Nutrition
Plan your meals, build a recipe library, and track what you eat each day.
Recipe library
Create recipes with:
- Name — required
- Ingredients — list of items with quantities and units
- Instructions — step-by-step preparation
- Nutritional info — calories, protein, carbs, fat, fibre, sugar, sodium (all optional)
- Meal tag — Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snack, Dessert
- Image — optional photo of the finished dish
Recipes are private to you. Build a library over time and reuse your favourites across weeks.
Meal planning
Assign recipes to specific days of the week. Monday breakfast could be overnight oats, Monday lunch could be chicken salad, and so on. A recipe can be assigned to multiple days, and a day can have multiple recipes. Recipes without day assignments live in your general library for browsing.
Daily consumption tracking
When it’s time to eat, mark a planned recipe as consumed. If you ate something else instead, mark it as skipped and optionally log what you actually ate — either as another recipe from your library or as a free-form entry with estimated nutrition.
This gives you a reliable record of what you actually ate versus what you planned.
Searching and filtering
Find recipes by:
- Name or ingredient search
- Meal tag (e.g. show only breakfast recipes)
- Nutritional range (e.g. recipes under 500 calories)
- Day assignment (e.g. what’s planned for Thursday)
- Sort by name, calories, protein, or any other nutritional field
Tips
- Plan ahead: Spend 15 minutes on Sunday planning the week’s meals. It saves daily decision-making and helps you stick to nutritional goals.
- Log alternatives honestly: When you skip a planned meal, logging the alternative gives you accurate nutrition data even when plans change.
- Build your library gradually: Add one or two new recipes each week. Over time you’ll have a rich collection that makes meal planning fast.
Our approach
Oter’s nutrition feature addresses the decision fatigue behind food choices (Wansink & Sobal, 2007) and the paradox of choice (Schwartz, 2004). Meal planning reduces daily decisions to a single weekly session. The skip-with-alternative pattern prevents the what-the-hell effect, and optional nutritional data supports mindful eating without restriction pressure.