Welcome (Step 2)

Welcome to Nourishing Meals

2. Your Diet

Next, you'll want to set up a diets & allergies profile. We'll use this for showing you recipes you can eat and for generating meal plans.

If you're not following any particular diet, just skip this and jump right into our dashboard or recipe search page.

Watch the video below if you would like more guidance in setting up your diet profile. You can easily update your diet profile at any time in your user profile if you're unsure whether or not a particular diet is right for you at this moment.

If you are following the Elimination Diet, ONLY choose the phase you are currently in! If you choose ALL three phases, our system will only show you recipes for Phase 1.

Setup Diet Profile

Diet Set-Up

Setting Up Your Diet Profile

Your diet profile tells the site to filter recipes based on what you can eat. 

  1. Choose one or more diets or food allergens from the list. 

  2. Add any additional ingredients you don't tolerate.

Note: only remove ingredients here that are not easy to substitute. For example, you would not want to remove garlic because it can easily be left out of a recipe. Removing too many ingredients here will filter out too many recipes. 

Tips

  • If you are following an Elimination Diet, only choose the phase you are currently in. You can easily update your diet profile at anytime with the next phase. If you choose Phase 1, Phase 2, and Phase 3, our system will only show you Phase 1 recipes. 
  • Plan ahead for Phase 2 Elimination Diet meals by clicking "View All" on the search page to clear out all of your search queries, then select Elimination Diet: Phase 2 in the "Diets & Allergens" section on the search page. Find the recipes you'd like to make and create a Phase 2 meal plan or add the recipes to your planning calendar. 
  • The sugar-free diet eliminates all natural sweeteners like maple syrup and coconut sugar, not just cane sugar. You can choose cane sugar-free instead, if you don't eat white sugar but include natural sweeteners in your diet on occasion.
  • If you choose too many diets, our search filter may only show you 25 or so recipes. Only choose the diets that you are following right now. For example, if you choose keto + dairy-free + egg-free + low-FODMAP + low-histamine + beef-free + pork-free, you will have only a few recipes pop up for use in our meal planning system. 
  • You can update your diet profile as often as you need to. Just click on your account icon in the nav bar, and then click on the "Diet" tab to update your diet. 
  • If you need more help choosing a diet that might be best for you, visit our Diets page and click on the "Diet Information" tab on each diet page to learn more about each diet.