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Check out https://www.eatthismuch.com https://www.eatthismuch.com. Does exactly what you're describing, and it's brilliant. I picked it up last year, I couldn't

Check out https://www.eatthismuch.com https://www.eatthismuch.com. Does exactly what you're describing, and it's brilliant. I picked it up last year, I couldn't believe it existed.

maxxxxx 8y ago
Ideally I would like to feed my own recipes into the system. Or even better, have recipe sites use a shared data format for their recipes. We could call it "RecipeML" or "RecipSON".
- paulgb 8y ago
  MealLime might be what you're looking for, I think you can add your own recipes but I haven't tried it https://www.mealime.com/ https://www.mealime.com/
  - treis 8y ago
    This looks very promising. The only thing missing off my list is integration with online ordering.
- alexhutcheson 8y ago
  > Or even better, have recipe sites use a shared data format for their recipes. We could call it "RecipeML" or "RecipSON". https://schema.org/Recipe https://schema.org/Recipe
treis 8y ago
This is neat, but it misses the mark by quite a bit. In no particular order: (1) I don't want randomly chosen dishes. I want meals where the side dishes compliment the main (2) I want something more curated and well thought out. Some variety throughout the week and dishes that are less perishable. Like I want to make a fish dish as soon as I get the fish but a pasta dish can wait 3-4 days after my order. (3) The filter choices are odd. I can't say "chicken and fish only" but I can do mediterranean? And I question how much "Cheesy Chicken and Spinach" and "Buttered toast" are mediterranean. (4) The recipe filter is broken too. I tried to filter for main dishes and my first two choices are "Rice cake with Strawberry Ricotta and Honey" and "Grilled Peaches with Honey"
- papa_bear 8y ago
  Thanks for the feedback! All definitely things we need to improve on. We try to make things easy to edit/reorganize for places where our algorithms don't do an awesome job (like getting your fish earlier in the week), and it's definitely less than ideal. Our goal is to get it to the point where you can reliably just buy all the ingredients without needing to review the plan, and just have it auto-order your week's groceries the same way you might leave Blue Apron on auto-pilot. A lot of other meal planners will have more curated/appealing meal combinations, but also only serve a few different generic nutrition constraints. We'd like to keep the nutrition targets as flexible as possible, which requires a much wider search space on what goes in a meal. One approach we could try is allowing fractional servings on your recipes, but then you'd never be able to escape measuring specific amounts for each meal/recipe, and we think there's a decent amount of amount of value in keeping the servings simpler so you can eventually recall them from memory and not rely on the meal plan. Hopefully we can get the best of both worlds sooner than later.

Check out https://www.eatthismuch.com https://www.eatthismuch.com. Does exactly what you're describing, and it's brilliant. I picked it up last year, I couldn't believe it existed.

maxxxxx 8y ago

Ideally I would like to feed my own recipes into the system. Or even better, have recipe sites use a shared data format for their recipes. We could call it "RecipeML" or "RecipSON".

paulgb 8y ago
MealLime might be what you're looking for, I think you can add your own recipes but I haven't tried it https://www.mealime.com/ https://www.mealime.com/
- treis 8y ago
  This looks very promising. The only thing missing off my list is integration with online ordering.
alexhutcheson 8y ago
> Or even better, have recipe sites use a shared data format for their recipes. We could call it "RecipeML" or "RecipSON". https://schema.org/Recipe https://schema.org/Recipe

treis 8y ago

This is neat, but it misses the mark by quite a bit. In no particular order: (1) I don't want randomly chosen dishes. I want meals where the side dishes compliment the main (2) I want something more curated and well thought out. Some variety throughout the week and dishes that are less perishable. Like I want to make a fish dish as soon as I get the fish but a pasta dish can wait 3-4 days after my order. (3) The filter choices are odd. I can't say "chicken and fish only" but I can do mediterranean? And I question how much "Cheesy Chicken and Spinach" and "Buttered toast" are mediterranean. (4) The recipe filter is broken too. I tried to filter for main dishes and my first two choices are "Rice cake with Strawberry Ricotta and Honey" and "Grilled Peaches with Honey"

papa_bear 8y ago
Thanks for the feedback! All definitely things we need to improve on. We try to make things easy to edit/reorganize for places where our algorithms don't do an awesome job (like getting your fish earlier in the week), and it's definitely less than ideal. Our goal is to get it to the point where you can reliably just buy all the ingredients without needing to review the plan, and just have it auto-order your week's groceries the same way you might leave Blue Apron on auto-pilot. A lot of other meal planners will have more curated/appealing meal combinations, but also only serve a few different generic nutrition constraints. We'd like to keep the nutrition targets as flexible as possible, which requires a much wider search space on what goes in a meal. One approach we could try is allowing fractional servings on your recipes, but then you'd never be able to escape measuring specific amounts for each meal/recipe, and we think there's a decent amount of amount of value in keeping the servings simpler so you can eventually recall them from memory and not rely on the meal plan. Hopefully we can get the best of both worlds sooner than later.