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OptimisedEats

A free budget nutrition app for Australian, New Zealand, and American families — personalised nutrient targets, recipes ranked by nutrition per dollar, meal planning, and shopping lists. Built solo, using Claude as the development partner, alongside a full-time job.

What's inside the app

One connected tool — set up your household once, and everything below works off the same nutrient targets and meal plan.

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Household Profiles
Add everyone who eats together — age, sex, and diet type set personalised RDI targets for each person.
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Recipe Builder
Browse recipes ranked by nutrition per dollar, and boost them with cheap extras like liver, eggs, or seeds.
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Daily & Weekly Planner
Build today's meals or plan a full week ahead, one recipe at a time.
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Nutrient Dashboard
See live coverage against your personal RDI targets, and what's still short.
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Shopping List
Auto-generated from your planned meals, with quantities calculated for you.
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Learn
Plain-language nutrition education, tailored to your household's ages and stages.
A guide library most nutrition apps don't bother with

Every guide is sourced from a national health body and priced against real supermarket data for the country you're actually shopping in — not generic "eat your veggies" advice.

34+
in-depth guides, from pre-conception to elderly nutrition
106
budget-optimised recipes, filterable by diet and nutrient focus
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fully localised regions — not just a currency swap

🇦🇺 AU / NZ edition

  • Reference values from NHMRC (Australia's national health body)
  • Pricing benchmarked against Coles, Woolworths, and Aldi
  • Region-specific guides — e.g. kangaroo meat as a budget protein, iodine deficiency resurgence in AU

🇺🇸 US edition

  • Every reference value rebuilt from NIH ODS, not converted from the AU numbers
  • Pricing benchmarked against Kroger and Aldi US
  • Same depth, independently re-sourced — a separate guide, not a translation

A sample of what's covered:

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Nutrient Gap Data
Real deficiency rates — 60% calcium, 48% zinc, 47% iron — with full food-cost tables for closing each gap.
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Life-Stage Guides
Pre-conception, pregnancy, kids, teens, adults, and elderly — each with distinct nutrient priorities.
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Absorption Science
Iron + Vitamin C pairing, calcium timing, phytates and oxalates — the rules that can double what you actually absorb.
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Kangaroo Meat Nutrition
Leaner than chicken, more iron than beef, cheaper per kilo — Australia's most underrated protein, fully ranked.
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Weston A. Price Research
1930s traditional-diet fieldwork on Vitamin K2 and pre-conception nutrition, cross-checked against modern science.
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Real Costed Meal Plans
Full 7-day plans, line-by-line pricing — a family of 4 fed for $135/week, a solo adult for $37/week.
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