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Calorienomics

Calorienomics

Jun 26, 2026 Health & Fitness
calorie tracking food-budgeting grocery-shopping meal planning nutrition

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Calorienomics

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Hey everyone, I built a small tool called Calorienomics and would love some honest feedback from people who are into nutrition, fitness, budgeting, meal planning, or just data in general. The idea came from something I noticed while grocery shopping: we often compare foods by price, weight, or protein content, but it's surprisingly hard to compare their actual value in a consistent way. So I built a tool that lets you compare foods based on cost per calorie and normalize different foods, ser...

Comments (9)

Alisha Hoppe Alisha Hoppe 2 weeks ago

what stack did you build this on and where's the nutrition data coming from

Magali Lemke Magali Lemke 2 weeks ago

whats the stack, using usda api for the nutrition data?

Stephany Ratke Stephany Ratke 1 week ago

what stack r u running for the food dataset?

Arlo Raynor Arlo Raynor 1 week ago

spacing feels off on the landing page

Esta Hessel Esta Hessel 1 week ago

nutrition apps always assume you cook from scratch and have 45 mins per meal

Lourdes Lueilwitz Lourdes Lueilwitz 1 week ago

what's the data source for nutrition values? usda api or custom db?

Kenton Stroman Kenton Stroman 1 week ago

does this pull real time grocery prices or is it manual entry

Gilda Vandervort Gilda Vandervort 1 week ago

what makes this different from myfitnesspal? calorie tracking market is brutal

Lyla Farrell Lyla Farrell 1 week ago

so it shames my wallet AND my diet? sign me up