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Recipes, meal plans and the food log

Nutrition in Stem has four pieces. You write three of them: targets, recipes and meal plans. Your client writes the fourth, their food log, in their app. The main difference between the pieces you write is who can see them.

You write

Recipes

Ingredients and servings. Macros are worked out for you.

Every client can see them

Meal plans

One example day: meals you name, filled with recipes and foods.

Only the clients you assign it to

Targets

Calories and macros from a date. Old targets are kept, not overwritten.

One client

Your client logs, in their app

Food log · Tue 14 Oct

1,840 of 2,300 kcal target
  • Meal 1Overnight oats recipe
  • Meal 2Chicken, rice, broccoli
  • Meal 3Usual dinner saved meal
  • OtherProtein bar scanned

A meal plan is a guide to read: nothing is logged from it automatically. Clients log a meal or an option from the plan in one tap, a serve of a recipe, a food they search or scan, or one of their own saved meals.

Recipes are a library, meal plans are a prescription

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  • A recipe is visible to all of your clients as soon as you create it. Use recipes for the meals you’d recommend to anyone.
  • A meal plan is one example day, and it’s private until you assign it. Only the clients it’s assigned to see it. One plan can go to many clients, and one client can have several, such as a training-day plan and a rest-day plan.

The food log is the client’s own

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Your client logs what they actually eat, filed under Meal 1, Meal 2 and so on in the order they choose. These meal numbers are separate from the meal names in a plan, so clients without a plan log the same way as clients with one. A client with a plan can also log a meal straight from it: “Log this” on a meal, or on one of its options, adds all of it to the meal of the same number (Meal 2 of the plan goes into Meal 2), and they can pick another meal or day first. Each day is measured against the client’s targets, and changing a target keeps the old one in their history, so progress charts still line up.

Where to do it

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