CauldronCreates

Inspiration

As a college student it can be hard to manage time to constantly cook healthy meals. A lot of time I get hungry, check the fridge, and then instantly closing it after realizing I don't have any food. With this web app, I can get recommended a tasty and nutritious dish to make based off what limited ingredients I have on hand.

What it does

A user simply inputs all their ingredients they have in their "fridge." When "Brew Something New" is clicked, AI creates a recipe with instructions based off what ingredients they have. The user can see how many calories the dish has and choose if they want save the recipe to the "My Recipes" panel.

How we built it

We created a web app using react.js, express.js, and mySQL for the backend. We used OpenAI for to create recipes and dishes.

Challenges we ran into

The challenges we ran into were designing the web app because we don't have much design experience.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of what we were able to accomplish with our design and implementations with OpenAI

What we learned

We learned how to use react.js

What's next for The Cauldron

Some features that we would have would be for users the be able to create their own recipes. We also had the idea of also adding other user recipes to your own library. Another possible feature would be also to input expiration dates on ingredients and then have a tab that shows what ingredients are expiring soon. If possible, the AI would also prioritize ingredients that are almost expired.