{"id":437,"date":"2025-10-21T09:11:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T16:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/?p=437"},"modified":"2025-10-24T14:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T21:08:09","slug":"how-to-use-ai-studio-with-mealie-as-the-llm-recipe-parser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/blog\/2025\/10\/21\/how-to-use-ai-studio-with-mealie-as-the-llm-recipe-parser\/","title":{"rendered":"How to use AI Studio with Mealie as the LLM Recipe Parser"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My family is trying <a href=\"https:\/\/mealie.io\/\">Mealie.io<\/a> as our recipe management system, and I found an easy way to use <a href=\"https:\/\/studio.nebius.com\/\">Nebius AI Studio<\/a> with Mealie as the LLM Recipe Parser. This post documents the beginning of my journey, as this path hasn&#8217;t been documented yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>For now, I am only using AI Studio as the recipe parser within Mealie. The image-processing capabilities are still not working reliably yet, and I&#8217;ll update this post as I figure this part out.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is Mealie.io?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As quick context, <a href=\"https:\/\/mealie.io\/\">Mealie.io<\/a> is an opensource recipe management system that you can easily self-host. The software allows you to easily import and manage recipes for yourself and your friends\/family. This is particularly interesting for our family, as we have amassed quite the collection of recipes over the decades. We&#8217;re currently using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantoeat.com\/\">Plan To Eat<\/a> to manage our recipes, but we much rather be able to manage our recipes locally rather than in a SaaS that holds us at their pricing and uptime whims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Installing the software locally was relatively easy using the official Docker images. I set our local instance up on my Synology NAS using <a href=\"https:\/\/mariushosting.com\/how-to-install-mealie-v1-on-your-synology-nas\/\">Marius Bogdan&#8217;s guidance<\/a>, which included <a href=\"https:\/\/mariushosting.com\/synology-how-to-update-portainer\/\">how to also install Portainer<\/a> to easily compose and manage the container&#8217;s backend. While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.portainer.io\/\">Portainer<\/a> is new to me, I love how it simplifies the composition and management process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why add an LLM to Mealie?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mealie recipe import process is fantastic and works most of the time for us, but it had issues importing the ingredients on a couple of food blog sites that we follow. Thankfully, Mealie provides the ability to <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.mealie.io\/documentation\/getting-started\/installation\/open-ai\/\">connect the backend to an OpenAI-compatible LLM<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I selected AI Studio for four reasons: (1) I use Claude, but it doesn&#8217;t support OpenAI protocol; (2) I didn&#8217;t want to add the complexity of OpenRouter just for home recipe imports; (3) I didn&#8217;t feel like learning how to self-host an open LLM; and (4) I want a simple LLM experience &#8211; no compute management, no container management, etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For these reasons, <a href=\"https:\/\/studio.nebius.com\/\">Nebius AI Studio<\/a> felt like a no-brainer &#8211; they provide a wide selection of inference models hosted on their own infrastructure at a much better price. For example, below are screenshots comparing a couple of models from Nebius to OpenAI&#8217;s [cheaper] models. Even for GPT nano, Nebius is half the cost and their models are fine-tunable. Additionally, I am interested in learning more about open LLM\/inference models, and this provides me with an easy onramp into that experience.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1380\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-9.png?resize=1380%2C585&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Screenshots comparing model costs at Nebius and OpenAI.\" class=\"wp-image-438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-9.png?w=1380&amp;ssl=1 1380w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-9.png?resize=300%2C127&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-9.png?resize=1024%2C434&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-9.png?resize=768%2C326&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>So with an LLM provider in mind, let&#8217;s connect up AI Studio with Mealie as the LLM recipe parser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Connecting AI Studio to Mealie<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s really easy to connect Nebius AI Studio to Mealie:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Select the LLM model that you want to use<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Retrieve your API key for AI Studio<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Update the Mealie configuration file<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Validate that it works in Mealie<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 1: Select your LLM model<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>There are a lot of LLM options out there &#8211; I am starting out this week testing <code>openai\/gpt-oss-20b<\/code> (for text only parsing) and <code>google\/gemma-3-27b-it<\/code> (for image processing), but I&#8217;m going to be looking at a few additional models in the coming month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For me, the choice will likely come down to how model performance and how fine-tuning progresses for this use case. So far, they are performing well without the need for fine-tuning, but I will update this as I learn more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 2: Retrieve an API key from AI Studio<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>To get an API key that you can use in Mealie, complete the following steps (and note that visual aid below to view the steps):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Login to Nebius AI Studio<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click the &#8216;Get API key&#8217; button<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In the popup dialog, provide a name for the API key (e.g., &#8216;Mealie App&#8217;)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click &#8216;Create&#8217; to create the API key<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Copy the new API key using the clipboard icon (and save this somewhere safe!)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click &#8216;Close&#8217; to close the dialog<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"611\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-10.png?resize=1024%2C611&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Screenshot for Install Steps - Creating a new API key in AI Studio\" class=\"wp-image-439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-10.png?resize=1024%2C611&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-10.png?resize=300%2C179&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-10.png?resize=768%2C458&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-10.png?w=1220&amp;ssl=1 1220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-11.png?resize=300%2C160&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Screenshot for Install Steps - Prompt to save the API key\" class=\"wp-image-440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-11.png?resize=300%2C160&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-11.png?w=620&amp;ssl=1 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 3: Update the Mealie configuration file<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the instructions for <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.mealie.io\/documentation\/getting-started\/installation\/open-ai\/\">Mealie&#8217;s OpenAI integration<\/a>, I used the following steps to update Mealie running on my Synology NAS:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Open up your Portainer instance and connect to your local environment<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select Stacks from the left navigation pane<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select the stack you want to update &#8211; for example, &#8216;Mealie&#8217;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Within the Stack details page, click <code>Editor<\/code> to edit the stack&#8217;s Docker Compose file<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Add the OpenAI settings to the end of the <code>environment<\/code> section of Compose file<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click the <code>Update the stack<\/code> button to apply the changes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When prompted to confirm, click the Update button and Portainer will update Mealie&#8217;s stack<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>There are four environment configuration lines that you&#8217;ll need for AI Studio (replacing <em>API_KEY<\/em> with your real API key from Step 2) to do recipe parsing using the LLM:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>OPENAI_BASE_URL: https:\/\/api.studio.nebius.com\/v1\/\nOPENAI_API_KEY: <em>API_KEY<\/em>\nOPENAI_MODEL: openai\/gpt-oss-20b\nOPENAI_ENABLE_IMAGE_SERVICES: false<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>To use Mealie&#8217;s image services, we need to enable image services and add a new configuration line that enables us to increase the maximum number of tokens to support the extra processing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>OPENAI_BASE_URL: https:\/\/api.studio.nebius.com\/v1\/\nOPENAI_API_KEY: <em>API_KEY<\/em>\nOPENAI_MODEL: google\/gemma-3-27b-it\nOPENAI_ENABLE_IMAGE_SERVICES: true\nOPENAI_CUSTOM_PARAMS: '{\"max_tokens\": 4096, \"temperature\": 0.5}' <\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Below are screenshots of the Portainer experience, for those who want to follow along visually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-12.png?resize=1024%2C267&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Screenshot for Install Steps - Environment list in Portainer\" class=\"wp-image-442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-12.png?resize=1024%2C267&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-12.png?resize=300%2C78&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-12.png?resize=768%2C200&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-12.png?w=1291&amp;ssl=1 1291w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"938\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-13.png?resize=938%2C385&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Screenshot for Install Steps - Stack list for a Portainer environment\" class=\"wp-image-443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-13.png?w=938&amp;ssl=1 938w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-13.png?resize=300%2C123&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-13.png?resize=768%2C315&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 938px) 100vw, 938px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-18.png?resize=1024%2C731&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Screenshot for Install Steps - Updating the configuration settings for a stack in Portainer\" class=\"wp-image-448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-18.png?resize=1024%2C731&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-18.png?resize=300%2C214&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-18.png?resize=768%2C548&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-18.png?w=1215&amp;ssl=1 1215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-15.png?resize=300%2C156&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Screenshot for Install Steps - Portainer update confirmation dialog\" class=\"wp-image-445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-15.png?resize=300%2C156&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-15.png?w=449&amp;ssl=1 449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 4: Validate that it works in Mealie<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Now point your browser to your Mealie instance (e.g., 192.168.1.120:9250) and do the following to verify that everything is wired up:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Once logged in as an admin user, click Settings <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select <code>Admin Settings<\/code> from the fly-out menu<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Verify that &#8216;OpenAI Ready&#8217; has a green checkmark, marking it as working properly<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"736\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-16.png?resize=1024%2C736&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Mealie Screenshot - Accessing Admin Settings\" class=\"wp-image-446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-16.png?resize=1024%2C736&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-16.png?resize=300%2C216&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-16.png?resize=768%2C552&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-16.png?w=1352&amp;ssl=1 1352w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8cf370e7 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p>Once Mealie sees the OpenAI connection available, you can use the debug menu to validate the parsers work:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><em>OpenAI <\/em><\/strong>debugs that image processing works. The screenshot below shows a recipe tested using this debug option.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><em>Parser <\/em><\/strong>validates how text is processed. The primary test that you are looking for here is how the ingredients section is parsed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-17.png?resize=300%2C173&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Mealie screenshot - debugging OpenAI image processing\" class=\"wp-image-447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-17.png?resize=300%2C173&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-17.png?resize=1024%2C589&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-17.png?resize=768%2C442&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-17.png?w=1378&amp;ssl=1 1378w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Next Step &#8211; Getting image processing to work<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>As mentioned earlier in the post &#8211; parsing recipes from an image is not yet working for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The OpenAI image processer returns success (see screen capture above)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The LLM successfully parses the recipe and returns a response (once I increased the maximum number of tokens) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Beyond that, results are inconsistent &#8211; Some very basic recipe images process successfully, while others fail with this general &#8216;Something Went Wrong!&#8217; message (see screenshot below)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"63\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-19.png?resize=300%2C63&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Oops - something went wrong?\" class=\"wp-image-449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-19.png?resize=300%2C63&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-19.png?w=450&amp;ssl=1 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m in the process of debugging Mealie to figure out what&#8217;s happening &#8211; my current thought is that the LLM is returning a different JSON structure than Mealie is expecting. 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