★ Meal Planner
About making things better
I am still tinkering with the design for this site, trying out different tools and experimenting with all sorts of stuff. I like the terminal look and the old BBS style kinda suits me.
On the back end, I have created the family hub and my wife complained that she couldn't read it well so now everything is bigger. I changed the font too, its still a mono-space font but a good bit clearer. Thank you to Jet-Brains for releasing their console font.
We have a bunch of recipes in the meal planner which has highlighted some difficulties I knew would come up but wanted to see exactly how they would manifest. These are mainly to do with the shopping list and ingredients in the meal pages.
To fix those I am going to take the stuff that has been added so far, dump it into a database, clean it up, and create a way to add ingredients to the DB. Each item will be stored with the type of measurement it uses and a name.
The meal page will be adjusted to have a filterable view of these database items, add / edit functionality, and drag / drop into the ingredients section to build it up. It will be more complicated than just copy and paste but it will let me make the shopping list better.
Right now the shopping list just takes the ingredients section of each meal and makes a list out of it without doing anything special. The planned update with standardized ingredients will take each item, and its measurement to create a single list of combined items needed for the week.