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Grocery shopping
Today was the first day I had been in a grocery store since spending some time working on some nutrition software.
To give some background, I have written a subroutine so that you can ask "recommend a food", and the software will consider what foods will maximize your nutrition graph for today -- that is, to minimize the amount of vitamins, minerals, and nutrients still required for the current day, given what you've already eaten.
I have noticed that this subroutine often recommends foods such as:
 | GoLean cereal |
| Raisin Bran cereal |
| milk |
| orange juice |
| cranberry juice |
| bananas |
| pears |
| yogourt |
| chicken breast |
| ... |
And so, as I walked along I had it in my head to pick up some GoLean, Raisin Bran, OJ, bananas, pears, etc.
In addition to picking these items up, I was more interested in comparing the nutrition labels on various kinds of bread, as well as orange juice. I chose the bread that minimized sodium while maximizing omega-3... and I picked the orange juice with 30% DV of calcium; I got the PC variety rather than the Tropicana variety since it was $2.99 VS $4.50.
I real breakthrough was finding Miss Vickies unsalted chips. They're just potatoes and sunflower oil, and they taste great! I can't believe it: A potato chip with 0 sodium!
I have also started entering costs into the system so that, while maximizing nutrition, it will also minimize cost. Fun stuff.
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