Your Food World: How PrepSmart Organizes Recipes Around Your Diet

Most recipe apps hand you everything and make you dig. PrepSmart starts the other way around: it builds your Food World — a personalized universe of recipes and creators shaped entirely around what you can eat. Your diet isn't a filter you toggle on top of a giant pile. It's the organizing principle for the whole app.

If you've just been diagnosed with something, or you're cooking for a household where two people eat differently, this is the part that makes PrepSmart feel like it was built for you. Your Food World shows you your yes list — the foods, recipes, and creators that fit your life — instead of asking you to scan past everything you have to avoid.

And the foundation is free, forever. No ads, ever.

What "Food World" Means

Your Food World is your personalized, diet-filtered universe of recipes and creators. When you pick your diet during setup, PrepSmart doesn't just hide a few recipes — it organizes the entire app around that choice. Recipes, the creators we suggest, what shows up in Explore, and what lands in your Recipe Box all flow from it.

Think of your diet as the lens, not the wall. It's framed around what you can eat — your yes list — never a rulebook telling you how you should eat. PrepSmart supports 25+ diet types and growing, from Keto and Vegan to Mediterranean, Gluten Free, AIP, and many more.

Changing Your Diet Never Deletes Anything

This is the part people worry about most, so let's be clear: changing your diet is non-destructive. Nothing is deleted.

You picked one diet during setup, but you can change it anytime — it's a single choice that filters your food world, and you're never locked in. When you switch:

• Your Recipe Box stays intact — every recipe you saved is still there.
• Your Weekly Plan stays intact — nothing you built disappears.
• The creators you follow stay followed.

What changes is what PrepSmart surfaces going forward — the recipes and suggestions that fit your new lens. Your history is yours to keep.

This matters most in two situations:

• Newly diagnosed? You can set your diet today, explore what fits, and adjust as you learn what works for your body — without losing anything you've already collected along the way.
• Cooking for a multi-diet household? You can shift your lens to plan around different needs at different times, knowing your saved recipes and plans are always safe.

How Following Seeds Your Food World

Your Food World fills up based on who and what you follow. During setup you follow at least three creators, brands, or stores, and that's the seed:

• Creators — when you follow a creator, you get 3 free recipes from them, kept forever. Your first pick is their top-rated recipe; the others you can swap for ones you like better. These free recipes are yours regardless of anything else.
• Brands, stores, and appliances — recipes from the food brands, grocery stores, and appliances you follow are always fully free.
• Starter Recipes — every account comes with a small, fixed set of Starter Recipes already matched to your diet, included free. They give your Food World a running start on day one.

Following is always free. Following a creator is different from subscribing to one. Following costs nothing and gets you their 3 free recipes. Subscribing (a paid, creator-set price — most run $2.99–$9.99/month, for example around $6.99) unlocks that creator's full catalog beyond the 3 free. You decide whether to subscribe later, inside the app — never during setup, and you never need PrepSmart+ to subscribe to a creator.

How Food World Connects to Recipe Box and Weekly Plan

Your Food World is the source. Recipe Box and Weekly Plan are what you build from it.

• Recipe Box is where your saved recipes live — your Starter Recipes, your free creator picks, recipes from followed brands and stores, and anything else you save as you explore. It's the keep-pile drawn from your Food World.
• Weekly Plan is a freeform canvas (not a rigid calendar grid) where you pull recipes from your Recipe Box into Meal Tiles — workspaces you label yourself, like "Taco Tuesday" or "Sunday Prep." From there, your Smart Shopping List auto-builds from those Meal Tiles, organized by aisle and aware of your store, and you head to Cook when it's time to make the food.

Setup actually walks you through this: by the time you reach any pricing decision, PrepSmart has already built your Recipe Box and your first Weekly Plan for you — for free — so you see your Food World working before anything is asked of you.

The Free Foundation

The full plan-to-shop-to-cook loop is free, forever:

• Your full Plan → Shop → Cook loop
• Your Recipe Box plus sortable shopping lists
• Your diet-matched Starter Recipes
• Recipes from every brand, store, and appliance you follow
• 3 free recipes from every creator you follow — kept forever
• 100% ad-free

When you want more, two upgrades sit on top of this foundation, and they're completely independent — add either, both, or neither:

• PrepSmart+ ($4.99/month or $39.99/year, with a 7-day free trial) layers on four things: Save & reload any week, Import any recipe, Shop smarter, and One pass, many hands.
• Creator subscriptions unlock a creator's full catalog beyond the 3 free, at a price each creator sets.

You never need one to get the other, and you decide on creator subscriptions in the app — not during setup.

A Note on Your Login

PrepSmart is password-free. You sign up and log back in with your phone number and a one-time code (OTP) — enter your number, get the code by text, type it in, and you're in. No passwords to remember or reset. (Need a fresh code? Tap Resend.)

Quick Recap

• Your Food World is your personalized, diet-filtered universe — diet is the organizing principle, framed around what you can eat.
• Changing your diet never deletes anything — your Recipe Box, Weekly Plan, and follows all stay intact.
• Following (always free) seeds your Food World: 3 free recipes per creator forever, plus free brand/store/appliance recipes and your Starter Recipes.
• Your Food World feeds your Recipe Box, which feeds your Weekly Plan and Smart Shopping List.
• The foundation is free forever and 100% ad-free. PrepSmart+ and creator subscriptions are optional, independent add-ons.

Questions about setting up your Food World? Check the rest of this getting-started guide or reach out to our support team.