Meal Planner Generator

Build a meal planner (.md) from

• recipes.csv: Specify name, ingredients, preparation steps. Sample.
  • Instructions not supported. This program only does a few things and does them well---help you plan ahead (shopping and completing preparation steps). It is not a recipe book.
• agenda.md: Specify the week's meals in a markdown table. Sample.
• stock.csv (optional): Specify the stock of ingredients in your home. Sample.
  • Recommended to only have durable goods recorded, e.g. spices, sauces, etc.
  • For other ingredients, produce a meal planner first and check the ingredients you have on the fly. Your changes will be saved in the next meal planner, when you feed the program with the modified agenda.

Sample output meal planner.

Minimal dependencies

• OpenJDK 17
• Make
• Git

It is also recommended to have the following installed:

• Any Markdown Viewer
• Any CSV Editor

Get started

• Clone this repository
• Run make in the root directory: This will take the pre-existing sample agenda.md, recipes.csv, and stock.csv to generate the meal planner in the out directory.

Build your own meal planner

By modifying the sample files: agenda.md, recipes.csv, and stock.csv. Be sure to adhere to the syntax and format of the sample files strictly. The parser is not designed to handle any deviations from the sample files.

• Be aware of whitespace, line breaks, and delimiters (,, |, :, ;).
• Use ISO-8601 duration format PnDTnHnMn.nS to specify durations (how much time ahead) for preparation steps.