Almost nobody struggles to cook one meal that fits their diagnosis. The hard part is the other twenty. A week has twenty-one meals in it, they all need shopping for, and the rules have to survive a Tuesday when nobody feels like cooking. That is the gap most food apps leave open: they will happily log what you ate and tell you afterwards that it did not fit.
Plate Planner works the other way round. You turn a health need on once, and from then on it shapes the food before it reaches your plate — every generated meal, every swap, every side dish, every suggestion from what is already in your kitchen, and the grocery list at the end of it. Nothing needs remembering at the fridge door, because the decision was made a week earlier.
Real diets are rarely tidy, so the profiles stack. Kidney-friendly and diabetes-friendly at the same time, GLP-1 alongside heart-healthy, a food allergy layered over any of them — the planner generates against every active rule at once rather than asking which condition matters most tonight. And because most people cook for other people, household mode folds everyone else’s needs into the same dish, so one dinner suits the whole table instead of two pans and a compromise.
Every meal carries its own per-serving nutrition, including sodium — and, on the kidney profile, potassium and phosphorus. Where a figure comes from the bundled USDA-derived dataset it is shown as-is; where it is the model’s estimate it is marked with a ~. Knowing which number you are looking at matters more than the number looking confident.
That the health need shapes what gets generated in the first place, rather than being a filter applied afterwards or a number you log once the food is already eaten. With a profile on, the rule travels through every meal, every swap, every side dish and every pantry suggestion — so you are never the last line of defence at the fridge.
Yes, and most people need to. Profiles stack: kidney-friendly with diabetes-friendly, heart-healthy with low-cholesterol, GLP-1 with almost anything. Every dish is generated against all the active rules at once instead of you picking which condition wins tonight.
Add them. Household mode takes everyone’s needs together and plans one dish that works for the whole table — the same meal, plated to suit each person — rather than making you cook twice.
From a bundled dataset derived from USDA food data, self-hosted with the app rather than fetched from anywhere at runtime. Where a figure comes from that dataset it is shown plainly; where the model estimated it, it is marked with a ~ so you always know which kind of number you are reading.
No. These are planning tools: recipes are generated, and their nutrition is computed from the USDA-derived dataset where an ingredient matches and marked with a ~ where it is an estimate. Any medical diet belongs with your doctor or dietitian — the planner’s job is to make their instructions easier to actually live with for twenty-one meals a week.
Nothing to plan a week. Recipes, per-serving nutrition and the grocery list are free, and you can start without creating an account.
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Profiles stack — combine any of these, add household members with their own needs, and every dish is planned to suit the whole table. Plate Planner is a meal-planning tool, not medical advice; plan any medical diet with your doctor or dietitian. Full disclaimer.