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by jppope 1479 days ago
Recipes w/ calories, pricing to my favorite grocery stores (Trader Joes, Sprouts, Whole foods), and food prep instructions (sunday night prep)

I can tell you if you're looking to make this a startup idea, its a shitty one. Bad Market, Hard problem.

With that said, I'd pay >$100 a year for it.
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muzani 1479 days ago
I did something like this before. It's a pretty good, loyal market. The trick was selling ingredients that you can't easily get in supermarkets (e.g. stevia), and doing recipes to a certain niche (e.g. Asian low carb).

It might be harder in the US because of how much more competitive the grocery market is.

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dangus 1479 days ago
At some point if you want to cook you have to get off your ass and do it.

Recipes are just recipes on recipe web sites. NYT Cooking is a nice one. Food prep is just...making the recipes and putting the food in your fridge.

As far as easy meals literally hundreds of services exist for this. I recommend finding one that's local so that you aren't dealing with wasteful packaging and shipping. IMO the ones that fully prepare the meal are honestly better than ones that make you cook it.

Also restaurants exist and a lot of people literally just eat at restaurants/fast casual/fast food for every meal.

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jppope 1478 days ago
My problem is that I cook A LOT. I would like to optimize the activity because it is a non-trivial cost in both time and money. I hear your solutions but each is a trade off...

As a wise software developer once said... "Good, Cheap, Fast... you may only have two"

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dangus 1478 days ago
Yes, that's true. I don't know that a perfect solution will ever exist.

We collectively spend a lot of time and money on food, but the good news is that it's one of the joys of life.

Interesting little link: https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2020/november/average-s...

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somenewaccount1 1479 days ago
And ideally, what isle it's in for an optimized shopping path. No, I don't want someone to pull it from the shelf and deliver, I just want to find it fast.
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user_named 1479 days ago
I'm at a startup that does mostly this. As you said, bad market.
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