Slaw Enforcement

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  very cool

As university students who are mostly cooking on our own for the first time, we are acutely aware of the concepts of wasting food. Forgetting to eat leftovers, throwing out old mouldy cucumbers that have definitely been in the fridge for longer than any of us can remember, overestimating how much cheese you can eat in a feasible amount of time before it goes fuzzy? We've done it all. My housemate even tried to freeze half a carton of milk last week "as an experiment" and then did not properly thaw it - wasting a good three or four days usage of that milk in one fell swoop. So when thinking about the prompt augment, we looked at our everyday lifestyles and immediately saw a habit we wanted to improve upon - food waste. 2 out of 5 of our team is vegetarian, and so they also wanted to bring in the topic of sustainable and ethical eating. We learned a lot through our process in making a website that aims to use up food you already have before it goes off - or if you can't/ don't want to use it, suggests places you can donate it to - as each of us split off into different creative and technical roles. Python's way of handling dates drove some close to tears, others struggled to communicate efficiently between frontend and backend, whilst others thought of the best pitch possible for our product. One of our team members only showed up at 4pm on the first day, which hindered his possibility to immerse himself in the project until late into the evening, where he was quickly distracted by Mario Kart and midnight pizza. Despite this, we have all learned a lot today about web development using python, and have had an extremely enjoyable time serving food crime a knuckle sandwich.

Built With

• flask
• javascript
• sqlite