Quickbite: Making Eating Easier

We all have food we don’t know how to use. What if we told you exactly what you can make, and how you can make it. Quickbite uses modern resources to innovate solutions to this everyday problem.

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Inspiration

Our inspiration was based on a common issue we have all faced several times throughout our lives. We all struggled with having a pantryfull of useless ingredients that we wanted to make useful.

What it does

Our cross-platform web application takes the ingredients you do have, and uses an API call to a food and ingredient database site, Spoonacular, and lists things you can make, and the nutrition facts, just using the ingredients you listed. You can also go into the additional features menu and enable the showing of foods made with mostly your ingredients, but also a few you didn't specify.

How we built it

We started with backend python development, implementing API, and later developed the front-end UI using Streamlit's free web app library after getting a working prototype.

Challenges we ran into

We ran into a lot of issues implementing all the data we were trying to link together. We ended up making a working model, wanting to add a small new feature, and completely breaking everything several times. We fixed it all and came out on top with a fully-functional product hosted on the internet.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We feel proud to be able to learn how to use the Streamlit library because it is a very strong and useful tool for turning our python programs into a user-friendly platform.

What we learned

We learned a lot about github and collaberating on a programming product. This kind of experience is rare, and we learned teamwork skills necessary to succeed.

What's next for Quickbite: Making Eating Easier

We are going to implement a meal calendar, shopping list, and a way to scan receipts and analyze ingredients from images to automatically add to the site for user convenience.

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