Support alternative options in ingredients

[cyclingwithelephants]

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I'd like to be able to record recipes that allow for a handful of grouped options for a specific ingredient. For example it's common pesto with one of kale/spinach/basil/parsely, or making hummus with both chickpeas + butterbeans (and there might be several other options here too). This allows mixing and matching from different "groups" of ingredients rather than having many different recipes that are otherwise identical.

This is in an effort to eat a larger variety of foods and to get better at cooking by learning "patterns" of cooking rather than following recipes strictly. In this example, pesto and hummus are both patterns of making a food, which might be different to the exact traditional recipe.

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Naively, I think ingredients supporting lists of lists in the recipe field would solve this well enough. I'd like to be able to express e.g.

Pesto incredients

• green plants:
  • kale
  • spinach
  • basil
  • parsely
• nuts and seeds:
  • walnuts
  • pecans
  • cashews
  • pumpkin seeds
  • pine nuts
• oils
  • olive oil
  • rapeseed oil

where you might pick one or more from each grouping

Please consider and list out some caveats or tradeoffs made in your design decision

I think this makes handling quantities a little more complicated, you'd need to pick the item(s) from the group when generating e.g. a grocery list

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