Planning meals for a household mostly goes wrong in the handoffs. One person plans dinner and someone else does the shopping, and by midweek nobody’s list matches what is in the fridge. VidarFit’s nutrition tools now have a Kitchen you can share with the people you live with, next to meal plans and grocery lists. This post explains how those pieces connect and which parts stay private to each person.
Meal plans for the way you eat
When you plan meals in VidarFit, you can choose keto, paleo, vegan, vegetarian, carnivore and other styles. Avoiding grains is a separate setting, so you can leave grains out and still keep fruit and vegetables in the plan.
Before you use a plan, you can review your choices along with the daily carbohydrate totals. The planner remembers your meal and snack schedule, dietary preferences, allergies, food exclusions and saved plan versions, so next week’s plan doesn’t begin from a blank page.
Plans are built from a reviewed catalog of meals, plus private recipes from your coach if you work with one and have allowed it. Your meal preferences, allergies and weight goal are not sent to an external AI provider.
Turning a plan into a grocery list
VidarFit can make a grocery list for the whole plan or for one selected day. You choose your shopping units, and the app combines the ingredients so you can copy them all at once. Quantities follow the portions shown in your meal plan at that moment. Change a portion and the list changes with it.
The list includes the full ingredients for every meal you’ve selected. You can also print it, which helps if your household still keeps a paper list on the fridge.
The Kitchen tracks what you have
Groceries cover what to buy, and the Kitchen covers what’s already in the house. You manage stock there, and prepared portions are tracked separately, so food you’ve already cooked isn’t mixed in with ingredients you haven’t used yet. The Kitchen can also suggest meals from the food you already have.
VidarFit treats buying, cooking and eating as separate steps:
- You can check items off the shopping list without recording them as purchases.
- Stock and prepared portions are managed apart from each other.
- Logging food records only what you ate.
When you eat something from the Kitchen, you can link that entry to the inventory so the stock count stays right.
Sharing it with your household
Kitchen stock can be shared across family accounts. Everyone in the household works from the same inventory, so whoever cooks tonight can see what’s there and whoever shops this weekend can see what’s missing.
Food logs stay private. Sharing the Kitchen shares the stock, and what each person ate stays in their own log. Everyone keeps their own account, and a planned meal only enters someone’s food log after they record eating it. For a household, that means one shared pantry and separate nutrition records.
A typical week might go like this. One person plans the dinners in their own account, generates the grocery list for the week, and copies or prints it for whoever is shopping. Once the food is added to Kitchen stock, everyone sharing the Kitchen can see it. When someone eats a prepared portion, they log it in their own food log and link it to the inventory, and the shared stock count goes down for everyone.
Logging food during the day
Nutrition sets calorie and protein targets for your goal. You can log food from the Dashboard or from Nutrition. Recent foods can be repeated, favourites can be saved, and planned meals and prepared portions are available in the same picker. Nutrition shows how much remains against your daily target. Meals logged in the evening count toward the day you ate them, based on your own time zone.
If you work with a coach
Coaches get meal planning access only through a separate permission. If you turn it on, your coach can see your meal preferences, allergies and exclusions, nutrition targets and meal plans. They can propose meals or a weight goal, and a proposal only changes your active plan after you accept it. Your item-level food log is not shared, you can switch the permission off whenever you like, and meal plans you accepted stay yours. If you’re looking for a coach, you can browse the coach directory without an account.
Coaches can also create their own foods and meals for their clients. Those recipes stay in the coach’s private library, and the planner uses them for you only when you’ve allowed it. The post on online coaching with VidarFit covers the rest of what a coach can and can’t see.
Following the changes
The shared Kitchen, grocery lists and dietary styles all shipped in September, and nutrition features are still changing from week to week. The nutrition changelog lists each update in plain language as it lands.
If your household keeps three grocery lists that never agree, get started free, set up your Kitchen, and share it with the people you cook for.