quantities somebody has cooked.

Catalog questions

How many recipes are there?

10,000+. Every one is a published recipe with its own steps, ingredient quantities, serving sizes, prep time and photography — nothing generated, and nothing padded. A recipe only reaches the app if it has at least one real step and a positive calorie value, so the count is what you can actually cook from rather than what is in a database somewhere.

Where do the recipes come from?

They are published recipes with their original steps, ingredient lists, serving sizes, prep times and photography, imported under a versioned rights record per image. Repast is not a user-generated recipe box and not a scraper of blog posts: the catalog is fixed, curated, and the same for everyone.

Does the AI write the recipes?

No, and it cannot. The planner selects from the catalog; it has no mechanism for composing a dish. That constraint is the reason a Repast week has real prep times, real yields and steps somebody has tested — and it is the single biggest structural difference from asking a chatbot what to cook.

Are the recipes rated?

75% carry a rating from their source, with a median of 445 ratings behind each rated dish. The remaining quarter ship with no rating rather than a placeholder, and the plan card shows the rating only where one exists.

How long do the recipes take?

The median is 30 minutes. 64% of the catalog is 30 minutes or less and 97% is 45 or less, using the prep time each recipe publishes. That is what makes a weeknight time ceiling something the planner can enforce rather than suggest.

Can I search the catalog myself?

Yes. Search and saved recipes exist as a way to find a specific dish and swap it into a night, and anything you save stays saved. Browsing is deliberately not the center of the app, though — the point of Repast is that a week arrives without you having to go looking for it.

A fixed catalog, planned from honestly

Real published recipes with the yields, times and ratings they came with — chosen for you, never invented.

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