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Eat This Much
What it is
Eat This Much generates personalized meal plans using food preferences, budget, schedule, and nutrition goals. Users can set calorie and macro targets and filter meals by diet, ingredients, and other preferences. Its free plan includes daily meal plans, food tracking, barcode foods, custom foods and recipes, and recurring foods. Premium costs $5 a month with an annual subscription and adds week-long meal planning, daily customization, saved plan weeks, shareable PDFs, and automatic grocery lists. Meal plans update grocery lists, with Instacart, Walmart, and Amazon Fresh listed as delivery options. Users can create custom recipes and keep a virtual pantry that prioritizes meals using foods on hand. The mobile app can sync meal nutrition and weight data with Apple Health, Android Health Connect, or Google Fit. Professional plans serve practitioners managing client meal plans, and the partner API can generate plans and grocery lists and export plans as HTML, PDF, or JSON. The browser Recipe Clipper sends recipe-page data only when a user selects Review in Eat This Much. Platforms include Android, iOS, web, an API, and a browser extension.
For and against
For
- Set calorie and macro targets.
- Meal plans update grocery lists automatically.
- Supports custom recipes and a virtual pantry.
- Mobile app syncs with listed health platforms.
- Recipe Clipper shares page data only after user selection.
Against
- Premium requires an annual subscription.
- Professional plans are billed quarterly.
- Partner API access requires direct partner contact.
The verdict
Eat This Much combines personalized meal planning with grocery lists, recipe tools, and nutrition tracking. The free plan covers daily planning, while weekly planning and customization are part of Premium.
Who it suits
Eat This Much suits people who want meal plans shaped by nutrition targets, food preferences, budget, or schedule. Its Professional offering is aimed at dietitians, nutritionists, personal trainers, and health coaches managing client plans.
Plans and prices
Free
daily meal plans · food tracking · barcode foods · custom foods and recipes
Read 15 Oct 2026 · eatthismuch.com
Premium
weekly meal planning · automatic grocery list · grocery delivery integration · leftovers
Read 15 Oct 2026 · eatthismuch.com
Control
auto-generated plans · branded emails and PDFs · client macro and restriction settings · recipe collections
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Collaborate
everything in Control · client logins · per-client permissions · branding in web and mobile apps
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Professional — Control
Client dashboard · branded emails and PDFs · customized client targets · clients cannot log in
Read 5 Oct 2026 · eatthismuch.com
Professional — Collaborate
Everything in Control · client logins · custom permissions · branding in web and mobile apps
Read 5 Oct 2026 · eatthismuch.com
Partner API
Early access · partner onboarding required
Read 5 Oct 2026 · eatthismuch.com
On the record
- Android data safety
- Google Play states that no data is shared with third parties, data is encrypted in transit and deletion can be requested; the app may collect personal, health and other data.play.google.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- API
- The partner API can generate plans and grocery lists and export plans as HTML, PDF, or JSON; access is currently onboarded through direct partner contact.eatthismuch.com · read 5 Oct 2026
- API commercial access
- Partner API access is early-access, limited to selected partners, priced by use case and volume, and provisioned after a contract.eatthismuch.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- API data limit
- Under standard API terms, partners may retain data only during the partnership and may cache food nutrition data for up to seven days.eatthismuch.com · read 5 Oct 2026
- API documentation depth
- The help article documents GET and POST endpoints, parameters, defaults and example JSON responses for client management.help.eatthismuch.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Automatic planning
- The service can generate a full day or week of meals automatically and rebalance plans when meals are swapped.eatthismuch.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Chrome extension
- The Recipe Clipper saves recipes from websites into an Eat This Much collection and lists about 3,000 users.chromewebstore.google.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Company
- Eat This Much says it started in 2012 and describes itself as an independent team; its About page lists a Redondo Beach, California address for its privacy officer.eatthismuch.com · read 5 Oct 2026
- Company headquarters and size
- LinkedIn lists a privately held company headquartered in Santa Monica, California, founded in 2011, with 2–10 employees.linkedin.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Company legal name
- Crunchbase lists the legal name as Eat This Much, Inc., with Louis DeMenthon as founder and CEO.crunchbase.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Company origin
- The company's own About page says the team started Eat This Much in 2012 to solve its founders' meal-planning problem.eatthismuch.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Custom foods and recipes
- Users may enter custom nutrition items and recipes, and custom recipes can be used by the generator.eatthismuch.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Diet support
- Preset styles include keto, vegan, paleo, Mediterranean and vegetarian, while custom exclusions can be configured.eatthismuch.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Documentation and support
- The official diet guide links to a searchable knowledge base, a help widget and tutorial videos.eatthismuch.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Family planning
- Meal settings can scale ingredient quantities and grocery lists for multiple people.eatthismuch.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Funding disclosure
- Crunchbase identifies the company as private and shows no usable public funding amount because its funding fields are obscured.crunchbase.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Grocery integrations
- Official pages name Instacart, Amazon Fresh and Walmart as grocery-delivery destinations for lists.eatthismuch.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Grocery planning
- Meal plans automatically update grocery lists, and the site names Instacart, Walmart, and Amazon Fresh as delivery options.eatthismuch.com · read 5 Oct 2026
The review
Eat This Much turns food preferences, budget, schedule, and nutrition goals into meal plans for people who want help deciding what to eat and what to shop for. It is strongest when planning and grocery preparation belong in the same routine, rather than when the need is only a food diary.
