For the past few months, due to the covid-19 pandemic, I had to work from home and minimize going outside. As a result I have to cook more often to avoid contact with people outside.
I can’t go out for grocery shopping much, only once or twice a week. So I have to calculate what I have to buy based on all the recipes I plan to cook during the week. This has been very tedious.
I came up with the idea of a software application that helps with meal planning/shopping for family and busy people. People who buy food in bulk once or twice a week to save time.
The app has two main function
- Given a list of dishes to cook, generate a shopping list for grocery shopping.
- Give a list of ingredients at hand or in the fridge, suggest which dishes can be cooked based on the ingredients that user has.
Aside from that user can also add new recipes as different people know different recipes to cook. The application will be a cross platform application, available as a web app and mobile apps.
The progress so far has been great, looking forward to the first release.