For a long time now I've been trying to develop a program that would help to +choose meals for the week, and I've finally made it.
+ +The problem I tend to have in choosing meals for the week is that there are +so many to choose from that I end up simply choosing the same things over and +over again. This is fine when you're the only person eating (and you're a man), +but when you're making meals for others it can get tiresome. So I wanted some +system/database that I could consult that would easily give me recipes I could +cook, but filtering them by what I need or want. It's because of this that I +started working on Menu-Helper.
+ +The idea was that Menu-Helper would hold a database of recipe names and a +short description (since I don't need instructions for recipes I already know), +along with associated ingredients and tags that I could use to filter recipes. +Thus, let's say I had a lot of potatoes that I want to use, I could filter my +recipes to only include those which contain potatoes in them; or if I want a +dinner recipe I could filter for the tag "dinner." This would bring down the +number of recipes I have to consider which makes decision-making much easier. +
+ +Now, although I've had this idea for years it took me a very long time to +write this mostly because I thought of taking advantage of the opportunity to +write it in a new language like Python or Rust, but in the end I got bogged down +in trying to use the language itself that I got discouraged and eventually +abandoned the project. So this last time around I decided to simply write the +program in C++, which I'm already used to. The project went much quicker and I +finally was able to release v1.0.
+ +Like my other projects, the code for Menu-Helper can be found in my personal +git repository[1] as well as on GitHub.[2] +If you would like to contribute to the project, please read the contribution +information.[3] +
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