Project Title: Cooking Helper!

Team Members:

• William Hu
• Jianna Wong
• Sundari Avanthikaa Srinivasan
• Amber Yang

Tool Project (with analytical and data presentation components)

Questions of Interest

• How can recipe selection and grocery planning tools reduce barriers to cooking at home for individuals?

The project introduces a recipe-driven grocery planning tool designed to reduce everyday barriers to cooking at home. Users can select a recipe from a recipe database, and the system automatically generates a store-specific grocery list with real-time pricing and availability using the Kroger Development API. This tool is intended to support more affordable and efficient home cooking.

The final system includes a data pipeline, backend data tool, and user interface that together create an easy to use product to find recipes and create a shopping list with those ingredients.

Key Components

• Recipe dataset ingestion and normalization
• Grocery pricing and availability integration via Kroger API
• End-to-end data pipelines supporting both analytics and user tools

Technologies & Data Sources

• Kroger Development API
• Kaggle Recipe Dataset