quartermaster

A program for calculating recipe ingredient quantities and costs, given parameters such as amount, time, and consumption rate.

Description

Quartermaster is a command line program that does logistical calculations and scaling for recipes. While primarily designed for cooking, non-food ingredients can be used to plan other things. Ingredients, recipes, and cost-per-unit is specified in TOML files. The program uses these to calculate required ingredient amounts and costs for recipes.

This program is in very early development. It's being developed alongside its sister project, the Digitized Recipe Format.

Quick-Start

1. Install the toml Python library
2. Clone the repository
3. Run python3 main.py

For more detailed instructions, see Installation Instructions.

Implemented Features

• Calculation of ingredients required for some quantity of a recipe
• Calculation of ingredient cost for some quantity of a recipe

Planned Features

• Manual specification of ingredient and recipe TOML files
• Load more than one ingredient or recipe file
• Load files with data for people
  • Dietary restrictions by type
  • Dietary restrictions by specific ingredients
  • Ability to specify non-default rate of consumption
• Ability to specify duration of time when provided with rate of consumption
  • User specifies days and meals per day, person data provides amount consumed compared to one standard recipe/portion
• Ability to provide defaults in TOML files
  • Program will assume defaults if values are left unspecified
• Save and load sessions
• New Data Type: group containing a collection of people