The Meal Planner is a command-line application that helps users plan their meals based on available ingredients. By using the Spoonacular API, users can search for recipes, view recipe details, and generate meal plans for the week. It also provides important details like cooking time and servings for each recipe. This tool makes meal planning efficient and fun while minimizing food waste.
- Search Recipes by Ingredients: Input the ingredients you have, and the app will find up to 10 recipes that include those ingredients.
- View Recipe Details: Get detailed information about the selected recipes, including preparation time and servings.
- Plan Meals for the Week: Generate a random meal plan for up to 7 days based on the available recipes.
- Interactive User Interface: Provides a simple, interactive command-line interface for easy input and output.
- Python: Core programming language used to build the app.
- Spoonacular API: API used for fetching recipes and detailed information about them.
- Requests: Python library for making HTTP requests to the Spoonacular API.
Before running the application, ensure you have the following:
- Python 3.x installed on your system.
requestslibrary installed. You can install it using: