Meals Unveiled

Meal planning aid by storing recipes and being able to automatically generate a grocery list for the meals you choose

Setup

Prerequisites:

• Flask (Python 3), tested on version 1.0 and (TODO which version did Mariana use?)
• MySQL connector, e.g. mysql-connector-python-py3_8.0.33-1debian10_amd64.deb
• MariaDB or MySQL database server

Installation:

1. Configure the database connection in config.ini
2. Run main.py
3. Your setup is now fully functional! You can open it in your browser based on the values configured in config.ini, by default: http://localhost:5000/

To generate some sample data, uncomment the line db.insert_test_data() in main.py and run the script again.

To run the service continuously on a server, a quick solution is to run it in a screen session (screen -S meals ./main.py). More durable, to automatically start after a reboot, would be to create a system service for it.

Future ideas

• Instead of a checkbox, specify how many times you want to buy a certain meal/recipe, so you can easily double the portion size or eat it twice in the next week
• Different sort options for recipes (name, creation date (ID), random, maybe even custom per a field specified in the recipe), or being able to search for one
• Allow configuring the unit in recipes for newly added ingredients so that you don't have to visit the ingredients page separately to set that
• Login mechanism, recipe sharing between users
• Markdown support for descriptions, and/or a proper WYSIWYG editor maybe
• Actually make use of optional ingredients somehow, so that recipes can have things like olive oil and paprika powder even if you normally don't need to buy it
• Maybe having a section on the homepage where you can indicate "this ingredient is in my pantry already", to deduct it from the grocery list