Monday, August 18, 2008

Food chart/ Generator

I'm not exactly a master chef, or anything close to it. I like eating freshly prepared food, but sometimes I'm pretty lazy. And it isn't just a matter of not wanting to make the stuff...I'm so lazy I don't even want to have to think about what I want to eat. So there's two ideas here, both based on the same principle. One is pretty low tech and the other is a website or application.

The chart would be four columns. One for proteins, vegetables, starches, and desserts. So you just pick one item from each column. Theoretically all the items would be complimentary so no matter what you picked, you'd end up with a tasty meal. Even if you only had 5 items in each column you'd still have lots of delicious combinations. I wouldn't put peanut butter in the protein column cuz that doesn't really go with cous cous. But chicken does. And so does broccoli. So yeah, you get the idea.

The application would be a little more elaborate. Same concept, but once you make your selections, it would tell you some actual dishes that have all the ingredients you selected and how to make them. So if you picked chicken, carrots, and tortillas, the application might give you a recipe for enchiladas. Or something similar. See how that works? And you could expand it beyond the column idea to where you just plugged in some ingredients you knew you wanted to eat and then had a bunch recipes come back.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This isn't quite the same, but I find these helpful, recipematcher.com and supercook.com. You enter what you have and it tells you what you can make.