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@@ -109,11 +109,30 @@ docker exec ollama ollama pull moondream   # or llava:7b / qwen2.5vl:7b / llama3
 | `qwen2.5vl:7b` | ~6 GB | Stronger accuracy, needs more RAM/VRAM. |
 | `llama3.2-vision:11b` | ~7.9 GB | Meta's vision model — heaviest of these four. |
 
-Point any OpenAI-compatible app's vision/image-import feature (e.g. Mealie's
-"import recipe from photo") at this stack's Ollama endpoint with the pulled
-model as `OPENAI_MODEL` — see Open WebUI → Settings → Connections for the
-exact local base URL, or `docker inspect ollama` for the container's address
-on `caddy_net`/the compose network.
+Point any OpenAI-compatible app's vision/image-import feature at this stack's
+Ollama endpoint with the pulled model. For Mealie's "import recipe from
+photo" specifically — checked against docs.mealie.io directly, since Mealie
+moved this off env vars at some point and old `OPENAI_*` env var guidance
+for it is now stale: it's configured live in the UI, not `.env` —
+**Group Settings → AI Providers** in Mealie itself, not this stack's
+`.env` or `docker-compose.yml`. Add a provider with:
+- `base_url`: `http://host.docker.internal:11434/v1` (Ollama publishes on
+  the host at `0.0.0.0:11434`, and Mealie is a separate compose project
+  not sharing a network with this stack, so it has to be reached over the
+  host the same way Caddy reaches bridge-mode services — see Mealie's own
+  compose: add `extra_hosts: ["host.docker.internal:host-gateway"]` to its
+  `mealie:` service if that hostname doesn't already resolve there. The
+  host's real LAN IP works too with no compose edit, just less stable
+  across DHCP renewals.)
+- `api_key`: any non-empty placeholder — required by Mealie's form, ignored
+  by Ollama.
+- model: the vision model just pulled (e.g. `moondream`).
+
+Then mark that provider as the one used for image recognition (a separate
+toggle from the general default-provider setting) — that's what actually
+turns on the photo-import feature. No Mealie container restart needed, it
+applies live. See Open WebUI → Settings → Connections if you'd rather
+confirm the local base URL/model name there first.
 
 ## NVIDIA server-GPU generations — capability reference
 What a given datacenter GPU generation can actually run through this stack