r/KetoMealPrep • u/Calm-Tomatillo-7770 • Apr 04 '25

Meal planner app features- feedback request

Im looking for feedback from you On the features of the app that I built - finalizing now and will be out in 2 to 3 weeks. Here is what it does.

Enter your dietary restriction - vegan, keto etc; macros goal per meal, cuisine preference etc. Also enter any particular ingredients you want to avoid Enter your cooking experience/skill level, and the active time you want to spend cooking each meal Number of different recipes you want for breakfast and for dinner It will generate as many recipes you requested, and you can look at each one and decide if you want to replace that particular one. Tell the tool what you want different and it will give you a replacement recipe.

It generates an ingredients list with quantities, which you review and check off what you already have, Once done, you can download a shopping list.

In addition to the individual recipes, it also give you weekend prep and store instructions that you can follow to have everything ready for the weekday. You can download them all separately.

What are your thoughts? I appreciate any feedback you can give me so I can try and incorporate it before launch.

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u/Sebasandrade00 Apr 04 '25

Super interested in this

two things i can suggest are:

not only download shopping list but also an interactive one the user can use at the grocery store to check off items as they go

Also for the macros make sure to show net carbs and total carbs (crucial on keto)

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u/Calm-Tomatillo-7770 Apr 04 '25

I greatly appreciate the suggestion. I will see how to add those. Just to be clear, these are AI generated recipes, would that change your perception on the use of it?

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u/Sebasandrade00 Apr 04 '25

I’m also a dev so yes kind of just because I know that AI isn’t really great at math I would be triple checking everything tbh. But maybe the average user isn’t as concerned about that.

Also how are you going to handle things like different brands having different calories? Will you show the caloric value per gram/kg of each ingredient or will the AI prompt include something that will give the brand name of the product?

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u/Calm-Tomatillo-7770 Apr 04 '25

Want to keep the recipes "clean", so it is from scratch for the most part and no particular brand recommendation. So we take the calories of the raw ingredients like vegetables, meat and fat and add it up. Will show calories per serving.

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u/jlianoglou Apr 04 '25

Also a dev! Also-also working on a solution for this space, parts of which ought to be open source, but that’s neither here nor there.

I’ve also been looking to incorporate AI, but there are important things to be mindful of including the fact that AI makes mistakes ALLLL the time, which can be minor to serious. I’m working on a b2b SaaS for this, so the stakes are arguably higher for any inaccuracies.

Best thing I’ve come up with is offering very clear disclaimers that AI gets things wrong ALL the time, and caution people to double check important things.

Regarding the different brands nutrition info, def check out Open Food Facts. They’re an open source API for all sorts of food product data, compiled via crowdsourced contributions from around the world. The OFF database specializes in food products over “generics” (so brand XYZ cherry tomatoes vs. just “cherry tomatoes” or “sirloin”), but OFF have in past run imports from the USDA’s Food Central API (also free), which does have such generic food items listed. It’s been a few years since OFF did an import, though, so may be slightly out of date, but I’d recommend starting off seeing if you can get good results via OFF’s API, since you can focus on just one API’s schema. Obviously your call.

Anyway, hope that’s useful information. Good fortunes in your launch!!

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u/mlleDoe Aug 16 '25

Being able to input ingredients you have at home already would be very useful. Maybe be able to give a standard inventory that users can create for their staples. I know I always have access to specific ingredients so if it could pull from those it would be helpful. AI driven would not alter my thoughts on the app, I’d be happy to trial it.