Diet Chart Maker for Dietitians and Coaches

About the Diet Chart Maker for Dietitians and Coaches

A document tool for dietitians, nutritionists and health coaches: write a one-day or seven-day diet chart — early morning, breakfast, mid-morning, lunch, evening snack, dinner and bedtime, or your own meals — and the tool adds up energy, protein, carbohydrate, fat and fibre for every meal and every day. Pick dishes from the USDA FoodData Central tables (which include many Indian dishes such as dal, idli, dosa, chapati and palak paneer) or from your own food list, in grams or in your own katori, glass, ladle or roti.

The chart prints on your letterhead — name, qualification, registration number, clinic and logo — with the client’s name and goal, water advice, swap options and notes, as an A4, A5 or US Letter PDF or as phone pictures sized for WhatsApp. Headings can carry Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Bengali or Telugu under the English. You write every item: the tool suggests no diet. Charts, templates and your foods stay in this browser on your device.

Common uses

• Dietitians and nutritionists giving clients a weekly chart on their own letterhead.
• Health and fitness coaches sending a day plan to a client’s phone.
• Clinics reusing templates — diabetic-friendly or weight-management formats the dietitian wrote — for each new client.
• Hostels, gyms and corporate wellness teams printing a common week menu with its nutrients.

How the numbers are worked out

• Item = its weight in grams × the food’s value per 100 g ÷ 100. The weight is quantity × the grams in one measure (or the grams you type).
• Meal and day totals add the items that have a weight; a line without values (water, “no sugar”) or a measure without grams is left out, and the page says how many.
• Week average is the mean of the days that have food with values.
• Energy shares use the Atwater general factors — 4 kcal per gram of protein and of carbohydrate, 9 per gram of fat — as a share of those three together.
• Values are rounded only for printing: energy to whole kcal, grams to one decimal.

Where the food values come from

Dishes and foods come from USDA FoodData Central — Foundation Foods, SR Legacy and the Food and Nutrient Database for Dietary Studies (FNDDS), which is in the public domain — the same tables as the Food Nutrition Facts Lookup. The search runs on your device. FNDDS values for dishes such as dal, sambar or palak paneer are for the standard recipes of a US dietary survey, so a home recipe can differ. For your own recipes, or values from the Indian Food Composition Tables (IFCT) of the ICMR-National Institute of Nutrition, add them under My foods — per 100 g or per serving — and they appear first in the search. The Recipe Nutrition Calculator works out per-100 g values of a recipe from its ingredients.

Household measures

Katori, glass, ladle, bowl, cup, tablespoon, teaspoon, piece, slice, roti, handful and serving are in the list with no weight: utensils differ, so you weigh yours once and type the grams it holds (cooked dal and dry rice fill a katori differently, so you can also type the grams of any item). A measure without grams is printed as it is — “1 katori” — and left out of the totals until it has a weight. USDA foods also bring their own measures with weights, for example “medium chappatti or roti (7″)” of 40 g.

Vegetarian, egg, non-vegetarian and Jain checks

The diet you choose filters the search and flags items that may not fit: meat or fish in a vegetarian chart, egg in a vegetarian one, and onion, garlic, potato and other roots and bulbs, mushrooms or honey in a Jain chart. The checks read the names of the dishes and foods only — a mixed dish such as “Dal” or “Vegetable curry” may contain onion or garlic without saying so — so they are reminders, not a guarantee. Your own foods carry the diet you give them.

Indian-language headings

With Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Bengali or Telugu headings, the meal names, “Diet chart”, “Quantity”, “Total”, “Water”, “Swap options”, “Notes” and the weekdays are printed under or beside the English. Weekday names are the standard ones of the Unicode CLDR; every other word can be changed under Heading words and each meal’s heading under Meal names, times and headings. Your dishes and notes are printed as you type them. Hindi and Marathi are real text in the PDF (Noto Sans, SIL Open Font License); Tamil, Bengali and Telugu lines are drawn with your device’s fonts as sharp pictures.

Week grid or day by day

• Week grid (landscape): a row for every meal and a column for every day, with each day’s totals under it — the classic one-page weekly chart.
• Day by day (portrait, also A5): for each day a table of meals, foods, quantities and, if you keep them on, energy, protein, carbohydrate, fat and fibre per item, with the day’s total and energy shares.
• Phone pictures: a 1080 × 1920 picture for each day, easy to read on a phone and to send on WhatsApp.

Untick “Show energy and nutrients on the chart” to print the plan without numbers.

Limitations

• It does not write or suggest a diet: no meal-plan generator, no targets and no judgement of the plan. The practitioner decides every item and portion.
• Energy and nutrients are estimates from food tables and the weights entered; cooking, recipes and portions change them.
• Diet checks read food names only and can miss ingredients of mixed dishes.
• Only energy, protein, carbohydrate, fat and fibre are added up; for vitamins and minerals use the Food Nutrition Facts Lookup.
• Charts, templates and foods are kept in this browser on this device; download chart files to keep copies or move them to another device.
• Tamil, Bengali and Telugu headings need the device’s fonts and are pictures in the PDF.

Privacy

Everything you type — client names, charts, your own foods and letterhead — stays in this browser on your device (localStorage and IndexedDB). The food search runs on the device over food tables downloaded from this site; PDFs and pictures are made on the device and are never uploaded.