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Nutrition Planning lets you build one or more weekly meal plans for clients from professionally developed recipes and share it, all inside Practice Better. This article explains how Nutrition Planning is organized and where to start.

⚠️ Important: Nutrition Planning is in beta and available to a limited group of practitioners. Access for additional accounts is not guaranteed at this time.

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Understanding How Nutrition Planning is Organized

Each client has one Nutrition Plan. A Nutrition Plan holds one or more Meal Plans, so you can build a new week whenever your client needs one.

  • Nutrition Plan: The container for one client. It holds all of that client's Meal Plans and recipes, which, when shared, they can view as read-only in their portal. You share or delete a Nutrition Plan as a whole. 
     
  • Meal Plan: One week of meals, such as Week 1 or Week 2. 
     
  • Meal slots: Each meal plan has seven days. Each day has three meal slots (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) and three snack slots.
     
  • Main and side: Each slot holds one main recipe and one optional side recipe.
     
  • Recipe collection: Every recipe across the client's meal plans, shown on the nutrition plan Overview tab.
     
  • Template: A ready-made Meal Plan you can start from.

How Nutrition Planning Works With Your Other Tools

Nutrition Planning is a separate feature from your other nutrition tools.

  • That Clean Life integration: If you use the That Clean Life integration, it continues to work as it does today. 
     
  • Protocols: Protocols continue to work as they do today, where you can include multiple facets of a care plan like embedding resources from your That Clean Life integration.

Purchasing the Nutrition Planning Add-On

Nutrition Planning is a subscription add-on available in all paid plans for $10/month. The account owner can update the subscription to purchase the Nutrition Planning add-on. 

  1. Open your Profile menu in the top corner of your portal and select My Subscription. 
     
  2. Locate the Credits & Add-Ons section and click the View all add-ons button. 
     
  3. Select Nutrition Planning from the options in the pop-up.
     
     
  4. For Team plans, optionally adjust the number of seats to include in your add-on and click Purchase. Learn more about Assigning Seats below. 

Managing Your Nutrition Planning Seats (Team Plans)

On Team plans, the account owner purchases Nutrition Planning seats and assigns them to individual practitioners. 

To access seat management, open your Profile menu, select My Team, and click the Nutrition Planning tab. Alternatively, from your Profile menu > My Subscription > My Add-ons, click the More Options menu (3 dots) next to Nutrition Planning and select Assign seats.

Assigning a Seat to a Practitioner

  1. Open your Profile menu, select My Team, and click the Nutrition Planning tab.
     
  2. Click the Assign seats button.

     
  3. Click the Team members drop down and click the checkbox next to each team member to assign them a seat. 

     
  4. Click outside the drop-down to collapse it and click Save.

     
  5. You’ll see your team members' seats assigned. 

Purchasing Additional Nutrition Planning Seats

  1. Click the Purchase seats button in the top-right corner of the Nutrition Planning tab of your My Team page.
    • Or click Edit seats next to the Nutrition Planning add-on in your My Subscription page.
       
  2. Use the plus button in the pop-up to adjust your seats. You will be able to include a maximum equivalent to your team member allowance. Purchase more practitioner team member add-ons if needed.

     
  3. Click Update seats, and then go to the Nutrition Planning tab of your My Team page to assign the new seat(s).

Releasing Nutrition Planning Seats

  1. Open your Profile menu, select My Team, and click the Nutrition Planning tab.
  2. Click the Remove button next to a practitioner’s name and click the Remove button in the confirmation pop-up.  
  3. Repeat these steps for other team members as needed.

You may reassign seats as needed, or release all your seats as part of removing the add-on completely.  

Opening a Client's Nutrition Plan

  1. Go to your Clients list and open a Client Record.
  2. In the client's record, go to the Nutrition Plan section.

The first time you open the page, the Get started screen shows a Blank Meal Plan and a selection of templates. Select More templates to see the full list.

Where to Go Next

Questions along the way? Email gillian.hawthorne@practicebetter.io 

Removing the Nutrition Planning Add-On

First, release your assigned seats. 

To remove the add-on:

  1. Go to My Subscription and scroll to My Add-ons.
     
  2. Click the More Options menu (3 dots) next to the Nutrition Planning add-on. 
     
  3. Select Remove from the options provided.

     
  4. Confirm your choice in the pop-up and click the Remove button. 

You can purchase the add-on again by following the same steps to add it to your subscription. 

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