WholesomePlate: healthy meals monitoring system for university students

This thesis titled WholesomePlate: Healthy Meals Monitoring System is a web-based system designed to assist university students in managing their meals for a healthier lifestyle. The project addresses the challenges faced by students, including lack of time and limited knowledge and understanding in preparing nutritious meals, by offering a system that enables users to create weekly meal plans with healthy recipes. This system also provides real-time email notifications to keep students on track with their meal schedules, offers recipes tailored to specific health conditions such as diabetes and heart problems and healthy tips. The objectives are to identify the requirements for a system in healthy meal planning tailored to university student's needs, develop a web-based application with a weekly meal planner and evaluate the Healthy Meals Monitoring System regarding the solution in improving university student's healthy meal planning. The study explores healthy food concepts, existing recipe platforms, relevant technologies, and software development methodologies. Developed using the waterfall model, the system successfully met its objectives by enhancing students' meal planning and promoting healthier eating habits. For future work and improvements of this system include implementing push notifications for better communication, students manually add meals that are eaten but not planned in the weekly planner, upgrading the chatbot with AI for more personalized support, expanding the nutritional information provided for each recipe and developing a mobile app for better accessibility.