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Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?

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Post by thebricklayr »

IanCal wrote: post #107
thebricklayr wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Are you just sharing the same login? I suppose that works, but it’s not ideal, especially for things like sharing a collection of cocktail recipes with my friends (which I’m actually doing now with Umami).

I just checked Paprika again. There is no way to share a folder/category of recipes with someone else. Sharing each recipe individually is not really what I want to be doing either.

Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?

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Post by thoughtpalette »

mmcdermott wrote: post #105
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'…

I've heard about the boring, and have been eating mostly the same type of schedule. After reading about the stress of decision fatigue (around food), especially when cooking for multiples, meal prep has been excellent.

Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?

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Post by oneshoe »

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.

Came to the comments looking for this app - one of the very few apps I am happy to pay for and use a bunch!

Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?

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Post by bambax »

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.

We're a family of five with children aged 13-14-17 (so not toddlers) and we do exactly that. We buy everything fresh on the day. Planning meals days (or weeks!?) in advance sounds horribly depressing.

Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?

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Post by birdmanjeremy »

I really like "Eat This Much". My partner and I have also been trying "Meal Prep Pro" which is a little prettier, a bit more expensive, and mobile only. The "Eat This Much" learning curve is a bit steeper, and it requires configuration, but it meets the "pantry leftovers" functionality you're looking for.

I have no association with "Eat This Much" other than being a customer and a fan.

Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?

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Post by raunak »

soperj wrote: post #108

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 food…

Dude, this is sick. surprised you didn't try to make this a business, but props for that.

Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?

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Post by herghost »

I use iOS Reminders to do a basic version of this.

Each of the meals on the list are a top level reminder on the Shopping List. All of the ingredients for that meal are an indented sub-item to that reminder list.

Each week my wife and I plan what meals we want to eat and "unselect" them from the reminder list (you have to choose: Show Completed) and then that automatically provides the shopping list.

Before we go shopping we check what we have in the cupboards and mark those off the list - the remainder is what we need to buy.

Each of the high level recipes has meta data with the link to the recipe if it's online or the main protein so that we can try to vary things as we plan.

And it's shared between us to-boot, so whenever one of us is near a supermarket and we're wondering if anything is needed we have a sync'd up shopping list in our pocket.

Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?

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Post by scraft »

I use Copy Me That (website/app), I am not sure if it has all the features you want, but I use it for storing recipes in a "no nonsense" format and can share recipes with friends/family. I get the impression if you pay you can do shopping lists etc but I haven't used that side of it to comment.

Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?

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Post by soperj »

raunak wrote: post #117
soperj wrote: post #108

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 food…

Dude, this is sick. surprised you didn't try to make this a business, but props for that.

Thanks! Haven't been working on it very long, but it's about at the point where I should be starting to show people.
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