Under the title, a Following line says which diet plan the kitchen follows and who set it, for example Following: Diabetic + Gluten-free, recommended by Dr. Chen, Sep 29. Plans combine (diabetic, no added sugar, heart-healthy/low-sodium, kidney, gluten-free, dairy-free, pescatarian, vegetarian, vegan, low-fat, low-fiber, high-protein, soft, pureed, thickened liquids, or no restrictions), with the care team's own notes underneath. Whoever runs the account or a caregiver taps Change; a doctor or nurse on the care team can recommend it from their Care targets tab, and that change goes on the team feed and to the family's phones. Recipe ideas, Plan the day, the in-store check and Eating Out follow the plan; the printed charts are the diabetes food guide's, and the page says so when another plan is on. Prescriptions sits one tap away on the same line.
The can-have list (headed with the patient's name, like What Debbie can have) is one list of everything allowed, each line tagged Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snacks or Drinks, with the printed diabetes food guide available one chart at a time (Eat often, Sometimes, Limit, with serving, carbs and calories). Filter chips and a search box sit above it.
What's in the kitchen is a real inventory with a count on hand: scan, picture or type, then how many. Press minus as things get used and plus when you restock; I cooked something puts a homemade dish in the fridge so the next aide knows the taco meat is there; servings count down one at a time. The Meals tab in Health Tracking picks from this list.
Ideas opens with four links, one section at a time, each with its own address: Recipe Ideas (/menu#recipes), Plan the patient's Day, named with the patient's name like Plan Debbie's Day (/menu#recipes/plan), Snap the Meal (/menu#recipes/snap) and Meal Ideas From the Guide (/menu#recipes/guide). Only the section picked shows, and the browser's Back and Forward walk them.
Recipe Ideas starts with Can Debbie have it?, a search of the can-have list, then Get ideas for two lists: cook now with what is here, and worth a shopping trip with the things to buy; Start from picks the can-have list or the kitchen. Save keeps a recipe under Saved recipes for whoever is cooking. Plan the patient's Day plans six meals and snacks a day (a bedtime snack can be added), one day or the whole week, from the can-have list first and the kitchen second; Only what's in the house plans with no shopping. Each meal says what needs to be bought, with one tap to put it on the grocery list; Yes, cooking this logs the meal and counts the food down. The grocery list is its own tab.
Who plans: the family, and every professional on the patient's team: the Home Team (the home health aide, CNA or companion) and the care team (nurses, therapists, doctors), on their dashboard under the patient's care door, Menu and Kitchen, Ideas. They plan the day and the week, use Another idea, I'll say, Yes, cooking this, Get ideas and Save, and put what a meal or a recipe needs on the grocery list; each of these carries their name, like Added by Jewel (Home health), and only ever for their own patient. The can-have list, the kitchen inventory and removing a saved recipe stay with the family.
Professionals on the care team work the kitchen the way they work Supplies: Used one counts a thing down under their name, Running low puts it straight on the grocery list (Added by Jewel), the row's ⋯ has We're out, and Suggest something new asks the family for something the house does not have, with a short note. Their suggestions wait on the Suggestions tab, which shows how many are waiting (Suggestions · 3); the family taps Add to list or No thanks. Everyone has We're out of this, a scan that marks the pack empty and puts it on the list. Adding, prices, restocking, removing and answering suggestions stay with the family. When a professional eats or drinks something from the kitchen, Who's taking it? set to A professional takes it off under their name without putting it on the patient's meal log, and the What professionals used card lists it (see What professionals used).
Single-serve items — K-Cup pods, tea bags, a 6-pack of Glucerna or water, yogurt cups, string cheese — are counted in pieces that each make one serving: a box of 12 pods is one box with 12 pods inside, and the label numbers are per piece. When the barcode or the name says 12 ct, K-Cup, pods or bottles, the confirm card fills in Counted in (pods) and Each one makes (1 cup); the family corrects either on the card or on the item row's Counted in and Each makes boxes. Such an item shows Quick cup: one tap takes one piece off, logs the drink to Health Tracking with its numbers, and offers the add-ons found in the kitchen (Half & Half, creamer, sugar) as separate deductions to tick. The row says how many pieces went out this month and this week and about how many a day, and the grocery list's low warning speaks in pieces (3 pods left).
Snap the Meal (its own section under Ideas, and on Eating out) is for a meal already made: say what is in it, then it takes the plate's photo with the in-app camera, reads what is on it and logs the meal with its numbers. The confirm step also offers After the meal for a second photo, so the team sees how much was eaten; both photos save with the meal even when reading the plate is not set up. A meal logged with Yes, cooking this, or a drink logged with Quick cup, offers Add a photo of the plate right after it is logged. See Photos of the plate on every meal.
Shopping notes go here, not on the IDC Team feed. A professional who finds the house out of something uses Running low or We're out on the item, Suggest something new, or We're out of this. If a shopping note is typed into the IDC Team feed instead, the feed offers Put it on the shopping list, which does the same thing from there.
What it looks like
Screens at phone width, with sample names — no real person’s information.
