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

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K this app is something i've been thinking about making because I really want it. So feel free to charge me money if it means you can spend more time adding cool features. here's what i'd like: * You generate about 90% stuff alright, but that extra 10% is hard, I found myself hitting refresh many times. Can you give me a netflix style like it or not which will try to make better guesses? * Can you hook it in with fit…

For me the ability to shop on the weekends would make using this easier.

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

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post #15

K this app is something i've been thinking about making because I really want it. So feel free to charge me money if it means you can spend more time adding cool features. here's what i'd like: * You generate about 90% stuff alright, but that extra 10% is hard, I found myself hitting refresh many times. Can you give me a netflix style like it or not which will try to make better guesses? * Can you hook it in with fit…

Thanks for the suggestions! There's a lot I want to do with more intelligent recipe suggestions based on food taste, and hopefully I'll get around to it within a few months. Same for the fit bit stuff - there's a lot I can work on to make the whole thing more reactive to your daily activity.

You can plan a week ahead as a subscriber - the site will automatically send you 7 meal plans and a grocery list the day before your grocery shopping day, whatever you set that to be. And I may work on an API if I have time, but you can enter your own custom foods and recipes if you sign up. I don't make if obvious, but if you sign up and bail out after the email/password step, you can still use a basic free account to enter recipes and foods and things.

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

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I am surprised and delighted by this site! I cannot stress enough how well this nailed the contingencies that may come up when I was just using this. My first thought, I actually don't know how many calories I should eat--BAM there is a button that helps me generate it. What if I want to lose weight? BAM! Button for that option. Then I see the meals generated and I think, well, I'm a vegetarian so this chicken won't…

Haha awesome, thanks! I spent a lot of time trying to pander to different eating styles, and some definitely work better with my algorithm than others. Low carb is especially rocky since I have relatively few foods/recipes with absolutely no carbs.

How long has the service been around for, and how did you get traction? You have quite a lot of Twitter and Facebook followers/fans.

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

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post #21
post #15

K this app is something i've been thinking about making because I really want it. So feel free to charge me money if it means you can spend more time adding cool features. here's what i'd like: * You generate about 90% stuff alright, but that extra 10% is hard, I found myself hitting refresh many times. Can you give me a netflix style like it or not which will try to make better guesses? * Can you hook it in with fit…

For me the ability to shop on the weekends would make using this easier.

In the signup process, you can set any day of the week to be your grocery shopping day. It'll send you the email the day before in case you want to make any edits, and then the meal plans start the day after.

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

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I am surprised and delighted by this site! I cannot stress enough how well this nailed the contingencies that may come up when I was just using this. My first thought, I actually don't know how many calories I should eat--BAM there is a button that helps me generate it. What if I want to lose weight? BAM! Button for that option. Then I see the meals generated and I think, well, I'm a vegetarian so this chicken won't…

I registered especially to express that. Best Ux I'v ever had.

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

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I am surprised and delighted by this site! I cannot stress enough how well this nailed the contingencies that may come up when I was just using this. My first thought, I actually don't know how many calories I should eat--BAM there is a button that helps me generate it. What if I want to lose weight? BAM! Button for that option. Then I see the meals generated and I think, well, I'm a vegetarian so this chicken won't…

Was just about to write the same comment, but don't feel an upvote is enough. Great work on the ux, and the help texts answered my questions spot on. Great job :) Edit: And it remembered my entered values when i accidentally left the page! Edit again: To add some constructive: I'm not to good at ounces, oz and cups, would it be possible to add an option for using the metric system?

At the top of the options page there's a checkbox for metric units. The next time you regenerate the meal plan, most things should be in metric units.

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

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I am surprised and delighted by this site! I cannot stress enough how well this nailed the contingencies that may come up when I was just using this. My first thought, I actually don't know how many calories I should eat--BAM there is a button that helps me generate it. What if I want to lose weight? BAM! Button for that option. Then I see the meals generated and I think, well, I'm a vegetarian so this chicken won't…

I agree! I had all those same reactions when I wanted different things. This site is actually super useful and friendly. Nice work :)

I also agree with other people's want for a like/don't like suggester. I know that takes a ton of work, but I would pay for a service that offers up recipes and mealplans for me based on my feedback.

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

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There's probably a culture clash here but... is this considered a balanced nutritious meal in the US?

http://i.imgur.com/cVpnXJB.png

I'm French, a country that has a certain reputation for eating healthy, and where a meal is typically:

- an "appetizer" (small salad or crudités)

- a main course (typically meat/fish + vegetable/starch)

- cheese & bread

- dessert (often fruit, or rarely something sweet like a slice of cake)

(breakfast is typically cereal with coffee/tea, maybe some fruit)

I'm not a nutritionist, but the recommended meals strike me as very unbalanced.

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