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Set the frame
Pick the dates and type each day — paddle, layover, portage, drive-in, drive-out. Count adults, kids, vegetarians and big eaters. Mark cold days.
Taiga ration planner
Firepot
Days × people in.
Menu and grams out.
Set the days, type each one, count the crew. Firepot lays a menu over every day and turns it into a shopping list in grams for the whole group — then packs it into balanced dry bags.
- Free
- No account
- Plan by Rules works offline
How it works
From a blank trip to a debriefed one
Firepot follows a ration the way a quartermaster does: frame it, cook it on paper, buy it, carry it, and learn from what actually got eaten.
02
Lay the menu
Breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks and drinks for every day, kept within its kcal target — by the rules on the phone or drafted by the Firepot planner.
03
Shop & pack
One shopping list in grams for the whole group, then the load split into evenly weighted dry bags you can shuffle by hand.
04
Log & debrief
Cooked, swapped, skipped or replaced by the catch; leftovers and a mark out of five. The debrief turns it into norm tweaks, and the next ration is closer to the truth.
FloatPaddle days on the river
Base CampLayovers and long cooks
Winter CabinCold days, more fat and cocoa
PortageLight, fast, no long cooks
In the kettle
Everything a camp cook keeps in their head
Written down, weighed in grams and ready before the first portage.
A taiga pantry
Porridges, ukha, buckwheat and tushonka, flatbread on a stone — 40 dishes, each with grams per person, kcal, cook time and a note for the fire. Add your own and they join the planners.
Two planners, one menu
Plan by Rules rotates grains, puts soup on layover and cold days and keeps portage days light — fully on the phone, no signal needed. Or let Firepot draft it; every dish it picks is checked against your pantry.
Catch in the plan
Say how much fish you expect and Firepot hands every second or third dinner to the catch — always with a fallback main in the bag if the river says no.
Ask at the campfire
A chat that knows the active trip, its menu and what's in the bags. Quick questions for the moments that go sideways.
Stretch the Ration
Swap Ingredient
Cook This Catch
Cold Snap
Kids' Table
Balanced dry bags
The shopping list is split across your bags so nobody carries the tushonka alone. Drag an item to another bag and the weights update.
Reminders that know the trip
A shopping nudge two days before you leave, an evening prompt to log dinner on the trail, a debrief the morning after. Scheduled on the phone — nothing pushed from a server.
The small print
Rations stay on this phone.
No account, no sign-in. Trips, menus, cook logs and notes live in the app's own storage on your iPhone.
The AI planner and the campfire chat send a packet of numbers and dish identifiers to OpenAI — never trip names, never notes. Before the first request you read the manifest and sign it. One switch keeps Firepot fully offline.
Goes into the request
- Day count, day types, cold days, catch days
- Eaters by group — adults, children, vegetarians
- Dish identifiers with their kcal, grams and tags
- Your norm percentages
- What you type into the campfire chat
Stays on the phone
- Trip names
- Notes and cook-log remarks
Camp honours
Earned at the fire, not in a store
Badges for the trips you actually cooked — and ranks counted in person-days fed.
Kettle Hand0person-days
Camp Cook50person-days
Quartermaster200person-days
Firepot Master600person-days
Contact
Send word to the camp
A dish we should add to the pantry, a norm that didn't hold up on the river, or a bug from the trail — we read every message.
Or write directly: inbox@vaelunestill.site
Hang the kettle.
Plan your next float, base camp, winter cabin or portage week — and carry exactly what the crew will eat.
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