[abraham_o]

http://www.eathow.com/ EatHow is a web app that helps you plan your meals and gives you recipes you can make with the food you already have.

Long term Id like to completely automate grocery shopping and meal planning so all you have to do is a one-time setup where you set a budget and diet preferences and Eathow takes care of planning everything else.

While anyone who cooks at home would find it useful, it would be particularly cool for people who need to worry about diabetes, high cholesterol, weight loss, etc.

Except for a coding bootcamp a couple of years ago, I have no experience with building software so take it easy on me haha.

[lutorm]

My wife and I have talked about the need for a recipe search based on the food we already have for a long time, so I like this idea!

Where do the recipes come from? I mean, do you add your own recipes?

[abraham_o]

I've been making all the recipes and adding them. Initially, I was using recipes from a multitude of sites but that turned out to be pretty terrible for user experience.

There are 80 now and I'm adding more every week.

[kevinrpope]

Out of curiosity, how do you get and maintain what food the user has on hand? Obviously in the long-term you'd do everything so it'd all be in the app already, but short-term do I need to enter everything I have in my kitchen into the app, and update it every time I make something or go shopping?

[Denzel]

I like this idea, and I'd enjoy hearing more about it. (Email in profile if you're interested in discussing further.)

[tmaly]

how do you handle food that has a short shelf life?