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Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?

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Post by BasilPH »

cschiller wrote: post #58

If you are interested in getting weekly recipe ideas tailored to your preferences, easy to follow step by step cooking instructions, and a handy shopping list export / cart transfer to Amazon Fresh/Whole Foods Market feel free to check out Kitchenful ( https://www.producthunt.com/products/kitchenful#kitchenful ). It's an app that I have built with my team over the last few months to streamline the cooking at home pro…

I'm a happy user of Kitchenful and it has definitely saved me a lot of time when meal-planning. The recipes are tasty too.

I signed up just when they were still in the "e-mailing every client personally phase", and it's been a joy to talk to Christian and see their product improve.

Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?

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Post by BasilPH »

dicroce wrote: post #59
cschiller wrote: post #58

If you are interested in getting weekly recipe ideas tailored to your preferences, easy to follow step by step cooking instructions, and a handy shopping list export / cart transfer to Amazon Fresh/Whole Foods Market feel free to check out Kitchenful ( https://www.producthunt.com/products/kitchenful#kitchenful ). It's an app that I have built with my team over the last few months to streamline the cooking at home pro…

So, I did this personal project a couple of years ago where I downloaded a big recipe database and then did a bunch of parsing / cleaning code to reduce each recipe down into a list of ingredients... Then I did an analysis of the ingredients to determine which were the most effective ingredients (frequently used in recipes) as it occurred to me that that this could be used to create a shopping list that enabled the m…

That sounds very cool! Did you share this list by any chance? I'm interested to stock up on some "efficient" products for the times that I'm not meal-planning but want to quickly whip something together.

Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?

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Post by horsawlarway »

I don't see them on here yet, so I'll throw these three in (they're all self-hosted, which might be a deal breaker for you):

The closest to what you're asking for that I'm aware of is probably Grocy: https://grocy.info/

Personally, I find that "keeping track of what you have" introduces a LOT of micro-management. Too much for me to enjoy, so while I used Grocy productively for a while, I eventually ditched it.

On the simpler side - There's Mealie (https://hay-kot.github.io/mealie/) and Tandoor (https://tandoor.dev/)

They both manage to import recipes fine, and do meal planning fairly well. Tandoor is a little closer to Grocy in that it's smart enough to group ingredients for your shopping list (mealie will generate duplicate entries for the same item if used in two different recipes), but otherwise they're fairly similar.

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Post by loufe »

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…

One thing I found frustrating when I went on my own journey trying to find a platform like this for my partner and I a year ago was that NONE of these apps (Paprika included) worked with MicroG installed on my Android phone. If anyone has news regarding this having changed I would be ecstatic.

Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?

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Post by shtopointo »

I've managed to do all my meal prepping for years without an app, and I don't think I'll be needing one now.

There are recipes I sometimes consult online, but otherwise, I have most of the information in my head.

Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?

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Post by Dashron »

I've tried a lot of different app, and mealime is the only one that clicked with me.

1. I'm reminded to pick meals on Sunday 2. I select a couple of interesting recipes and it creates a grocery list. The recipes are varied but not too varied to induce choice paralysis. Dietary restrictions are automatically applied from your account settings. 3. It has its own cooking mode with great features like "every step tells you exactly how much of an ingredient you need" and "hold your hand over the screen to progress" so I don't get crap on my phone.

I've been using it for over a month now and am still happy with it.

Re: Ask HN: Meal Planning App?

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Post by tedmcory77 »

Spent a fair bit of time exploring this space as part of a design thinking class in 2020. We talked to a LOT of people from all over the globe about it.

No app really seems to do it PERFECTLY, and it's a complicated space because of the variability. We looked at many of the apps listed here and they all have pro's and cons. These pros and cons seem to align largely the personas we discovered during our process. IIRC the stickiest users seemed to be athletes or folks on highly restrictive diets.

The best we could figure out is a quiz on what ingredients remained before generating a grocery list.

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