While the risk of nutritional deficiencies when tracking 1200 calories/day is higher, it's possible to make choices with whole foods that are satiating and satisfy daily micro-nutrient requirements despite low calorie intake.
For instance, for a 1500 cal/day diet, the following mealplan is quite a bit of food:
That's a great list! decouple (https://pypi.org/project/python-decouple/) is a useful alternative for managing secrets. It converts values to the correct data type which is nice.
Another detail that matters deciding VPS vs PaaS - batch job processing. Heroku dynos restart once every 24 hours, longer jobs can't be scheduled.
Cool site, the sliders are super intuitive for exploration.
I was pleasantly surprised to see Cauliflower rank high in Choline, it's more readily available from animal sources. Do the portion sizes differ for each item? Eggs have 7.6x times Choline from Cauliflower per 100g based on USDA data:
Besides Iron and Zinc - keep an eye on daily intake for Magnesium, Potassium and Calcium. I wasn't happy with the increasing number of supplements in my diet, so I set out to hit daily RDIs on macro and micro-nutrients without any supplements. See the evolution of my meal planner tech stack here: https://www.umangsh.com/blog/the-right-tool-for-the-job/
Most repeated food suggestions by the planner:
1. Almonds (Vitamin E), Chia, Pumpkin seeds are micro-nutrient dense.
2. Liver is nature's multivitamin, Chicken/Beef/Turkey liver all good choices (Vitamin A, Iron, Zinc).
3. Eat your greens - mix and match Arugula, Spinach, Kale, Collards, Chard, etc (Magnesium, Potassium).
