AI for meal planning and recipes in AI for Everyone - Mini Project: Build & Apply

AI for Meal Planning and Recipes

📖 Scenario: You want to use AI to help plan your meals for the week and find recipes that match your preferences and dietary needs.This project will guide you through understanding how AI can organize meal data, set preferences, and suggest recipes.

🎯 Goal: Build a simple AI meal planner concept that stores meal options, sets dietary preferences, filters meals based on those preferences, and completes the plan with recipe suggestions.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a data structure to hold meal options with their details

Add a variable to store dietary preferences

Filter meals based on dietary preferences

Complete the plan by listing suitable recipes

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

AI meal planners help people choose meals that fit their diet and save time by suggesting recipes automatically.

💼 Career

Understanding how AI organizes and filters data is useful for roles in data analysis, nutrition technology, and software development.

1

Create the meal options data

Create a dictionary called meals with these exact entries: 'Pasta': {'calories': 400, 'vegetarian': True}, 'Chicken Salad': {'calories': 350, 'vegetarian': False}, and 'Veggie Stir Fry': {'calories': 300, 'vegetarian': True}.

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# Create the meals dictionary with given entries
# Your code here

Hint

Use a dictionary with meal names as keys and another dictionary for details as values.

2

Set dietary preferences

Create a variable called dietary_preference and set it to True to indicate vegetarian preference.

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meals = {
    'Pasta': {'calories': 400, 'vegetarian': True},
    'Chicken Salad': {'calories': 350, 'vegetarian': False},
    'Veggie Stir Fry': {'calories': 300, 'vegetarian': True}
}
# Set dietary preference to vegetarian
# Your code here

Hint

Use a simple boolean variable to represent vegetarian preference.

3

Filter meals by dietary preference

Create a list called filtered_meals that includes meal names from meals where the 'vegetarian' value matches dietary_preference. Use a for loop with meal as the iterator variable.

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meals = {
    'Pasta': {'calories': 400, 'vegetarian': True},
    'Chicken Salad': {'calories': 350, 'vegetarian': False},
    'Veggie Stir Fry': {'calories': 300, 'vegetarian': True}
}
dietary_preference = True
# Create filtered_meals list with meals matching dietary_preference
# Your code here

Hint

Use a for loop to check each meal's vegetarian status and add matching meals to the list.

4

Complete the meal plan with recipe suggestions

Create a dictionary called recipes with keys from filtered_meals and values as simple recipe instructions: 'Pasta': 'Boil pasta and add sauce' and 'Veggie Stir Fry': 'Stir fry vegetables with soy sauce'. Use the exact keys from filtered_meals.

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meals = {
    'Pasta': {'calories': 400, 'vegetarian': True},
    'Chicken Salad': {'calories': 350, 'vegetarian': False},
    'Veggie Stir Fry': {'calories': 300, 'vegetarian': True}
}
dietary_preference = True
filtered_meals = []
for meal in meals:
    if meals[meal]['vegetarian'] == dietary_preference:
        filtered_meals.append(meal)
# Create recipes dictionary with instructions for filtered meals
# Your code here

Hint

Use a dictionary with meal names as keys and recipe instructions as values for the filtered meals.