When creating a meal plan in Beefit, recipes are automatically adjusted to match your client's calorie needs. However, since recipes are created differently – some designed for one person, others for a whole family – it’s important to choose the right adjustment method to ensure accurate and meaningful meals.
Adjustment Methods
There are three ways recipes can be adjusted in a meal plan:
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Adjust Portion | Adjust Ingredient | Raw Mode |
Use this method if the recipe will be shared with others (e.g., family members). We’ll adjust the portion size so your client still gets the correct amount of energy, even though the meal is made for multiple people. Example: Dinner cooked for the whole family, where the client eats 1 out of 4 servings. | Choose this method if the recipe is intended only for your client and not shared. We’ll adjust the ingredient amounts so the entire recipe matches the calorie target. Example: A breakfast or snack your client eats alone. | Select this if you want full control. Beefit will make no automatic adjustments, and you decide exactly how the recipe should be modified.
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Important to Understand: One Meal Type – Multiple Recipes
When setting up a meal plan, you select one adjustment method per meal type – for example, "breakfast", "lunch", or "dinner". That means all recipes within that meal type will be adjusted using the same method.
But here's the challenge:
Not all recipes within a meal type (e.g., "dinner") are created the same way:
Some are built for a single person (e.g., a quick solo dinner)
Others are designed for multiple people (e.g., family-style meals)
If you choose Adjust Portion for dinner (because you often cook for the whole family), it will work well for most family recipes. However, if some recipes within that same meal type were originally created for just one person, the adjustment might lead to less accurate results – such as the meal ending up too large or too small.
Recommendations
Use
Adjust Portionwhen the meal is meant to be shared (often dinners, baked goods, or snacks).Use
Adjust Ingredientwhen the meal is only for the client (often breakfasts or small meals).Use
Raw Modeif you want full flexibility and prefer to adjust yourself.
Tip: If you notice some recipes aren’t adjusting well, you can manually tweak the adjustment for that specific recipe in the meal plan – or modify the portion count in the recipe.
Preferred adjustment type
| Adjust portion | Adjust ingredient |
Recipe with 1 serving |
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Recipe with 4+ servings | X |
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Recipe with 1 serving
Here, the recipe already targets one person, but since each person has a different kcal target for the meal type, the recipe may still need to be adjusted a bit.
I think adjusting by ingredients is better here.
Recipe with 4+ servings
Recipes with multiple servings are targeted for multiple people, where a single person needs a portion of the whole recipe. This is typical for dinner or baking recipes, such as cupcakes.
Adjusting by portion is often preferred in this case.
Bad recipe adjustment
If some recipes are poorly adjusted, you can just read our article about recipes in meal type needs different adjustment type.