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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 smspence »

GuiA wrote: post #54
smspence wrote: post #49

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How is that a "French" meal? You can eat those types of foods anywhere... I have had many meals that look exactly like that here in the U.S., both cooked at home and out at restaurants. Don't believe what you read on Reddit, HN, and other websites that hate Americans. Not all Americans eat McDonald's burgers and fries and other crappy processed food for every meal. We are just like anyone else. Some of us (not all) a…

You asked for portion size, I've sent you a picture of what typical portions look like in France. As far as judging American nutrition, I've lived here for almost 4 years now, so I'm not basing my remarks solely off HN/Reddit/etc. :)

My point is that there is no such thing as "American nutrition". What does that term even mean?

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

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Post by Samuel_Michon »

GuiA wrote: post #40
cocoflunchy wrote: post #37

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Yes, it looks like it's picking 3 random "parts of meal" but not necessarily in 3 different categories... But maybe it's also linked to the fact that you're asking for 3400 calories? 2500 seems more reasonable for an adult male.

I don't know how much calories I need, I gave it my stats (23 yo male, moderately active, 85 kg, 1m 86) and it auto-populated the field for me.

‘Moderately active’ may not mean what you think it does. Farmers and professional athletes are ’moderately active’. People who work at home all day using a computer are ‘sedentary’.

(Given your gender, age, height and weight:) Unless you work out for >4 hours every day, 3500 kcalories is way more than your body uses, so you’re sure to gain weight if you were to ingest that many calories every day. If you have a desk job or if you’re a student, choose ‘sedentary’ in the app. The result will be 2300 kcalories, which is most likely enough for you. On days in which you workout a lot, you can ingest a few hundred kcalories more.

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

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Post by bstpierre »

Jemaclus wrote: post #51

I think the only suggestion I can think of is that the suggested meals should be as simple as possible. Part of the reason why I don't cook as often as I could is that I don't have the time (ok, I don't make it a high priority) to cook every meal. If I could simply slap together a sandwich in the morning for lunch and that would fill me up, then we'd be good, but a lot of these meals take more prep time than I'm will…

If you go into the meal options, click Meal Options in the header, and click "Can't Cook" then it gives meals that are (IMO) really low on prep time.

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

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Post by josephjrobison »

This is exactly what I've always wanted. I used to use nutrition data to count meals but that got tiring and wasn't that amazing. I love how you can calculate the daily cost, which is a huge thing for me.

The fact that I can calculate a vegan meal with 3500 calories, and enough protein for under $5 a day is just jaw dropping.

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