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Email Scheduled Recipe Suggestions

Find random recipes matching dietary and preparation filters and email their links each day.

Setup

Create Edamam Recipe Search v2 credentials for an application that does not require active-user tracking. In Open Flow, create secret Variables for the application ID and application key and bind them as the Basic authentication username and password in Find random recipes. Connect Gmail and set the recipient in Email the recipes. In n8n, configure HTTP Basic credentials with the Edamam application ID and key, connect SMTP credentials and set the sender and recipient in Send Recipes. Run only one format.

In Prepare recipe search, adjust the search term, diet, health filter, calorie and preparation-time ranges, ingredient limit and recipe count (1–20). The default health setting chooses one supported label at random. Review the filter and recipe details yourself when dietary restrictions matter.

Behavior

Each day at 10:00 UTC the workflow asks Edamam for a random selection matching the configured filters and emails up to the configured number of recipe links. Edamam returns at most 20 randomized matches and can return fewer results; an empty or malformed result stops without sending. Open Flow uses Gmail and n8n uses SMTP. Open Flow runs on the minute boundary; native n8n Cron uses a fixed second within the minute. Adjust the schedule and time zone as needed.

A failed or uncertain email may already have been sent; check your mail before retrying. No automatic send retry or deduplication is configured. Email acceptance does not prove delivery.

Inspiration & credits

Changes to the source

Replace the retired Edamam v1 endpoint and random offset with v2’s random selection. The health filter is now sent in the request; the source mentioned it in the subject without filtering by it.
Use Basic credentials, escape recipe text, validate links, and use UTC as the starting time zone. The source inherited its instance time zone.
Open Flow uses Gmail; n8n retains SMTP.

Adapted from What To Eat in Zie619/n8n-workflows. The matching n8n community listing credits jason. The original template does not state a separate license.

The collection’s MIT notice is pinned at a later revision. This is the collection notice at that revision; it does not establish a separate original template author’s license. Our changes are listed above; see repository licensing.

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