fettnapf3000 🍆

A tool for planning almost-arbitrary-scale cooking activities. Can generate a menu, shopping list and cookbook given the recipes and desired number of servings. Content is inspired by the amazing fettnapf cookbook.

Requirements

• python >= 3.9
• the pyparsing python package
• the tinydb python package
• the CherryPy python package for the web interface
• pypandoc for pdf export

Usage

Web interface (recommended)

We host an instance with our recipes here.

To start a local server serving the fettnapf at port 8000, navigate to the src directory and run

python server.py 8000

You may now use the web interface by navigating to http://localhost:8000 in your browser.

To make the server listen on a network interface different from localhost (e.g. 0.0.0.0), run

python server.py 0.0.0.0 8000

Command line

Menu file

Create a menu file containing the number of servings you want to prepare per recipe. The file must consist of markdown 3rd-level headings followed by newline-seperated number of servings and recipe names (they have to exist in the recipe database). For example:

### Monday
1 supershake

### Tuesday
1 supershake

### Rest of the week
100 coffee
100 pumpkinsnails

Recipes

Our recipe databases are kept in a separeate repository. Clone that and place it next to the directory of this repo. If you want to use your own database, adjust the path in line 19 of server.py.

Plan!

Call the program by entering the following command from within the project directory:

python src/fettnapf3000 example_menu.txt

It will store a pdf file in the same folder as the menu if you have pypandoc installed. Otherwise, you'll get a plain text markdown file.

Your new file has:

• A nice overview over your menu
• Two copies of the shopping list, sorted by how my favourite wholesale is sorted
• A list of recipes already scaled to the requested number of servings, sorted like in the menu file with pagebreaks where you put the sections.

For power users

Only ingredients that are already used in recipes will appear in a sorted fashion in the shopping list. Unknown ingredients will simply appear in the "None" category. If you want to add new ingredients, edit the file metrodb.py