Platter Palette

My wife and I do meal planning every week before making a shopping list and kept feeling like it was more work than it needed to be and we kept repeating meals every week. We decided to try something different where we put all our meals onto flashcards, categorize them, and then draw the next one in line based on what we needed for a given day. We had 3 categories: easy, hard, and leftovers. The problem with this analog approach is that each meal can only be in one category and we wanted a better way of doing this. That's where the idea for Platter Palette came from. This is a very new project, so it hasn't been deployed yet, but I look forward to sharing it and even have ideas to use it as a side-hustle project. Platter Palette allows a user to set up their "kitchen" and add all the meals that they want to cook in their kitchen. You can then go through your calendar and mark days with any categories needed to for the given day. It then automatically populates the meals for each day, satisfying the categories. I have plans to add several paid features in the future. One big one is to invite other users to your kitchen with various permissions to edit or view certain things in the kitchen or meal schedule. This would be great for a family! I also want to eventually add two more large features that would build off of each other. The first is to add recipes for each meal. The second is to use the recipes to build out the grocery list for the week. These could really streamline the process of meal planning and creating a grocery list each week and could take a fraction of the time that it does currently. My project is private on Gitlab since I have plans to hopefully use it to generate money in the future, but if you request viewing access to it I can review your request. I will be sharing an image as soon as I have a little more content to show.