Mixed experience Mixed experience. Really like the ease of scheduling meals and shopping list function. But there aren’t enough good recipes, and the excluding ingredients function is either wonky or too complicated, so recipes are showing up with ingredients I thought I had excluded.

Real Plans was an absolute life saver… Real Plans was an absolute life saver as I started an elimination diet and reintroductions. It took the planning and guesswork out of the process for me. I love that I can specify what ingredients I want or don't want within specific diets and the plans are very easy to follow.

Incredibly versatile I am impressed with how many different dietary styles are accommodated by Real Plans. I think the common denominator is “real” food. It’s whole foods, in whatever style you choose. I myself have used the Paleo, Vegan, Classic, and GAPS styles. Real Plans is very versatile and perfect for our family. There are so many customization and automated options that it has taken me a long time to utilize them all. Basically, if you do something specific with your meal planning (like pancake Saturday mornings), there are settings to automate that. Pretty awesome. The only complaint I have is that I love to pre-plan a month’s meals at a time, but you can only do three weeks at a time, and it’s a bit difficult to do so because the app likes to reset you to the current week. Also, as I go along and want to tweak my settings, usually any tweaking requires you to erase all future planned meals, which keeps me from changing things to accommodate our schedule better. But overall, best meal planning app I’ve ever used. You can also upload and enter your own recipes or online recipes. Time consuming, but helpful for planning family favorites.

Mostly very positive Mostly very positive; sometimes auto populated weekly menus have the tendency to clump foods together— like four kinds of stew in one week. So you replace three of them with other things for variety.

5 years and going strong! I’ve been using RealPlans for 5 years. I can’t imagine life without it! It makes meal planning, grocery shopping, and cooking so simple! I recommend it to friends all the time. I also love that the app keeps getting better with new recipes and features.