To create a meal plan template click Start > New Meal Plan:
Select a pre-existing meal plan or start from scratch. Selecting ‘New Meal Plan’ will open a blank meal plan template.
This is a master meal plan and is not attached to any clients. The meal plan can be attached to clients by clicking on the drop down menu at the top of the workspace:
Changes to the master meal plan will be applied to any client copies of the meal plan. Changes to individual client copies of the meal plan will only apply to that client.
Build your meal plan (see here for a guide on this). Once you are happy with your meal plan template, add it to a group for easy retrieval later.
To do this, click on the ‘meal plan’ folder in the Nutritics Content Explorer.
By default, all newly created meal plans are added to ‘Ungrouped Mealplans’.
Click on ‘Ungrouped Mealplans’ and drag and drop the newly created meal plan into an existing group or create a new group:
Click on a meal plan group to see all meal plans within that group.
USING THE MEAL PLAN TEMPLATE
The meal plan can be attached to a client profile in a few ways.
- When working on the master meal plan click on the dropdown menu and select ‘+Add Client‘:
- Alternatively, open a client profile and click ‘+’ button beside the meal plan heading:
Select ‘Use Existing’ from the options presented:
Select a meal plan from the meal plan groups and click ‘Attach‘. Once the meal plan opens, click ‘Enable Editing’ in the top right corner to start editing the meal plan for your client (any changes made will not affect the original meal plan, they will only be applied to the copy):