Unlike meal delivery kits, Real Plans is a highly customizable meal planning tool for people who want to cook.

Real Plans tailors to your family’s specific size, diets, tastes, and preferences—giving you a schedule of recipes and an interactive shopping list so you can streamline the process to getting wholesome, home-cooked food on your table.

Unlike common, static PDF meal planners, Real Plans remains flexible to changing tastes and schedules—no matter who you’re feeding, how often you plan to cook, and what you feel like eating this week.

We also provide you with over 1600 kitchen-tested recipes to get started (and many more to add from your favorite food bloggers), so you don’t have to scour the internet for inspiration.

We have both iPhone and Android apps, both of which closely mirror the desktop version of Real Plans.

You can modify your meal plan, access the recipe box, and check off ingredients as you shop.

For Windows users, we have a lightweight version of Real Plans that works on your phone’s browser.

Real Planning tip number one: be realistic about how often you’ll cook. Time in the kitchen depends on how many recipes you’re game to prep.

In Real Plans settings, you can specify how many breakfasts, lunches, and dinners you’d like included each week.

You can always filter for “simple recipes.”

Batch cooking, yummy leftovers and the occasional cooking holiday (ahem, takeout + wine) encouraged.

Real Plans is used globally and costs of food vary greatly country to country, state to state. That said, we love happy bellies and happy wallets.

We’ve built a pricing filter that allows you to choose recipes based on cost and have a recipe tag for “budget meals.”

Savvy Real Planners find they save money by selecting a realistic number of meals they’ll cook in a week and because ingredients map to a specific recipe, food actually gets cooked (and gobbled).

Less food waste equals less money wasted.

Our Facebook group has some pretty clutch budget-tips and a boatload of ideas for swapping out pricey ingredients.

Yes. At checkout, you will be asked to provide a recipient email address and gift message.

You can choose the date you’d like the gift sent and you’ll only pay for the first subscription period. After that, it’s up to your pal to keep up the planning and add her own payment method.

You’ll be sent a confirmation email once your order is complete.

We have customers from all over the world!

Your plan will be generated using seasonal recipes for your hemisphere.

And, you can choose metric measurements if you’d like.

You are welcome to send us an email on support at realplans dot com and one of our agents will be available to help you as soon as possible.

You can choose the day you would like to start your week in your settings. So, if your CSA box arrives on a Wednesday or you do most of your grocery shopping on Sundays, you can plan accordingly.

Yes, you can plan your ideal week on the My Schedule page. You can choose exactly which days and meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner, extras)  you’d like recipes scheduled for.

All recipes are catalogued by season. Real Plans only picks recipes based on the season where you live—if you’re soaking up sun in Melbourne while someone else is shoveling snow in Boston, we’ve got your back.

Each recipe has nutritional information on the recipe card. You can read it just like any other nutritional label— calories, carbohydrates, fats, etc. in each serving.

Yes, successful meal planning means keeping you from food boredom. So let’s say you eat chicken. We’ll mix up variations on roast chicken—one month it’ll be our Roast Garlic Chicken, and the next our Rosemary Roast Chicken. However, the more restrictive you make your diet, the more repetition you will find.

We are a subscription service so we automatically charge at every billing interval.

For regular plans, we have 3 options: monthly – $19, quarterly – $42 (translates to $14/mo) and annual – $84 (translates to $7/mo).

For Whole30, we have 3 options: monthly – $30, quarterly – $60 and annual – $99.

Yes. You can manage your billing period by visiting your “My Account” page. Contact customer service if you need any additional help.

YES. To cancel, simply follow this link and log in to your account if not already. You will have access to your plan for the remainder of the subscription cycle. Since renewals are not refundable, we suggest you cancel your subscription 2 working days before the renewal is due in order to make sure the cancellation is processed in time.

If you purchased from iTunes, you will need to manage your subscription through your iTunes account. See here for the latest updates from Apple on the process.

We are an authorize.net verified merchant and process thousands of transactions per year. We use 128-bit bank level security for all communications involving financial transactions. Also, realplans.com uses HTTPS for all communication. All your data is encrypted.

We have 3 options: monthly – $25, quarterly – $59 and annual – $144. The quarterly payment schedule works out to just under $20 per month and the annual works out to a $12 per month. We are a subscription service so we automatically charge at every billing interval. If you enjoy using Real Plans, we recommend purchasing the annual plan to maximize your savings. At $12/month – if we save you 1 trip to the store or one ingredient that does not get spoiled from being left at the back of the fridge… we feel we have done our job. Even if you purchased the monthly plan to try us out, you can always upgrade to the annual plan.

If you already have a Real Plans subscription and wish to purchase the Low Fodmap plan, you can do so from within the recipe box and this will be the same pricing as above, less the Real Plans subscription cost.

We have 3 options: monthly – $30, quarterly – $60 and annual – $99. We are a subscription service so we automatically charge at every billing interval. If you enjoy using Real Plans, we recommend purchasing the annual plan to maximize your savings. If we save you 1 trip to the store or one ingredient that does not get spoiled from being left at the back of the fridge… we feel we have done our job. Even if you purchased the monthly plan to try us out, you can always upgrade to the annual plan.

If you already have a Real Plans subscription and wish to purchase the Whole30 upgrade, you can do so from within settings and this will be the same pricing as above, less the Real Plans subscription cost.