Food Budgeting

September 7, 2009 by Mark.

A food budget is a little bit different then a financial budget because you are budgeting quantities of ingredients rather then a lump sum of money. It is something that my wife just introduced me to and I am very excited to start doing it. Say you purchase a pound of ground beef but you only use up half of it. For example, rather then making the same dish again in order to use up the rest of the beef, you could make another dish with that exact amount of beef. However, she is having a difficult time trying to manage the data especially when you have more then one or two ingredients to work with.

So, I’m setting out on a journey to build her an application that would manage a database of ingredients. It would link the ingredients table with a table of recipes, making it easy to search. To be honest, I’m not a database person. In fact I have not done any DB work since first year at Seneca. I might need to pull out my old text books in order to re-learn how to use a DB. I’m thinking of using SQLlite for the back end and straight up C++ on the front end (though C# has crossed my mind). It will be all open source obviously.

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