Frugal Foodie

Frugal Foodie is a modern meal planning app that works for your wallet. Simply enter your budget and let Frugal Foodie's AI driven recommendations plan tasty meals that keep your bank account happy.

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Inspiration

I am a college student on a tight budget, so I understand how difficult it is to eat healthily and save money at the same time. Our team created this app to help other college students do exactly that.

What it does

The app allows users to input their weekly food budget and then provides them with recipes and grocery lists that fit their budget. The app has a built-in calculator that lets users easily see how much each recipe will cost. If the user has a lot of leftovers in the fridge, our app leverages one of the world's most powerful AIs to generate a novel recipe for them to try!

How we built it

We started the hackathon with a very structured brainstorming session, where we wrote down all of our ideas. We then narrowed several down until we had a single problem and solution that we thought we could develop. We identified key application functions and focused on building them out by assigning roles to complete tasks. The app was built using react.js, GPT-3, and several APIs to collect and generate useful data for the users of the app.

Challenges we ran into

The main challenge we had to overcome was effectively managing data from a cutting-edge AI and trying to provide recipes that people would actually want to eat, without breaking the bank. Our team met the day of, so we had to learn each other's strengths and work styles quickly in order to be as efficient as possible

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are VERY proud of the level of polish we were able to get on our app within such a short timeframe. We may be biased, but we think the app looks super clean and modern, and we were able to achieve this without sacrificing usefulness or practicality.

What we learned

We learned how to communicate and collaborate more efficiently, and we all were able to sharpen our skills with AI and web design

What's next for Frugal Foodie

Frugal Foodie could go several ways from here! We think the most beneficial choice would be to incorporate more personalized solutions like special diets and location data, and knowing what foods are in season to help the users even more.

Built With

  • apis
  • cloud-services
  • databases
  • frameworks
  • languages
  • platforms
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