A meal plan is a full week of food — Monday (day 1) through Sunday (day 7) — built around you. VitalPlate takes what it knows from your profile, works out how many calories you need, fills the meal slots you asked for, and scores every plate so you can see at a glance whether it fits.
The three ingredients of a plan
- Your profile — the conditions, medications, allergies, and food reactions you set up once. This decides what can and can’t appear on your plate. See Setting up your health profile.
- Your calorie target — calculated from your body metrics, your activity level, and your goal. See How your calorie target is calculated.
- Your meal slots — which of breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack you want filled, and how big each one should be. See Meal slots and servings.
How the week comes together
- 1VitalPlate works out your daily calorie target, then splits it across the slots you enabled.
- 2For each slot it picks a main dish that fits your profile and lands close to that slot’s calorie share, scaling it to a whole number of servings.
- 3Lunch and dinner get balanced sides — a starch plus a vegetable — matched to the main. See Sides and plates.
- 4Every planned meal is scored as a single whole-plate verdict, so you see one Good fit, Caution, or Avoid for the meal as a whole. See Whole-meal scores.
A plan is decision support, not a prescription. VitalPlate flags what to be careful with — it does not replace advice from your doctor or dietitian.
Want a different week?
You are never stuck with the first result. Rebuilding a plan rotates which recipes lead and which sides surface, so each shuffle gives you fresh variety. See Reshuffling your plan.