Feature
Meal Planner: Organize Indian Meals by Slot and Day
IRONSLOG’s meal planner lays a diet plan out by meal slot — breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks — across multiple days, logged against a database of 1,579 Indian foods. Any planned item can be swapped for an alternative that keeps your daily macros in range, filtered by dietary tier so a swap never silently turns a vegetarian day non-vegetarian.
How is a meal plan organized in IRONSLOG?
By meal slot within each day of a rotation — breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks all hold their own planned items, and a plan can rotate across several days so you’re not eating an identical menu every day. Each planned item is a real food from the Indian food database with its own calories and macros, not a generic placeholder.
What does swapping a meal item actually check?
Opening the swap sheet for any planned item shows alternatives ranked by how closely they keep your day’s macros in range, restricted to your dietary tier. A non-vegetarian item is required to carry both a vegetarian and an eggetarian alternative, and an eggetarian item a vegetarian one, so switching a meal never breaks a dietary rule you didn’t ask to break.
Is the meal planner only useful with the AI nutrition planner?
No — you can build and edit a meal plan by hand, meal by meal, using the same Indian food database and swap tool the AI-drafted plans use. The AI nutrition planner is one way to get a starting plan; the meal planner is how you live with and adjust it day to day.
| Concept | Detail |
|---|---|
| Meal slots | Breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks |
| Rotation | A plan can repeat across a set number of days rather than one fixed menu |
| Dietary tiers | Strict vegetarian, eggetarian, non-vegetarian |
| Swap requirement | Non-veg items must offer veg + egg alternatives; egg items must offer a veg alternative |
Key takeaways
- Meals are organized by slot (breakfast/lunch/dinner/snacks) across a day rotation, not one fixed menu.
- Every planned item is a real entry from the 1,579-item Indian food database.
- Swapping a meal keeps daily macros in range and respects your dietary tier.
- The meal planner works fully by hand — the AI planner is optional, not required.