"Good and Cheap 2.0" — the SNAP Cookbook App

[daguar]

Awesome (free) book from a designer at NYU laying out a bunch of recipes for tasty, healthy food that folks on SNAP (food stamps) can afford and make pretty easily:

https://8b862ca0073972f0472b704e2c0c21d0480f50d3.googledrive.com/host/0Bxd6wdCBD_2tdUdtM0d4WTJmclU/good-and-cheap.pdf

I'd love to take this and turn it into structured data. To me, the remaining burden is optimizing what ingredients do I buy for a week to get N tasty meals I will like?

Data collection happening in this Google spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/a/codeforamerica.org/spreadsheets/d/1YoAqbyKbRWiiiKGbrGhKlTbGsgjM8qgkV9JUJ32Zb_o/edit?usp=sharing (Please help out!)

[fureigh]

+1! Here are some more nice-to-haves:

• approximate resulting cost
• filter by especially-good-for-diabetics, etc.

[cydharrell]

There are a fair number of recipe sites/apps that will prepare a shopping list for you based on a menu. I wonder if we can piggyback on any of their formats/work and if any of them include cost?

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Fureigh notifications@github.com wrote:

+1! Here are some more nice-to-haves:

• approximate resulting cost
• filter by especially-good-for-diabetics, etc.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/codeforamerica/health-project-ideas/issues/32#issuecomment-49241776 .

Cyd Harrell UX Evangelist cyd@codeforamerica.org

[daguar]

I've started structuring the data here! https://docs.google.com/a/codeforamerica.org/spreadsheets/d/1YoAqbyKbRWiiiKGbrGhKlTbGsgjM8qgkV9JUJ32Zb_o/edit?usp=sharing

Would love a hand for folks with 5 or 10 minutes, and don't hesitate to ask questions about how I'm structuring it (I've started so you can see those examples, but there are also notes on some of the column headers you can view by putting your cursor over them).

[fureigh]

Another possible source: choosemyplate.gov's "Healthy Eating on a Budget" materials.

(I don't know whether I can get behind Shake-A-Pudding, though.)