About PlanMyMeals
PlanMyMeals is a household meal planner, built in Portugal by two people.
Why it exists
Planning a week is a logistics problem dressed up as a cooking problem. Recipes are everywhere. What's missing is the decision: how many people are eating on Thursday, what carries over to Friday, and what you have to buy on Saturday.
We built PlanMyMeals because it was the problem we had at home, and none of the tools out there treated it as logistics.
What we do
PlanMyMeals builds a household's week of meals, scales the portions to whoever is actually eating at each one, and turns the plan into a shopping list. Then it walks you through the cooking, step by step.
It's built for people cooking for more than one, where the problem isn't finding recipes. It's deciding what to make for the next seven nights without repeating everything and without throwing food away.
Founders
Duarte Cruz
Co-founder · Growth Engineer at TryHackMe
Product-focused software engineer. He has worked in user acquisition and growth since 2024, first at Bounce on SEO, AI search and A/B testing, and now at TryHackMe on B2C activation. Before that he co-founded Auréola and built ground-station software for a university aerospace project.
Education
- MSc in Computer Science and Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico (cybersecurity and artificial intelligence)
- BSc in Computer Science and Engineering, Universidade de Aveiro
Lucas Vicente
Co-founder · Senior Software Engineer at Bounce
Senior software engineer on Bounce's user acquisition and growth team, where he leads work on SEO, AEO, experimentation and marketing infrastructure, including content pipelines and localisation frameworks for international markets. Before that he worked at Ryanair and Volkswagen Digital Solutions, and on distributed systems for the SureThing research project.
Education
- MSc in Computer Science and Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico (distributed systems)
- BSc in Computer Science and Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico
Scope and limits
We're both software engineers. Our experience is in product, growth and systems, not in nutrition or professional cooking.
So what we publish stays on operational method: how to plan, how to size portions, how to use leftovers, how to organise the shop. We don't give nutritional, clinical, infant-feeding or pregnancy advice, and we won't publish that kind of content without review by someone qualified and named.
Recipe times, portions and protein figures are estimates from whoever wrote the recipe. Recipe photographs are AI-generated and are there to illustrate the dish.
Contact
For corrections, questions or press, write to support@planmymeals.ai. We fix factual errors as soon as we can confirm them.