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Ask HN: Meal Planning App?
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Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?
#42I 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.
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#43Anylist. https://www.anylist.com/
Their recipe + meal planner + grocery list (and general list planning) is killer. I love that I can share all of the above with anybody in my household that I want to.
Lists also integrate with Google Assistant so I can ask google to put stuff on the grocery list via voice.
Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?
#44For these kinds of things you're usually better off hacking it together by yourself.
Existing software is either as you said
A) Too focused on a certain feature, and will lack some specific feature you need
B) Too broad and therefore too overcomplicated.
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#45One 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…
Love Paprika for meal planning, saving recipes (and eating them), allows for easy modifications of recipe as well as web imports, and great interface for groceries. Definitely worth the price.
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#46Everyone here's got you covered with standard meal planning apps. If you are VERY calorie conscious then the RP Diet App is unique here. The killer feature it has dividing your day's macros out amongst 2 to 6 meals and then balancing foods you choose to fit within those meals ideally. You kind of just need to play with it to see the utility. It makes planning the week out a piece of cake. The trade off here is that it is an incredibly rigid way to eat and not for the feint of heart. Certainly not for someone who has never tracked food before or even someone who is prone to eating disorders.
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#47I essentially gave up on meal planning and gave in to a meal schedule. Monday is burger night, Tuesday is taco bowls. Wednesday is something Italianish, Thursday is chicken crust pizza, Friday is free choice. It’s specific enough to know what sort of things I need for each night but vague enough that I can improvise a bit with each meal to give some variation.
Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?
#48One 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 can also do exactly what OP is looking for by creating a "menu" and then adding it to the calendar whenever you want to repeat it.
Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?
#49One 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…
+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 app and, boom, I've got a shopping list. Super easy. I've put a lot of recipes from cook books in to the app.
We only use it for dinners and deserts, as breakfast and lunch are more predictable and repeatable.
Edit: another thing I like is that the app doesn't (yet, i think) require a subscription. to use it, after a trial period, is a one time payment
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#50We used to do eMeals
After a couple years, we unsubscribed, but kept all the PDF weekly planners we'd paid for
The prices may not be correct anymore, but the shopping lists for the meals haven't changed :)
Alternatively, you can just do what my family did when I was a kid - tuna casserole night, spaghetti night, hot dog night, pizza night, etc