I’ve Bought Every Meal Plan on the Internet. I Ate Almost None of Them.

Every guide had the ingredient I hate, the texture I can’t do, the recipe I’d skip on sight. So I spent hours building a Claude tool that only gives you food you’ll actually eat. Here’s how it works,

You know the moment. You finally buy the meal plan, you open the PDF, and you start scrolling.

Skip. Skip. Is that cottage cheese? Skip. Mushrooms. Skip. Something called a “power bowl” with six ingredients I’d have to buy just for this one bowl. Skip.

By page four you’ve found maybe two recipes you’d actually make, and one of them is basically toast.

And then you close it, and you feel a little bit like the problem is you.

I have a graveyard of PDFs

I’m not exaggerating when I say I have downloaded so many recipe guides. I have bought so many PDFs. I have saved the Pinterest boards, screenshotted the “what I eat in a day” videos, and told myself this one will be different.

It never was.

Because there was always an ingredient I don’t like. There was always a recipe I was never going to touch. There were textures I can’t do. There was just so much I didn’t like, and nobody building those guides was building them for someone like me.

I wasn’t failing the meal plan. The meal plan was never written for me.

So I’d end up eating the same three things, feeling guilty that I wasn’t “doing it right,” and buying the next guide.

Picky is not a character flaw

I know I’m not alone here, because every time I talk about this, my DMs fill up with women saying same. The texture thing. The “I’ll eat chicken but only like this” thing. The “I can’t eat anything that’s touching” thing.

Being picky doesn’t mean you can’t eat healthier. It just means the plan has to start with you instead of with a recipe.

That’s the part every guide I bought got backwards. They hand you the food and hope you like it. I wanted the opposite. Start with what I already eat, and build from there.

So I built the thing I wanted

This is where it gets a little wild.

We’re in a new world right now. Claude, AI, all of it. The things it can do are honestly kind of unbelievable, and when I started playing with it, I realized I could finally build the guide I’d been looking for all along. One that only gives you food you will actually eat.

So I did. It’s called The Picky Girl’s (Lazy) Guide to Healthy Eating, and it’s a Claude skill, which basically means it’s a set of instructions that turns Claude into your own picky-eater food sidekick.

I built it because I wanted it. I use it. I’m actually following it this week.

Something I’m into right now: my two-ingredient morning protein shake. One scoop of clear protein in a quarter cup of water over ice, plus half a scoop of collagen stirred into a splash of Fairlife protein milk. Simple enough for any morning, and yes, it passes the picky test.

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Here’s how it actually works

First, it gets to know you. When you start, there’s a little welcome note from me, and then it walks you through a tap-through quiz to build your Picky Girl Profile: what you like, what you won’t touch, the textures that are a hard no, and the targets you want to hit.

Once it knows you, you just talk to it like a friend who happens to know a lot about food. Things you can literally say:

• “I’m hungry.” It gives you something to eat right now, made from foods you already like.

• “I’m going to McDonald’s.” It tells you what to order that still works for your day. No lecture.

• “Decide for me.” For the nights your brain is done. It just picks.

• “Make it healthier.” Tell it your favorite meal and it gives you a version that still tastes like the thing you wanted.

• “Finish my day.” It looks at what you’ve eaten and helps you fill in the rest.

• “Plan my week.” You get a 7-day plan, a priced shopping list, and printable cards you can stick on the fridge or save to your phone.

It also does snacks, prep, and groceries, and gives estimated calories and macros for everything, which was actually the first question I got about it. If you like to track, it’s there. If you don’t, ignore it.

Every recipe is built from your list. Not mine. Not a dietitian’s. Yours.

How to make it yours

This is the part I love most. You can customize pretty much everything.

Hate onions? Tell it. Only eat chicken if it’s shredded? Tell it. Want more protein, fewer dishes, nothing that takes longer than ten minutes? Tell it that too. It remembers your profile, and you can update it whenever your tastes change.

I’m not a doctor and the calories and macros are estimates. Your targets are yours to set, ideally with your provider.

Could you build this yourself?

Honestly? Probably.

But I spent hours and hours and hours getting it right. Testing it, breaking it, fixing it, eating the food. And I know not everyone is comfortable with Claude yet. A lot of you have never even opened it, and that’s completely fine.

I just want to save you the time.

So it’s set up to be as easy as possible, and includes instructions + a video on. how to set it up. Use Claude for the best experience, but you can drop the same file into ChatGPT if that’s what you already have.

And right now, it’s free. For launch week, you can grab it at no cost. After that it goes on sale, and the only way to get it free is with a yearly Girl Code Daily membership.

Or comment or DM me PICKY on Instagram and I’ll send it to you.

What’s happening inside the threads

This week I’m eating off my own guide, and inside Girl Code Daily I’m sharing what that actually looks like, the meals I loved, the ones I tweaked, and the night I definitely still ordered pizza.

That’s what the threads are. The real version, every day, with women who get it: the Sunday Weigh In, Monday Focus, the Wednesday Check In, Friday Wins, and a monthly challenge (October is steps). Founding members also get two live video meetings a month on Google Meet.

Start with a free trial. And if you go yearly, the Picky Girl’s Guide is yours free after launch week too.

Tell me in the comments: what’s the one food every meal plan includes that you will never, ever eat? I’ll go first. Mine is seafood. I don’t like it. I won’t eat it (unless it’s fried)

I made this for the version of me who kept thinking she was the problem, and for you.

picky, but make it healthy.

-Nyk