Adding feature : balanced diet

[Cryo81]

Hello !
I tried TandoorRecipes in a search for a tool to plan the meals weekly and generate the associated shopping list.
One of the thing I'm looking for is to be able to have an eye on the balance of my daily/weekly diet.

To do so propose two vision of implementation, as two complexity level:

• 1st level : have the possibility to classify aliments (i.e. animal protein, cereal, etc...), to have a view allowing to manage what it a portion of a type of aliment (like one portion of animal protein would be 60 grams or 120grams depending) as well as how much portion is advised by day. This view could be customized by the user, using if required advice from a professional nutritionist.
  To complete this first level, a simple note could be added in the "meal of the week" view in order which will say that the day (or week) is balanced, or in lack/excess of the category X.

-2nd level : have the possibility to add properties of the aliment (maybe supported by the beta feature "properties") which will allow to attach to each aliment object a set of nutritional value (as suggested as well in Idea #1803).
like the 1st level, it would be completed by a new View allowing tweaking the recommend nutritional intake on a daily basis (customizable, following government or professional advice).
Completing this 2nd level a summary could be added in the "meal of the week" to comment the combined intake from the meals regarding to the target defined.

I planning to study more in depth the feasibilityof such feature, if that's something you would like TandoorRecipes to do, please let me know, otherwise going forward will be on my local application only :)

Best regards,

[vabene1111]

to be honest I do not 100% understand what you mean. I think that properties should be able to solve everything people could want to track as you can have a property that is completely arbitrary. What is currently missing and what I want to add at some point is the possibility to set maximum/minimum/target values for a property on a per user basis and the ability to view total values for a given day in the meal plan.

What else do you need to facilitate your feature?

[Cryo81]

Hello Vabene1111, thanks for your answer !
Yes I saw that the "properties" feature could be very useful for what I'm looking for.
Through this I can imagine using it for the 2 level of complexity this way :
1st level of complexity : using a property called "type" and be assured that my meals of the day/weeks are not missing this "type"
2nd level of complexity: using multiple property (called for example Protein, fat (saturated/not saturated), vitamin X, etc ...) and be assured that my days/week are balanced.

The views I was mentionning (as a way to set the recommended nutritional intake) is in fact an other way of saying "set maximum/minimum/target" values for the properties, so we are speaking of the same thing. The ability to view total values for a given day in the meal plan is what I suggested that could be present in the existing view "meal of the week".
So I think what you have in mind will be sufficient ! I'm working currently on another project, but if I manage to spare some time, I would be happy to help!
Best regards ,

[vabene1111]

Hi, thanks for your feedback. I am currently mostly working on migrating the application to a new frontend, once that is done new features like this will be considered. If you have some experience and want to help let me know, I will see which issues could be helped efficently.