Meal planning
One pot.
Two plates.
Plan meals for a house where people eat different things.
Everyone says what they eat. Then you cook one pot. It feeds the whole table.
The idea
Cook once. Feed everyone.
People in your house eat different things. Maybe one skips meat. Maybe one skips dairy. Two Plates plans for all of it.
Everyone helps pick. So dinner is not one person’s job.
Everyone answers once
Sixteen cards. Two minutes. On their own phone. No account. No password.
Then dinner is set
Every meal it picks is one the whole table can eat.
Everyone eats what they like
Beef on one plate still means chili for everyone. You keep the meal. Each person keeps their plate.
Share the work
One person shops. Another cooks. Both are written down, so anyone can do either one.
How it works
Some food is the meal. Some food goes on top.
Chili is a bean dish. The beef goes on top. So Sam gets beef, and everyone still gets chili.
The recipe knows it too. One step tells you when to split the pot: take out the bowls that want no meat now, before the meat goes in.
- Chili — beans, tomato, peppers
- Cornbread
- Green salad, apples
- Chili — beans, tomato, peppers
- + beef, browned in after Joe's is ladled out
- Cornbread
- Green salad, apples
What you get
Three days. Nine meals. One list.
Three days, not seven
Three choices, not twenty-one. Fresh food lasts about three days. Shop weekly if you like. The plan will say to eat the salad first.
Lunch is last night's pan
And when it is not, the plan says so. Then you can pick something you want.
The list covers all of it
Dinners, breakfasts, and the fresh side that makes leftovers a lunch. A list with only dinners buys too little fruit and veg.
Packets are allowed
A packet saves you a step. Take the packet, or take the four jars. If you eat low salt, it picks the jars for you.
They answer for themselves
Send them a link. No account. No password. They see sixteen cards and nothing else.
Add your own recipes
Type one in, or take a photo of a printed one. Then mark which parts go on every plate and which are added to one.
It remembers
Star what you cook. Leave a note when you finish, like “needs more chili.” You will see it next time you make it.
Price
Free for two people.
Free
$0
- Two people
- Three-day plans
- The whole library and every recipe
- The shopping list and the supply check
- Allergies and medical diets, always
Plus
$39/year
- Up to eight people
- Plans up to seven days, for one shop a week
- As many chosen diets per person as you need
- $4.99 a month if you'd rather
Allergies and medical diets are free, on every plan, always. You will never pay to tell us what makes someone sick.
From households using it
What are we eating?
Answer it once, together. Then dinner is already picked.
How it started
I built it for me and my son.
Planning meals has always been a struggle for me. Planning for both of us made it harder.
One day I decided to build a tool to lower my stress. One week we planned it out well — we sketched out four dinners and a shopping list. So I scanned it into the computer. That is how Two Plates was born.
We like different food. Now planning and cooking is easy for us.
— Joe
Who made this
The NORM family
One of a dozen.
Two Plates is part of NORM. NORM makes tools for the small things you do over and over: paying attention, staying close to people, starting, keeping going.
One account works across all of them.