Overview
Calorie and macro targets, diet and ingredient filters, and food preferences give the planner useful guardrails; budget and schedule also shape its plans. The result is more directed than a generic menu, though the free plan’s daily horizon is a real constraint for anyone who wants to organize meals in advance. Grocery lists update from the plan, connecting the decision about meals to the next shopping trip.
Key features
Planning and nutrition controls
The Free plan includes daily meal plans, food tracking, barcode foods, custom foods and recipes, and recurring foods. That makes it a credible way to see whether nutrition-led planning fits your routine, but daily plans are less useful for batch planning or coordinating several days at once. Premium extends the horizon to seven days and adds daily customization, saved plan weeks, and shareable PDFs.
Shopping, recipes, and pantry
Automatic grocery lists reduce the gap between choosing meals and collecting ingredients; Instacart, Walmart, and Amazon Fresh are named as delivery options. Custom recipes and a virtual pantry that prioritizes food already on hand can make plans more practical for users trying to use what they have. These tools make the planner more than a calorie log, although their value depends on wanting a plan-driven shopping routine.
Health, professional, and developer tools
The mobile app can sync nutrition and weight data with Apple Health, Android Health Connect, or Google Fit, which suits people who want meal data alongside health records. Eat This Much Pro targets dietitians, nutritionists, personal trainers, and health coaches managing client plans. Its API can generate plans and grocery lists and export HTML, PDF, or JSON, but access requires direct partner onboarding; standard terms allow data retention only during the partnership and food-nutrition caching for up to seven days.
The browser Recipe Clipper reads the page it is opened on and sends recipe-page data to Eat This Much only after the user selects “Review in Eat This Much.” The privacy policy says the company does not sell personal information and describes collecting account, usage, location, body-measurement, and food-activity data.
Pricing
The Free plan costs no listed price and includes daily meal plans, food tracking, barcode foods, custom foods and recipes, and recurring foods. It is the sensible starting point for daily planning, but does not provide Premium’s week-long horizon and customization.
Premium costs $5 a month (billed With annual subscription) and includes weekly planning, automatic grocery lists and delivery integration, leftovers, daily customization, saved plan weeks, and PDFs. It fits people who will use advance planning consistently; the annual billing term matters even though the price is expressed monthly. A 14-day trial is offered.
Professional — Control costs $49 a month (billed Billed quarterly) for up to 10 clients, with a client dashboard, branded emails and PDFs, customized client targets, and no client logins. Professional — Collaborate costs $59 a month (billed Billed quarterly), also for up to 10 clients, and adds client logins, custom permissions, branding in web and mobile apps, and client tracking logs. Control suits a practitioner managing plans without client access; Collaborate is the better fit when clients need to log in and track. Eat This Much Pro offers a 14-day free trial and a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Partner API pricing is tailored to partner use case and volume; early access and partner onboarding are required. It is aimed at organizations building around generated plans and lists, not individual meal planners.
Platforms
Eat This Much is available on web and mobile, with Android and iOS apps, plus a browser extension and API. The mobile health integrations broaden its usefulness for people who already track health data, while API access is oriented to partners rather than self-service use.
Who it's for
Choose it if nutrition targets and food preferences should guide a meal plan that also informs grocery shopping. Premium is the more suitable fit for people planning a full week or tailoring each day; the free tier works for trying daily plans and tracking. Nutrition professionals can consider Pro when they need client-plan tools, with Collaborate offering client access that Control excludes. It is a weaker fit for someone seeking only a food log or a professional workflow without paying for Pro.
Pros and cons
- Pro: Nutrition targets, dietary filters, budget, and schedule shape plans, so users can steer menus around practical and dietary needs.
- Pro: Automatic grocery lists, delivery options, custom recipes, and a pantry feature connect planning to shopping and ingredients already at home.
- Pro: The free tier includes daily plans and food-tracking tools, giving users a way to try the central workflow before paying.
- Con: Free planning is limited to daily plans, so users who need a week at a glance must move to Premium.
- Con: Premium’s monthly price is billed with an annual subscription, while Pro prices are billed quarterly; those terms affect the commitment behind the monthly figures.
- Con: Control does not let clients log in, and API access requires partner onboarding, limiting those options for teams that need client self-service or immediate API access.
Alternatives
Fitia is worth considering if calorie and macro tracking is the priority: its free plan includes basic tracking, food logging, and a barcode scanner, while Eat This Much’s clearest distinction is meal planning connected to grocery lists.
KitchenPocket is a reasonable alternative for someone prioritizing cookbooks, recipes, and recipe clipping; Eat This Much is more directly centered on nutrition-guided meal plans and shopping.
MealIdeas AI offers daily AI meal picks and a free allowance of its first two meal plans, making it an option for someone comparing meal-idea tools. Mealique may suit users who want free core weekly planning, recipes, grocery lists, and daily tracking on Android or iOS.
MyPlateAI is an option for someone who wants a capped number of AI meal generations in a free plan, with basic recipes and a grocery-list preview. Nutrig may suit someone whose needs center on one weekly meal plan, menu swaps, and water and calorie tracking.
Pantryfy is another pantry-and-recipe option, with free caps on pantry items, recipes, AI requests, image parses, and barcode scans. Yumnia may suit someone who wants to create a meal plan and grocery list, with its paid tier unlocking a full week.
For broader comparisons, browse AI Meal Planning Apps or Fitness Nutrition Software.
Verdict
Eat This Much is a strong choice for people who want calorie and food preferences to guide a meal plan and carry through to grocery shopping. Its free daily plan is a useful starting point, but the main reason to pay is the seven-day planning and customization; look elsewhere if you only need logging, or if a client-management workflow must include client access without Pro.