Food & Meal Planning
The Food Hub at /food is the one-stop page for everything food: today's feeding, the weekly meal plan, the food library, groceries, and diet rules. It's also where caregivers take real ownership of their little's meals — the plan can be caregiver-locked, with the baby seeing a lovingly prepared, view-only menu.
Navigate there from the sidebar: My Dynamic → 🍽️ Food.
The five tabs
| Tab | What lives there |
|---|---|
| 🌞 Today | The Feeding Autopilot hero card (what's next + one-tap "ate it"), hydration ring, bottle quick-log with timer, today's meal timeline, and the full food log |
| 🗓️ Plan | The weekly meal board — drag meals between days, apply packs, set recurring rules, copy a day or a whole week, print |
| 📚 Library | Browse, filter, and ❤️ favorite foods; add them to the plan; create your own custom foods |
| 🛒 Groceries | An aisle-grouped, checkable shopping list generated from the week's plan |
| 📊 Insights & Rules | Food rules & allergens (diet management), stats, and a weekly nutrition-balance view |
👩🍼 Caregiver-built meal plans
When you're linked, the caregiver builds the meal plan and it syncs to the baby:
- Caregiver side — full editing on the Plan board: drag-and-drop meals into breakfast / lunch / dinner / snack slots, recurring rules ("oatmeal every weekday morning"), copy day/week, and print the week.
- Baby side (locked plan) — the board is read-only with a lock banner. The little sees exactly what their caregiver planned and can tap "Ate it" on today's meals — which tells the caregiver — but can't rearrange the menu.
Eating a planned meal notifies the caregiver, and planned meals even reach the Little Kitchen companion app's order ticket rail, so cooking Tuesday's lunch there reports back too.
Easy helpers
Planning a week shouldn't be a chore, so the board has three shortcuts:
📦 Meal Plan Packs
One-tap starter plans that fill the week for you:
| Pack | Flavor |
|---|---|
| 🍼 Purée Starter | Gentle first purées for every meal |
| 🧒 Toddler Favorites | Easy, kid-friendly solids all week |
| ⚖️ Balanced Mix | A varied mix of solids and baby food |
| ⏱️ Quick & Easy | Low-effort, store-bought meals |
✨ Smart auto-fill
Fills any empty slots with a balanced mix — it prefers the baby's favorited foods and never overwrites something already planned.
❤️ Favorites quick-pick
Foods you've hearted in the Library surface first when filling a slot, so regulars are always two taps away.
How it ties into diet rules
The Insights & Rules tab embeds diet management: allowed/forbidden foods, allergens, and feeding rules. Diet rules and the meal plan work together — the plan is where meals are decided, the rules are the guardrails around them. (The old /diet-management page now lives here; old links redirect.)
The Feeding Guide and the Food Hub cross-link each other — the guide is the how, the hub is the what and when.
Caregivers: start a week with a pack, then swap in your little's favorites — a full, personal meal plan in under two minutes. The groceries tab then writes your shopping list for you.