Setting up your household and goals

What you’ll learn

How to configure your household size and nutrition targets during profile setup, and what each value does to the plans Forkless generates for you.

Why this matters

Your household size and nutrition targets are the two biggest levers in your plan. Household size scales every recipe and the grocery list. Nutrition targets bias what recipes get picked. Set these once and you stop thinking about portions or macros forever.

Setting your household

Open Profile → Household & Planning.

Household size. Enter the total number of people eating from the plan. Forkless scales every recipe to that count — a four-person household gets recipes scaled to four servings, not the recipe’s default base. The grocery list scales with it.

Meals per day. Check which meals Forkless should plan: breakfast, lunch, dinner. Most users start with dinner only. Add the others when you want a fuller week.

Skill level. Beginner, intermediate, or advanced. Forkless uses this to bias toward recipes you can actually finish on a weeknight.

Weekly budget (optional). Set a dollar number if you want Forkless to pick recipes that keep your week under a target. Leave it empty to ignore.

Setting your nutrition targets

Open Profile → Time & Nutrition.

All four fields are optional. Fill in the ones that matter to you and leave the rest empty.

• Caloric goal (kcal/day). A daily calorie number. Forkless biases the week toward landing near it.
• Protein % / Carb % / Fat %. Your macro split as percentages. If you set them, they should add up to 100. If you don’t care about macros, skip all three.

You can also set max prep time and max cook time in this same section to keep weeknight recipes inside the time you actually have.

How household and nutrition targets shape your plan

Once these are set, every plan Forkless generates respects them automatically:

• Servings scale to your household size. The grocery list scales with them.
• Caloric and macro targets apply across the week as a bias on recipe selection — not a hard per-meal cap.
• Max prep and cook time filter out recipes that don’t fit the weeknight slot you picked.

Changing these later

You can update household and nutrition targets anytime from Profile. New plans use the new values. Plans you’ve already generated stay as-is unless you regenerate them.

What’s next

• Intolerances vs. dietary preferences — how to handle foods you can’t eat vs. the style of eating you prefer.