WHY IT MATTERS
- Smart Meals helps you decide what to eat before you eat it so you actually hit the macros that matter for training, recovery, and body comp—without playing macro Tetris in your head.
- This is proactive fueling, not retrospective logging. Food tracking is part of Fuelin… but it’s not Fuelin.
Let’s talk about our Fuelin feature Smart Meals. If you’ve ever used a traditional food tracker, you know exactly how it goes. You eat. You forgot to log. You remember later. You log it half-heartedly. Then you stare at the numbers like, “Cool… so I under-ate carbs again and somehow still nailed peanut butter.” It’s a familiar athlete story.
The core issue isn’t that tracking is “bad.” It’s that tracking is usually retrospective. It tells you what happened. It doesn’t really help you execute what you should do next — especially when you’re busy, tired, and you’ve got a session coming up. That’s why we built Fuelin in the first place. Secondly, that’s why we delivered Smart Meals to Fuelin athletes. It’s not another recipe library. It’s not another “log your life and feel judged by an app” system. It’s a feature designed to help you answer one question quickly:
“What should I eat right now to hit my macros for this meal or snack in order to optimise my health and performance?”
And then it actually gives you options that fit.
What Smart Meals does
Smart Meals takes your macro targets for that specific moment — breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack and generates meal ideas that match your numbers. Not “close-ish.” Not “kinda.” It aims for your targets so you can stop guessing and stop doing back-of-the-napkin maths like a savant.
It also accounts for your dietary preferences, likes/dislikes, allergies/intolerances, time of day, goal, and training. Because your nutrition shouldn’t be the same on a rest day as it is on a big training day. That’s not fueling — that’s just eating with no plan. And like the saying goes, “failure to plan is planning to fail!”
The Three Smart Meals Options
Smart Meals gives you three ways to get the right meal, depending on how you live and what situation you’re in.
1) Coach Recommendations
This is the simplest one. You open Smart Meals, which provides recipes and meal ideas via Scooter, Fuelin’s AI food tracker, that match your macros. This is for the athlete who just wants: “Tell me what to eat that actually works.” No scrolling. No rabbit holes. No saving 400 recipes you’ll never cook. Just options that make sense for your targets, and that you can actually put together.
2) “What’s in my fridge…” (Meals with my ingredients)
This is the one I’m personally obsessed with because it’s the most real-world.
You tell Smart Meals what you’ve got in the house — chicken, eggs, wraps, Greek yogurt, rice, bananas, frozen berries, whatever — and it turns that into a meal that still fits your macros.
This is the fix for:
“I’ve got food… but none of it ‘fits’ the plan.”
And honestly, this is where most athletes get stuck. They’re not trying to be lazy. They’re just trying to live. Smart Meals takes what’s available and makes it work.
3) “Eating out…” (Restaurant / cuisine)
Because athletes eat out. A LOT. Por
This option helps you choose meals when you’re out at a café or restaurant, based on the style of cuisine. It gives you macro-aligned suggestions so you’re not just guessing and hoping the universe blesses your plate.
And no — it’s not about perfection. It’s about making the best call more often.
If you do that consistently, the results follow.
Why this is proactive fueling (and why that matters)
Here’s the big difference between Fuelin and most food trackers:
Most trackers are built around record keeping. Fuelin is built around performance execution.
Smart Meals is proactive because it helps you make the decision before the meal happens. That sounds like a small thing, but it’s actually the entire game. Because in endurance sport, being “a little off” isn’t neutral. Being short on carbs doesn’t just mean you missed a target — it can mean your session quality drops, your recovery suffers, your sleep tanks, and suddenly you’re in that annoying cycle where training feels harder than it should.
And on the flip side, when you nail the right meal at the right time, training feels smoother. Your energy is more stable. You get more out of the work. You recover faster. You feel like a functioning human, not a half-charged iPhone. Smart Meals is about getting you into that second category more often.
Simple, tasty meals that actually fit your day
The point of Smart Meals isn’t to turn you into a chef. It’s to make the right choice easier. It gives you meals and snacks that match your macros based on:
- your preferences (so it doesn’t recommend stuff you hate),
- your time of day (because breakfast food is a different planet to dinner food),
- your goals (performance, body comp, health),
- and your activity (because training drives needs).
In other words: it’s not generic nutrition advice. It’s not a static plan. It’s the right meal suggestion for your current situation.
Food tracking is part of Fuelin. It’s not Fuelin.
Let me say this clearly, because it matters. Food logging is useful. We support it. We do it inside Fuelin. Fuelin is not “another food tracker”. We have food logging as part of Fuelin. Fuelin is a health and performance operating system.
It’s about matching nutrition to training demands. It’s about macro targets that make sense. It’s about helping athletes execute consistently, without needing a PhD in nutrition or an unhealthy relationship with their kitchen scale. Smart Meals is one more step toward that: less friction, better decisions, more consistency. Because the best plan in the world is useless if athletes can’t actually follow it in real life.
And that’s what we’re building: a system that helps you fuel like an athlete — not log like an accountant