YouYum

Screenshot of website recipe UI!
Python backend input/output text. Returns a list of recipe links from ingredients at the Giant at zip code 20124.

Inspiration

Many people in the USA face food insecurity, often turning to fast food in place of affordable, healthy, or home-cooked options. By identifying ingredients that can be bought with food stamps, and then showing users recipes that can be made from them, we hope to change this.

What it does

YouYum takes in a users zip code to identify food stamp friendly grocers near them. They can then select from a list of stores near them, and the program will both list ingredients available at that store with food stamps as well as recipes that can be made from those ingredients.

How we built it

Our frontend website was built using HTML, CSS, and Javascript and the backend logic was built using Python, xlrd, and recipepuppy API.

Challenges we ran into

We could not connect our python backend to our frontend website, so the two are not connected :(

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We have a working algorithm that, if an excel database is populated with information about food stamp stores, can return recipes that are food stamp friendly.

What we learned

We learned how to problem solve in both Python and HTML, and that many useful libraries and APIs exist to accomplish our goals for us; not everything needs to be hardcoded!

Built With

Submitted to

IvyHacks: First Ivy League Hackathon

Created by

I completed the algorithm, input, and output of the process that finds stores near a zipcode from an excel database, returns the ingredients available in it, and feeds it into Ananya's recipe finder algorithm.

Ray Del Vecchio
I worked on the front-end. I adapted HTML, CSS, and JS for our needs. I also used Figma for early prototypes and some graphic design in the final site. I worked with George to determine front end needs, Ananya for back-end integration and software methods, and Ray for feature development.

Marcos Rios
-Created YouYum video presentation
-Consulted Marcos when developing front end/ UI design (tiny HTML edits as well)

George Morcos
I worked on the back-end Python code – primarily recipe API integration – and the basic HTML/CSS/JS code for our website that Marcos adapted. I also tried to get a Python flask server running but we ran out of time, unfortunately.

Ananya Grover