Goals · Eating More Vegetables
Track vegetables and fibre in the only way anyone sustains
Nearly everyone underestimates this one, and nearly everyone overestimates the effort needed to find out. You do not need to count portions or add up grams of fibre. You need to know which of your meals contain vegetables and which don't, over a few weeks — and the answer is nearly always a specific meal on specific days, not a general vagueness about your diet. Once it has a name and a day attached, it's a shopping problem rather than a virtue problem.
For anyone who eats fine and knows perfectly well the vegetables are missing.
Why this is hard to keep track of
- Portion counting is fiddly enough that people quietly round it up
- Memory is unreliable here in one direction only, and it's always upward
- Vegetables in a sauce or a stir-fry are real and rarely get counted
- Five-a-day counters spend the evening telling you you're behind
Worth recording
- Whether the meal had vegetables, and roughly which
- Which meals never do — usually breakfast and usually lunch
- Weekday against weekend, which is often the entire story
- Whether it was cooked at home or bought, which predicts most of it
Cadence
Part of the meal sentence. Nothing extra to do
What progress looks like
A truthful count of how many of your meals actually contain vegetables, and the specific meals and days where they never do.
In practice
Say it once, or photograph it
The entries most worth having are the ones made at the exact moment nobody wants to fill in a form. A sentence — typed, dictated, or replaced entirely by a photo of the plate — is a much lower bar, and it carries the context a calorie field would have thrown away.
Called 4 tools
log_meal(items: ["sandwich", "crisps"], meal: "lunch", setting: "desk")log_meal(items: ["stir fry", "peppers", "broccoli"], meal: "dinner")find_pattern(group_by: "meal", tag: "vegetables")compare_periods(group_by: "cooked_at_home")
Every figure here was counted from entries you made. The model chose which tools to call — it doesn't score the meal, estimate calories from a photo, or decide what any of it says about you.
And then ask
The question the log can answer
Months of entries hold real answers to the things you've been guessing at, and reading them properly has always meant a spreadsheet and a free evening — which is exactly what nobody has.
Ask in plain language. The answers come back with the counts behind them, including when those counts are too thin to mean anything yet — which is the more useful answer far more often than people expect.
Called 3 tools
get_history(topic: "more-vegetables", window: "6m")find_pattern(group_by: "context")compare_periods(metric: "entries")
Counts and averages over your own entries, nothing more. Where the data is confounded or too thin, the answer says so instead of rounding it into a conclusion.
What it does
Set up around eating more vegetables
The same mechanics as everything else here, pointed at what actually matters for this one.
A sentence or a photo per meal
No database lookup and no calorie box. The log that gets kept beats the log that was more precise for eleven days.
Trends, not days
Weight moves a couple of kilos on water alone. Everything here is read as a weekly trend, because the daily number is mostly noise and reads as failure on a perfectly good week.
What the good weeks had in common
The useful question isn't what you ate on Tuesday, it's what was different about the months that went somewhere. That's a query against your own record, and it's the one worth asking.
Your goal, not one we set
We don't calculate a target for you. Any number an app produces here is a population average wearing your name, and it will be wrong by enough to matter.
A bad week is a data point
Nothing resets and nothing is undone. A week off is information about what makes a week hard, which is considerably more useful than a broken chain.
Exportable from day one
Everything you've logged, photos included, out in a file you can take to a dietitian, a GP, or somewhere else entirely.
The reason a lot of people start
Something to actually bring to the appointment
You get fifteen minutes, and the first question is always some version of "so what does a normal week look like?" — which nobody on earth can answer accurately from memory.
What this gives you: An honest baseline instead of the optimistic one everyone gives verbally, which is where most dietary advice starts from the wrong place.
- Export the date range you were asked about, as a file you can print
- Photos alongside the entries, which say more than any description
- Counts and timings rather than an impression of the worst week
- Nothing shared anywhere unless you choose to share it
What it won't do
- Score a meal, or sort food into good and bad
- Estimate calories from a photo and present the guess as a number
- Set you a calorie target, a macro target, or a weight
- Run a streak you can break, or tell you that you've fallen behind
- Comment on your body. The photos here are of food
- Diagnose anything, or suggest that a pattern is a diagnosis
It's a notebook that can do arithmetic and answer questions about itself. Deciding what any of it means is a job for you and the people advising you.
Early access
Start with what you're already trying to hold in your head
Tell us what you've been trying to keep track of and we'll set it up with you — recording the thing that's actually useful, at a cadence that survives a bad week.
- Founding accounts lock their price for life
- No card, no trial clock, no notification designed to make you feel behind
- Export everything you've logged, photos included, whenever you want
Also here
The rest of the picture
These overlap constantly, which is the point — the answer to a question about one of them is very often sitting in another one's data.
Losing Weight
A line per meal when you can manage it, and a weigh-in when you want one
Keeping Weight Steady
Much lighter than you're used to. A few entries a week is plenty
Gaining Weight
A tick per meal. The detail is optional, the meal isn't
Eating More Protein
A sentence per meal. No weighing, no packets
Cutting Ultra-Processed Food
A sentence a meal. The categorising is not your job
Steadier Energy
Meals plus one number in the afternoon
Eating Regular Meals
Three ticks a day at most. The lowest-effort log on the site
Keep the record without it becoming another job
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