parberge/genmenu

Generate a weekly meal menu

genmenu: A meal planner written in python

Why

To try to simplify and automate the process of planning what to eat.

Install

$ pip install genmenu

Example

>>> example_menu = genmenu.GenMenu()
>>> example_menu.insert_lunch_menu(['spam', 'eggs'])
>>> example_menu.insert_dinner_menu(['spam', 'eggs'])
>>> example_menu.generate_menu()
>>> example_menu.my_menu
OrderedDict([('Monday', {'dinner': 'spam', 'lunch': 'spam'}), ('Tuesday', {'dinner': 'eggs', 'lunch': 'eggs'}), ('Wednesday', {'dinner': '', 'lunch': ''}), ('Thursday', {'dinner': '', 'lunch': ''}), ('Friday', {'dinner': '', 'lunch': ''}), ('Saturday', {'dinner': '', 'lunch': ''}), ('Sunday', {'dinner': '', 'lunch': ''})])
>>>

What I want to add

• A simple webpage (what web framework to use?)
• Simple DB backend (probably nosql. What DB to use?)
• Fetch recipies from external resources (what resources to use?)
• Make it multilingual (what tool and how to do that?)
• The option to specify how many days/weeks to plan for
• Add the dates to the days