Love the idea of having a personal "Chef" who cares about my health!
One feature idea : you could integrate with one these smart wifi scale and use my daily weight as input. This way you'll have a daily feedback loop.
Show HN: Automatic weekly meal planner, also plans your leftovers
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#132Oh wow. Simply wow. I've wanted this without knowing I've wanted it. This probably sounds sad but the effort and potential anxiety required in trying to pick the right foods and what I might want to eat often means I just get lazy and eat out instead. A case where having an astounding number of options often leaves one wanting to pick none of the above. This is a great idea. Edit: Mobile website please!
Me too! And I love how well done the site is, both usability wise and conceptually.
Next step: not sure how the health metrics would change, but you can have "order from " or "buy from " button, so lazy people like me know where to get the food from.
Next next step: directions for recipe? Most of the dishes looks awesome, but (maybe because I was not raised in US) I don't know how to prepare/cook them.
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#133One other thought--you might also want to search a person's geographic area and see if you can find the best deals on the ingredients for recipes :-p But, generally--wow!!!
+1, I try to only eat locally grown produce, which of course means that the offerings are dependent on the seasons. I’d love for the app to take into account my country of residence, what season it is there right now, and then use that information to determine what’s being grown there now.
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
I actually have wanted this for a long time, and seriously considered making it myself. I'm much happier that someone else did this. You have one user already. I love that you have presets for Atkins/Keto, and that you allow me to remove certain types of items like beef and pork. That has been sorely missing from others I've seen like this. If you integrate this with Instacart, I would love you forever.
I asked them about some kind of integration when I first launched, but because I had a pretty small userbase they dropped the conversation after a couple emails. Now that it's grown, maybe I'll prod them again.
They get pinged to integrate pretty often, and they're really busy guys. Don't feel bad, and don't give up!
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#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
The site doesn't seem to include drinks. Do you plan on adding them?
I had it suggesting whole milk for a while, but a lot of people complained that it was giving them too much whole milk so I just removed it entirely. My algorithm doesn't give any special treatment to drinks, but maybe it should to output something more realistic looking. I use the site myself, and the way I handle drinks is with the "locking" feature (via the lock icon next to a food or meal). If I know I'm going to…
Great service! Easily worth my $9/mo.
"I use the site myself" - Eating your own dog food? (Pun, Pun, Pun)
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#136LOL LOL LOL!!!! The list it gave me consisted of everything I'm alergic to AND my 2 least favorite foods on the planet: pickles and celery!!
However, this is pretty awesome, my first try was super funny, but I'll definitely check it out more.
I would think that it should also have some checkboxes for common allergies, a la nuts, and maybe even foods I really don't like to exclude... I'd love to see what it shows then.
EDIT: I did see the food options section, but it seems to go from SUPER EASY all the way to ridiculously complicated with the click of that 1 button. There's some fine tuning to be done on this site, but my guess is that he'll kick some ass with this system - especially once it's an APP.
Re: Show HN: Automatic weekly meal planner, also plans your leftovers
#137LOL LOL LOL!!!! The list it gave me consisted of everything I'm alergic to AND my 2 least favorite foods on the planet: pickles and celery!! However, this is pretty awesome, my first try was super funny, but I'll definitely check it out more. I would think that it should also have some checkboxes for common allergies, a la nuts, and maybe even foods I really don't like to exclude... I'd love to see what it shows then…
It does. Click on the "Meal Options" button to the right, scroll down to "Food and Recipe filters", deselect anything you don't want/like.
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#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
Low carb doesn't mean no carb. If you limit meals to 5-10 grams of carbs or less, most low carbers would be happy. [1] One of the more extreme low carb diets, the Atkins Induction Phase, allowed up to 20 grams per day. Other diets such as keto or The Zone allow 50-100 grams. [1] http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/nutrition/how-many-carbohyd...
That's a bit of a misnomer: diets like Keto don't "allow" set amounts of carbs, they require you to find your own carb limit to stay in ketosis. If you constantly blow out of ketosis, you'll literally accomplish nothing with the diet. Hence why keto-stix and other indicators are important- no one value works for everyone. I had to eat less than 25g/day to maintain the keto diet.
> If you constantly blow out of ketosis, you'll literally accomplish nothing with the diet.
Unless you also achieve a caloric deficit.
edit: opposite words day
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#139I've tried to make a meal planner that used linear programming to ensure that I got all of the needed nutrients and minimized calories, but it didn't work out. It really liked to suggest moose meat and some insanely healthful fruit from Argentina. It also suggested I drink 642 cups of coffee a day, I guess because coffee has some trace amount of whatever nutrient everything else lacked. It was also difficult to figur…
I'm pretty sure that meal planning is a packing problem, so it can't really be "solved".
In fact it's worse than that; it's a multi-objective optimisation problem if you care about macro ratios and micronutrients.
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#140Impressive, however their recommendations based on age, weight, and such, when your trying to lose weight would do the opposite for me.
I would definitely pay for an mobile version, especially one that could keep recipes locally that I could pop up at a moments notice, as in while in the store.