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On sign-up, we were given the option to receive a series of eight emails on mastering meal planning, which are short and succinct, containing links for further help.

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Eat This Much’s customer support was helpful, plus the app’s online help section also gave us some guidance.

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Eat This Much Premium also impressed us with its library full of appealing recipes.Įat This Much Premium became smoother to use and more powerful the more information we provided it, but we did seek out customer support to gauge their responsiveness. And the grocery list integrated well with the pantry inventory feature both were easy to use. We found the automatically generated grocery list in Eat This Much Premium easy to edit, including adding other items we wanted. We could also save a day’s meal plan under a name we chose, add a description and tags and then access our plans another day. We could also adjust and customize each meal for portion size, servings, the length of time we wanted to spend preparing and eating the meal and whether we wanted to cook all of the time or just sometimes. But we could also edit those values and define our amount of daily cholesterol, fiber and sodium. The app then used that data to calculate suggested daily calories, carbs, fat and protein for us. Setup covered our physical profile, goal (lower fat, maintain weight, build muscle, or a specific weight loss goal we set, at a rate of x pounds lost per week), level of activity, diet type and allergies.

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(The app also comes in a Pro version, which is for health and fitness professionals to use for creating client-specific plans.) Eat This Much Premium also had the best online help and customer support of the meal planning apps we tested.Įat This Much Premium’s multi-step setup was straightforward.

Integrations: Grocery delivery via Instacart (web version only), Apple Health, Google FitĮat This Much Premium ’s focus on goal-oriented healthy eating is friendly and easy enough for consumers to understand and use.

Key features: Plan a week of meals at a time, automatic grocery lists, automatic leftovers list, customize meals for every day of the week, diet plans by calorie amounts or macronutrients, food and recipe browser, print and email your meal plans, grocery delivery.

Supported diets: Gluten-free, high-protein, keto, low-carb, low-fat, Mediterranean, paleo, vegan, vegetarian.

Supported platforms: Android, iOS, macOS, web, Windows.

It also offers a 30-day money-back guarantee.

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Pricing: After a 14-day free trial, Eat This Much Premium costs $9 per month (billed monthly) or $60 per year (billed annually).So, with that in mind, we name Eat This Much Premium our overall pick for best meal planning app. We also consulted with the aforementioned registered dietitian who gave us guidance on using meal planning apps.Īfter several weeks of testing, we concluded that choosing the best app is a matter of matching your particular dietary needs with an app’s strengths. To help you choose the best meal planning app for you, we tested five apps: Eat This Much Premium, BigOven Pro, Mealime Pro, Meal Prep Pro by Nibble Apps and Paprika Recipe Manager 3 by Hindsight Labs. Martinez says meal planning apps “can help track their progress and promote healthier eating habits, with an ability to customize and tailor needs to reach specific goals.” Martinez has more than 20 years of experience in the fields of medical nutrition therapy, weight loss, functional medicine, sports nutrition, corporate wellness and fitness, private nutrition coaching and pharmaceuticals. “Meal planning apps help save time and money and provide variety in the diet,” explains Jaime Coffey Martinez, a registered dietitian and owner and founder of Nutrition CPR, a health and wellness center.

Meal planning apps can be the missing link, providing a cost-effective and efficient way to customize an appealing weekly menu. We all know we should make healthy food choices, but it can often be challenging to manage all the details involved in maintaining a balanced, nutritious diet every week.

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