You know the moment. It's 6pm, you're starving, and nothing that sounds good fits your macros.
So you make the same sad chicken and rice for the fourth time this week. Or you order the pizza and feel bad about it after.
That's the whole reason this app exists.
I'm Zach. I've spent 12 years turning the food people actually crave (pizza, burgers, tacos, cheesecake, orange chicken ramen, and more) into versions with more protein and fewer calories. Not "healthy" versions. Good ones. The kind you make again because you want to, not because you're supposed to.
Open the app, type in whatever's in your fridge, and you get real meals with the macros already figured out. No tracking. No math. No standing there deciding.
WHAT'S INSIDE
- 823+ macro-friendly recipes, new ones added every week
- Full macros and calories on every single recipe
- Step-by-step video for each one, so it comes out right the first try
- Search by ingredient, filter by calories, protein, or equipment
- Meal planner and a grocery list that builds itself
- Favorites, folders, and your own private notes on recipes you tweak
- Mark what you've made and build your own rotation
You don't have to cook separate meals for everyone else either. One dinner, the family's happy, and yours still fits.
WHAT IT COSTS
Free to download and look around. Full access is $19/month or $149/year, billed through your Apple account and cancelable anytime in Settings.
Terms of use: https://recipes.macrofriendly.com/terms-and-conditions
Privacy policy: https://recipes.macrofriendly.com/privacy-policy
Honestly these have been such an upgrade to my fitness journey and my cooking life. I had all the books and it was worth it to have to go look them up in the downloads and keep toggling back and forth th but THIS! this makes it sooooooo easy. I have recipes that are in rotation weekly so I’ve memorized the steps and it has REVOLUTIONIZED how I eat and cook for my family. I’ve always wanted to try more and more recipes and the app just makes it so organized and practical. the fact that it’s for life and we will get all the new recipes automatically is such a flex (lol) because he comes up with new stuff ALL THE TIME. And once I got to know some basics I felt comfortable customizing and coming up with new faves based on what I had in the kitchen. Seriously this is my #1 GO TO for eating for my goals and getting my whole fam fed happily and fit. Dude. Zach, thanks man ❤️
Hit or Miss
STW02
I enjoy this app but I am very frustrated with it at the same time. I really enjoy these recipes but I am constantly logged out and when I try to sign back in it says my account doesn’t exist. It’s a bug and eventually I can log back in hours later or the next day. However, it seems to love doing it when I am getting ready to cook so I’ve had to resort to screenshotting the recipe so I’m not left high and dry come meal time. I can’t always plan ahead and screenshot so then I’m scrambling to try and go from memory of other recipes. I like to use the handy ingredient filter when I forget to plan ahead to filter out what I can make with what I’ve got on hand, but I have to be logged in to do that! I know this app can be even better once these log in issued are fixed and I wish the search feature was a little more fine tuned. You have to type in almost an exact match for some things to pull up. Hopefully in the future that feature will have a little more grace. I love the macro breakdown, imperial/metric toggle, meal planning section and you can adjust the serving sizes. I’m just over being frustrated to the max on being let down when I’m needing it the most! One of the main reasons why I subscribe is so I can hop on for good recipes with ease. It is not easy when you can’t access the content with this recurring issue.
Developer Response
Hey there! We're always looking for feedback on the app to improve (that's why we have the feedback option in the app and respond to everyone).Could you send this to orders@flexibledietinglifestyle.com with screenshots of your issues? This will help us fix it for you and others :)
Disappointed…
keeponly1luv
I just got this app as part of it’s discounted sale. I’ve used these recipes from social media many times before and figured, why not? I’d love to have a platform that gives me access to so many recipes that have good macros! So, I bought it and was met with… a poorly put together app. It doesn’t run very well, with me having to scroll all the way back down to a recipe after clicking on one. Additionally, the ingredients and instructions for some of the recipes just have… both? Like, it’ll list out the instructions as part of the ingredients and ALSO have a separate instructions section. Along with that, the “Favorites” tab on the bottom just doesn’t work— it just shows a bunch of gray lines and 0 recipes. I really want to like this app and USE it for its intended purpose, but it isn’t user-friendly at all :/ It’s extra disappointing considering the sheer amount I paid for it as well.In the future, I would love to see all of the aforementioned mistakes fixed, and maybe an option that allows users to input the amount of servings they’re interested in making so the appropriate ingredient amounts can be altered. That would be super handy. Also, the food sections are kind of random (breakfast and lunch/dinner but also pasta having it’s own? And no meat category?)
GAME CHANGER
Dxrobbb
I’ve been following FDL for years, and his page genuinely changed my life. Anyone who’s done a traditional meal prep can tell you it’s so monotonous and boring; it just isn’t sustainable. Zach’s meals have made it possible to create real, lasting change. I used to just have a couple books and a bunch of standalone recipes in my files, saved screenshots, IG posts, etc. Having everything consolidated in this single app has been immensely helpful, and the built-in calculator makes it so easy to get started. This is the only way to meal prep.
App startup crash fix!
Version 8.3.9
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