{"id":125,"date":"2020-05-21T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bruceng.com\/?p=125"},"modified":"2020-05-21T12:00:55","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T12:00:55","slug":"meal-planner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bruceng.com\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"Meal planner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can&#8217;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The app has two main function<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Given a list of dishes to cook, generate a shopping list for grocery shopping.<\/li><li>Give a list of ingredients at hand or in the fridge, suggest which dishes can be cooked based on the ingredients that user has.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The progress so far has been great, looking forward to the first release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;t go out for grocery shopping much, only once or twice a week. So I have to calculate what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bruceng.com\/?p=125\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meal planner<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruceng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruceng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruceng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruceng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruceng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bruceng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/bruceng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruceng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruceng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruceng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}