Vacation meal planning
The rental is booked. Now, who's cooking?
One shared menu for everyone staying in the house. Claim the meals you'll cook, let the helper scale the recipes, send one grocery list to Walmart, and split the bill fairly. Free, no app to install.
- One link, one menu
- Pickup or delivery
- No payment details
The problem
Twelve people, one kitchen, and a group chat that never stops.
Family reunions and friend getaways put several couples and families under one roof, and everyone wants the trip to go well. But the menu lives in a text thread, the shopping list lives in a spreadsheet somebody made on their phone, and the receipt lives in a wallet. Questions get asked three times. Two families bring ketchup. Nobody brings coffee filters.
Grubtrip is the one place the whole house looks: who is cooking what, what still needs a cook, what to bring, what to buy, and what each family owes.
The text thread
47 messages to settle Saturday dinner, and the answer is still somewhere in the middle.
The spreadsheet
Nobody can edit it on a phone, so it is out of date by the time anyone shops.
The receipts
A pile of them, and a long awkward week of working out who owes whom.
Who it's for
From one family to the whole reunion
One family
A week at the beach for the five of you. Plan the dinners, note what the condo already has, build the list, and shop once on the way in.
A few families
Two or three households sharing a cabin. Everyone claims the meals they want to cook, extras stay separate, and the shared bill splits by headcount.
The big reunion
Twenty people, four generations, one kitchen. The menu, the bring list, the wishlist and the budget live in one link everyone can open on a phone.
The meal grid
Everyone sees the plan. Nobody cooks the same thing twice.
Open slots are one tap to claim. Each family's meals wear its color, so a glance tells you who has Saturday dinner and which lunch still needs a volunteer.
From "who's bringing what" to a full cart in four steps
- 1
Set up the menu
The dates, the rental zip code, and what the kitchen has. Grubtrip pulls the weather and suggests what to pack.
- 2
Share one link
Every family opens the same link, sees what is taken, and claims the breakfasts, lunches and dinners they want to cook.
- 3
Let the helper do the math
Type "taco night for 14" and pick from three recipes scaled to your group, your dietary notes and what is already in the pantry.
- 4
One cart, fair split
Every meal merges into one list, matched to Walmart products near the rental, in a single cart. Costs split by headcount.
Everything the group needs, in one place
Meal calendar
Days down the side, meals across the top. Everyone sees what is planned and what is still open.
Recipe helper
Three options for every meal idea, scaled to your headcount, with leftovers carried into later meals.
House essentials
Fire starter for the fire pit, sunscreen for a hot week, hand warmers for a cold one. Suggested from the house and the forecast.
Wishlist voting
Someone wants a board game or new pool floats? Add it, let the group vote, and the winners go in the cart.
Budget per person
See the estimated bill, the cost per person and each family's share before anyone checks out.
Bring or buy
Mark what is coming from home and what the rental already stocks, so nobody buys a third bottle of olive oil.
Questions
- Does Grubtrip cost anything?
- Grubtrip is free to use. You pay Walmart directly for your groceries.
- Does everyone need an account?
- Anyone can view a trip from its invite link. Joining a family and claiming meals takes a quick email sign in with no password.
- How is the grocery bill split?
- By default the shared groceries are split by headcount, so a family of five pays more than a couple. Each family pays for its own extras, and the organizer can switch to an even split per family.
- Does Grubtrip handle payment?
- No. Your cart opens on Walmart.com, where you check out for pickup or delivery. Grubtrip never sees your payment details.
Every meal of the trip, settled in an evening.
Set up the menu, send one link, and let everyone claim the meals they want to cook.
Plan the meals