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Show HN: Automatic weekly meal planner, also plans your leftovers

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Re: Show HN: Automatic weekly meal planner, also plans your leftovers

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Post by ericd »

Samuel_Michon wrote: post #128
ericd wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

33% of calories from fat means less than 33% by weight, since it's more calorie dense, and I actually don't doubt that they eat that much. If you've never cooked much French cuisine, there are a lot of cream based sauces...

The site had a nice breakfast suggestion for me: ‘Tofu Scramble’, containing: tofu (14g fat), vegetable oil (14g fat), dijon mustard and low-fat milk. The dish contains 400 kcalories, 260 of those are from fats (that’s 65 percent!). http://www.eatthismuch.com/recipe/view/tofu-scramble,1565/

I don't want to speak for the site creator, but that seems fine for me as long as other parts of the diet balance it out. Contrary to common American nutritional wisdom, fats are not the root of all evil.

Re: Show HN: Automatic weekly meal planner, also plans your leftovers

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Post by jacques_chester »

mahyarm wrote: post #68

Now the next step is to offer prep & delivery for these meal plans in large busy worker markets, like SF, Chicago, Boston, Palo Alto, NYC, etc. Obvious way to monetize. I'd pay $800/month for this.

In Australia there's already a service doing premade meal plans with delivery to a common dropoff point: http://musclemealsdirect.com.au/

Re: Show HN: Automatic weekly meal planner, also plans your leftovers

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Post by count »

SoftwareMaven wrote: post #83

I eat low carb, so I tried customizing for such a diet. Here are my thoughts: First, huge kudos for allowing me to customize macronutrients that way. Second, it would be nice to have a "How do you eat?" as the first step. You could have options like "Low calorie", "Low carb", "Paleo", etc. That could pre-set macro-nutrients and food-type checkboxes. The next step could be customization of important features (calories…

Uh, it has that already. Go back in and fill out the nutrition profile thing, and it'll let you pick 'Paleo' or 'Low Carb/Keto', etc.

Re: Show HN: Automatic weekly meal planner, also plans your leftovers

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Post by papa_bear »

dreamdu5t wrote: post #143

Please turn this into a company or start charging ASAP. Do not give this awesome tool away for free. Do not sell yourself short. You have created something truly excellent.

Thanks! You can make a single day's meal plan for free to get a taste of the generator, but I actually do charge if you want it to send you a plan every week automatically.

Re: Show HN: Automatic weekly meal planner, also plans your leftovers

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Post by papa_bear »

count wrote: post #144
SoftwareMaven wrote: post #83

I eat low carb, so I tried customizing for such a diet. Here are my thoughts: First, huge kudos for allowing me to customize macronutrients that way. Second, it would be nice to have a "How do you eat?" as the first step. You could have options like "Low calorie", "Low carb", "Paleo", etc. That could pre-set macro-nutrients and food-type checkboxes. The next step could be customization of important features (calories…

Uh, it has that already. Go back in and fill out the nutrition profile thing, and it'll let you pick 'Paleo' or 'Low Carb/Keto', etc.

It does, but he's right about the abundance of pecans and bacon. Adding more low carb options is one of my top priorities.

Re: Show HN: Automatic weekly meal planner, also plans your leftovers

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Post by svdad »

papa_bear wrote: post #35
eriktrans wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How long has the service been around for, and how did you get traction? You have quite a lot of Twitter and Facebook followers/fans.

It started out as Swole.me ( http://www.swole.me ) a little over two years ago, and then I rebranded it once the algorithm was good enough to suggest things a normal, well adjusted person might eat (as opposed to a meal of 2 tbsp peanut butter + 1 chicken breast). My guess is that the idea and execution was novel enough to get it a decent amount of attention.

Nice pivot. I had the same idea myself about two years ago, and saw swole.me but thought it looked way to focussed on weight training users for a general audience. This looks much more widely useful.

Re: Show HN: Automatic weekly meal planner, also plans your leftovers

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Post by dgudkov »

I'd prefer to see some proven recipes even if they slightly differ in calories and fats from settings. Having salmon, melon and celery in one meal (it generated this recipe) doesn't work, even if it's exactly the requested amount of calories, fats, etc. Otherwise - excellent idea.

Re: Show HN: Automatic weekly meal planner, also plans your leftovers

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Post by SoftwareMaven »

count wrote: post #144
SoftwareMaven wrote: post #83

I eat low carb, so I tried customizing for such a diet. Here are my thoughts: First, huge kudos for allowing me to customize macronutrients that way. Second, it would be nice to have a "How do you eat?" as the first step. You could have options like "Low calorie", "Low carb", "Paleo", etc. That could pre-set macro-nutrients and food-type checkboxes. The next step could be customization of important features (calories…

Uh, it has that already. Go back in and fill out the nutrition profile thing, and it'll let you pick 'Paleo' or 'Low Carb/Keto', etc.

The problem with headers that never leave is that you can't easily tell when you wind up scrolled 20% down a page. If you click on "Customize", you are scrolled below. If you click on "Meal Options" (or notice you are scrolled) you get to see it.

My point remains, putting that up front would be more useful. I came really close to ignoring it when I saw calories was the only thing that showed up front and center. I decided to dig deeper since it was a "Show HN".

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