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Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?

#11
Here's my workflow:

1. Plan meal using Google Sheet, one tab per week. I now have 1.5 year of meals, so I can easily find old ideas

2. Add all ingredients in a ToDo app (using Microsoft ToDo currently)

3. Look in my fridge and drawers, mark any remaining ingredients as done.

4. Go grocery shopping

Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?

#12
I've tried way too many of those apps before settling on Anylist. It does basically what you want. A list of recipes, a calendar you put the recipes onto, and a shopping list that can be populated from a range on the calendar and preserves the item-recipe link so you know why things are there.

There are a couple of operations that are a little bit clunky, but everything else makes up for it.

Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?

#13
I'm a big fan of Paprika paprikaapp.com, have been using it for years and doesn't require a subscription

I use the sync function with my wife (logged into the same account) to manage shopping lists and recipes

Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?

#16
post #14

I was searching for exactly the same thing and even thinking about building it myself

I have built this myself. It’s been evolving for ten years now and started as a motley pile of XML and shell scripts. Now it’s an SQLite database and a Haskell program to drive it. I use GNU roff to print the grocery list.

I won’t claim this saved any time over using some app, but it does work exactly how I want it.

Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?

#18
I have a couple of recipe books that are organised by what vegetables are in season, and I work through them through the year. It saves me a ton of money and everything tastes nicer.
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