Food Signals · For people on GLP-1 medication

Your appetite changed.
Your family didn't.

Understand what suits you. Plan meals for everyone.

With Food Signals you keep track of your food, symptoms and injection timing, explore meals that suit your changing eating experience, and plan family dinners with one shopping list.

  • Personal food tracking
  • Tolerance-scored recipes
  • Family meal planning
  • One shopping list
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Created by an Accredited Practising Dietitian (Australia) · Works in your browser

Herb baked cod with soft brown rice and zucchini, served for the table

The everyday challenge

Your eating has changed. Everything else still needs doing.

Your appetite, what appeals and how food sits with you may all be different now. But food decisions don't stop, and the rest of the household still needs meals, snacks and dinner on the table.

  • What should I eat?

    Your appetite and preferences shifted, and old go-to meals don't always appeal.

  • Was it the food, or the timing?

    Some days are harder than others, and it's hard to see why without a record.

  • Dinner for everyone

    The household still needs feeding, and two menus is twice the work.

What you eat, how you feel and what the family eats end up handled separately — none of it informing the rest. Food Signals connects the three.

Step 1 · Understand

Understand your experience.

Keep track of what you eat, how you're feeling and your injection timing — all in one timeline. Over time, see how your own food and timing patterns line up with how you feel.

  • Log a meal

    By photo or a quick description.

  • Record symptoms

    And how you're feeling, in your words.

  • Drinks and injection timing

    On the same timeline as your meals.

  • Your own patterns

    A clearer record to bring to your dietitian or doctor.

Food Signals shows what you've recorded. It doesn't diagnose, or tell you what causes how you feel.

See how the journal works

Journal

Day 3 of 7

  • Herbed cod and couscous bowl

    Lunch · 12:40 pm · 30 g protein

  • Water

    2:15 pm · 350 ml

  • Felt full sooner

    3:30 pm · Mild

  • Dose recorded

    Mon · 8:00 am

Pattern in your logs

You tend to note feeling full sooner on the first two days after your dose.

Step 2 · Choose

Find meals that suit you.

Explore recipes and meal plans that take account of your preferences, exclusions and eating experience — and use what you notice in your journal to guide what you choose next.

Every recipe is tolerance-scored using Ruby's method and developed for people eating on GLP-1 medication.

What "suits you" means

Your preferences and exclusions
What you do and don't eat, and anything to leave out entirely.
How eating feels right now
For example, a smaller appetite, or rich food putting you off.
What you've noticed
Your own observations from your journal, used to inform your choices.
Explore all recipes

Step 3 · Organise

One meal. Different appetites. Everyone included.

You don't need to cook a different dinner because you're eating differently. Food Signals plans your portion alongside servings for the rest of the household, then brings every ingredient into one shopping list.

  • Your portion sized for you; household servings added alongside.
  • Swap meals to suit the household.
  • Daily or weekly plans.
  • One shopping list, quantities added together and grouped by supermarket aisle.
See how family planning works
Tonight's dinner

Creamy spinach beef gnocchi

Creamy spinach beef gnocchi in the pan
Your portion1 serving

38 g protein per serving · sized for you

Household3 more servings

Same recipe, same pan · cooking time unchanged

One dinner Four people One shopping list

How Food Signals works

One connected food experience.

What you notice feeds what you choose. What you choose feeds the plan and the shopping list.

  1. 1 · Understand

    Understand your experience

    Keep track of what you're eating, how you're feeling and your injection timing. Build a picture of your own patterns.

    Breakfast7:10 am
    Low appetite · Mild11:00 am
    Dose dayMon

  2. 2 · Choose

    Find meals that suit you

    Explore recipes and plans that take account of your preferences, exclusions and eating experience. Use your own observations to inform your choices over time.

    Smaller portions No dairy Under 30 min

    Herbed cod and couscous bowl

    Lunch · 30 g protein

  3. 3 · Organise

    Plan for everyone

    Adapt meals and portions for your household, organise family dinners and bring ingredients together in one shopping list.

    Fruit and veg3 items
    Baby spinach240 g
    Zucchini2
    Lemons3

What you notice feeds what you choose next

Getting started — once

A few questions about how eating feels, what you don't eat and who you cook for. That builds your first plan.

Using Food Signals — ongoing

Record, explore and plan as you go. Not a three-step process you complete once.

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Build your week of meals in under a minute. No account needed to start.

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Ruby Marusic, Accredited Practising Dietitian (Australia)

Accredited Practising Dietitian

Newcastle, Australia

The person behind Food Signals

Created by a dietitian.
Designed around real life.

Ruby Marusic

Founder & Accredited Practising Dietitian (Australia) · Clinical Trial Coordinator at the Hunter Diabetes Centre

Ruby works on GLP-1 medication trials at the Hunter Diabetes Centre. Food Signals began as a spreadsheet she built to assess recipes for her own patients — an early attempt to connect how food suits a person with what they actually cook.

The tolerance-scoring method is still entirely hers. It grew into a journal, a recipe library and family meal planning that work together.

More about Ruby

Early access

The free plan is the start. The app is where it connects.

Free right now: a personalised day of meals, no account needed. The full app adds the ongoing side.

  • Food, drink, symptom and injection-timing journal
  • Your own patterns over time
  • Daily and weekly plans with household portions
  • One consolidated shopping list
  • Your own recipe and product library

Join the waiting list

Food Signals runs in your browser and on iPhone and iPad. Full access is by waiting list at the moment; we'll email you when your place is ready. Android is not yet available.

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Know what suits you. Make dinner work for everyone.

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