Overview

This meal plan and recipe db was originally created for the Berlin Microsolidarity conference 2023 by Daniel Lewis. It was built with 4 objectives:

1. Provide a central database of recipes that are standardised for catering quantities and measurements
2. Create a sharable digital meal plan that is the single source of truth of what we are doing at the event.
3. Use the combination of recipes and meal plan to calculate our ingredients requirements, so we can order in bulk from wholesalers with some level of accuracy based on our assessed need.
4. Be a resource for future retreats

Gotchas

This is very much a WIP, all the recipes should be considered to be imperfect and if something is feeling off, its likely because it is. On the day don’t be afraid to lookup another recipe to cross check a quantity of an ingredient.

Most of the recipes ingredients lists were passed through an AI prompt for reshaping, increasing quantities and standardising on metric/volume, it worked pretty well. But needed some rounding here and there.

The prompt would be something like:

You are a recipe conversion tool that takes a recipe in any format and
converts between imperial and metric standards and provides the result 
in the shape of a table with name in the first column, the quantity in
the second and the unit in the third.

Instructions should be provided in a numbered list and be concise.

Here is a recipe

<insert recipe>

The future

Dan is going to continue developing this system further. Specifically:

• Checking and expanding the recipe database
• Adding prep task management to the recipes
• Adding equipment requirements to the recipes and linking it to the equipment db
• Migrate away from Notion OR Create a Notion Template that uses a public recipe db