Foodoodle press kit

TULSA, Okla. — Foodoodle, a Black-owned software company from Pensy Group, today opened its shared family meal planning platform to households facing the October 21 shutdown of the Mealime app. The browser-based platform is free during beta: no app download, no credit card, no trial clock.

Mealime’s closing notice says the app shuts down October 21 and that users’ personal data will be deleted; its recipes move to parent company Albertsons’ Meals Hub. Mealime’s Google Play listing invites users to join over 5,000,000 people who have used the app.

“Every family deserves technology built with their table in mind,” said Jonathan Duhon, founder of Foodoodle. “Sunday dinner, the cookout, the weeknight scramble — the table is where a family becomes a family. I built Foodoodle for my own table first: the recipes we already love, a plan everyone can see, and a grocery list that knows what’s in the kitchen.”

Foodoodle puts the week’s meals, the grocery list, and the household’s favorite recipes where everyone can see them. Every member votes from their phone; one planner makes the final call. Setup takes about ten minutes. The weekly plan takes about four.

Households save recipes from any link or scan cookbook pages — Foodoodle starts from what a family already cooks, not a recipe library. The grocery list builds itself from the week’s meals, minus what’s already in the house, grouped by store aisle. Snap the receipt and items tick off. Allergy and restriction conflicts are flagged, with a one-tap swap — a helper, not a guarantee.

And Foodoodle meets families where they already are — including the AI assistants more households talk to every day. Through MCP — the open standard connecting AI assistants to the apps you love — a household can connect ChatGPT, Claude, or any compatible assistant and handle the week’s meals in plain words: “what’s for dinner this week,” “add oat milk to the grocery list.” Connect at foodoodle.com/assistants. The assistant works with the signed-in member’s household permissions — it sees what they see, nothing more.

Foodoodle runs entirely in the browser on iPhone, Android, and desktop, and can be added to a phone’s home screen. No app-store download. Kids join through managed profiles; no accounts needed.

About Foodoodle

Founded by Jonathan Duhon, Foodoodle is a Black-owned software company from Pensy Group on a mission to end the 5 PM dinner debate. Its browser-based family meal planner gives households one shared place for recipes, weekly meal plans, and grocery lists — with family voting, pantry-aware lists grouped by aisle, and receipt snap-to-check-off. It also works with the AI assistants families already use, including ChatGPT and Claude. Free during beta at foodoodle.com.

Media contact: Jonathan Duhon, Founder — Foodoodle · foodoodle@pensygroup.com · (405) 883-0378

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TULSA, Okla. — You don’t have to be a family to eat like one. Firehouse crews on 24-hour shifts, EMS stations, Coast Guard boat crews, wildland engine crews, and cohousing communities all sit down at the same table night after night — cooking for each other, shopping together, and settling “what’s for dinner” in a chaotic group chat. Today, Foodoodle, a software company from Pensy Group, announced shared meal planning built for every table that eats together. Family not required.

The firehouse kitchen table has been called one of the most sacred areas of a firehouse — home to a crew’s “second family,” in the words of Fire Engineering. Cohousing communities share meals several nights a week, with rotating cook teams and serious dietary complexity across dozens of neighbors. Different worlds, same dinner problem: who decides, who cooks, what’s in the pantry, and who builds the grocery list.

“A firehouse crew, a cohousing common house — they already live the thing every family is trying to figure out,” said Jonathan Duhon, founder of Foodoodle. “They cook together, eat together, take care of each other around one table. If you eat together, this is for you.”

Foodoodle fits the way these tables already eat. Everyone votes on the week’s meals from their own phone; one planner makes the call. The grocery list builds itself from the week’s meals, minus what’s already in the house, grouped by aisle — one clean list for the crew’s store run or the community shop. Snap the receipt and items tick off. Allergy and restriction conflicts are flagged, with a one-tap swap — a helper, not a guarantee. Setup takes about ten minutes; the weekly plan takes about four.

The crews and communities already sorting dinner in a group chat are asking AI for help too — and Foodoodle meets them there. Through MCP — the open standard connecting AI assistants to the apps you love — a crew can connect ChatGPT, Claude, or any compatible assistant and sort the week’s meals in plain words: “what’s for dinner this week,” “add coffee to the list.” Connect at foodoodle.com/assistants. The assistant works with the signed-in member’s household permissions — it sees what they see, nothing more.

Foodoodle runs in the phone’s browser — no app-store download — and can be added to a home screen. Free during beta: no card, no trial clock.

About Foodoodle

Foodoodle, a software company from Pensy Group, is shared meal planning for every table that eats together: shared recipes, weekly meals, grocery lists, and household favorites in one place, with voting from every member’s phone and one planner who decides. It also works with the AI assistants you already use, including ChatGPT and Claude. Free during beta at foodoodle.com.

Media contact: Jonathan Duhon, Founder — Foodoodle · foodoodle@pensygroup.com · (405) 883-0378

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