Key concepts: organizations, Cargo, Galley, Manifest, Supply

Organization (group)

An organization is Ration’s workspace: inventory, recipes, meal plan, supply list, and AI credit balance all belong to that group. You can belong to more than one organization; you pick an active one to work in (see Switching groups).

Cargo

Cargo is your pantry inventory: items with quantity, unit, optional expiry, domain (food, household, alcohol), and tags. Adding items can trigger a merge suggestion when Ration thinks two names are the same product.

Galley

The Galley is your recipe library (full recipes) and provisions (simple single-item foods). Ingredients can be linked to Cargo for accurate cook and shopping math.

Manifest

The Manifest is the meal plan calendar: meals placed in breakfast, lunch, dinner, or snack slots. You can mark meals consumed so ingredients deduct from Cargo.

Supply

Supply is the shopping list, built from what your planned and selected meals need minus what you already have in Cargo. You can snooze items you do not need to buy and (on eligible plans) share a public link.

Credits

AI credits are spent on operations like receipt scan, AI recipe generation, URL recipe import, and AI plan-week. They are stored on the organization, not on individual users—every member draws from the same pool.

MCP (AI assistant integration) read/write tools do not consume AI credits; they are separate from credit-gated web features.

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