diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 6bb7b82..ab7d06e 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -8,6 +8,15 @@ version = "1.0.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "f26201604c87b1e01bd3d98f8d5d9a8fcbb815e8cedb41ffccbeb4bf593a35fe"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "aho-corasick"
+version = "0.7.18"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "1e37cfd5e7657ada45f742d6e99ca5788580b5c529dc78faf11ece6dc702656f"
+dependencies = [
+ "memchr",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "android_system_properties"
 version = "0.1.4"
@@ -171,7 +180,9 @@ dependencies = [
  "futures",
  "iana-time-zone",
  "ics",
+ "markdown-gen",
  "minicaldav",
+ "regex",
  "reqwest",
  "rusty-hook",
  "serde",
@@ -704,6 +715,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "cfg-if",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "markdown-gen"
+version = "1.2.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "8034621d7f1258317ca1dfb9205e3925d27ee4aa2a46620a09c567daf0310562"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "matches"
 version = "0.1.9"
@@ -1015,12 +1032,29 @@ dependencies = [
  "thiserror",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "regex"
+version = "1.6.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "4c4eb3267174b8c6c2f654116623910a0fef09c4753f8dd83db29c48a0df988b"
+dependencies = [
+ "aho-corasick",
+ "memchr",
+ "regex-syntax",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "regex-automata"
 version = "0.1.10"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "6c230d73fb8d8c1b9c0b3135c5142a8acee3a0558fb8db5cf1cb65f8d7862132"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "regex-syntax"
+version = "0.6.27"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a3f87b73ce11b1619a3c6332f45341e0047173771e8b8b73f87bfeefb7b56244"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "remove_dir_all"
 version = "0.5.3"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 06b7af8..798dedc 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -45,9 +45,15 @@ version = "0.3"
 [dependencies.ics]
 version = "0.5"
 
+[dependencies.markdown-gen]
+version = "1.2"
+
 [dependencies.minicaldav]
 version = "0.2"
 
+[dependencies.regex]
+version = "1.6"
+
 [dependencies.reqwest]
 version = "0.11"
 features = ["json", "blocking"]
diff --git a/src/commands/groceries.rs b/src/commands/groceries.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7d4068f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/commands/groceries.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
+// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Matteo Settenvini <matteo.settenvini@montecristosoftware.eu>
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
+
+use {
+    crate::api_client::ApiClient,
+    crate::constants,
+    crate::recipe::{Ingredient, Recipe},
+    anyhow::{anyhow, Result},
+    chrono::{Duration, Local, NaiveDateTime},
+    regex::Regex,
+    std::collections::HashSet,
+};
+
+pub async fn with(api_client: &ApiClient, calendar_name: &str, days: u32) -> Result<()> {
+    let ids = map_events_to_recipe_ids(api_client, calendar_name, days)?;
+    let ingredients = get_ingredients(api_client, ids).await?;
+
+    todo!("Recipe ingredients: {:?}", ingredients)
+
+    // let ingredients = merge_ingredients(ingredients);
+    // let md = prepare_grocery_list(&ingredients);
+    // save_grocery_list(api_client, "", md).await?;
+}
+
+fn map_events_to_recipe_ids(
+    api_client: &ApiClient,
+    calendar_name: &str,
+    days: u32,
+) -> Result<HashSet<usize>> {
+    // minicaldav is quite hamfisted in retrieving events (it gets everything, every time).
+    // Consider crafting an XML request and use something else for ical parsing.
+
+    let calendars = api_client
+        .get_calendars()
+        .map_err(|err| convert_caldav_err(err))?;
+    let calendar = calendars
+        .into_iter()
+        .filter(|c| c.name() == calendar_name)
+        .next()
+        .ok_or(anyhow!(
+            "Unable to find calendar '{}' on server",
+            calendar_name
+        ))?;
+
+    let all_events = api_client
+        .get_events(&calendar)
+        .map_err(|err| convert_caldav_err(err))?
+        .0;
+
+    let relevant_events = all_events.into_iter().filter(|ev| {
+        ev.get("PRODID")
+            .map(|p| p == constants::CALENDAR_PROVIDER)
+            .unwrap_or(false)
+            && {
+                let start_time = NaiveDateTime::parse_from_str(
+                    ev.property("DTSTART").unwrap().value(),
+                    "%Y%m%dT%H%M%S",
+                )
+                .unwrap_or(NaiveDateTime::from_timestamp(0, 0));
+                let now = Local::now().naive_local();
+                start_time >= now && start_time < now + Duration::days(days as i64)
+            }
+    });
+
+    let recipe_id_regex: Regex = Regex::new(r"cookbook@(\d+)").unwrap();
+    let recipe_ids = relevant_events
+        .flat_map(|event| {
+            event
+                .property("DESCRIPTION")
+                .iter()
+                .flat_map(|descr| recipe_id_regex.captures(descr.value()))
+                .flat_map(|c| c.get(1))
+                .flat_map(|m| m.as_str().parse::<usize>())
+                .collect::<Vec<usize>>()
+        })
+        .collect::<HashSet<_>>();
+
+    Ok(recipe_ids)
+}
+
+async fn get_ingredients<RecipeIds>(
+    api_client: &ApiClient,
+    recipe_ids: RecipeIds,
+) -> Result<Vec<Ingredient>>
+where
+    RecipeIds: IntoIterator<Item = usize>,
+{
+    let ingredients = recipe_ids.into_iter().map(|id: usize| async move {
+        // TODO code duplicated with schedule_csv::get_all_recipes
+        let recipe_url = format!("apps/cookbook/api/recipes/{id}");
+        let response = api_client
+            .rest()
+            .get(api_client.base_url().join(&recipe_url).unwrap())
+            .send()
+            .await
+            .expect(&format!("Cannot fetch recipe with id {}", id));
+
+        response.json::<Recipe>().await.map(|r| r.ingredients)
+    });
+
+    let ingredients = futures::future::try_join_all(ingredients).await?;
+    Ok(ingredients.into_iter().flatten().collect())
+}
+
+fn convert_caldav_err(err: minicaldav::Error) -> anyhow::Error {
+    anyhow!(format!("{:?}", err))
+}
diff --git a/src/commands/mod.rs b/src/commands/mod.rs
index 32611c5..042df50 100644
--- a/src/commands/mod.rs
+++ b/src/commands/mod.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 // SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Matteo Settenvini <matteo.settenvini@montecristosoftware.eu>
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
 
