Recipe Arsenal

Have you ever looked at your fridge and found something which you don't know how to prepare? Our program will take the ingredients you have and curate recipes that align with your own health goals.

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🚀 Recipe Arsenal

Recipe Arsenal helps you whip up healthy meals using what’s already in your kitchen.

📌 Inspiration

  • After moving out of the dorms to our apartment, we experienced how easy it is to forget about something and it goes bad, or the struggle of seeing items in your fridge and not knowing how to make a meal out of them. Cooking at home is one of the healthiest dieting options out there because it gives you control of what goes into your body, the issue is knowing what and how to make it.

🔍 What it does

  • Our website lets you input your ingredients that you have on-hand as well as your meal goals. It then generates 5 recipes using the ingredients and chooses the best recipe to achieve your goals. It does this by using Spoonacular's API to search for 5 recipes according to the ingredient list and then it prompts Gemini to evaluate the recipe that best aligns with the health goals that were inputted

⚙️ Tools

  • APIs/Libraries: Spoonacular, Gemini
  • Hosting: Streamlit

💪 Challenges we ran into

  • 3 non-compsci majors attempt to code
  • Only one of us knew python coming in
  • Choosing a coding language

🌟 Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • First group to make a support ticket
  • Integrated two APIs into our website
  • Designing a premier league themed website

📚 What we learned

  • APIs,
  • Coding as a group
  • UI and web design
  • Everything

🚧 What's next

  • Adding quantity of ingredients as an input
  • Saving the ingredients locally
  • removing the ingredients from the inventory after a recipe is made

🔗 Links

👥 Team

  • Will Richards – Python expert and Web designer
  • Jason Meschke – Ideas guy and Gemini API
  • Joshua Meschke – Spoonacular API Researcher

🏁 Submission Category / Track

  • Health and Wellbeing
  • Best College beginner
  • Pella Sponsor
  • Best use of Gemini

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