Struggling to eat healthy? Our macro-nutrient calculator makes healthy meal planning easy. Get personalized calorie and macro-nutrient recommendations and meal-prep assistance all in one place.
Inspiration - Health and fitness is imperative to our lives, and if possible, we'd like to help others in their journey to a healthier lifestyle. Obesity is a major issue in the USA and we'd like to do our part in alleviating the issue.
What it does - Macro-nutrient calculator that provides meal and snack options based off of the calculated results.
How we built it - First off, we used Google Cloud to host a web server and requested a domain from domain.com. Then, we used Wordpress for the webpage design and calculator creation. On the back end we used python to scrape recipe data from various websites and stored those recipes into a JSON file. We also created a PostgreSQL database that contained snack and ingredient nutritional information.
Challenges we ran into - Integration between the python backend code and the wordpress generated webpage caused several issues. We also weren't able to integrate our database with our webpage.
Accomplishments that we're proud of - The format and aesthetic of the website look great. Our ability to collect and store the data.
What we learned - How to use Wordpress. How to webscrape and create a custom JSON file. Imrpoved our Github collaboration skills.
What's next for MacroMunchies - As of right now it works with one single day of meal planning, we'd like to implement the ability to make at least a week's worth of meal ideas. We'd also like to implement a clustering model that would recommend meal suggestions based off of previous choices.
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