[chasedehan]

Mine was really simple, I basically created a SQLite DB with all the recipes I like and where to look them up from. Then I had an interface that would randomly pull the recipes out of the table and assign them. It was basically like (select 1 meat, 1 side, 1 starch, unless it was a one-dish-meal like lasagne).

I ran into a bunch of problems with generating pretty much the same meal multiple times per week. So, I then inserted a "likeness" score for how much I actually liked that item (ex/ brussels sprouts were a 2, sweet potato fries a 9), and then used that as a seed for the probability of showing up.

It was super personalized and I recently found Big Oven which is actually much better than what I had done (it also generates grocery lists and can incorporate random food blogs). The one problem with that app turned into another side project. They limit how many recipes you can OCR into their app. So, my workaround was to create my own "food blog" by uploading a bunch of static sites on my personal website and then linking them. (because food blogs are free to link).