Recipe Finder
Project Level 2: Intermediate
This project is designed for intermediate learners who know Python fundamentals and are practicing building complete programs.
Project Objective
Create a Python program that takes a list of ingredients from the user and displays recipes that can be made using those ingredients.
Learning Benefits
In this project, you will practice file handling and JSON data parsing while searching for recipes based on user-provided ingredients. This project will reinforce your understanding of conditional logic and data structures in Python.
How the Program Works
The user is prompted to enter a list of ingredients they at home:
Once the user enters the ingredients, they will get all the recipes that can be cooked using those ingredients. For example, since the user had bread, salt, and oil, the oil bruschetta recipe showed up since it was the recipe in the JSON file that had can be made with the ingredients that the user had.
You can use this sample JSON file containing 21 recipes.
Prerequisites
Required Libraries: json
There is no need to install any libraries since the above libraries are standard libraries.
Required Files: Download the JSON file given in the link above.
IDE: You can use any IDE on your computer to code the project.
Danger Zone
Once you code the project, compare it with our solution below:
I think the solution needs to be revised, considering the fact that user_input was converted by .replace(' ',''). So do recipe_ingredients need .replace(' ','')? also, is it have to be user_ingredient.isusbset(recipe_ingredients)?