Put pork as an allergy and first recipe suggested has bacon :)
Show HN: Meals You Love – AI-powered meal planning and grocery shopping
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#12We really need this as my partner hates the idea of a regular meal plan, but then struggles every week to decide on a plan. So I threw one together myself, but never quite finished it off, so very keen to use yours! But the setup for this is overwhelming, so many forms. And then the meal plan is taking ages to generate. I'd have bounced long ago if I was a normal person. So it finally finished and I mentioned we regu…
Ah, I hear you on the onboarding wizard. I did my best to keep it streamlined but understand it's still overwhelming. Hard to balance keeping it light with collecting enough data to provide reasonable recommendations.
The meal plan generation does take a bit, _typically_ it's around 90ish seconds but it does vary a lot. That's odd the images are loading slowly, I'll need to look into that.
You can ask for meal replacements (with or without input instructions) from the meal plan view. The replacements are not particularly snappy though. Trying to balance efficient usage of AI with a snappy UX is tricky.
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#13How is this any different from say ollie.ai? This looks alot more like a funnel for grocery delivery combined with recipe database functionality not dissimilar from apps like Paprika. The big push on the website from my impression is that its a funnel to Instacart or Kroger. Does it limit its recipes to whats in stock around me? How accurate is the stock levels shown in the app? Are you only limited to Kroger or Inst…
You're right that Meals You Love integrates with Instacart and Kroger for ordering meal plan groceries but it's not primarily a grocery funnel and this has no impact on meal plan construction. Really these are just value-add integrations IMO. For our family, the real value is actually providing a means for us to save our favorite recipes and get AI-recommended recipes peppered in. The grocery ordering is secondary, though quite useful for us.
The second big value prop for us has actually been the new "Quick Bites" feature which generates recipes based on ingredients you have on hand (either tracked in your pantry in the app or simply input manually). For instance, we'll often have some ingredients we want to use up but need suggestions on what to make. In this case, there's no grocery integration at all since we're using entirely stuff we already have.
Good question on the meal calendar. You CAN share meal plans (as well as recipes), though there isn't a calendar as such beyond the weekly meal plan view.
Preferences are primarily handled via the AI (uses Gemini on the backend) and this is the primary driver in how recipes are constructed and recommended.
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#14Once you get some recipes back this is pretty cool, but it took like 5 minutes to generate the recipes which doesn't super work for a sign up flow.
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#15It would be great if the meals had macros per serving listed, total calories, protein, carbs (+ fiber), fat per serving.
Edit: I see there is a nutrition facts button.
Is there a button I can press that says "suggest meals with more protein per serving"?
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#16It would be great if the meals had macros per serving listed, total calories, protein, carbs (+ fiber), fat per serving. Edit: I see there is a nutrition facts button. Is there a button I can press that says "suggest meals with more protein per serving"?
You can specify this in "Preferences & Requests" in the meal planning wizard or "customize with instructions" on an existing meal plan recipe.
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#17Cookbooks are already a thing. I am baffled that you think this is something we need AI for.
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#18Cookbooks are already a thing. I am baffled that you think this is something we need AI for.
How many people own a cookbook they haven't opened in a year? I think the value proposition is the same as Pandora: send me something I'll like that I wasn't expecting.
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#19It would be helpful to have a step-by-step walkthrough on the site (video or screenshots). The "How It Works" section is a little vague to suit that bill. I'm looking for both an example of what to expect and inspiration for how I could be eating with your service. I'd also recommend focusing on the API integrations, and/or whatever other features separate elevate this beyond asking $LLM for a weekly meal plan and sh…
Totally agree on a video walkthrough, and it's on my list. I've mostly been putting it off because I'm not sure if I'm capable of making a polished enough presentation, which is a bad excuse. Also 100% on messaging to differentiate from just using an LLM to do this yourself. This one feels a bit harder to me because I think it perhaps is not obvious until you get into the product and use it for a bit, though the inte…
Descript has some nice video/screen recording tools to help beginners make this kind of thing look moderately professional. I've used it for various walkthroughs in my previous place of employment.
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#20I photographed everything in my fridge and everything in my cupboards and uploaded it to an LLM and photographed by shopping receipts and asked it to create weight loss meal plans based on my existing shopping and food buying habits.
Worked real nice.
Did I make it into a business? Should everything be a SAAS? Nah.