Gourmet: Your AI-Powered Meal Planning Companion

Gourmet is a powerful, open-source meal planner designed to help you take control of your nutrition, save money, and simplify meal preparation. Built on advanced AI and planning algorithms, Gourmet integrates a wealth of food-related data to create personalized, healthy meal plans tailored to your unique needs and preferences.

🌟 Key Features

• Smart Meal Planning: Generate comprehensive meal plans optimized for nutrition, taste, cost, and effort.
• Personalized Nutrition: Tailored plans based on your dietary needs, preferences, and health goals.
• Recipe Recommendations: Access a database of over 300,000 recipes with smart suggestions.
• Inventory Management: Track your pantry and generate shopping lists automatically.
• Barcode Scanning: Quickly add items to your inventory and get nutrition info.
• Cost Optimization: Save up to 4x on grocery costs through better planning and bulk cooking strategies.
• Special Diets: Support for vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, low-FODMAP, and other specialized diets.
• Interactive Cooking Assistant: Step-by-step guidance through recipe preparation.

💡 How Gourmet Works

1. Profile Creation: Input your dietary preferences, restrictions, and health goals.
2. Inventory Sync: Scan your pantry items or manually input your current food inventory.
3. Meal Plan Generation: AI algorithms create a personalized meal plan based on your profile and inventory.
4. Shopping List: Automatically generate a shopping list for missing ingredients.
5. Cooking Guidance: Follow interactive instructions for each meal.
6. Continuous Learning: The system learns from your feedback to improve future recommendations.

🧠 Powered by AI and Data

Gourmet leverages several comprehensive databases and AI techniques:

• Food Data Central nutritional database
• Recipe archive with 300,000+ recipes
• Food ontology for understanding ingredient relationships and substitutions
• Machine learning for personalized recipe recommendations
• Natural language processing for recipe parsing and normalization
• Constraint satisfaction algorithms for optimizing meal plans

🌍 More Than Just a Meal Planner

Gourmet is part of the larger Free Life Planner (FLP) project, which aims to create a free, open-source AI system to help people manage various aspects of daily life. By using Gourmet, you're not just planning meals - you're participating in a movement to democratize access to powerful AI tools that can improve quality of life worldwide.

🚀 Getting Started

Gourmet (development version, not yet ready for real use) is now available via Docker Hub ( https://hub.docker.com/r/adougher9/gourmet-formalog-standalone ) and installable via the following command:

docker pull adougher9/gourmet-formalog-standalone

For the original detailed installation instructions, please see the INSTALL.md file.

To learn more about meal planning and related resources, visit our Meal Planning Resources and/or Gourmet Reference Manual pages.

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions from the community! Whether you're a developer, nutritionist, or simply passionate about healthy eating, there are many ways to get involved. Check out our CONTRIBUTING.md file to learn more.

📜 License

Gourmet is proudly released under the GNU General Public License v3.0 as free/libre/open-source software.

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Join us in revolutionizing meal planning and promoting healthier, more sustainable eating habits for everyone!