Nutrition Setup

The Nutrition module brings recipes, meal plans, a food diary and personal goals to your app. Users collect recipes, plan their meals for days or weeks, track calories, macros and water, and see their progress against self-set goals. Trainers can optionally assign plans directly to clients.

Automatic Firebase setup

The Firebase setup (security rules, indexes, cloud functions) happens automatically when you publish your app. When activating the Nutrition module you don’t have to deal with Firebase yourself.

Overview

Recipes

Recipes with ingredients, steps and image - nutrition is calculated automatically from the ingredients.

Meal plans

Plan meals in day or week view, organized by meal slots.

Food diary

Log kcal and macros daily - always private per user.

Goals

Set kcal, macro and water goals and track progress.

Water tracking

Optional water logger in the diary with a daily target.

Shopping list

Generate a shopping list automatically from a meal plan.

Coaching

Trainers assign plans to clients (optional Workouts coupling).

Push notifications

Meal reminders, assigned plans, reached goals.

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Activation at a glance

Property	Value
Activation type	One tap / instantly active (no multi-step wizard)
Automatic defaults	Yes - the module is ready to go
Required dependency	Firebase (for data storage)
Recommended optional modules	Notifications, Login (Firebase Auth), Profile / Members, Workouts
Path	App Builder Tools → Modules & Features → Nutrition → Activate

What does “sensible defaults” mean?

Unlike e.g. Events, the Nutrition module needs no setup steps. One tap on Activate is enough: recipes, meal plans, diary and goals are on right away, with good default values. Every value can then be tuned in the Nutrition Editor.

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Activate with one tap

1. Open the Edit Mode (App Builder Tools)

2. Go to Modules & Features

3. Tap Activate on Nutrition

4. The module is active immediately - no wizard opens

Activation turns these functions on right away:

Function	Default
Recipes	On
Meal plans	On
Food diary	On
Goals	On
Automatic nutrition calculation	On
Bookmarks (save recipes)	On
Water tracking	Off
Shopping list	Off
Likes / Comments	Off
Coaching (trainer assignment)	Off

Nothing is lost

You can enable any function not turned on here at any time in the editor. You don’t have to make any decision to activate.

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Tune afterwards in the editor

Once the module is active you control everything via the Nutrition Editor with seven tabs:

View Recipe view, columns, carousel, plan view, week start.

Visibility Personal or global - who sees what.

Features All function toggles including social and coaching.

Permissions Who is allowed to create recipes and plans.

Design Accent color, corner radius, card spacing.

Behavior Sorting, pagination and push notifications.

Content Categories, units and meal slots.

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What gets set up in the background?

When you publish your app the platform sets up everything necessary automatically. You don’t need to take care of it - but for a complete picture here’s an overview.

Database areas (Firestore Collections)

Area	Content
nutrition_recipes	All recipes with ingredients and nutrition
nutrition_plans	Meal plans (day / week view)
nutrition_food_log	Food diary entries (kcal, macros, water)
nutrition_goals	Personal kcal, macro and water goals
nutrition_recipe_categories	Recipe categories
nutrition_plan_assignments	Coaching assignments (trainer → client)

Nutrition without an external database

The automatic nutrition calculation sums up the values you enter yourself per ingredient (kcal and macros per 100 g). No external food database is queried - this keeps the data under your control and works offline.

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Permissions in the app

Who	What they can do
All users	View published (global) recipes and plans
Logged-in users	Create own recipes/plans, keep a diary, set goals, bookmark
Owner	Edit or delete their own recipes and plans
On OTHER people’s recipes	Like and report (no self-like, no self-report)
Trainers / Admins	Assign plans to clients (coaching)
Admins	Edit, delete all recipes and plans, handle reports

The diary is always private

The food diary is fundamentally personal - entries are only visible to the respective user, never global. Write actions (create recipe, log diary, set goals) require a login.

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Dependencies

Module	Type	Description
Firebase	Required	Needed for storing all nutrition data
Notifications	Recommended	So meal reminders and goal push notifications arrive
Login (Firebase Auth)	Recommended	For personal content (diary, goals) and write actions
Profile / Members	Optional	Only needed if you want to enable comments on recipes
Workouts	Optional	Only needed for coaching (trainer assigns plans to a client)

Start small

After activation, leave the default functions as they are. Water tracking, likes, comments and coaching can be enabled deliberately once your users really need them.

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Next steps

Nutrition Editor All tabs and settings in detail

Features All function toggles in detail

Content Categories, units and meal slots

Permissions Who can create, like and assign