+pub mod groceries;
 pub mod import;
 pub mod init;
 pub mod schedule;
diff --git a/src/commands/schedule_csv.rs b/src/commands/schedule_csv.rs
index 40769fa..1595129 100644
--- a/src/commands/schedule_csv.rs
+++ b/src/commands/schedule_csv.rs
@@ -110,15 +110,8 @@ async fn publish_events<'a, EventsIter>(
 where
     EventsIter: Iterator<Item = Event>,
 {
-    let calendar_prototype: ics::ICalendar = ics::ICalendar::new(
-        "2.0",
-        format!(
-            "-//IDN {}//{} {}//EN",
-            constants::VENDOR,
-            env!("CARGO_PKG_NAME"),
-            env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION")
-        ),
-    );
+    let calendar_prototype: ics::ICalendar =
+        ics::ICalendar::new("2.0", constants::CALENDAR_PROVIDER);
 
     let dav_base = api_client
         .rest()
diff --git a/src/constants.rs b/src/constants.rs
index 4c99f75..7ea9183 100644
--- a/src/constants.rs
+++ b/src/constants.rs
@@ -2,4 +2,10 @@
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
 
 pub const USER_AGENT: &str = concat!(env!("CARGO_PKG_NAME"), "/", env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION"));
-pub const VENDOR: &str = "montecristosoftware.eu";
+pub const CALENDAR_PROVIDER: &str = concat!(
+    "-//IDN montecristosoftware.eu//",
+    env!("CARGO_PKG_NAME"),
+    " ",
+    env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION"),
+    "//EN"
+);
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 69aa993..cc0b3fd 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -41,10 +41,20 @@ fn setup_args() -> ArgMatches {
                 .arg(arg!(<url> ... "One or more URLs each pointing to page with a recipe to import in NextCloud")),
         )
         .subcommand(
-            Command::new("schedule")
-                .about("")
+            Command::new("groceries")
+                .about("Create a grocery list from scheduled calendar events")
                 .arg(server_arg.clone())
-                .arg(arg!(-d --days <days> "")
+                .arg(arg!(<calendar_name> ""))
+                .arg(arg!(-d --days <days> "Number of days in the future to consider")
+                    .value_parser(clap::builder::RangedU64ValueParser::<u32>::new().range(1..))
+                    .required(false)
+                    .default_value("7"))
+        )
+        .subcommand(
+            Command::new("schedule")
+                .about("TODO; not implemented yet (pick automatically recipes and create calendar events for them)")
+                .arg(server_arg.clone())
+                .arg(arg!(-d --days <days> "Number of days to schedule")
                     .value_parser(clap::builder::RangedU64ValueParser::<u32>::new().range(1..))
                     .required(false)
                     .default_value("7"))
@@ -77,6 +87,14 @@ async fn parse_args(args: &ArgMatches) -> Result<()> {
                 .map(|s| s.as_str());
             commands::import::with(&api_client, urls).await
         }
+        Some(("groceries", sub_matches)) => {
+            let api_client = get_api_client(&sub_matches, &configuration)?;
+            let calendar_name = sub_matches
+                .get_one::<String>("calendar_name")
+                .expect("<calendar_name> is a mandatory parameter, it cannot be missing");
+            let days = sub_matches.get_one::<u32>("days").unwrap();
+            commands::groceries::with(&api_client, calendar_name.as_str(), *days).await
+        }
         Some(("schedule", sub_matches)) => {
             let api_client = get_api_client(&sub_matches, &configuration)?;
             commands::schedule::with(&api_client).await