I can cook a few meals well, but I want to become a better cook. I'd like to learn how to make fresh pasta and bake bread, rather than rely on the same handful of dishes. The trouble is that every app I've tried only does one of the things I want: teach me to cook, help me spend less, or help me eat healthily. Recipe apps offer sometimes thousands of meals but no sense of skill progression. Budget apps tell me what's cheap but not if it's healthy. Health apps tend to focus on calorie counting, which no explanation of the nutrients behind these calories. So I'm building an app that brings the three together. You work through courses of meals, such as Curry From Scratch or Soups and Stews. Each meal builds a technique, such as dicing an onion, and shows its cost per portion, so you can choose cheaper meals if you want to. If your nutrition is low in something e.g. fibre, it suggests a meal from a course to fill the gap. The courses are designed around the 8 nutrients the app tracks: protein, fibre, iron, calcium, zinc, vitamin C, folate and vitamin B12. Finish a course and none of them should be flagged as low. Would people use this app? Does anyone have any suggestions for missing features or general improvements?   submitted by   /u/MaxRutherford2003 [link]   [comments]