App Features
Meal Plan Generator: Automatic Plan or Build Your Own?
Short Answer
A meal plan generator builds your meals for you from a few answers about you and your goal. In easyChef Pro you can let the app build the whole plan or build your own days. The hard part of eating to a goal is not knowing the target. It is turning that target into meals, day after day.
Know what to cook, what to eat, and what to buy. easyChef Pro brings your recipes, nutrition, meal plans, pantry and shopping together in one app. Auto Generate builds a meal plan from your goal, diet plan, health focus, allergies, protein sources and meals per day. Build It Yourself lets you plan your own days, and any recipe, including the ones you saved, can be added from its page. Swap a meal you do not want, mark meals eaten to see your calories against your target, and add a recipe's products to your cart for the week's shop.
What a meal plan generator is, and the problem it solves
Most people who try to eat to a goal start with a number, such as a calorie target from a calculator, and then stall. What should breakfast be? Does the dinner you have in mind fit? A meal plan generator closes that gap by starting from the number and handing you meals that fit it.
Your life changes. Your kitchen should change with it.
How it works in easyChef Pro, step by step
1. Answer a few questions
Enter your sex, birthday, height, weight, activity and goal: lose, maintain or gain weight. easyChef Pro works out your calorie and macro targets from your answers with the Mifflin-St Jeor equation. Your Health Summary shows your BMI, BMR, TDEE and daily calorie recommendation, and how each one is calculated.
2. Pick a diet plan and a health focus
Choose Balanced, Keto or Anabolic. With Balanced, also pick a Health Focus: Heart, Metabolic, Digestive, Inflammatory, Performance or General.
3. Choose Auto Generate or Build It Yourself
- Auto Generate builds a meal plan from your goal, diet plan, health focus, allergies, protein sources and meals per day. Allergies you set are excluded from automatic plans.
- Build It Yourself gives you the days to plan. From any recipe page, tap Add to Meal Plan and choose the day, meal and servings. In the plan you can also add a product, a product by barcode, a meal from a picture or a meal by search.
4. Adjust as the week goes
Swap a planned meal for a ranked alternative. Mark meals eaten to see your calories against your target and the protein, fat and carbs for each meal, with a day streak and weekly reports you can export as a PDF.
Automatic or custom meal plan: which should you choose?
- Choose Auto Generate if you want a plan ready to follow and would rather not decide every meal.
- Choose Build It Yourself if you already know what you like to cook and want a custom meal plan of your own.
- Mix them. Start from an automatic plan, then swap meals or add your own recipes to a day.
How to get the most from a generated plan
- Answer the setup questions honestly. Your targets come from your answers, so a current weight and a realistic activity level give you targets that fit your day.
- Set your protein sources and meals per day. Auto Generate uses both, so a plan built on the proteins you like and the number of meals you eat is one you are more likely to follow.
- Swap rather than skip. If a planned meal does not suit you, swap it for a ranked alternative instead of leaving the day short.
- Add the recipes you already love. Your own and saved recipes can go on any day with Add to Meal Plan, next to the generated meals.
- Mark meals eaten. It takes a moment, and it is what turns the plan into a record of calories against your target and macros for each meal, with a weekly report you can export as a PDF.
How a goal-based meal plan helps you eat well
- Targets from your own answers. Your calorie and macro targets come from your sex, birthday, height, weight, activity and goal, not a one-size number.
- A plan for your diet. Balanced, Keto or Anabolic. If you want a keto meal plan app, Keto is one of the three diet plans, and Auto Generate builds your plan around it.
- A plan for your focus. With Balanced, your Health Focus shapes the plan.
- Allergies respected in automatic plans. Recipes tagged with the allergies you set are excluded from automatic plans.
- Progress you can see. Marking meals eaten shows your calories against your target each day, and protein, fat and carbs for each meal, with weekly reports as a PDF.
- The nutrition behind each meal. Each recipe shows 20 nutrients per serving with a rating and its share of your daily target, and its scores and NOVA level.
easyChef Pro is not medical advice. If you have a health condition, talk to your doctor or a registered dietitian about your targets.
What makes easyChef Pro different
The problem was never you. The system was disconnected.
A meal plan on its own is a list. easyChef Pro connects it to the rest of your kitchen:
- each recipe in your plan shows how many of its ingredients are already in your pantry;
- add its products to your cart and send the cart to Walmart;
- cook it step by step in Cook Mode;
- when you finish, preview what comes off your pantry and confirm it.
The plan, the pantry, the cart and the cooking work together, so the plan is one you can follow.
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Frequently Asked Questions
- What is a meal plan generator?
- A meal plan generator builds a meal plan from your answers. In easyChef Pro, Auto Generate uses your goal, diet plan, health focus, allergies, protein sources and meals per day.
- Can I make a custom meal plan?
- Yes. Choose Build It Yourself and plan your own days. Add any recipe to a day and meal with the servings you want, or swap meals in an automatic plan.
- Is there a keto meal plan app?
- easyChef Pro has three diet plans: Balanced, Keto and Anabolic. Choose Keto and Auto Generate builds your plan around it.
- How does the app set my calorie target?
- It works out your calorie and macro targets from your sex, birthday, height, weight, activity and goal, using the Mifflin-St Jeor equation. Your Health Summary shows your BMI, BMR, TDEE and daily calorie recommendation.
- Does the meal plan generator handle allergies?
- Recipes tagged with the allergies you set are excluded from automatic plans. You can also hide recipes you do not want to see.
PLAN THIS WEEK
A Meal Plan Built Around Your Goal
Choose Auto Generate or build your own days in easyChef Pro. See your calories against your target as you go.
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Your plan, built around your goal
Let easyChef Pro build your meal plan, or build it yourself, and see your calories against your target.