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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 dclowd9901 »

cwilson wrote: post #213

All this needs is a button on the generated grocery list to have them delivered to your door. Partner with TaskRabbit, InstaCart, Safeway (I believe they do free deliveries for anything over $40), etc. This is absolutely amazing (like many others are saying, I've been wanting something like this for years), but if delivery were added, I'd never have to worry about the hassle that is shopping and meal planning again!…

Charge $10/mo for it and shoo the investors away as your money comes pouring in.

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

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Post by utunga »

Good call. Definitely a 'thing i need', and (having just shelled out my ccard) clearly something willing to pay for. Not sure where to put this feedback so I'll put it here.

Both very minor issues but for what its worth...

- When I switched to metric and put my height in meters/cm the calorie calc went nuts and estimated 7300 kcals. Very confusing to me. Ah I've figured out the cause. I had put 1 meter and 828 cm (shouldve been 82cm). Perhaps cap cm at 100 or put a boundary condition on overall height?

- In New Zealand the 'days' thing doesn't work right (ie its end of the day Thursday here, but its giving me meal plans as if Thursday were tomorrow). Some timezone adjustments/detection would make it all that much more easier to understand.

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

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Post by zecho »

papa_bear wrote: post #102
physcab wrote: post #78

This is pretty marvelous. I have always wanted to create something like this, but the details have always seemed daunting to me. I couldn't think of a way of merging recipes I liked with nutritional facts and then assembling building blocks for meal plans automatically without a ton of manual labor in data entry. Are these recipes crowdsourced? Have you just been taking copious nutritional notes for a while? If you f…

You're right that there's a lot of work before having even something basically functional - the first version of the site only had about 50 foods to pick from that I entered by hand, all very basic (e.g. ground beef, avocado), and it would throw them at you in a random combination. Then I found the USDA food database, but their formatting is a mess and I spent a couple weeks cleaning it up by hand. The recipes are al…

As a fitness nut and a bit of a foodie, I love this site, but I'm glad you recognize that the recipe database leaves much to be desired.

With almost every nutrition app or website I've seen, there's such a ridiculous emphasis on prepackaged foods or sources like restaurants. I'd be super pleased if you could pull of nutrition calculations based off of individual foods within a recipe.

All in all, though, this is fantastic. I'm going to definitely give a try.

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

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Post by zecho »

greghinch wrote: post #105

This is pretty neat and well executed. But does the algorithm work on meal combinations that make sense? Two of my generated meals, one was chocolate mousse with a side of bacon & tomatoes, and the next meal was beef stew with a side of fruit salad. Those things may make sense to eat together by raw data, but in all practical sense they sound like pretty terrible meals...

I noticed that as well. You can refresh the meal until it makes some sense, though.

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Post by sravfeyn »

It would really help if anybody can link a good guide on basics of nutrition, calories, metabolism and their effects on body, weight. I never cared about these things and I never understood all the calorie calculations on the diet plans or why they should be the way they are. I searched on internet, but these topics are so full of litter. I would appreciate if anyone can link a to genuine nutrition basics.

Edit: It's better if the guide is more general, than american-centric.

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Post by otibom »

sravfeyn wrote: post #226

It would really help if anybody can link a good guide on basics of nutrition, calories, metabolism and their effects on body, weight. I never cared about these things and I never understood all the calorie calculations on the diet plans or why they should be the way they are. I searched on internet, but these topics are so full of litter. I would appreciate if anyone can link a to genuine nutrition basics. Edit: It's…

Oh yes, this please. Something straightforward, simple and scientific. Possibly exhaustive. I would pay for a quality book like that.

There is so much noise on this topic. Oh and not too American biased would be great as well.

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

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Post by ericd »

orangethirty wrote: post #188
ericd wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I know, I was asking the person I replied to, if he thinks ETM is dramatically undercharging. 9->10 is a pretty small difference with a potentially outsized effect on conversion.

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

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Post by kemayo »

tracker1 wrote: post #211
papa_bear wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

True, but it still limits the food variety a lot. Since my recipe database isn't huge to begin with, the meals start looking stale much sooner. I'm working on expanding the recipe database a lot, so hopefully it won't be a big problem for too much longer.

I can't speak for others, but try to keep my net carbs around 100g/day ... Would maybe want an option to set your daily limits (probably 100/day as a default)

That already seems to be there. I see a "target micronutrients" setting, which lets me set the min / max of carbs / fats / proteins for each day.
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