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Hey everyone! This is part appreciation post, part request for more feedback. I’ve hit a small milestone, but it means a lot to me: since Friday, six people have signed up for MorselMetrics, the meal planner I’ve been building, and some of them have already sent me feedback. A few weeks ago it was just me clicking around my own app at midnight, so this feels pretty special. Why I built it I’m studying nutrition, and I kept running into the same problem: the tools I tried didn’t do what I actually needed. Most are calorie counters built on overseas food data. I wanted to see everything in a recipe (vitamins, minerals, amino acids, fatty acids), using Australian food data, compared against the Australian reference values I’m learning about in class. I wanted to see where each nutrient came from, not just a total. And a bunch of features I wanted just weren’t out there, like using up leftovers, comparing against RDIs, and handling diets like vegan and vegetarian. Nothing did all of that, so this year I started building it myself. What it does You paste a recipe or a recipe URL (or pick one from the built-in recipe book), plan your week for everyone in your household, and see 150+ nutrients and food components for each meal. Each person gets their own daily targets based on their age, sex and life stage. Tap a nutrient like iron and it shows exactly which ingredients it came from, so you know what to add or swap. Then it writes your shopping list. You can autofill a day or a whole week, and if a meal isn’t very yum, it suggests ways to lift the flavour. It works for however many people you’re cooking for, so it suits a whole household just as well as a solo gym-goer. How I built it Getting the data right came first. As a nutrition student, this was the part I cared about most. Food values come from FSANZ’s Australian Food Composition Database and AUSNUT 2023, and daily targets come from the NHMRC Nutrient Reference Values. For a few outliers the Australian data doesn’t cover, I’ve added a small set from a US database, and every food shows which source its numbers came from. One rule I wouldn’t budge on: if a food has no data for a nutrient, the app says it’s missing instead of counting it as zero. It sounds small, but it’s the thing that bugged me most about other apps. Little pieces, almost every day. Planner first, then shopping lists, then households so families can plan together. Several weeks in, I’ve made 69 updates to the database alone. Yesterday I added batch cooking and leftovers, because cook once, eat twice is how students actually live. Fixing mistakes out in the open. When I get something wrong, I fix it and note the correction on the recipe. My favourite so far: a “vegetarian” recipe that used Worcestershire sauce, which has anchovies in it. Very embarrassing for a nutrition student! It’s soy sauce now. A new name. It started life as TraceMeal, and three weeks in I renamed it MorselMetrics. I just like it more. The best part When I men

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  • 发布时间：2026/10/19 11:23:40