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Re: Show HN: App creates a meal plan that satisfies your nutrition constraints

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Post by fredsters_s »

papa_bear wrote: post #11

Hey guys! I made the site and someone brought the post to my attention. I'm out right now and probably won't be able to reply to any comments tonight, but of course all of your feedback is incredibly valuable to me and I'll try to reply ASAP.

Great work man. I've always wondered why this didn't exist. Seems like a very good MVP. I will use it.

Re: Show HN: App creates a meal plan that satisfies your nutrition constraints

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Post by jwblackwell »

I like it. It would be nice to be able to refresh the entire day's meal, I know you can hit generate again but I spent a minute looking for a "refresh all" button and I'm sure others might as well. Perhaps at the bottom after the user has scrolled down.

Another key (IMO) perhaps paid feature should be the ability to exclude ingredients.

I'm allergic to peanuts for example, plus plenty of people just outright dislike certain foods so it would be nice to save them the hassle and exclude them. Also the inverse of this, a favourite food option, would be really nice.

Edit: Just seen the food filter, this works for the exclude but a favourite food option might be good still.

Re: Show HN: App creates a meal plan that satisfies your nutrition constraints

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Post by NPC82 »

papa_bear wrote: post #11

Hey guys! I made the site and someone brought the post to my attention. I'm out right now and probably won't be able to reply to any comments tonight, but of course all of your feedback is incredibly valuable to me and I'll try to reply ASAP.

You need more foods to choose from, but I suppose that's where the users come in. Very interesting app! I might sign up.

Edit: Just found some of the features I had suggested, whoops.

Re: Show HN: App creates a meal plan that satisfies your nutrition constraints

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Post by derleth »

baghali wrote: post #33

just eat alkaline and you will be healthy

To be clear: No. This is wrong. Do not follow this advice. The 'alkaline diet' does not work.

http://www.skepdic.com/alkalinediet.html

http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/DSH/coral2...

Re: Show HN: App creates a meal plan that satisfies your nutrition constraints

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Post by derleth »

From the fortune files:

    This is the first numerical problem I ever did.  It demonstrates the
    power of computers:

    Enter lots of data on calorie & nutritive content of foods.  Instruct
    the thing to maximize a function describing nutritive content, with a
    minimum level of each component, for fixed caloric content.  The
    results are that one should eat each day:

        1/2 chicken
        1 egg
        1 glass of skim milk
        27 heads of lettuce.
                -- Rev. Adrian Melott

Re: Show HN: App creates a meal plan that satisfies your nutrition constraints

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Post by robinduckett »

lsc wrote: post #24
te_chris wrote: post #15

8 slices of bacon in a BLT (one of the suggested recipes)? Jesus! I knew Americans ate big portions but that's crazy!

1 slice of pan-fried bacon is under 50 calories. If that's the meat in my sandwich, yeah, I think 8 sounds pretty reasonable. on the other hand, that's a lot of salt. nearly 200mg of sodium per slice. so yeah, if you are watching your sodium intake? probably a bad idea. But calorie-wise, completely reasonable.

You can limit the sodium intake on the options page
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