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Agree, same as the word 'startup' used to refer to any website or webapp.

This was the spirit in which I used the word:

Hacking might be characterized as ‘an appropriate application of ingenuity’. Whether the result is a quick- and-dirty patchwork job or a carefully crafted work of art, you have to admire the cleverness that went into it. From: http://catb.org/jargon/html/meaning-of-hack.html

I mean, I agree this idea is great and very helpful. its definitely practical and useful but personally I just don't think its a 'hack'.

The problem isn't the word "hack", it's the word "food"; he's not "food hacking", he's "meal hacking". In a book of "meal hacks", this would be a keystone chapter.

No more or less liberally used by hackers than the rest of the population uses "hacker" liberally to mean someone who does anything technology related that they don't understand.

You think so? I feel like most non-techie people use hacker to mean someone who breaks into your computer and puts viruses on it...

Agreed. I mean liberal use of the term hacker to mean using computers for things they don't understand, so they _must_ be illegal or causing someone harm. Liberal use of the term in inappropriate contexts rather than liberal definition of the term.