№ 07/Family meal planner
Two cooks, one board,
zero fights.
Most meal planners assume one cook with one set of tastes. Real kitchens aren’t like that. Forkboard blends a whole household’s preferences into a single weekly plan everyone can live with.
The problem nobody else solves
The hardest part of feeding a household isn’t finding recipes — it’s the negotiation. One person’s comfort food is another’s hard pass. Someone’s vegetarian three nights a week. A kid will only eat beige. An allergy is non-negotiable. A single-profile meal planner makes one person do all that reconciliation in their head, every week, forever. That’s the actual job, and almost no tool treats it as one.
Forkboard treats the household as a first-class idea. Up to six people share one board, each with their own taste profile, and the plan is built from all of them at once. Just the two of you? See the meal planner for couples.
How household taste-blending works
Everyone in the household sets their own likes, dislikes, and dietary needs — their taste is theirs, not a single shared list one person maintains. When Forkboard plans the week, it blends those profiles into dinners that work for the table as a whole. A couple of rules are deliberately not up for debate:
- Allergens are always respected — never a paid feature, never blended away. If anyone in the household lists an allergen, it’s out of the week, full stop.
- Dietary needs take the strictest path. If one member is vegetarian, their nights respect it; the plan doesn’t average a hard restriction into a maybe.
- Tastes are weighed, not vetoed. Likes and dislikes pull the week toward dishes the household actually enjoys, and the more everyone rates with thumbs up and down, the sharper it gets.
One board the whole house can see
Because it’s a board, not a feed, everyone can look at the same week — on a laptop at the kitchen counter, or on the iPhone app (with an Android app on the way). Leftovers thread across the week, the plan works around what’s in the pantry, and a clean grocery list comes out the other end, organized aisle by aisle. The full mechanics are on how it works.
What it costs
Household taste-blending lives on the Family plan — $12/month or $99/year, up to six seats, with the AI plan and pantry-scan limits pooled across the household instead of charged per person. Every new account starts with 7 days of full features and no credit card; when the trial ends you drop to a permanent Free plan, never a lockout. The numbers are all on pricing.
Common questions
Is there a meal planner for families with different diets?
Yes. Forkboard is a family meal planner that gives every member their own taste profile and blends them into one weekly plan. Allergens are always removed from the week, dietary needs take the strictest path, and likes and dislikes are weighed so the plan works for the whole table.
How many people can share one meal plan?
A Family plan shares one board across up to six seats, each with their own taste profile. The plan and pantry-scan limits are pooled across the household instead of charged per person.
Does the family plan keep allergens out for everyone?
Yes — always. If anyone in the household lists an allergen it is removed from the whole week; it is never a paid feature and never blended away. Allergen filtering is best-effort, so always review the ingredients before cooking.
Plan one week the whole house agrees on.
7 days of full features, no credit card to start.
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