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What I really would like is a recommendation engine for me personally. Basically: This is what you could cook today (you haven't cooked this for a long time, bu

by guerda 5y ago

What I really would like is a recommendation engine for me personally. Basically: This is what you could cook today (you haven't cooked this for a long time, but like it or so).

roel_v 5y ago
This was one of my main goals too (having/managing a set of known-good recipes and some way to be reminded of which ones we should come back to), and I tried many digital-only methods, but none stuck. For the past few years my strategy for this is offline-first. I have a bunch of recipes in 'enhanced Markdown' (Markdown with my own additions, very similar to Cooklang that was on here a few days ago, but that didn't exist when I started my software) and a script to make a pdf out of those recipes (a nice looking pdf, I bought some 'cookbook templates' off etsy or something similar). I print that and keep recipes in a binder, annotate on paper, and every now and then I go back and work my notes into the Markdown recipes then re-render and re-print the pdf. Then, when I do meal planning (usually in the weekend, depends on when we have a slot for grocery delivery) we (as a family) look through the table of contents of our family recipe book/binder and we usually eat (per week) 2 to 3 recipes from there, 1 or 2 from the 'we should try these' sources (printed recipes we come across, our newspaper has recipes daily, pinterest boards, youtube videos, ...) and 1 or 2 nights we have leftovers or takeout. This planning ties in with an offline-first grocery shopping/meal planning system that revolves around a cork board with laundry pegs to hold that weeks planning, which my children made/decorated when they were little.
dag11 5y ago
For a good chunk of the pandemic I used PlateJoy which did just this. You gave it preferences, and it told you what meals you were going to make that week and a consolidated shopping list. I enjoyed it a lot, but eventually my life got too busy to cook that often and I was growing slightly tired of the recipes, plus they got acquired so I don't know what their future holds. But maybe you'd find them valuable?

by guerda 5y ago

What I really would like is a recommendation engine for me personally. Basically: This is what you could cook today (you haven't cooked this for a long time, but like it or so).

roel_v 5y ago

This was one of my main goals too (having/managing a set of known-good recipes and some way to be reminded of which ones we should come back to), and I tried many digital-only methods, but none stuck. For the past few years my strategy for this is offline-first. I have a bunch of recipes in 'enhanced Markdown' (Markdown with my own additions, very similar to Cooklang that was on here a few days ago, but that didn't exist when I started my software) and a script to make a pdf out of those recipes (a nice looking pdf, I bought some 'cookbook templates' off etsy or something similar). I print that and keep recipes in a binder, annotate on paper, and every now and then I go back and work my notes into the Markdown recipes then re-render and re-print the pdf. Then, when I do meal planning (usually in the weekend, depends on when we have a slot for grocery delivery) we (as a family) look through the table of contents of our family recipe book/binder and we usually eat (per week) 2 to 3 recipes from there, 1 or 2 from the 'we should try these' sources (printed recipes we come across, our newspaper has recipes daily, pinterest boards, youtube videos, ...) and 1 or 2 nights we have leftovers or takeout. This planning ties in with an offline-first grocery shopping/meal planning system that revolves around a cork board with laundry pegs to hold that weeks planning, which my children made/decorated when they were little.

dag11 5y ago

For a good chunk of the pandemic I used PlateJoy which did just this. You gave it preferences, and it told you what meals you were going to make that week and a consolidated shopping list. I enjoyed it a lot, but eventually my life got too busy to cook that often and I was growing slightly tired of the recipes, plus they got acquired so I don't know what their future holds. But maybe you'd find them valuable?