Nutrition Labels and Macros for Meal Prep Companies

Meal prep customers ask for the macros of each meal. Add the ingredients with their weights from USDA FoodData Central and set the serving size to one container. The recipe shows a macro chart of protein, carbohydrate and fat, and the Nutrition Facts label gives the calories and nutrients for that serving.

Make the rice, the grilled chicken and each sauce a recipe of its own, then add it as an ingredient to every meal that uses it. Its nutrition and its cost carry into each meal, and a price change on one of its ingredients reaches all of them. Recipes inside recipes are on every plan. See sub-recipes.

Save your container once as a packaging format and reuse it on every meal. Check it on a recipe and export that meal's label as a PNG to print on the stickers you already use. See the nutrition label generator. For the rest of the sticker, copy the ingredient list and the allergen statement; allergen detection explains how allergens are found.

A meal that leaves the menu this week often comes back. It stays in your recipe library with its photo, nutrition and packaging formats. Tag meals by menu week or by diet, tag several at once, and filter the Recipes list by tag to see one week's menu. See recipe management.