How to Create a Meal Plan

Meal Garden gives you two ways to create a meal plan: starting from scratch or customizing one of the 300+ pre-built templates.

Option A: Start from a Template

1. Click theMeal Plansbutton on the left navigation panel
2. SelectPre-createdmeal plans from the source choice
3. Explore the 300+ pre-built plans
4. Use filters to narrow by dietary preference, calorie range, health goal, or cuisine
5. Click a template to preview it
6. ClickCopyto add it to your library — your copy is fully editable

Option B: Create from Scratch

1. ClickCreatein the left navigation panel and selectMeal Plan
2. Choose to start a blank plan
3. Give the plan a name
4. Select how many snacks the meal plan should have after each meal and change their name if you like
5. Choose default recipe dietary filtering restrictions for the meal plan (you can overwrite it later)
6. If you have created sets of nutritional goals in Meal Garden, you can pick one and it will be applied to the new meal plan. Note that this step will appear only if there are pre-set goals stored in your Meal Garden.
7. ClickCreateand you will be brought into the new plan edit screen

Editing and Nutritional Targets

• On theMealstab of the Meal Plan edit screen you can add recipes, foods, and notes to each meal or snack by pressing the "+" button next to the meal name. As you add recipes you can scale them, make leftovers or re-use them on multiple days.
• Drag recipes/foods/notes between meals or to the trash can (which appears as you start dragging) to remove an item.
• Click on an added recipe/food/note to perform various actions: edit to scale up/down or modify the recipe altogether, create leftovers, see detailed nutrition data, copy/move to another meal, or remove.
• The plan's overall nutritional summary updates in real time as you add, modify, or swap recipes or foods.

Downloading as PDF

When the plan is ready, clickMore OptionsthenDownload PDFto generate a PDF on the Meals tab, orDownload PDFon thePreviewtab (on the Preview tab you can also scale up the plan before making a PDF). On the popup that follows you can choose to include:

• Various elements of a recipe
• Meal Plan Calendar
• Day by Day Meal Plan
• Nutrition Totals
• Shopping list

Sharing with a Client

Once created, go to thePreviewtab and clickShare, then clickClient(s)to add it to one or more client portals. You can also add it to a client portal from theRecommendationstab of theClientscreen.