[casta]

I don't mean to belittle your app, I can't try it 'cause I don't have iOS.

We did solve the problem in a much easier way though. We do have 40 recipes we usually cycle through. I wrote them in a spreadsheet and marked them based on who can cook them, if it's brunch, lunch or dinner, quick or elaborate, summery or wintery.

Then in another sheet I just create a list of those recipes/dishes picked randomly based on the day of the month.

If we start the discussion "what do we eat tonight", I can just open the spreadsheet. 99% of the time proposing the option for that day on the sheet gives us closure and we're done.

[thedanbob]

My wife does the same kind of thing, except she wrote a whole web app that I host on my homelab server (we're both rails devs). The app keeps track of upcoming meals on a calendar, number of leftover servings in the freezer, ingredients needed for upcoming meals, etc.

[scotty79]

What an organized person. I just pull stuff out of the fridge and randomly cook whatever I can with it and if there's no good option I go to the store to buy some random things to resupply the fridge.

[aeroevan]

An extension or integration with https://mealie.io/ would be a neat thing have (we selfhost mealie but are still building out recipes).

[ozim]

Your spreadsheet has obviously one missing feature - you cannot charge strangers $20 a year for using it.

[prmoustache]

It is nice to have ideas that you can pick up but being so organized sounds so exhaustingly boring...I would have suggested a deck of cards with recipes that you can pick up randomly.

Also, what about that "who can cook them" column in that spreadsheet? Obviously there are personal prefs but you guys have the recipe stored, surely anyone can cook it.

[swiftcoder]

> Also, what about that "who can cook them" column in that spreadsheet? Obviously there are personal prefs but you guys have the recipe stored, surely anyone can cook it.

In a very general sense, yes, but people have varying competencies/preferences in the kitchen.

Some people have more patience/precision for baking, some people don't think twice about handling raw meat, some people put in the time to learn fancy knife skills and can dice an onion in half the time...

I have found it works very well to divvy up the complicated cooking by skill/preference (though obviously everyone in the house can churn out a pasta dish if the need arises).

[prmoustache]

Funnily enough me and my partner are coming from very different countries and culture so for the same name of recipe we do it completely differently and we love discovering how our each one of us would do one thing. Also we like to do things together as well so some days cooking becomes a teaching workshop on how to prepare a dish specific to one of our countries of origin and I can now prepare stuff pretty much as well as any local of her own country. She often joke I should obtain the passport because of that ( and for adopting their way of swearing ).

Having said that you have a point about handling raw meat.

[casta]

I'm not organized at all! The deck of cards idea sounds much better than the spreadsheet, I might print them!

For the "who can cook them" in the spreadsheet, I guess it's just a matter of what we're used to cook. I'm from Italy, she's from Malawi, I'm sure I could cook 'nsima and she could cook polenta.