Meal plans that start from the week you already have.
Pick one to seven days and the meals you want planned. Anfold proposes dishes that fit your calorie target, around what’s already on your schedule. You review every day before anything lands in it.
Tell it the shape of your week.
Start a plan from the Plans screen, or ask the assistant for one. Then choose:
Start date and length
When the plan starts, and how many days it covers: one to seven.
Meals to plan
Breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. Leave breakfast out and the plan skips it. Drinks aren’t planned.
Cooking time
Quick, normal, or “I have time”: roughly how long you want to spend making each meal.
Variety and effort
Max variety means a fresh dish at every meal. Balanced doubles a main now and then and plans the leftovers. Minimal cooking reuses as much as the days allow. Leftovers always fall within a few days of cooking, the window food-safety guidance gives for the fridge.
Focus nutrients
Up to five vitamins or minerals to pay attention to, such as iron or vitamin D. Anfold picks foods for them, never supplements.
Notes
Anything else, in your own words: “only white meat”, “no dairy”, “lighter dinners”.
Planning a whole week takes a while, so you can close the app. Anfold lets you know when the plan is ready to review.
It works around what’s already there.
Meals you’ve already logged or scheduled inside the plan’s dates stay as they are. Anfold takes them off that day’s budget and plans around them.
A scheduled workout adds part of its calories back to that day. Only part, because calories burned are an estimate with a wide margin.
Breakfast and lunch happened. Dinner is still open.
A plan that starts today skips the meals that have passed, and it doesn’t squeeze the whole day’s calories into dinner.
It also looks at your last week: what you logged, and the foods you come back to.
Example plan that starts today. Values are illustrative.
The AI names the dishes. Code does the math.
The plan starts from your daily calorie target. If you chose to lose or gain weight, that’s already in the target, so the plan doesn’t apply it twice.
Protein stays steady from day to day, and carbs move with training: a day with a scheduled workout gets more. Each day stays close to the plan’s average and never drops below a floor set from your profile.
AI chooses what to cook: the dishes, their ingredients and rough amounts. It doesn’t work out calories or macros. Code does that: each ingredient is matched to a nutrition database entry and recalculated for how it’s cooked, then the portions are adjusted to fit each meal’s share of the day.
If an ingredient has no match in the database, AI estimates its values, and the dish marks that ingredient as estimated.
- Your daily calorie targetFrom your profile, with your goal already in it
- Spread across the daysProtein steady, more carbs on a training day, never below a floor
- Dishes, ingredients, rough amountsWhat to cook
- Every ingredient matchedTo a database entry, recalculated for how it’s cooked
- Portions sized to fitEach meal’s share of the day
You review every day.
A finished plan opens day by day, and every dish starts ticked to keep.
- Untick the dishes you’d change, say what should be different, and tap “Adjust day”. Only the unticked dishes are rebuilt.
- Open a single dish to accept or remove just that one. A removed dish comes back with Undo.
- Accept a day when it looks right, or accept the whole plan at once.
From plan to log
Nothing reaches your day until you accept it. Accepted dishes become scheduled meals. When you’ve eaten one, mark it as done: it turns into a draft you check, so your log shows what you had, not what was planned. Or skip it.
Discard a plan you don’t want, and its dishes go with it. Delete a plan you’ve already accepted, and its meals stay on your schedule.
Cooking steps when you want them
Open an accepted meal and ask for cooking instructions: step by step, with the total time, the utensils you need and a few tips. Say how many servings, or add a note like “no oven” or “fewer pans”. If the first version doesn’t suit you, adjust it.
What it costs
Planning uses fuel, Anfold’s in-app balance for the AI parts, and longer plans use more. Before you start, the plan screen shows roughly how much fuel the plan needs and how much you have.
Adjusting a day and asking for cooking instructions use fuel too.
Limits
- Meal plans need a completed profile. Your calorie target comes from it, and Anfold won’t guess one.
- The numbers are estimates, not measurements. The dish you cook will differ a little from the one on the screen.
- There’s no grocery or shopping list. Each dish lists its ingredients, but Anfold doesn’t combine them into one list.
- Anfold doesn’t make workout plans. It plans meals around the workouts you schedule.
Please note
- Anfold is in beta and for personal tracking. It is not a medical device or a substitute for professional advice.
- If you have a health condition or notice worrying symptoms, talk to a professional before relying on the app.
- Results are only estimates and can vary according to your data and particular circumstances.
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) is used to interpret or fill gaps, which may be inaccurate or incomplete.
- Use your judgment. Don’t use the app for clinical decisions without consulting a professional.
Questions about meal plans
Can I plan just dinners?
Yes. Choose only dinner under the meals to plan, and the plan leaves the rest of the day to you.
Can I keep some dishes and redo the rest?
Yes. Leave the dishes you like ticked, untick the others, add a note such as “lighter dinner”, and tap “Adjust day”. Only the unticked dishes are rebuilt, sized to what the kept dishes leave room for.
Does it use leftovers?
If you want it to. With Balanced or Minimal cooking, a main can be cooked once and eaten again within a few days, and the second meal says which dish it’s the leftover of. Max variety plans no leftovers.