I remember somewhere on the first few pages of this thread someone said something about a meal prep/shopping app that optimizes weekly meal plans.
Can't remember if this is exactly the same as that idea but how about an app that optimizes weekly meal plans based on ingredients within recipes and your/your family's nutritional needs.
You select your calories needed per day and the app gives you meal ideas for breaskfast, lunch, dinner and snacks for the week that amount to 2300kcal/day or whatever your input. Nothing new about that, there are plenty of apps that do it.
But what about optimising the meal plan to reduce food wastage and cost.
For example when I look up a recipe, it needs 150g of ground beef, half a lemon and half a bunch of parsley or whatever, supermarket does not sell in those quantities so there is a lot of wastage.
What if the app can provide you with a weekly meal plan that would use up a total of reasonable quantities for each ingredients in increments that you can actually find at a supermarket (eg total for the week would need 500g of ground beef, 250g of pasta, whole bunch of parsely and 2 lemons over 5 meals.)
It would require a fairly large database of recipes - but with the thousands of food blogs out there that each have hundreds of recipe it shouldn't be too difficult to populate it.
edit: alexeimartov initially posted this here:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...&postcount=118
any feedback as of now (5+ years later, do any apps that do this exist now)
Last edited by micros; 03-28-2016 at 08:25 AM.