Hey all, just hoping to get some recommmendations on a meal planner where I can enter in favourite foods, target macros, etc.
I had one years ago but can’t for the life of me remember what the site was. It was pretty handy.
Sorry to ask a basic question but what’s a macro in the context of meal planning?
Macros (Macronutrients) are Protein, Carbs, and Fats. Basically the big picture components that make up your food. At the other end of the spectrum you’ve got Micros, which are like specific vitamins etc
Ah, cool, thank you. I cook a lot (and use Excel for meal planning and to keep track of protein, carbs, and veggies) but I’d never come across macros.
Maybe Mealime? It’s mostly for optimizing grocery shopping by suggesting recipes that have the most overlap, but it does have the option to automatically filter recipes to have specific macros.
I gave it a look, needs the pro subscription to filter on macros etc. I’ll have a play with it for a while and see if its worth it. Cheers.
Eat This Much is sort of like that. You have to tune it quite a bit to get exactly what you want. I haven’t used it in quite a while though.
Might you be looking for something like Cronometer? https://cronometer.com/
Maybe, I’ll check it out. Thanks. I’m using Macro Factor at the moment.
I was just going to recommend macro factor, it’s such a good app.
Nice find I’m going to try this out I’ve been using MyNetDiary ever since they removed the taking pictures of barcodes from MyFitnessPal. Can you oddo that with this app? Don’t really need it as much anymore
Not exactly what your looking for i think but I use MyNetDiary. You can save meals, recipes and such it it it also tells you targets and stuff but I personally don’t listen to it and have not updated goals or weight etc because I use to only prep meals for the weeks use to target days macros I don’t log every day I eat same thing whole week.
Does mealie have macros?
Hmm Sorry I don’t know exactly, but check out their website and see if it suits your purpose. I don’t use them myself so they may be there but overlooked on my part.
Thanks for that. Doesn’t seem to have macros, and doesn’t look like it has a database of recipes etc. Though it looks like it would be handy if you already kinda had your own recipes etc
