Mat is a small recipe management, food planning & lunch box inventory system. It is likely of very low interest to others than me, given that it is merely hacked up to meet my personal needs. No attempts at all have been made at making it useful to anyone else but me. Yet, for the truely curious souls, the source code can be found at http://git.netizen.se/mat/.
At the core of it all is a recipe database with ingredient lists, references to full cooking descriptions and a growing list of cooking comments. Of course more recipes make their way into the database over time and as the documented knowledge and experience increases, the data becomes more useful. Keeping this information at one place have made it easier for me to plan my meals, while at the same time raising the quality of them and making eating more interesting. Illustrated by an example, execution of a typical command looks like the screenshot below:
A meal preparation plan in its simplest possible meaningful form contains only one recipe. Illustrated by the picture below.
Generating shopping lists is a trivial, but quite useful, functionality to use after having planned what to cook. Occasionally I look at these lists in my phone while grocery shopping, but most times I print them to be able to easily make additions and conveniently tick items off it while at the store.
Lacking a futuristic humanoid kitchen robot, cooking is unfortunately mainly a manual process. I believe having access to recipe information with my comments from previous attempts at the dish, has at least prevented me from making a few errors.
"Messen ist Wissen."
The prepared food is frozed in meal sized portions. Every lunch box is labeled with essential information in human readable form, as well as a machine readable code to make it possible to track it and to keep an inventory.
