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Gourmet Recipe Manager
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Complete Nutrition Tracker #156

Open ockham opened 11 years ago

ockham commented 11 years ago

Converted from SourceForge issue 2938270, submitted by SourceForge user nobody on 2010-01-24 01:18:44 UTC.

A suggestion that would take Gourmet from being just a great recipe database to complete nutrition tracker.

Adding the ability to keep track of what multiple individuals ate throughout each day as well as their weight each day. Would need to be able to select items directly from the USDA database as well as (x) portions of the recipes stored in the recipe database.

It could then track how many calories each individual consumes in a day as well as track it side by side with how much weight gain/loss for the same time period.

By the way, great job so far.

sarah921 commented 11 years ago

I second this! The nutrition tracker should not only track calories but also other things like fats, proteins, vitamines, carbs,...

And it should be possible to add your own nutritional information to certain incredients. So that you have to stick to the USDA database.

thinkle commented 11 years ago

To be clear, Gourmet already does let you add your own nutritional information per ingredients and see nutritional info per recipe or even per shopping list (which would let you do per day / per week / etc. if you were obsessive enough about it).

The question about the tracker is how many people would actually use Gourmet for this sort of thing. It seems like the phone or tablet apps would have that market given their ubiquity. I'd think Gourmet's niche is in making it easy to type recipes, easy to import recipes from the web, easy to make shopping lists, etc., but I know I personally can't imagine typing everything I eat into Gourmet to have it track my nutritional info.