Planned around everyone at your table
Allergies aren’t preferences, so My Tomte doesn’t treat them like one. Tell it once who can’t eat what, and it remembers at every meal, for every person, every week.
Allergy-friendly meal planning
Strict rules, not polite suggestions
If a recipe isn’t marked to suit someone who’s eating, it never makes the plan. Not “ranked lower”. Not “probably fine”. Never.
And if that leaves a gap, My Tomte doesn’t just shrug. It tells you exactly which rule is blocking which meal, and how to fix it.
The rules it knows
Pick from the rules built into My Tomte, person by person:
Allergies
peanuts, tree nuts, milk, egg, wheat, soy, fish, shellfish and sesame
Gluten and dairy
coeliac (gluten free), gluten intolerant, lactose intolerant
Ways of eating
vegetarian, pescatarian, vegan, dairy free, nut-free household
Cutting back
lower sodium, lower sugar, lower saturated fat, low cholesterol
Pregnancy
common pregnancy food guidance, with the reason a meal is off the menu
“Not for us” is different
Not a fan of mushrooms? That’s a preference, not an allergy. Rate it Not for us and it drops down the list, not off it.
Personal targets, person by person
Each grown-up gets their own targets, and portions scale to suit. Kids never get a calorie target.
Guests are covered too
The coeliac cousin coming for Sunday lunch? Soon, the plan will already know. Coming soon to Premium.
One dish, cooked once
Mushrooms off one plate, half the salt on another. Everyone eats the same dinner, cooked once.
A food diary that fills itself in
For anyone tracking a personal goal: the day at a glance, the weeks as a trend.
Filled in from the plan.
Forget to log? It’s mostly done already.
Off-plan, too.
Lunch out or a coffee: search it, scan the barcode, or ask the tomte for a best guess.
Kids are different.
Variety, never calories, and only grown-ups see it.
Swaps you’ve said yes to
Lower salt in the house? Salted butter becomes unsalted, the salt stays out of the pot, and suddenly a lot more of your recipes fit. After a plan, the tomte tells you which swaps would let more dishes in, for every rule in the house, and how many each one opens up. You tick the ones you’re happy with. Nothing changes until you do.
One list for the house.
Every swap in one place. Olive oil can replace butter, unsalted butter and margarine in one go.
Leave it out, or use less.
Not just one food for another: no added salt, half the parmesan.
Used everywhere.
The recipe, the shopping list and the cook all follow it.
A reminder at the stove.
If the salt’s meant to stay out, the recipe says so where it matters, and the shopping list buys the unsalted butter.
Allergies stay strict.
A swap never makes an allergen safe to plan, and it sits out wherever it would break someone’s rule.
A quick, serious note
My Tomte applies the rules you set, every time. But it can’t see inside every packet, and recipes and products change. It’s a guide for your household, not medical or dietary advice, so always check ingredients and allergen labels, and follow what your healthcare provider tells you.
On every plan
Dietary rules, allergies, personal targets, the food diary, friends’ and family’s dietary needs, substitutions and adjusted recipes are on every plan. Planning a meal around guests is coming soon to Premium. Everyone’s rules count, whatever you pay.
Dietary questions
How strict is strict?
A recipe has to be marked as matching a rule before it can be planned for that person. If it isn’t marked, it’s left out. (Marking comes from ingredient information, which can be wrong or out of date, so check the labels.)
What if someone has more than one allergy?
Add as many rules as they need. Every one of them applies.
Does it handle coeliac disease?
Yes. Gluten-free is a strict rule, just like any allergy.
Can children have their own rules?
Absolutely. Every person in the household has their own.
How does the pregnancy rule work?
It follows common food guidance for pregnancy and tells you why a meal is off the menu (“this one has soft cheese in it”): soft cheese, high-mercury fish, deli meats, raw or chilled ready-to-eat foods, alcohol and liver. Check Food Standards Australia New Zealand’s guidance and your healthcare provider’s advice too.
How do ratings work?
Rate a meal Love it, Like it or Not for us, and the tomte learns. “Not for us” pushes a recipe down the list; it never locks it out completely. (Sometimes the mushrooms win. That’s life.)
How are personal targets set?
Every grown-up can set targets for calories (or kilojoules), protein, fibre, saturated fat, sodium and more. They’re suggested from age, height, weight and how active you are, and you can change them. Pick a goal, flag an active day, and portions gently scale to suit.
How do swaps work?
Keep one list of the swaps your household makes, like almond milk for full cream, every time. Add your own, or say yes to the ones the tomte suggests after a plan. Whatever’s on it is followed in the recipe, at the shops and at the stove. Take one off and it stops. Your original recipe is always kept, and allergies are never swapped around.
What about guests?
Keep your friends’ and family’s dietary needs in My Tomte on every plan. Adding guests to a meal, so the plan works around them too, is coming soon to Premium.
Do children see calories?
Never. A child’s diary shows what they ate and how varied it was, and their targets are about having enough protein, calcium and iron, for the grown-ups to see.