I'd love it if it could suggest your week's menu and then hook into your online grocery shopping too
Show HN: App creates a meal plan that satisfies your nutrition constraints
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#52Please add a setting to change measurements to metric globally, not just in the serving size but also the recipes.
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#53I would love the option to not constrain on calories, but (also?) on sugar and starch. This study found that cutting carbohydrates proves more effective than cutting calories in both lowering blood sugar and losing weight (losing weight is only a side note since the study is about diabetes): http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090105175326.ht...
Low-carb diets do work very well for me, but choice of food is really restricted - at least at first sight. I'm sure there are more possibilities than the few I eat every week, and it would be cool if a tool like swole.me/eatthismuch could generate that for me (I read that Tim Ferriss will publish a cook book soon, but that's not the same) :)
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#54just eat alkaline and you will be healthy
I have never understood diets like this. They don't make evolutionary sense. There's only one diet logically that is ideal in my opinion, and I'd like to call it the food diet. Eat food. Eat natural, unmodified food. If its processed and has things that aren't food in it, don't eat it. It's worth making more frequent trips to the grocery store to buy food that's real than to eat the non-food additives that make other things stay longer.
Guaranteed, if everyone were to cut all non-food / modified food items from their diets, the only people that would be unhealthy would be those who have medical conditions. And we'd probably have way less of those too.
Oh, and none of this should negate the fact that eatthismuch.com is totally awesome. Keep it up!
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#55Salmon & Potato Scramble for breakfast, what am i? The Queen? But besides that, pretty nice idea! I also like the interface! :)
"Brie cheese on bread", "Hummus pocket sandwich" or "Goat cheese herb omelet". :)
Bit impractical imho. I think it needs a "staple" option (i would choose legumes for example, others rice or potatoes).
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#568 slices of bacon in a BLT (one of the suggested recipes)? Jesus! I knew Americans ate big portions but that's crazy!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon#Australia_and_New_Zealand
We have different bacon to Americans.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's a sliding scale for this sort of thing For instance: I would happily drink 4 cups (which sounds to me like approx 1litre ... I really dislike 'cup' measurements) of whole milk every morning
I would happily drink [a liter] of whole milk every morning Same here, plus you could throw in some stevia & cocoa to make it chocolate milk without adding much extra energy.
Off topic for the thread but seeing as you highlighted it: isn't 'liter' the US spelling, while 'litre' is the (correct) UK one? (I'm in Ireland, and tend to cringe when I see 'Americanisms' :( )
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#58hey this is cool.... using it right now
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#59I'm not drinking 4 cups of whole milk for breakfast. I'm probably never going to eat a cup of almonds and some celery for lunch... I think you need to put some serious work into making sure that each suggestion is appetizing as opposed to rummaging through the pantry and finding something that technically meets the requirements.
There's a sliding scale for this sort of thing For instance: I would happily drink 4 cups (which sounds to me like approx 1litre ... I really dislike 'cup' measurements) of whole milk every morning
Agreed, I think cup is irrelevant outside of US - UK - AUS. Here it's just like saying drink "4 glasses of milk" - how much is this exactly? As usual it's a bit obnoxious to think your only customers / users come from those countries.
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#60just eat alkaline and you will be healthy
I have never understood diets like this. They don't make evolutionary sense. There's only one diet logically that is ideal in my opinion, and I'd like to call it the food diet. Eat food. Eat natural, unmodified food. If its processed and has things that aren't food in it, don't eat it. It's worth making more frequent trips to the grocery store to buy food that's real than to eat the non-food additives that make other…
> natural, unmodified food
ie whole foods, and yes this is pretty much the only dieting advise you need.