№ 12/Meal planner for couples
Dinner for two,
without the negotiation.
One of you loves heat; the other doesn’t. Someone’s off carbs this month; someone could eat pasta forever. Forkboard is a meal planner for couples that blends both your tastes into one week you can both live with.
The “what do you want for dinner?” problem
The hardest part of cooking for two usually isn’t finding a recipe — it’s the nightly back-and-forth. “What do you want?” “I don’t know, what do you want?” One person ends up carrying every dinner decision, reconciling two sets of tastes by hand, forever. Most meal planners quietly assume a single cook with a single palate, which leaves that whole job undone.
How Forkboard plans for two
Forkboard treats both of you as first-class. You each set your own taste profile — your likes, your hard passes, your dietary needs — and the board plans a week from both at once. A few rules are deliberately not up for debate:
- Allergens are always respected. If either of you lists one, it’s out of the week — never a paid feature, never blended away.
- Dietary needs take the strictest path. If one of you is vegetarian, those nights respect it; the plan doesn’t average a hard restriction into a maybe.
- Tastes are weighed, not vetoed. Your likes and dislikes pull the week toward dishes you’ll both actually enjoy, and the more you each rate with a thumbs up or down, the sharper it gets.
It’s the same engine behind the full family meal planner — a couple is just the smallest, most common household.
Built for how two people actually live
Plan together on the laptop at the kitchen counter, where you can both see the whole week — that’s the board, not a feed — or plan right from your phones. The full app is on your iPhones: either of you can build or tweak the week, rate the keepers and the misses, and pull up the shared grocery list at the store, all in sync. Leftovers thread across the week, so Sunday’s roast has a job on Wednesday. An Android app is coming soon.
What it costs for two
For a couple, the Family plan is the fit — $12/month or $99/year, up to six seats with the plan and scan budgets pooled, so you’re not paying per person. If just one of you drives the planning, Solo ($8/month) works too. Every account starts with 7 days of full features and no credit card; the details are on pricing.
Common questions
Is there a meal planner for two people?
Yes. Forkboard is a meal planner for couples that gives each of you your own taste profile and blends both into one weekly plan. Allergens are always respected, dietary needs take the strictest path, and your likes and dislikes are weighed so you land on dinners you’ll both eat.
Which plan is best for a couple?
The Family plan fits most couples — $12/month or $99/year, up to six seats with pooled limits, so you are not paying per person. If just one of you does the planning, Solo at $8/month works too.