Show HN: MealDays – Meal planner for my wife

Re:Show HN: MealDays – Meal planner for my wife by mast on Thursday September 04, 2014 @01:46PM (#8269610)

I like the idea of meal planning, but most applications don't work for me. Most meal planners I've come across are similar to this one. You randomly pick recipes and a grocery list gets generated for you.

I want to work the other way around. Each week we get sales flyers from our local grocery stores. We look to see what's available, and make our shopping list. Then we try to plan meals based on our list plus items we may already have.

Using this workflow, it would be nice if a menu planning tool could be given a list of ingredients, and then make suggestions for recipes.

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Re:Show HN: MealDays – Meal planner for my wife by dllthomas on Thursday September 04, 2014 @01:49PM (#8269626)

Yeah, meal planners need to be integrated with some kind of pantry management.

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Re:Show HN: MealDays – Meal planner for my wife by jampoole on Thursday September 04, 2014 @10:01PM (#8271940)

Actually, there are apps out there that give you meals based on pantry items. My sister in-law used one a couple times.

This would be a great feature to add.

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Re:Show HN: MealDays – Meal planner for my wife by dllthomas on Saturday September 06, 2014 @03:21PM (#8279209)

To some degree, although I'd really like a more thorough pantry management system - which tracks expiration dates, estimates quantities, &c, and integrates with meal planning and shopping.

On a related note, some knowledge of substitutions could be another great feature.

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