Meal ideas

Plates to try, built around your own record.

Run out of ideas by Wednesday? Damson deals you plates to try, each with its foods in grams and what it brings, shaped by the ideas you kept and how your own meals sat, with a library to search when you know what you are after.

Damson's Meal ideas screen with Cards and Library tabs and Saved ideas. The card reads oats, blueberries and chia, the whole plate is about 215 g, with 80 g rolled oats, 120 g blueberries and 15 g chia seeds, the carbohydrate marked whole with protein and fibre alongside, a Sources link, and the line built around what you've told Damson: your skips, your answers, your keeps. Below, Not for me and Sounds good.

Real screens from the app, some with demo data.

Damson is on the App Store.

Free to download, and the record is free to keep. No ads, and nothing to cancel later that you did not choose.

What is a meal idea?

One plate, on one card: its name, the foods on it with their grams, how much the whole plate weighs, and the same marks a plate you photograph gets, how the carbohydrate arrives and whether protein and fibre come with it. Sources sits on every card. Tap Sounds good to keep it or Not for me to pass, and the next card is dealt.

With PCOS, now also called PMOS, the hard part of eating well is rarely knowing what a good plate looks like; it is thinking of one at six in the evening. A card you can keep or pass in a second is a small answer to that, and the ones you keep wait under Saved ideas.

How is it built around me?

From what you have told Damson, as the card itself says: your skips, your answers, your keeps. The ideas you passed on, the check-ins you answered after your own meals and the ideas you kept all shape which plates are dealt next, so the deck leans towards the kind of plate that has suited you.

The library is the whole shelf. Search it by a word, or filter by breakfast, lunch, dinner or snack, and each plate shows about how long it takes and how its carbohydrate arrives. A plate you once passed on is still there, because you may feel differently about it in a month.

Damson's plate library tab, with a Search plates field and Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Snack chips, Lunch selected. Two plates are shown: lentils, greens and yoghurt, about 25 minutes, marked whole, and pasta, cannellini beans and rocket, about 20 minutes, marked not whole, each with a heart to keep it.

What is free, and what is the full Damson?

Three meal ideas a week are free, for good, and the ideas you keep stay yours. The full Damson, a subscription with a free trial priced in the App Store for your country, lifts the weekly limit and opens the plate library to search and browse.

An idea you keep is a plate you can make, photograph and log like any other, and a few hours later Damson asks how it sat, so the ideas you come back to earn their place in your record.

Questions about meal ideas

Does Damson give meal ideas for PCOS?

Yes. Damson, an iPhone app for PCOS, now also called PMOS, deals you plates to try, each with its foods in grams and a read of what it brings, built around what you have told it: the ideas you passed on, your check-in answers and the ones you kept. Three ideas a week are free; the full Damson lifts the limit and opens the plate library.

Is it a meal plan?

It is a deck of ideas rather than a plan. Each card is one plate, and you say Sounds good to keep it or Not for me to pass. What you keep collects under Saved ideas, in the order you kept it, so your own shortlist grows from the plates you actually liked.

What is the plate library?

A shelf of plates you can search and browse by breakfast, lunch, dinner or snack, each with about how long it takes and how its carbohydrate arrives. It is part of the full Damson, a subscription with a free trial.

Where do the ideas come from?

From a pool of plates written and kept by us, with a Sources link on every card. Which ones you see is shaped by your own record: the ideas you skipped, your answers after meals and the ideas you kept.

How many meal ideas are free?

Three a week, for good, and the ideas you keep stay yours. The full Damson, a subscription with a free trial, lifts the weekly limit and adds the plate library.