Show HN: PantryPlan – Eco-conscious menu planning service

pantryplan.io

3 points·madamelic··3 comments

Hey all. I have been working on PantryPlan for the past year (ashamed face) and I think it is more than ready for prime time.

The current service is split into two tiers, self-serve and sous chef. Self-serve is your typical SaaS offer where you get to click buttons and plan meals yourself. Sous Chef is a plan where someone (read: me) plans your meals for you without having to worry about technical limitations or UI.

The twist is that rather than throwing meals out at random, PantryPlan plans meals by trying to use up what you already have on hand. The menu planning algorithm isn't just a fetch command, it takes into account variables like whether you liked the recipe before, what ingredients you like or dislike, measurements of the ingredients, numbers of ingredients... tons of others as well. :)

Also, I made a coupon for you all: hackernews. It is $10 off the first month, so self-serve will be $2 and sous chef will be $20.

to me the biggest issue is dietary restrictions with most meal planners. diabetes, lactose intolerant, etc.

Yes, that is something I've heard repeatedly. There is a small amount of restrictions possible using "Ingredient Blacklist" which blacklists can blacklist ingredients that contain the word "cheese" or anything else someone can think of.

The issue with that solution is obvious.

The big issue that is preventing rolling this feature out is the recipes I collect aren't usually tagged with dietary restrictions so it is up to me to figure out how to tag recipes correctly using what ingredients it contains.

I would rather the feature be correct rather than a rough MVP since my partner has severe food allergies and I know how frustrating it can be.

I will work on implementing this into the SaaS offering.

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