quartermaster

A program for calculating recipe ingredient quantities and costs, given parameters such as amount or 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. A stable, usable version is expected by August 2024.

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