Choosing Your Diet Type
Creator sign-up is opening soon. This article walks through one step in the designed creator experience: picking your diet type. It's one of two quick picks (the other is your account type) that happen early in sign-up, and it does more work than it looks like — it's how the right fans find you on PrepSmart.
What this step is
When you sign up, you'll see a screen titled "Tell us about you" with two quick picks:
- What are you? — Creator, grocery store, kitchen appliance brand, or food brand.
- Pick your diet type — the one diet your fans know you for.
This article covers the second pick. The screen frames it simply: "This is the diet type your fans know you for and how they find you." You choose one.
Why your diet type matters
Everyone who joins PrepSmart — every home cook — picks a diet type too. PrepSmart only surfaces creators who match the diet a cook follows. So your diet type isn't a label for your profile; it's the matchmaker between your food and the people most likely to subscribe.
That's why the designed experience asks you to pick the one your food truly fits, not the widest net you can cast. A precise choice means aligned followers — people who came looking for exactly what you cook, and who stick around. A loose choice means fans who drift, because your food wasn't quite what they signed up to find.
This same diet type later feeds your earnings forecast and the way your page is positioned, so getting it right at sign-up sets up everything downstream.
Pick the one diet — even if you cook across several
Most creators make more than one kind of food. The step still asks for a single pick, and there's a reason: discovery works one diet at a time. The question to ask yourself is "what do my fans know me for?" — the food that first brought your audience to you, not the full range of everything you've ever posted.
If you genuinely create across many diets without a single signature, the list includes an "Anything goes — I create across many diets" option for exactly that case. Use it when no single diet is your identity — not as a default to avoid choosing.
If nothing's an exact match: pick the closest fit
The picker shows around 30 chips to scroll through. This is a sign-up convenience list to get you started quickly — it's not the full or final catalog of how food is organized on PrepSmart, so don't worry if your exact niche isn't spelled out as its own chip.
If you scroll all the way and still don't see a perfect match, the designed flow is clear:
Pick the closest fit first, then request the one you really cook for.
Choosing the closest fit means your page still gets built and positioned right away around something real, instead of stalling on a perfect-match search. You're never blocked by a missing chip.
Requesting your diet type
After you've picked the closest fit, you can tap ＋ Request your diet type to tell us the diet you really cook for. A short panel asks you to type it in — for example, "Ayurvedic" — and explains: "You've picked the closest fit above. Now tell us the diet you really cook for — we'll upvote it for future consideration."
When you submit, you'll see a "Request received" confirmation:
"We've received and upvoted [your diet] — we'll notify you if it's added. For now, your page is built around the closest fit you picked."
Two things to know about requests:
- Your page isn't waiting on it. It's built around the closest fit you already picked, so you can keep moving through sign-up and go live. If your requested diet is added later, you'll be notified.
- Requests are upvotes. The more cooks and creators request the same diet, the sooner it gets considered for the list. Yours adds to that signal.
A quick way to decide
- Name what your fans know you for. One phrase. That's usually your answer.
- Find it — or the closest thing — in the list. Don't overthink chips that are near-matches; closest fit is the right move.
- Cook across many diets with no single signature? Pick "Anything goes."
- Genuinely missing? Pick the closest fit, then tap ＋ Request your diet type and type in the real one.
That's the whole step. It takes a few seconds, and it quietly decides who finds you — so spend those seconds on the honest answer rather than the broadest one.
What happens next
Once your two quick picks are in, sign-up moves on to connecting your account and confirming your audience, and then a team of experts begins building your profile, recipes, and brand voice for you to review and approve. Your diet type carries through all of it — it's the thread that connects your food to the fans most likely to cook it.
Questions about this step? Reach us at support@useprepsmart.com.