Meal Planning App

A meal planning application that helps users select recipes, create weekly meal plans, and generate grocery lists. Now with support for importing Obsidian markdown recipes!

Features

• Browse breakfast and dinner recipes
• Select recipes for a weekly meal plan
• Automatically create lunch meals from the previous day's dinner
• Generate a grocery list based on your meal plan
• Organize groceries by category for easier shopping
• NEW: Import recipes from Obsidian markdown files

Importing Obsidian Recipes

How to Import Recipes

1. Place your Obsidian markdown recipe files in the recipes directory
2. Run the import script: ./import-recipes.sh
3. Your recipes will be imported into the app's database

Supported Obsidian Recipe Formats

The importer supports various Obsidian markdown recipe formats:

YAML Frontmatter Support

---
title: Recipe Title
type: breakfast  # or dinner, etc.
cuisine: American  # or any cuisine
author: Your Name
serves: 4
rating: 5  # scale of 1-10
last: 2025-04-09  # date of last modification
content: "A brief description"
tags: [breakfast, quick, easy]  # tags for categorization
ingredients:
  - name: ingredient1
    amount: 1 cup
    category: produce  # produce, dairy, proteins, pantry, other
  - name: ingredient2
    amount: 2 tablespoons
    category: pantry
---

Obsidian-Specific Format Support

The importer also supports Obsidian-specific markdown features:

• Obsidian References: References like [[South Indian]] will be properly parsed
• Ingredient Lists: Will parse ingredient details from the content section
• Content Extraction: Properly extracts sections and formatting from the markdown content

Example of an Obsidian-style recipe:

---
created: 2025-04-01
category:
  - "[[Recipes]]"
author:
  - "[[Your Name]]"
type:
  - "[[South Indian]]"
serves: 4
ingredients:
  - "[[Carrot]]"
  - "[[Jaggery]]"
  - "[[Salt]]"
tags:
  - recipes
  - dinner
---
## Ingredients

- 4 carrots – boiled
- Jaggery
- Salt
- Tamarind water

## Directions

### Step 1

- Boil the carrots in the [[Instapot]] for at least 4 minutes.
- Add them to a blender with water as appropriate, and make it a fine mixture

Recipe Type Detection

The app will intelligently categorize your recipes as breakfast or dinner based on:

1. Explicit type field in the frontmatter
2. Tags containing breakfast/dinner
3. Content mentioning breakfast/dinner
4. Cuisine field if it contains breakfast/dinner

Database Setup

The application uses a PostgreSQL database for data storage. Follow these steps to set up the database:

1. Push the schema to the database:

   npm run db:push

   This command will create the necessary tables in your PostgreSQL database.

2. Seed the database with initial recipes:

   ./scripts/seed.sh

   This will populate the database with sample recipes.

Running the Application

To start the application in development mode:

npm run dev

The application will be available at http://localhost:5000.

Enhancements

• feat: doordash order
• feat: grocery list units and consistency
• feat: show Pongal Tadka (recipe ingredients) as clickable, when I see recipe for Venn Pongal (only recipe)
• feat: track grocery lists, ingredients count?
• feat: users
• chore: make it much more mobile friendly
• feat: users can add recipes
• feat: sync obsidian (plugin, template)
• feat: track meal plans
• feat: simplify flow to show plan for next m days

UX

• remove food and recipes on rendering within info page
• remove rating