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#16

Great idea! This could also work well for ingredients you already have on hand at home and want to use up.

Weā€™re actually working on a new way of building meal plans right now that will include a search feature. It wonā€™t be as powerful as you suggest for its initial release (you will only be able to search for recipe titles instead of ingredients within a recipe), but with improvements it could work in the way that you describe!

Keep an eye on the community later this week - Iā€™ll be posting an overview on the new builder and will be looking for feedback. Thanks @rtoyen :slight_smile:

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#17

The only thing I can come up with is an option to add breakfast menu items - otherwise the app is great for me!

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#18

Thatā€™s great to hear @batemanenroute! Thanks so much for letting us know. Breakfast will come at some point - I canā€™t give a specific timeline - but weā€™re definitely considering how to make it work :slightly_smiling_face:

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#19

My 93 y/o grandmother heard me talking about Mealime and has signed up for the free version - she also cooks for herself, and I think is looking to try new recipes. I walked her through the website over the phone, and she seemed really pleased with the meal plan when we were done. Thank you!

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#20

I wish there was a way to make comments on favorited recipes so I know what adjustments Iā€™d make for next time.

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#21

Some way to make notes on recipes and/or your shopping list would be good. I think that would address several of the suggestions made here. If you changed something in the recipes or wanted to substitute something in the recipe, make a note on your shopping list or recipe so that you can remember :smiley: Another benefit to a field for recipe notes is possible feedback on how people are using the recipes. Iā€™ve seen this sort of thing used really well on other recipe sites to kind of ā€œcrowd sourceā€ ways to improve or clarify recipes.

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#22

Iā€™m honestly seeing the majority of the recipes I pick (vegetarian) to be above 700 calories. I also think an option to get servings in odd numbers (3 instead of 4 for example) would be great because then I could divide the recipe in 4 anyway and reduce calories that way.

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#23

Being able to customize the shopping list would be great. For example, if I need to buy 4 red onions but I already have two, I canā€™t edit that. I have to check it as done and then add a new item that says 2 red onions

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#24

Oh, that could be pretty awesome. Mealime could look at the recipes in your meal plan and look for some ā€œbatchedā€ prep steps you could do like this. At the same time, we could provide storage tips, as @rtoyen suggested. We could even have the meal plan builder try to look for recipes where there are more opportunities to do this kind of batching.

@rtoyen Do you find that you can do this kind of prep work on many of your Mealime meal plans? Personally, I havenā€™t noticed much repetition of prep in my meal plans, but maybe Iā€™m just not being observant. Are you looking at all the recipes before-hand and planning out the prep work you can do for the week?

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#25

This would be cool! My wife suggested this a few months ago.

We would probably need to have a way for you to ā€œopt-inā€ to this feature, because some folks (meā€¦) arenā€™t able to think that far in advance. Weā€™d also need to make it really clear when youā€™re looking at a recipe that it needs to be prepared in the morning.

Thanks for sharing this idea @Krissyd29!

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#26

Changing the items on your grocery list is near the top of our todo list @Jgal . Iā€™ll work harder so that you can have it sooner :smile:

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#27

Interesting! I havenā€™t considered editing the recipes. Iā€™m probably a much less confident cook than you :wink: .

We are planning on letting you add your own notes to recipes, but it may be even better to be able to modify the recipe itself (changing quantities, substituting or removing ingredientsā€¦). While that is a lot harder to implement, it may also provide more value, like being able to see accurate nutritional info. @jeff are there other reasons youā€™d want to add notes to recipes, or is the main reason to modify the instructions?

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#28

Me too! Iā€™ll be working on building that for us soon! :sunglasses:

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#29

@mitch I have done this a few times. For example, this week, two of my recipes used chicken. For one I was to stir fry it, and for the other I was to poach it in the soup first. However, i decided just to bake both of them at the same time, and then use them in the recipes as needed.

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#30

Hi!

I absolutely love this app! It has changed my life.

One thing I noticed as I was cooking dinner tonight is the app screen doesnā€™t flip when I turned my tablet upside down. I needed to charge my tablet at the same time while cooking dinner. It would have been nice to set the tablet in the stand upside down so the tablet wasnā€™t pinching the cord/resting on the charger input.

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#31

Modifying the instructions is definitely a main reason. Maybe the main reason. Iā€™ll definitely give this more thought. Off the top of my head, I could also see notes being useful for:

  • Overall impressions of the recipe
  • Ideas for pairings (drinks, appetizerā€™s, sides, etc)
  • What a partner or family member(s) thought of the dish / specific substitutions for others
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#32

Hi Leigh - thanks so much! Itā€™s so nice to hear that Mealime has been working well for you :slight_smile:

Yup, we donā€™t actually have landscape mode support in the app right now. Sorry about that! I appreciate you reminding us of this, though - itā€™s good to keep top of mind. What you had to do to make this work is certainly not ideal.

If you have any other feedback, please donā€™t hesitate to let us know! Thanks again Leigh.

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#33

It sounds like recipe customization would be useful for you (in order to hit the nutritional values youā€™re looking for). Another solution, however, could be to have some kind of filter where you let us know the calories / macros you want, and we only show you recipes that fit this criteria. Would this satisfy your needs better @Jgal?

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#35

Yes. Either of those would be great

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#36

There are already a lot of replies, so I hope this isnā€™t too repetitive. But I would love if Mealime expanded to include every aspect of food prep for the week. Like if there were somehow to input the number of people per meal, number of meals to cook at home, how much time you had each night, and if Mealime could calculate how to best do that with the least food waste. It would also have to be relatively quick to put it all in to!

I know thatā€™s already a lot to ask, but if you wanted to take it further, if there was a way that when you click ā€œI cooked it!ā€ you could say how the portion size was for you and that way in the future recipes could be made smaller or larger depending on your individual preferences. Maybe in a machine learning way?

These are just suggestions that I think would make Mealime even better, but itā€™s already my favorite app and you guys are doing an awesome job, so thank you!

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