Peas and Pans

Peas and Pans is meal planning software built for nutrition coaches, dietitians and personal trainers who plan meals for clients. It covers the whole workflow in one place: importing a recipe from a link, a photo, a PDF or pasted text, matching every ingredient to USDA nutrition data, dragging meals into a client's week against their targets, and publishing the finished plan as a private page and a print-ready PDF under your own brand. The stated purpose is to take the mechanical part of meal planning off the coach's desk so they can keep the part that needs them: deciding what each client should eat. The product is framed around a familiar problem. Coaches became coaches to help people eat better, not to retype recipes, add up macros in a spreadsheet and fix a PDF at eleven at night. The page sets that scene precisely: a spreadsheet open with a SUM formula over oats, chicken and rice, a meal plan document last edited at 23:04, a screenshot saved from Instagram of a recipe, a client messaging at 21:47 to ask for the plan again because she cannot find the PDF and to check whether Thursday is fine without dairy, and a note that the plan is 283 kcal short. That is the administrative tail of nutrition coaching: recipe transcription, macro arithmetic, document formatting, version confusion and last-minute dietary changes. Peas and Pans exists to absorb that tail. By moving nutrition matching, plan building and plan delivery into a single product, it removes the repetitive work while keeping the coach in control of the decisions that matter for each client. Recipe import is the front door. A coach can paste a link, photograph a cookbook page, upload a PDF or type a recipe in directly, and the interface lists those options as Link, Photo, PDF and Text. The importer shows its progress as fetching, reading, matching and ready. Once the page has been fetched and the recipe read, each ingredient line is matched to USDA FoodData Central so the numbers are ones the coach can stand behind. Anything uncertain is flagged: a sample imported lemon chicken traybake arrives with two lines for the coach to check, while a red lentil dal shows every line matched. The imported recipe ends up with per-serving calories, protein, carbs and fat, shown in the example as 648 kcal, 34 g protein, 37 g carbs and 40 g fat, and it can be filed into the recipe library as a recipe with two lines to check, a source site and a serving count. Because the imported recipe arrives with its nutrition already worked out, the coach reviews flagged lines instead of building the numbers from scratch. The platform also comes with content already in place so a new user is not starting from an empty library. A starter library of 450 recipes covers breakfasts, lunches, dinners and snacks, and every ingredient in it is matched to USDA data and checked. Recipes can be browsed by meal, by diet and by what to leave out, and each carries calories, protein, carbs and fat per serving alongside a method and a macro ring. A library recipe can be dropped into a plan as it is, or saved as a copy and made your own. Underneath the recipes sits the food data: nearly 14,000 foods from USDA FoodData Central, each with its household measures. A coach can look a food up, for example Atlantic salmon at 177 kcal for 3 oz with a macro ring plus fibre, sugars, sodium and minerals, check it per 100 g, per portion or at a custom amount, and add it straight to a plan or use it inside a recipe. Ready-made recipes and hand-built ones therefore draw on the same verified nutrition source. Building the week is a drag-and-drop affair. Meals are dragged into each day of a client's plan, and calories and macros add up as you go, measured against the targets set for that particular client. A day view shows the running total against the target, for instance 1,555 of 1,850 kcal, with protein, carbs and fat tracked alongside; the content shows a client on 1,850 kcal and 152 g protein a day, with each day's calories and protein displayed on its card and shortfalls summarised, such as 283 kcal under or on target. The builder supports dragging, filling every empty slot in one press, or doing it all from the keyboard. Meals can be swapped with a replacement that matches the original's calories and protein in the same slot, a day can be copied, or a whole plan handed to the next client. Each day's entries feed a grocery list built from the week, grouped by aisle and tickable on the client's phone. Everything the client receives carries the coach's brand. Each client gets a private page and a PDF rendered in your colours with your logo, and Peas and Pans never shows up on them. The private link opens in any browser with no app to install and no login, and the PDF is print-ready in one click. Six templates, Clean, Warm, Editorial, Slate, Notebook and Statement, give a choice of layout: a white and airy design with fine lines and small