Picky eaters

When everyone at the table
eats something different

One of you won't go near a mushroom. One is deep in a beige phase. One eats whatever is put down. Most planners make you pick a single dinner and hope. Here everyone sits on the same row.

Four ways to be at a meal

• Shares it — eats the same thing as everyone else.
• Has a variation — the same dish, changed. Sauce on the side, no onions, cut up small.
• Their own plate — a different dish entirely, picked from the box or typed in.
• Skips — out, asleep, or not hungry.

It's one tap per person on the meal, and the week's grid shows the chips at a glance, so you can see before you cook that Tuesday means making two things.

Swaps you shouldn't have to keep typing

If someone always has rice instead of pasta, or oat milk instead of cow's, put it on the person once as a standing substitution. Then applying it to a meal is a single click, and it's still visible — you can see what was swapped and why.

Logging the refusals

The same dinner can be eaten by two people and pushed away by a third, and mealgrep records it that way, with a reason in your own words. "Wouldn't touch the sauce." "Ate the bread only."

A month of those is the useful bit. You find out which dishes work for everyone, which ones only work for half the table, and whether the beige phase is on its way out.

This is a record of what happened at your table, not advice. If you're worried about how a child is eating, talk to someone who knows them.