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Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?

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Post by lucretian »

IanCal wrote: post #109
lucretian wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

helpful, thanks. seems like it still needs an extra step. i was hoping that the paprika app had this native functionality so you can scan right into the app (i'm not a tech guy but i assume that there are OCR APIs out there...?)

Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?

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Post by bytesmith »

scraft wrote: post #119

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.

I also use this. It's the best recipe collector website/app i've found (there's a chrome extension and the parsing is excellent). It also supports all the features you want, like meal planning[0] and shopping lists[1] for free but you can get more powerful capabilities with a modest subscription fee.

[0] https://www.copymethat.com/features/meal-planner/ [1] https://www.copymethat.com/features/shopping-list/

Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?

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Post by leokennis »

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…

I like Paprika but it’s edging very close to abandonware territory.

Personally I switched to https://crouton.app but that won’t work if you’re on Windows.

Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?

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Post by itsthejb »

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/mealime-meal-plans-recipes/id1...

Mealime. I can’t recommend it highly enough. I originally bought it because I liked the planned meals that have a nice overlap of ingredients, so you end up with a surprisingly small shopping list for a range of different meals

But also, the recipes are all a nice medium complexity: 99.9% of ingredients are easily available from any supermarket, even discounters

They clearly have a small number of chefs, so the recipes overlap in ways that really let you improve your skills. I went from so so in the kitchen, to decently skilled

It also lets you build plans based around what’s left in your pantry

Fantastic app. Take my money

Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?

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Post by klokovoz »

lucretian wrote: post #130
thex10 wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's an in-app web browser, and you can click "download" on most recipes from most websites and it will automatically parse the recipe (you can edit where needed) and save it to your recipes. It works perfectly without intervention from my part virtually all the time. They also offer a bookmarklet (anyone remember those?), which I remember working well in Safari.

yeah, i saw that. i'm interested in how to transcribe paper recipes. i have a lot of cookbooks that i under-utilize at time of meal planning b/c they're captured in a "dumb" format, and I don't want to page through 15 books every weekend.

I recommend googling "name of cookbook" "name of recipe" and then you can usually find some blog post that took that recipe and "adapted" it, which usually means they just took the original and wrote a blog story around it.
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