How your weekly plan gets generated

The inputs Forkless uses to plan your week, what the generator does with them, and what we deliberately don't do.

Forkless writes a week of meals for your household in about two minutes. Here’s what goes into it, in plain English.

What we ask you for

The plan is only as good as what we know about you, so we ask once and then stop asking. Four things matter most:

Intolerances. Anything you can’t or won’t eat — dairy, gluten, shellfish, nuts, eggs, soy, fish. These are hard excludes. A recipe with one of your flagged intolerances will never appear in your plan, your suggestions, or your search results. Ever.
Dietary preferences. Vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, dairy-free, keto, paleo, halal, kosher — pick any combination, or none. This shapes the universe of recipes you’re choosing from.
Household. How many people you’re feeding. We scale recipe servings to match.
Goals. Calorie target, macro split, weekly grocery budget, max prep time on a weekday — whichever of these matter to you. Skip the ones that don’t.

That’s the input. You set it once on signup and adjust it from your profile any time.

What happens next

   YOU                FORKLESS               YOUR WEEK
 ─────────          ──────────              ────────────
  intolerances ─┐
  preferences  ─┤
  household ────┼──▶  generator   ──▶   7 days of meals
  goals ────────┤                       grocery list
  pantry ───────┘                       cart-ready

The generator starts from your profile, then layers in the things that make a plan feel like a plan instead of a list:

Variety. No repeated proteins or cuisines on consecutive days. Tuesday won’t look like Monday.
Pantry awareness. Anything you’ve already got — staples like olive oil, plus pantry items you’ve added — gets subtracted from the grocery list before we hand it to you.

What you get

A seven-day calendar with real meals on it. A grocery list grouped by store section, with quantities scaled for your household and pantry items already removed. A one-tap handoff to your grocery store when you’re ready.

You can regenerate any single meal you don’t like, or regenerate the whole week if it’s not landing. The plan is the starting point, not the cage.

What we don’t do

We don’t track what you actually ate. We don’t score your week. We don’t email you about streaks. The plan is a tool, not a scoreboard.

That’s the whole engine. Tell us about your household once. We’ll handle the week.