If you feel like you need to start from scratch, here's what to do. We don't have a "Reset account" button, but there are only a few places in the app that you need to look at to get back to square one.

1. User profile - This is the first thing you set up when creating an account, and you can find it by clicking your username in the sidebar. Keep this up to date if you want the calorie calculator to make relevant nutrition suggestions.
2. Nutrition profile - By default, this is called "My Nutrition Targets". It defines your nutrition targets for the day, and you can find it by clicking Edit Week in the planner view, or near the bottom of the Settings page. To reset the targets based on our nutrition calculator, there's a button to open the calculator inside of the nutrition profile editor. You can use the estimated targets, or customize them to be whatever you want.
3. Food Preferences - To get back to square one and have the most variety possible, set your preferred diet type to "Anything" and clear out the keywords in the exclusions section. Then add things back in until they fit your preferences.
4. Meal Types - To edit meals, just click the name of the meal in your Planner. When you sign up, we automatically create a Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and Snack meal type, but there's nothing special about these. You can create as many new meal types as you want and give them each custom preferences.
5. Weekly Layout - This is where you decide which meals are selected for each day of the week, and which nutrition profile is used for each day. Click Edit Week to access this from the planner, and "Apply changes" once you're happy with your edits.

Once you have your settings back to where you want them, remember that we don't automatically reset your existing meal plans to avoid destroying and customizations you may have done. To get new meal plans that match your preferences, simply hit the Regenerate Week button, or refresh buttons on each day.

Often times it's convenient to create an account using your Facebook login, but later you decide you'd rather just have a regular old email/password login. Here's how to unlink them:

First, go to your profile page on the website:

Then click the link that says "Unlink Facebook":

You'll be asked to set a password, and voila! You can now log in with a normal email/username and password.

If you want to link FB back again, just select to log in with FB the next time you need to log in. It will automatically match up with your email address and link FB back again.

If you forgot your password, you can reset it here:

Reset your ETM account password

If you're not seeing the reset email, please check your spam folder, as well as your "Promotions" inbox if you're using tabs in gmail.

If you still aren't seeing it, send us an email at support@eatthismuch.com and we can reset it manually for you.

Sometimes the generator will give you a plan with an empty meal, and no matter how many times you reshuffle, it won't put any foods into it.

The most common reason for this is that we don't have any recipes that fit your filters for that meal. We're always adding new recipes to the generator, so this should be less and less of a problem over time, but until then, here are some suggestions for things that you can do to increase your recipe selection:

• Breakfasts are a common culprit for this, usually because you'll have the setting "Only use breakfasty foods" for that meal (this is the default, and you can change it by clicking the meal's name). Try switching it off, and seeing what new variety you get.
• Try making some of your other filters less strict - play around with your meal complexity, allowed budget, and food preferences, and then regenerate the plan to see how the variety changes.
• If none of those suggestions work for you, the fail-safe option is always to use Recurring Foods. Whenever the generator isn't recommending foods you like (or no foods at all), you can select a handful of dishes you'd like for a meal and set them as Recurring Foods. Then if you check "only use recurring foods in this meal", you get total control over the generator suggesitons.

Depending on how strict your settings are, the weekly meal generator can miss macronutrient targets. This is because the weekly generator places emphasis on trying to keep the grocery list manageable, only chooses from recipes that can be made as a single serving (unless it's being used for leftovers, or you're making the meal for a large number of people), and ensures there is variety between days.

Recurring foods can help dramatically.   Adding some "often" or "always" recurring foods that you enjoy eating that also hit your macro targets well makes it much easier for the generator to figure out the rest of your plan.  For example, if you're going for a high protein diet try adding a recurring protein shake or bar. Check out this article for more about recurring foods.

Try loosening some of your constraints.  The following settings have a significant impact on how many foods the planner has to work with:

• Breakfast only foods on meal types
• Very low available time on meal types
• Ability to cook on meal types
• < $10 Daily price limit
• Simple meal complexity
• Leftovers
• High numbers of meals per day
• Percentages in the nutrition profile instead of ranges
• Food exclusions / preset diets

Try the single day generator instead of the weekly one. If you click the "Generate" button on a single day's meal plan, or regenerate individual meals/foods (as opposed to using the "Regenerate entire week..." button), the generator is much more likely to hit exact macro targets. This is because the in-browser generator places less emphasis on reusing ingredients from day to day, and much more on meeting the nutrition goals. If you can, look for the foods that are throwing the targets off the most, and regenerate those foods/meals specifically.

