Checked Out plans one week of meals for a household where people eat differently. Each person gets their own profile — their own dietary options, their own list of foods they won't eat, and optional calorie and macro targets — and the week comes out as a single plan with one categorized shopping list. When a meal only needs to change for one person, the plan records a change to that person's portion instead of adding a second meal to cook.
How does per-person planning actually work?
Add each household member by name, then set that member's dietary options, the foods they won't eat, and — optionally — their own daily calorie, protein, carbohydrate, and fat targets. Those settings live on the individual, not the household, so two people at the same table can have completely different ones. A daily target applies to that person's whole day and is budgeted across their meals, so one dinner doesn't consume most of it.
You then choose which meals you want planned — dinners, breakfasts, lunches, snacks — how many of each, how many people each serves, and how many days it covers. The result is one plan for the household and one categorized shopping list.
Which dietary options can be set per person?
Gluten-free, dairy-free, nut-free, vegan, vegetarian, shellfish-free, egg-free, soy-free, low-carb, low-sugar, bariatric, and GLP-1. Each applies to the member it's set on. Bariatric and GLP-1 are treated as separate options and can't both be applied to the same person.
Can it plan one dinner when one person needs something different?
Yes, in two ways, and neither means cooking twice. The plan can keep one dish for the table and record a short note against that meal for the person whose serving differs — "Jen: smaller portion, skip rice." Or, when a dinner isn't appropriate for a child, it generates a simpler alternate for that one meal. Either way the rest of the table's plan is unchanged.
What about a picky eater who won't eat what's planned?
Each member has their own list of foods they won't eat, entered as free text and kept separate from the dietary options. That list is checked twice: it goes into the plan when it's generated, and the finished plan is scanned again — every meal's ingredients and every item on the shopping list — against every member's list. If a disliked ingredient turns up, that one meal is regenerated rather than the whole week.
How the check works today: it matches whole words and tolerates a plural, so "avocado" catches "avocados." It doesn't yet match by category — "avocado" won't catch "guacamole." Category-level matching is on the roadmap. Until it ships, listing the specific things that come up in your house works better than one broad term.
Can I change a week after it's planned?
Request a specific meal and it appears in the week as a real planned meal, not as inspiration. Mark nights off when nobody needs dinner. Move a meal to a different night. In each case the existing plan adjusts rather than regenerating from scratch, so the parts that already worked stay put.
What it doesn't do
Checked Out is a meal planning tool, not a medical service. Nothing it produces is medical advice, and the dietary options are settings you choose, not recommendations — see Not medical advice.
For a severe or life-threatening food allergy, don't rely on a generated plan. Check ingredients and cross-contamination risk yourself, with the manufacturer or the food provider.
It produces one shopping list for the household rather than one per person, and it doesn't connect to a grocery retailer's cart or need a store account.
Where it runs
On the web at app.checkedoutapp.com and on Android through Google Play. One subscription covers everyone in the household: a 14-day free trial, then $9.99 a month or $99 a year.
Try it with your own household.
Add everyone who eats at your table, set what each of them needs, and see next week planned.
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