Ask HN: Meal Planning App? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?

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Post by hansbo » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 10:38 AM UTC

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…

It also works if you are more than one. Me and my wife have used it for several years now to sync shopping lists between us, to great effect.

Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?

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Post by view » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 10:41 AM UTC

Sidekick is an app which cuts down on food waste by creating weekly meal plans which use up all the ingredients that you buy.

https://sortedfood.com/sidekick/

They also run an awesome YouTube channel that is worth checking out:

https://www.youtube.com/c/SORTEDFood

Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?

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Post by leodr21 » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 10:43 AM UTC

There are a few iPhone apps to do that.

I'm currently testing Crouton and RecipeChef.

So far it works really well.

Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?

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Post by pineconebutt » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 10:44 AM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?

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Post by Errancer » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 10:45 AM UTC

I used "Eat This Much" for a while and if i remember correctly it has those features in the premium version.

Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?

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Post by onion2k » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 10:49 AM UTC

jamesgreenleaf wrote: post #20

onion2k wrote: post #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.

What are the titles of those books?

"Riverford Companion Spring and Summer" and "Riverford Companion Autumn and Winter"

Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?

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Post by speg » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 10:58 AM UTC

For me this needs to work with Apple’s Calendar and Reminders.

Currently I’ve got a series of shortcuts that do almost all of this; the recipes stored in a notes folder.

The diffed shopping list is the only missing part, you’d have to keep track of fridge inventory somehow.

Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?

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Post by drekipus » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 11:00 AM UTC

Not an app, but I was frustrated with the same thing and was looking for apps of a similar nature too. I also started to make my own.

I found this [0] cooking blog that has atleast 90 meal plans.

My wife and I just pick them at random and kept the good ones in rotation.

Print them out - a page each recipe and one for the grocery list - do a quick cupboard check before heading to the shops, and store it in a clear plastic folder for next time. Rinse and repeat.

/Me Mumbles something about the time it takes to automate vs the time it takes to actually just do it

[0] https://tastesbetterfromscratch.com/

NB: we've since fallen off the wagon and now struggle to meal plan, but we would've done the same with an app as well!

Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?

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Post by Cjcrew » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 11:10 AM UTC

Haven't seen it mentioned yet so might as well post it,

https://www.mysaffronapp.com/

This app made by Ben Awad seems to cover all your needs. It's free for up to 25recipes and after that it's 5$/month for 1k recipes, it has both mobile and web versions.

Edit: it also has a pretty neat recipe scraper feature

Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?

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Post by sph » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 11:13 AM UTC

dairylee wrote: post #5

I'm in a similar situation as yourself and I've been looking to do something similar. One tool I've had bookmarked for this is Cooklang ( https://cooklang.org/ ) which seems to cover most of the needs.

I love this! Of course the solution is a lightweight plain-text markup, instead of proprietary solutions or mobile-only apps.

EDIT: there's also an Obsidian plugin: https://github.com/deathau/cooklang-obsidian