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Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?

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Post by jihadjihad »

thebricklayr wrote: post #88
showsover wrote: post #10

One app I haven't seen mentioned here yet is Paprika ( https://www.paprikaapp.com/ ). I use it as a general storage for recipes that I tried and like as it's really easy to strip the entire lifestories you find in online recipes. It has a shopping list functionality as well as week planning. The only downside is that it's quite pricey as you have to buy it seperately on each platform (ios, android, mac, pc). Personal…

Paprika is great. I’d much rather pay once upfront than for a subscription. However, one thing that makes Paprika a no-go for our family is its inability to make shared collections of recipes, grocery lists, and meal plans. My wife and I want to cook together . We want to tweak our family recipes over time and share a single grocery list and meal plan between us. Paprika can’t do that, and no other app comes close to…

It looks great so far, thanks for building this. I think this will really streamline how my recipes are stored on my phone (iBooks PDFs, screenshots in iCloud, bookmarks, etc.). Recipe sites have really gone downhill with all the ads and life stories...I just want to cook dinner!

Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?

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Post by mingusrude »

jader201 wrote: post #95
mustafa_pasi wrote: post #63

For me cooking and eating is very spontaneous. I also believe this is what separates people who can cook from those who cannot. I can cook because I can mix and match my current appetite, with what I have available in the fridge and figure out something out of that. I know the general idea behind many recipes and cooking techniques but I do not aim to reproduce them to the letter. Nor do I have some kind of meal plan…

You sound like you live alone, or at the very least cook your meals just for you. Because this doesn't seem like it would work at all if you're making meals for multiple people.

Something similar worked for us, even when the kids were young. Both my wife and I enjoy cooking (side story, when we got kids, I realized that I'd be spending a lot of time cooking and so I decided to make it an interest of mine since I was going to spend a lot of time doing) and rather than planning what to make everyday we make sure to have interesting ingredients at home and then when it's mealtime we do what we have time for and what we like. When the kids were younger they were also part of the decision, it was a fun chat to have before dinner. This means that when shopping, we try to do a weekly shopping run, we pick up stuff that we think we can make something of and then some weeks we just decide to empty the fridge/freezer of whatever we haven't cooket yet.

Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?

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Post by mjakefranklin »

lucretian wrote: post #96
alexchro93 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

+1 for Paprika It's great. Easily saves most recipes online. Allows you to tag them. You can schedule meals far out in advance from you personal recipe collection. From these scheduled meals you can create a shopping list. I bought both the mobile and desktop (Windows) version. My fiance and I spend about 10 minutes a week discussing what we'd like to eat for the next 5-7 days. From there I schedule the meals in the…

how do you get cookbooks recipes into the app? manual transcription or something easier / more efficient, i hope?

I type them in manually, and bought the desktop version specifically to make this easier. It's painful, but since there's decent data export options, I'll hopefully never have to do it again

Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?

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Post by snoopy_telex »

nicoburns wrote: post #42
strife25 wrote: post #36

I switched from Paprika to Plan to Eat this year and love it. Https://plantoeat.com It has the same features as Paprika but Generates a shopping list from your meal plan. Saves a ton of time when shopping. The one thing I don’t like about PtE is you can’t mark off ingredients as you prep them. Paprika has this and I miss it.

You should definitely request this feature via their customer support or similar. I've found small companies are often love hearing from their users and are quite responsive to these kind of requests.

I also switched from paprika to PlanToEat, and in general like it, however, they never respond to emails in the usual ways, so it feels like a black hole sending bug reports or feature requests.

They would usually fix bugs a few months later, so I do presume someone is reading the email, but yeah, expect silence if you do reach out.

That said, I’m still happy enough to recommend using them.

Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?

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Post by mmcdermott »

mustafa_pasi wrote: post #63

For me cooking and eating is very spontaneous. I also believe this is what separates people who can cook from those who cannot. I can cook because I can mix and match my current appetite, with what I have available in the fridge and figure out something out of that. I know the general idea behind many recipes and cooking techniques but I do not aim to reproduce them to the letter. Nor do I have some kind of meal plan…

I enjoy spontaneous cooking and eating, but meal planning is the only way I've been able to maintain a reasonable weight. The way I do it is that I cook meals (breakfast and lunch) for the work week on Sunday. I cook dinner the day of, mostly by keeping a set of staples around that I use to create different dishes. This last one has a little more spontaneity to it, but is still generally about selecting from meals I've already pre-calculated to work.

It is a lot less fun, but I've lost in excess of 50 pounds with meal planning + exercise. It is definitely more boring, but that's been an acceptable loss in the bigger picture.

Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?

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Post by IanCal »

thebricklayr wrote: post #88
showsover wrote: post #10

One app I haven't seen mentioned here yet is Paprika ( https://www.paprikaapp.com/ ). I use it as a general storage for recipes that I tried and like as it's really easy to strip the entire lifestories you find in online recipes. It has a shopping list functionality as well as week planning. The only downside is that it's quite pricey as you have to buy it seperately on each platform (ios, android, mac, pc). Personal…

Paprika is great. I’d much rather pay once upfront than for a subscription. However, one thing that makes Paprika a no-go for our family is its inability to make shared collections of recipes, grocery lists, and meal plans. My wife and I want to cook together . We want to tweak our family recipes over time and share a single grocery list and meal plan between us. Paprika can’t do that, and no other app comes close to…

> My wife and I want to cook together. We want to tweak our family recipes over time and share a single grocery list and meal plan between us.

Unless you want fine grained control over this (what to share, what not to share) then paprika supports this just fine. It syncs between multiple devices so you can just add more - that's what I do.

Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?

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Post by soperj »

I've been meaning to do a showhn on this, but this is pretty much exactly what I've been working on. https://www.reciped.io . Sort of a wikipedia of recipes, everything in markdown, add recipes to your recipe book, and then it's drag and drop weekly meal planning. Grocery list gets autopopulated by the meals in your weekly list and sorted by section in the grocery store (produce, meat, dairy, spice aisle, frozen foods, ect). Grocery list itself is built for mobile, so you just swipe the item off the list as you grab it at the store.

Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?

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Post by IanCal »

lucretian wrote: post #96
alexchro93 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

+1 for Paprika It's great. Easily saves most recipes online. Allows you to tag them. You can schedule meals far out in advance from you personal recipe collection. From these scheduled meals you can create a shopping list. I bought both the mobile and desktop (Windows) version. My fiance and I spend about 10 minutes a week discussing what we'd like to eat for the next 5-7 days. From there I schedule the meals in the…

how do you get cookbooks recipes into the app? manual transcription or something easier / more efficient, i hope?

These days it's pretty easy on a phone. I take a picture with google lens and copy the text.

Easier is finding the same recipe on their website and importing that directly.

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