iPad app please. I want to embed an iPad in kitchen somewhere that will just tell me what to eat every day.
Edit: Even better if you can told me when I have the opportunity to do mass prep on appropriate things.
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#182Is there a way to choose non-USA type of meals? I mean, in South America, Spain and other parts of the world breakfast means coffee and cereal, or toast with jam, cookies, fruits or croissants. And it's a light meal. Lunch is a strong one course meal, "tea" is a meal (usually with no tea involved), and dinner is the usual.
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#183I've tried to make a meal planner that used linear programming to ensure that I got all of the needed nutrients and minimized calories, but it didn't work out. It really liked to suggest moose meat and some insanely healthful fruit from Argentina. It also suggested I drink 642 cups of coffee a day, I guess because coffee has some trace amount of whatever nutrient everything else lacked. It was also difficult to figur…
How did you solve your LP? I think the issue might be due to an extreme point solution from simplex-type methods. Interior point methods might give you something different. Have you tried that?
To be honest, I don't remember... I think I was using a Linux command-line LP solver.
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#184Some of the recipes call for 0.13 cups or 0.06 cups, etc. I assume you can convert that to other units like tablespoons / teaspoons for the non-metric inclined?
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#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I agree wholeheartedly. My point was that 33% of fats in your diet isn’t hard to accomplish. Also, as far as ‘good’ vs ‘bad’ fats go, aforementioned recipe did quite alright. It’s transfat and saturated fats you have to watch — fat in and of itself is needed for our bodies to function. However, I wouldn't just eat Tofu Scramble for breakfast. I need complex carbs not to feel hungry soon after. I can do without carbs…
Ah yeah, interesting feedback, maybe there's some tweaking to be done to take satiety into account.
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#186I've tried to make a meal planner that used linear programming to ensure that I got all of the needed nutrients and minimized calories, but it didn't work out. It really liked to suggest moose meat and some insanely healthful fruit from Argentina. It also suggested I drink 642 cups of coffee a day, I guess because coffee has some trace amount of whatever nutrient everything else lacked. It was also difficult to figur…
I'm pretty sure that meal planning is a packing problem, so it can't really be "solved". In fact it's worse than that; it's a multi-objective optimisation problem if you care about macro ratios and micronutrients.
In LP, you can tell it that your variables must be greater than or less than certain values, so my intention was to keep each nutrient between the recommended minimums and maximums.
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#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
I actually have wanted this for a long time, and seriously considered making it myself. I'm much happier that someone else did this. You have one user already. I love that you have presets for Atkins/Keto, and that you allow me to remove certain types of items like beef and pork. That has been sorely missing from others I've seen like this. If you integrate this with Instacart, I would love you forever.
I actually started building something like this several years ago, also looking to get into pricing info and historical data, but killed it when trying to figure out how to source the data. Edit: Also awesome job :) I will be checking this out!
For the nutrition component at least, the USDA has a very messy, difficult to navigate, but still quite useful database of nutritional information for almost every possible ingredient. And there are several sources of structured recipe data available online. The tricky part is mapping recipe line items and preparation instructions onto the USDA data set, but once you figure that out you can get a pretty decent approximation of the caloric breakdown and nutrient contents of any given recipe.
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#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
increase the price The creator is drastically underestimating how much removing this pain point is worth to people.
How much do you think he should charge? In a world of $8/mo Netflix, people make some pretty harsh value comparisons on services.
I already said 10 for the MVP. But I will pay more for a more robust product. I know a thousand people would. That's a hundred grand without any VC drama. Under the radar.
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#189It would be nice if there were a few more things I could filter out. Like pork and bacon I feel like should be separate categories, I have no interest in using Whey protein powder, and I hate cilantro, but none of these are options to add or remove. Would it be possible to include these in the list?
Re: Show HN: Automatic weekly meal planner, also plans your leftovers
#190It would be nice if there were a few more things I could filter out. Like pork and bacon I feel like should be separate categories, I have no interest in using Whey protein powder, and I hate cilantro, but none of these are options to add or remove. Would it be possible to include these in the list?
Sorry I just found the whey powder option, but it just replaced it with a different protein powder. Can I remove protein powder all together?