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We just rolled out a bunch of new Plan to Eat features! Here’s a quick look at what’s new, including a food logger and new planner layouts on tablets.
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Track your nutrition with the new Food Logger
If you’ve been planning meals in Plan to Eat and tracking macros in a separate app, you can now do both in one place! The Food Logger lets you log what you eat each day and compare your calories, protein, carbs, and fat to your daily goals.
Here’s what you can do with it:
- Log foods and recipes. Search the USDA database or your own Plan to Eat recipes, including recipes from friends.
- Set your goals. Choose your daily calories and a macro split, and see your targets in grams.
- Sync your Planner. Pull in the recipes you planned for the day, adjust the servings you actually ate, and log them in a tap.
- See your week at a glance. A weekly chart shows your daily calories against your target, plus your 7-day average.
- Log faster over time. Recently logged foods and the foods you usually eat at each mealtime are right there when you need them.
To find it in the app, go to the Plan tab, tap the Meal Planner header, and select Food Log.
How does it differ from nutrition info on your Planner? The Planner shows the macros for meals you’ve planned. The Food Log tracks what you actually ate, including foods that aren’t in your recipes.
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Drag and drop meal planning on tablets
The Plan to Eat app on tablets now has a planner layout built for the bigger screen. View your planner as an agenda or a calendar, with your recipe book in the left column, just like on the website. Find a recipe, drag it onto a day, and keep going.
If you like planning on the website because you can see everything at once, the tablet app now works the same way.
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Mark meals as Done on your Planner
You can now mark recipes, notes, and ingredients on your Planner as Done. Tap an item (or bulk select several), then choose Done from the action sheet.
It’s a simple way to see what you’ve already made this week and what’s still coming up.
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A tidier shopping list
Related items on your shopping list now group together into one row, so your list is shorter and easier to scan at the store.
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More ways to give Plan to Eat
When you purchase a gift subscription, there’s now a printable gift certificate you can tuck into a card or wrap up with a cookbook.
We also added a QR code to the referral program, so you can make your own referral card to share with friends.
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Bring your recipes over from another app
Moving your recipes into Plan to Eat is now much simpler. The redesigned import page walks you through it step by step, and it now supports recipes from Paprika, Mela, Mealime, Crouton, and Mealie.
Before anything is added, you’ll see which recipes are new, which you already have, and which couldn’t be read. Once your import is finished, you’ll get an email so you know when you can start using your recipes.
All of these updates are live now! Open the app to try the Food Logger, or head to the website import page to bring your recipes over.
