Stop rebuilding lunch from a blank page

A nutrition clinic should not retype grilled chicken in every plan. Smart Clinic now keeps a library of foods, meals, and days — and a full-page builder that puts that library next to the plan.

SCBy SmartClinic TeamAugust 16, 20263 min read
Diet library — foods, meals, and days beside a full-page builder

Most nutrition clinics do not lack recipes. They lack a unit of reuse smaller than a whole plan.

Grilled chicken and brown rice get typed again. Then again for the next patient. The “template” is an entire seven-day file: you take all of it or you start from an empty day. Word folders and WhatsApp forwards fill the gap, and nobody can find last month’s diabetic breakfast when the next patient sits down.

This release is the opposite of that blank page: a diet library of foods, meals, and days, and a full-page builder with the palette on one side and the plan on the other. The dated changelog is on What’s new. The evergreen product page is Nutrition.

Three blocks, not one giant template

A food is a named portion with calories and macros. A meal block is a named set of foods with a suggested time. A day block is a named set of meals. Tags cover goal, condition, cuisine, meal type, allergen, and diet style. You can filter by chips and by numbers — breakfast, 300–450 kcal, at least 25 g protein, tagged diabetic.

Whole-plan templates still clone in one click. The library is what you needed between “copy everything” and “retype everything”.

The builder that had no room for a palette

The old builder lived in a modal. A searchable library needs persistent space. The plan now opens on a full page: search, chips, and calorie filters on the left; days, meals, and items on the right. Autosave. Click or drag. Scale a portion as it lands. Undo a mis-drop.

Typing a food that has never existed still works. Create a block in the palette and insert it in the same motion. Save anything already in a plan back to the library.

When the plan belongs to a patient, the palette can highlight blocks tagged for that patient’s conditions. The usual breakfast — the one the clinic actually uses — rises by usage, not by whoever named it first.

Fill it without retyping the clinic’s past

Add by hand on a library page built for curation: editors, usage, archive, bulk tags. Import Excel. Extract a PDF, Word file, or photo into reviewable blocks — nothing is written until you accept. New clinics also get shared starter content, including Gulf, Levantine, and Egyptian dishes a Western food list would miss. Editing a shared row copies it to the clinic first.

The diet assistant still drafts a meal, a day, or a whole plan. It now searches the clinic’s own approved blocks first, and it says when a proposed meal came from the library. Review is still the gate.

Safety is the snapshot

Inserting copies. A library edit does not reach a plan a patient is already following. Print, PDF, and WhatsApp still deliver that finished plan. The patient never has to learn a second document.

If lunch still starts as seven empty macro fields, this is the module that retires that ritual — without asking the clinic to buy a separate meal-planning app.

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