marks; soft tinted cards that are friendly and rounded; cookbook-style large serif titles with days as chapters; a dark header panel with strong rules under each day; day cards on a cream sheet with dotted rules; or a large direct title over a heavy rule in your colour with big numbers. The client's page and the PDF follow whichever template is chosen, personalised with your logo, colour and font pairing, so the deliverable looks like something the practice produced rather than something a software tool produced. The smaller pieces of running a practice are handled too. An invite link lets a client answer a few questions and land in your client list, ready for a plan. Those intake answers can suggest calories and macros as a starting point, with the coach having the last word. A single search box finds any client, plan, recipe or food, reachable with the keyboard shortcut from any screen. A new account arrives with a sample client and a week in your brand, so the coach can see what a client sees before building anything. Help is available from every screen, either to read an answer or to send a question. And the data stays the user's: settings export every client, recipe and plan, plan PDFs included, at any time. The overall approach is a single pipeline from source to send. A recipe enters through whatever format the coach has to hand, whether link, photo, PDF or text, and is normalised into ingredient lines matched against USDA FoodData Central, with uncertain matches flagged for human review rather than silently guessed. Those recipes, imported or taken from the checked library, become building blocks that are dragged into a client's week and totalled live against that client's targets. The same compiled week is then rendered twice, as a private client page and as a print-ready PDF, both branded. Import, Build and Share are presented as the three stages of the product tour, and every stage keeps the coach's judgement in the loop: checking flagged lines, choosing foods, setting targets and choosing templates. The stated benefit is time and confidence. The product's promise is that you became a coach to help people eat better, not to retype recipes, add up macros in a spreadsheet and fix a PDF at 11 pm, so the repetitive part is removed and the part that needs you remains. Nutrition figures come from USDA data rather than from the coach's own arithmetic, and flagged lines make the remaining uncertainty visible instead of hidden. Clients receive a private link that needs no app and no login, and a plan that is visibly the coach's own rather than a third-party tool's. The closing headline is simply: get your evenings back. Concrete scenarios run through the content. A dietitian takes a recipe from a favourite food site, pastes the link, checks the two flagged ingredient lines and adds the meal to a client's week. A coach photographs a page from a cookbook or uploads a recipe PDF and gets a matched, macro-counted entry. A practitioner building a plan for a client on 1,850 kcal and 152 g protein drags breakfasts, lunches, dinners and snacks into Monday to Friday and watches each day's totals stay in range. A client writes at 21:47 to say she cannot find the PDF and asks whether Thursday is fine without dairy; the coach swaps that dinner for one matching its calories and protein and resends the plan. A trainer reuses a week that worked by copying a day or a whole plan to the next client. A client opens the private link on their phone, reads the week and ticks off the grocery list, grouped by aisle. Peas and Pans is made for nutrition coaches, dietitians and personal trainers who plan for clients, and the site offers dedicated pages for each of those three groups. There is one plan: 29 US dollars a month, with every feature included, unlimited clients and no per-client fees. It starts with a 7-day free trial and no card is needed. The trial gives access to every feature; when it ends, the account becomes read-only until you subscribe and nothing is deleted. Cancelling runs the subscription to the end of the paid period, after which the account is read-only but everything can still be exported. Refunds are offered within 14 days of a charge, no questions asked, by email. The included feature list covers unlimited clients, importing from links, photos, PDFs and text, the 450 checked library recipes, USDA-matched nutrition, the USDA foods database, the plan builder with live day totals, six branded plan templates and invite links with intake. There is also an optional monthly email with new recipes for your library and what has just shipped. Peas and Pans positions itself as the tool that takes the busywork out of nutrition coaching while leaving the professional judgement in place: import any recipe and get USDA-matched nutrition, build each client's week against their targets with running totals, and send it as a private branded page and PDF that carry your name only.