infundibulum

I have been on a bit of a health kick lately… it’ll start showing results eventually… right?

RIGHT???

Anyway… I’ve discovered that the key to being careful about what one eats is pretty simple: you have to plan.

You have to have food around that will make you be not hungry. Which is actually pretty challenging if you’re a live-alone coderbot. So I find stuff like this kind of interesting:

The World’s Healthiest Foods: One Week Menu.

I actually like the idea of someone telling me what to eat. I hate thinking up all that stuff. And I hate going to the grocery store and feeling clueless.

But ideally, what I would want is a sort of web-based menu management thing, that tracks the food I actually have. Why don’t grocery stores let you access your bonus card data online? If they’re going to, should I at least have the option? It is about me, after all… Mmm, yeah, a grocery store with an API. That would rock. And it would win scads of geek converts, I’m pretty sure.

If Whole Foods hooked that up, I bet they would become the Amazon of grocery stores. Imagine all the lists you could build and exchange. They could advertise sales right in the web interface, or even link you to cookbooks wth recipes that match the stuff you like.

That would really be an interesting stomping grounds for a Rails or Django app.

Come to think of it, there are probably a billion “brick and mortar” stores that could benefit from an API… Why can’t I track the books I buy from Borders or Barnes and Noble? Why can’t Starbucks figure out that I’m like, their number one addict customer, and let me see just how frightneing my yearly bill is?

Oh wait, they probably wouldn’t want to do that.

But you get the idea.