The meal planner builds a multi-day eating plan around your targets, then turns it into a shopping list. mobieusAI writes the plan to fit your calories, macros, diet style, and the foods you like and avoid. It is part of Loopa Premium.

''General wellness tracking, not medical advice. Follow any eating plan your doctor or dietitian gives you.''

== In the app ==

Open '''More''' → '''Your Food Plans''' → '''Meal Planner'''.

# Choose how many days to plan: '''1, 3, 5, or 7'''.
# Choose whether to '''include two snacks'''. With snacks off, those calories go into breakfast, lunch and dinner rather than disappearing — the three meals carry the whole day.
# Tap '''Build my plan'''.

It builds one day at a time, so a week takes up to a minute. Building a new plan replaces the one you have.

If you have not set your calorie and macro targets yet, the planner sends you to set them first. It will not guess.

=== Reading a day ===

Pick a day along the top, and each meal comes up as a card with its name, calories, protein, carbs and fat, a short line on how to make it, and its ingredients. Above the cards, the '''day total''' shows how the day lands against each of your targets, and marks a day that falls outside them.

=== Changing one meal ===

Do not fancy something? Tap '''Swap''' on that card. Only that meal changes — the rest of the plan stays exactly as it was, and the replacement is checked against your targets and your never-eat list before it appears.

=== Logging what you ate ===

Every card has '''Log this''', and each day has '''Log the whole day'''. Either way the meals land in your food log exactly as if you had entered them yourself, so your totals, widgets and reports all pick them up. See [[Logging food]].

== The shopping list ==

One list for the whole plan, never one per day. If a recipe on Monday needs two eggs and one on Thursday needs three, the list says '''five eggs'''. Quantities in different units are added up properly, and where two measures cannot be combined honestly — 200 g of spinach and a bunch of spinach — you get both lines rather than a guess.

Items are grouped by aisle, and anything already in your pantry is left off without you asking — that is the '''On hand''' list you keep on the web. Tick items as you shop; the ticks are saved and show up on your other devices.

== Taking it with you ==

From the planner's menu:

* '''Email the plan''' — the whole plan and the shopping list, handed to your mail app.
* '''Download as PDF''' — a printable copy, saved to your device.
* '''Copy shopping list''' — the list as plain text, ready to paste into your notes app.

All three happen on your device. Nothing is emailed or uploaded on your behalf.

== Offline ==

A plan you have already built, and its shopping list, work with no signal — which is the point, because that is what a supermarket usually has. Building a new plan or swapping a meal needs a connection, and the app says so rather than hanging.

== How it uses your preferences ==

The planner follows your diet style, your favourites and dislikes, and your '''never-eat''' list. Nothing on that list appears in a meal, in an ingredient, or on the shopping list — including things made from it, so avoiding peanuts also avoids peanut oil and peanut butter. If a plan ever fails that check it is not shown to you at all; you are asked to build another. Set these up in [[Setting up your profile]].

== On the web ==

The web planner at '''Planner''' in the Nutrition menu still works as it always has: 3, 5 or 7 days, a shopping list built from the plan or from your saved meals, and '''Print''' or '''Download''' to take it with you. The app planner is the newer one and is where snacks, swapping, ticking off and syncing live.

== Quicker single ideas ==

Want one idea rather than a whole plan? '''What should I eat next?''' on [[Logging food]] gives three suggestions that fit the macros you have left right now. If you are out, [[Eating out]] does the same for a restaurant.

== See also ==

* [[Logging food]]
* [[Eating out]]
* [[My Meals]]
* [[Healthy eating]]
* [[Setting up your profile]]

[[Category:Food and nutrition]]
[[Category:Loopa]]