Free meal planner

I need nutrition help and am looking for a free meal planner to try to learn how to better eat. I want something with lower bad fats and low in added sugars. The apps I am finding are only free for a week or 2, and I need longer to figure it all out. It would be great to find something that my husband and I can share - which may mean not an app, but a web page, which is fine. The more customizable it is, the better, as I don't like eggs before lunch and we don't eat fish/water creatures. Ideas? Thoughts? Thanks!!!

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  • lemurcat2
    lemurcat2 Posts: 7,885 Member
    This is free and customizable: https://www.eatthismuch.com/

    You get more if you pay, I'm not sure what that adds, but it does a lot for free.

    That said, although I always recommend the linked site to people wanting a meal plan, I think figuring it out for yourself is easier and more educational. I find it far more difficult to follow someone else's meal plan, and eating healthfully is really extremely easy and does not require special recipes. My advice for that would be to adapt your current plan in the following kind of way:

    (1) What do you like for breakfast and find filling? There are numerous options that would include no added sugar (I've never used added sugar in a main meal ever). I don't know what you mean by "bad fats" or how restrictive you want to be.

    (2) What is an easy option for lunch? Are you good with using dinner leftovers? Would you want to cook ahead? Are you making sure to include sufficient protein and veg and eating something filling?

    (3) Do you have a template for dinner? My own is protein/vegetables (lots!)/starch, and it's easy to make a huge variety of meals with that template.

    My own personal preference is vegetables at all meals, so I make sure my breakfast includes them (they would be included in any lunch or dinner too of course).

    Then, do you want to include snacks? If so, are you concerned about filling (consider protein), have a sweet tooth (consider fruit), etc.?

    This is all no added sugar and whatever fat sources you want, but if you fill up on what you want to include in your diet it's pretty easy to add in some dessert type items if you have calories (assuming you are watching cal).
  • VickiI74
    VickiI74 Posts: 3 Member
    Lemurcat2, thank you for the link. I will check it out! I just wrote a while reply and lost it, so I'm going to leave it at that for now.
  • lemurcat2
    lemurcat2 Posts: 7,885 Member
    Hope it's helpful. I think it's really neat even if I couldn't manage to follow it myself. ;-)