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Show HN: EatHow – Figure out what to make with the food you already have

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Re: Show HN: EatHow – Figure out what to make with the food you already have

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Post by fiatjaf »

madamelic wrote: post #63
fiatjaf wrote: post #61

I wrote something like this as my first programming project. I had serious trouble with an algorithm to search and filter recipes, however. The best point of my site was that it gathered its recipes from food blogs and linked directly to them. I had to tweak a scraper for about a hundred different food blogs, it was a hell of work, but the scraping results were good. Differently from SuperCook, which uses food portal…

Do you still have the scraper? I'd love to see it.

No, I didn't even know version control or how to properly save code to disk at the time. It was 2011. I kept all my code in Dropbox and life was a mess.

There was a site with recipe search at http://receitrom.com.br/. Wayback Machine had it, but it seems to have a new search feature now that doesn't find anything anymore.

Anyway, it was scraping recipes in Brazilian blogs, so it would probably be useless for you.

Re: Show HN: EatHow – Figure out what to make with the food you already have

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Post by abraham_o »

Tehnix wrote: post #24

Very cool project! I often hear people talk about this as an idea, but never really getting further than that :) Some suggestions/notes: - Looking at a recipe (e.g. https://www.eathow.com/recipes/219 ) I think you forgot to use a cursor: pointer; on the "Directions" and "Ingredients", to indicate that they are clickable - Someone else mentioned, but you don't have to be so apologetic about wanting money for this :) M…

EatHow is now completely free. Hope you like :)

Re: Show HN: EatHow – Figure out what to make with the food you already have

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Post by abraham_o »

lighttower wrote: post #70

Sent this to my wife who happily input everything we have in the fridge: eggs, cheese, sun-dried tomatoes, capers, canned beans, balsamic vinegar, banana, cashews, lemon juice, paprika, spaghetti, garlic. And all it came back with was breakfast of scrambled eggs. Nothing for dinner or lunch. Not good! She was turned off immediately.

There are 80 recipes now and I add more every month (going for 20/month) It only gets better with time :)

Re: Show HN: EatHow – Figure out what to make with the food you already have

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Post by maxerickson »

abraham_o wrote: post #74
lighttower wrote: post #70

Sent this to my wife who happily input everything we have in the fridge: eggs, cheese, sun-dried tomatoes, capers, canned beans, balsamic vinegar, banana, cashews, lemon juice, paprika, spaghetti, garlic. And all it came back with was breakfast of scrambled eggs. Nothing for dinner or lunch. Not good! She was turned off immediately.

There are 80 recipes now and I add more every month (going for 20/month) It only gets better with time :)

I think even if you have a recipe for banana caper bean salad people will still be turned off.

Re: Show HN: EatHow – Figure out what to make with the food you already have

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Post by nathancahill »

scandox wrote: post #60

I like this idea but current execution doesn't work for me. I currently achieve this goal by typing the main ingredients I have into google and adding the word vegetarian. I get something worthwhile in the first two pages. I can see benefits to your system in terms of granularity and accuracy. But these will only accrue over time and at first use I found this approach cumbersome. Free text entry of main stuff I had w…

Yep, I do exactly the same thing. Works really well. Another thing that helps use stuff in the fridge is following recipes as suggestions instead of strict ingredient lists. Swapping out different root vegetables for example.

Re: Show HN: EatHow – Figure out what to make with the food you already have

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Post by cowpewter »

maxerickson wrote: post #75
abraham_o wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are 80 recipes now and I add more every month (going for 20/month) It only gets better with time :)

I think even if you have a recipe for banana caper bean salad people will still be turned off.

Well yeah, but with that list you could easily have just a caper bean salad without the banana, or maybe spaghetti with the sundried tomato, capers, and garlic.

Maybe part of the problem is a lot of people aren't going to think of putting in basics? Maybe it should also show recipes that just need a basic you might have forgotten to list. Like, maybe it did have a spaghetti with sundried tomato and garlic recipe but it requires olive oil or butter.

That makes the logic a lot more complicated though. Maybe if you could define a list of basics you always have in the house, like olive oil, butter, basic dried seasonings, etc. It would have to be customizable though, because some people might always have milk in the house and others might never (same with olive oil or any other thing).

Re: Show HN: EatHow – Figure out what to make with the food you already have

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Post by meej »

This is cool, something I've long wanted. A big missing feature is the ability to filter out food allergie/sensitivities/preferences in recipes and the grocery list, though. I was pretty disappointed, after winnowing down the list of things I have on hand, to receive lots of recipe suggestions containing foods I can't eat without making me ill.

Re: Show HN: EatHow – Figure out what to make with the food you already have

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Post by lacampbell »

jamiethompson wrote: post #58
lacampbell wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the battle is lost here already. I'm an educated native English speaker and I could literally care less if someone says "less" when, traditionally, "fewer" would have been used. It still annoys me that people describe things as "lite" instead of "light", but I realise the battle is lost as well.

I think you mean that you _couldn't_ care less

But that's the thing. I literally could.
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