About the project
Overview
Meal Planner uses a custom algorithm to offer personalized mealplans based on macro data such as protein.
Portions
sizes are calculated to meet the recommended daily nutrient values.
However, please keep in mind that we are using a user-generated dataset which might lead to inaccuracies.
Therefore, we strongly suggest that you always consult these mealplans with your doctor to ensure that they will be healthy for you before using them.
Therefore, we strongly suggest that you always consult these mealplans with your doctor to ensure that they will be healthy for you before using them.
Code
Source code may be found in this GitHub repo. This project was programmed with Flask to provide
the front-end and the back-end, as well as SQLAlchemy with SQLite to provide the database.
Further information can be found in GitHub.
Further information can be found in GitHub.
Dataset
This app uses a very large recipe dataset, Recipe1M+ (MIT)
containing over one
million cooking recipes. However, I have reduced them using filter algorithms to only 8000 recipes. Most of my
focus was spent filtering recipes out.
Next, I decided to classify these recipes to suggest main or snack courses. This was also achieved with a classification algorithm.
Next, I decided to classify these recipes to suggest main or snack courses. This was also achieved with a classification algorithm.
Assets
Attribution is provided to:
- Bootstrap, a responsive CSS framework, can be found here
- Photo by Chad Montano on Unsplash
- Photo by Lily Banse on Unsplash
- Photo by Kobby Mendez on Unsplash
- Photo by Victoria Shes on Unsplash
Site
This website is using Flask, a lightweight Python web framework, which helped to
simplify the project structure and keep loading times fast. Flask
is a good choice for this website as it is a relatively small project.
Furthermore, a stand-alone API is available here
Furthermore, a stand-alone API is available here
Next steps
There are many features that could be implemented in the future, below you will find some:
- Trending recipes and meal plans
- Adding new recipes
- User-generated meal plans
- Daily mealplan alerts
- and many more...