Ultimate Meal Plans: Meal Planning ‍Made Simple

This is the 2nd launch from Ultimate Meal Plans. View more

Ultimate Meal Plans

15 minute, 5 ingredient simple meal plans (Paleo, Keto, AIP)

Simple, delicious meal plans for busy people. Specially crafted to take less than 15 minutes to make and use just 5 ingredients, so you can save time & money and reach your health goals. Paleo, keto, aip, banting, low carb, & clean plans available.

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Web App•Health & Fitness•Productivity

Launch Team

Joel Runyon

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Maker

Founder here! There’s a long story with Ultimate Meal Plans. We started by offering paleo meal plans. Last year we added Keto Meal Plans and this year we re-launched as Ultimate Meal Plans offering all types of real food meal plans. The plans trend towards low-carb, real food where people want to cook at home. Each recipe was especially crafted for this to be made in under 15 minutes with less than 5 ingredients - so you don’t have to go to the ends of the earth for ingredients or spend hours in the kitchen. With our meal planner you can 1. You can customize your meal plans (remove foods for picky eaters/allergies, change the number of people each plan serves, etc). 2. Get that customized meal plan in seconds (you can shuffle it once/week if you don’t like the first one). 3. Then you can view recipes & shopping list or 1-click checkout online with online grocery delivery (with Amazon Fresh and Instacart integrations). A rough survey of our customers has them saving ~2 hours every week on meal planning/shopping and $50+ on groceries/week. Currently, our top 3 plans are * Keto - http://ultimatemealplans.com/die... * AIP (autoimmune protocol) - http://ultimatemealplans.com/die... * Paleo Meal Plans - http://ultimatemealplans.com/die... We added general low carb plans as well as “clean” plans - which aren’t diet specific, but trend towards lower-carb, real food meals for people who want the meal planning capabilities but are diet agnostic. With everyone staying home as of late, we’ve seen an uptick in interest, so we wanted to make this as accessible as possible. For Product Hunters, you can use the code COOKATHOME to save 50% on all plans. Would love to hear any thoughts, questions, or feedback you have. Thanks!

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5yr ago

S. Sharma

@joelrunyon Hi Joel, First of all, congratulation on the release. I am documenting journey of individuals who are innovating, inventing, and creating things in general, through out the world. The proposal is to do a short interview, capture it in video, and let it out to the world, so that others can get inspiration. And, at the same time you and your team will get acknowledgement for the hustle. If you are interested, please reach out to me at tellmeaboutit510{at}gmail.com . Thanks, and good luck! Subodh

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5yr ago

Joel Runyon

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Maker

@subodh__ sure - email me at impossiblehq.com (contact form)

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4yr ago

Bud Hennekes

Picked up the monthly clean eating plan for my wife and I a few days ago and have already made a few of the meals, not only are they easy to make, they taste great too. For someone who HATES cooking at home, the quarantine life hasn't been too kind to me, but so far the plans have definitely been helpful. Best yet, wife is excited I'm finally starting to kick my diet into gear after a long hiatus of healthy eating. Instructions are easy to follow, and the entire design of the site + meal plans are incredibly well done. Def a thumbs up from me if you're looking to cook healthier meals.

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5yr ago

Chelsea Brinegar

Ultimate Meal Plans

Maker

@aboundlessworld Hi Bud! I'm so glad you and your wife have found these helpful so far. We're stoked to have you in the Ultimate Meal Plans community! Please let us know if you have any questions or ned any help moving forward. - Chelsea

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5yr ago

Joel Runyon

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Maker

@aboundlessworld Thanks Bud! Glad you're enjoying the meal plans!

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5yr ago

Wessel

Nice app. Yet, (besides eating healthy) a lot of people are looking for weight loss or weight gains. So the question is: Are the meal plans configurable for daily caloric intake?

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5yr ago

Joel Runyon

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Maker

@wessel_g hey - so the keto & clean plans contain macros. We're working on letting people dial those in a bit more based on their needs. Most of the plans & diets focus on eating for satiety and less on calorie counting (it can sometimes lead to bad/obsessive habits), but we're definitely working on adding that functionality as an option going forward.

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5yr ago

Wessel

@joelrunyon Thanks for you answer. Here's my two cents, hope you don't mind: I was triggered by your tagline, saying: eat healthy, lose weight. I fully agree with that a balanced meal plan with wholesome ingredients is 'healthy' in the sense that you get a wider spectrum of proteins, fats, carbs, vitamins and minerals — this means your body won't build up and deficiencies and you avoid harmful stuff (like trans fats). Yet, losing weight has actually nothing to do with a healthy diet. I actually gain weight (mostly muscle) on a healthy diet (because I eat a surplus of calories). Caloric counting usually works better than ad libitum dieting, especially if you have an app that helps you stick to those calories with easy meals :). Most overweight people are overweight because they have no insight into how much calories they are consuming (in combination with eating caloric dense foods). And being overweight is very unhealthy (inflammatory markers go way up, immune functions gradually become more compromised). I currently use an App called WeekMeals. My trainer gave it to me. This app also has easy and quick to prepare meals — but these are tailored to my caloric and macronutrient needs (cals, fats, protiens, carbs). You might want to check out how they've cracked that nut :)

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5yr ago

Joel Runyon

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Maker

@wessel_g > Caloric counting usually works better than ad libitum dieting, especially if you have an app that helps you stick to those calories with easy meals :). I typically agree. The x-factor is adherence. I find lots of people new to real-food & cooking have a harder time in reality because of things emotions, cravings, etc. These are not my personal struggles, but I can point to you a few thousand emails across my inbox over the years that point to this for a huge portion of people. The main issue is that our food supply is so bad, that calories in > calories out ignores the reality most people have. If you can just count calories - go for it. We find that it helps to take people in stages to 1) focus on real food 2) reduce cravings & bad habits 3) introduce calorie counting / macros & portions if they're still not seeing the results they want. What's interesting is how many people are using the service for just the cooking aspect. Not everyone, but a certain segment don't even care about the diet - they just like that it's easier to plan their meals and grocery shop. We definitely want to expand functionality, but we do need to stair step this out as we're a small bootstrapped shop. Thanks for the insights!

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5yr ago

Wessel

@joelrunyon > I typically agree. The x-factor is adherence. I find lots of people new to real-food & cooking have a harder time in reality because of things emotions, cravings, etc. 100% agree. And I see what you're going for now. Great philosophy actually (those stages you mention). I agree that most people need to get started somewhere, and providing a structure for a balanced diet is a great first step. Good luck with scaling the app. In the western world needs more stuff like this to keep our health in check!

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5yr ago

Joel Runyon

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Maker

@wessel_g Thanks!

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5yr ago