Of course, this isn't an ideal solution because it takes time to go through your meal plans and regenerate things if the generator is consistently missing. The root of this problem is when we don't have enough recipes to fit your exact preferences. The more strict your preferences, the fewer recipes the our have to work with and try to make meals that meets your nutrition targets. So if you select that you want a vegan diet, want lots of protein, and can't cook for any meal, the generator probably won't hit those targets.

That's a bit of an extreme example, and you might be experiencing this problem with more relaxed constraints. Even if we have a few dozen recipes that meet your preferences (maybe you have less than 5 minutes available time and a strict diet), we might use up the best ones in a few days of your meal plans, and then not have any good foods the next few days due to how the weekly planner attempts to add variety to your plans. 

Yes we have both iOS and Android apps!

You can download the iOS app here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/eat-this-much/id981637806

It supports iPhones and iPads with iOS version 7 or later.

And the Android app here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eatthismuch

It supports nearly all android phones and tablets with API 16 (Jelly bean) or higher.

If you think foods are missing from your grocery list, double check that the grocery list is synced to include the date of the meal plan with missing foods. You can see the sync dates here:

If it does include the date of your meal plan, try resetting it with the same dates anyways - if you delete a food from the grocery list, it won't show up again until you reset the grocery list (or until the next week, when the weekly planner will automatically regenerate your plans and reset the grocery list to match).

If that's still not solving the problem, there could be a bug somewhere. Please let us know! You can reach us at support@eatthismuch.com . We usually respond within a day, and we make an effort to fix grocery list issues as soon as possible.

You can change your email address via your account page under the "Manage email" link. The site allows you to tie several email addresses to your account, but emails will only ever be sent to your "Primary" email address.

It's possible that your nutrition requirements are too strict to get much food variety. Your food filters could also be too strict for the number of recipes we currently have (we have a little over 3000 curated recipes as of March 1st, 2018).

Here are some suggestions for improving variety:

1. Tweak the Meal Type settings. Click the name of the meal in your plan, then the top "Edit" option. Increasing the allowed complexity and cook/prep time in a meal will vastly improve variety.

2. When regenerating the week, select the generator focus as "variety". This comes at the expense of grocery efficiency and macro accuracy, so you'll have to decide if the trade off is worthwhile.

3. If it's the meal or food refresh buttons that aren't giving you much variety, it could be because the generator is looking for a pairing of foods nutritionally similar to the previous meal and there aren't many available combinations. Try mixing up the other meals a little and coming back to the original one.

4. Make your food preferences less strict. Unless you're trying to go strict vegan or paleo, try selecting the "anything" diet type, and then only exclude foods you definitely can't have, or don't know how to substitute. Then if recipes come up with an ingredient that you don't like, see if you can make a diet-appropriate substitute that has similar nutrition (e.g. butter -> olive oil, wheat bread -> potato bread for gluten-free).

The generator has spotty support for Internet explorer and some browsers on linux. You can subscribe and receive the automatic weekly emails with any browser, but it will be difficult to edit them and make changes if the meal planner interface isn't functional. Before you subscribe, please play around with the free version of the generator at www.eatthismuch.com to make sure it works well for you.

If you're getting an error and you don't know what's going on, please send an email to support@eatthismuch.com and let us know what you're seeing. Please also include what browser and operating system you're using. Thanks!

Since the algorithms do not make any decisions about which meals are 'better', they will return any results that fit your preferences. This can lead to less than optimal grocery lists. Here are the most common issues that can lead to an overly long grocery list:

• Not enough recipes fit your preferences - some dietary strategies, especially very strict low carb and low fat diets, may require specialty ingredients or modifications to recipes that are not yet a part of our database. This should improve as users continue to add and customize recipes.
• Recipes in your plan use similar but distinct ingredients - The most common example of this is finding 3 different types of milk on the grocery list - the generator will not automatically make substitutions since this could affect the macros or cooking process. If you notice this simply find the offending recipes and customize them to use the milk of your choice - this is a permanent change so over time the lists will keep improving.
• High Variety of Recipes in the Plan - It can be hard to have 21 unique meals in a week, but the generator will attempt to do that unless you allow for more variety using the leftovers, or recurring foods settings.

How do I make my grocery list shorter?

If you're getting an error and you don't know what's going on, please send an email to support@eatthismuch.com and let me know what's going on. Please also include what browser and operating system you're using.