How Bolus chooses your meals

Bolus builds your week from a catalogue of meals. It first rules out anything that does not fit you, then picks from what is left based on what tends to work.

What is ruled out

• Allergens you listed are never included. This is a hard rule.
• Major food types you have excluded, such as fish, shellfish, nuts, gluten, dairy, egg, soy, or meat, are kept out.
• Meals you have disliked are not shown again.
• Meals that do not fit your cooking time for that slot are filtered out.

What it leans towards

From the meals that pass, Bolus favours ones you have liked, keeps some variety so you are not eating the same cuisine all week, and respects your Plan variety setting. Set variety low and it sticks to the familiar; set it high and it reaches for more new things.

How to steer it

The best way to shape your plan is to react to meals as they come:

• Like a meal to see it, and things like it, more often.
• Dislike a meal to stop it coming back. This is also the surest way to avoid a specific dish you do not fancy, even if it is not a whole food type.

Bolus swaps whole meals rather than editing recipes, so you cannot remove a single ingredient or add a protein to a dish. If something in a meal does not work for you, dislike it and Bolus will steer around it.

There is no dietitian picking your meals by hand. The choices are made automatically from your preferences and feedback. To change how much effort your meals take, see cooking effort and meal times.