One menu, every diet, zero recalculation

Before CalcMenu, adapting a standard menu into puréed, minced or low-residue versions meant starting from scratch for every diet, with nutritional errors at every step. Now you define your diet and texture profiles once, and CalcMenu automatically generates every variant — IDDSI included — with every menu change. Your care and kitchen teams always work from consistent, up-to-date sheets.

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Why this feature matters

This feature is built directly into the CalcMenu recipe and menu database. The same data serves kitchen, service, and administration—no re-entry, no paper versions.

What it gives you

Instant variants without re-entry

Each base recipe automatically generates all its diet and texture variants (normal, minced, puréed, liquid, IDDSI levels 1–7, low-salt, diabetic…) without any dietitian or cook having to re-enter a single weight. Editing the source recipe updates every variant in real time.

Nutritional values always consistent

Every texture variant automatically recalculates energy, protein, fat, carbohydrate and micronutrient content, factoring in cooking losses and added thickeners. Your care teams have reliable nutritional values for every diet, with no manual calculation whatsoever.

IDDSI compliance and full traceability

IDDSI levels 0 to 7 are built in natively: every dish is labelled with its texture level and compliance criteria. In the event of an audit or incident, you have a complete history of every variant served, per resident or patient, with the date and corresponding IDDSI level.

How it works

1. Configure your diet profiles

In CalcMenu, create your diet and texture profiles: name them according to your internal nomenclature (or use the default IDDSI levels), define ingredient substitution rules, added thickeners and texture-specific losses. This configuration is done once and applies across your entire recipe catalogue.

2. Assign profiles to your menus

For each planned menu, specify which diets and texture levels need to be produced — by care unit, by table or by individual guest where required. CalcMenu instantly calculates the quantities to prepare for each profile and generates separate production sheets per texture, with no re-entry.

3. Print sheets and labels per diet

Generate at one click recipe sheets per texture with recalculated nutritional values, order forms adapted to thickener or substitute quantities, and identification labels per tray or guest including the IDDSI level. Every document is ready for the kitchen, dining room and care teams with no manual intervention.

In care settings, it is rarely the case that every resident or patient can eat the same dish. Low-sodium diets, diabetic requirements, blended textures, allergens, religious restrictions — each individual comes with their own set of needs. Until now, adapting a menu has typically meant recalculating every recipe by hand, producing multiple paper versions, and hoping nothing slips through the cracks.

CalcMenu solves this problem at its source. Starting from a single reference dish, the software automatically generates all the required diet and texture variants — no manual recipe recalculation needed. The base dish remains the single source of truth; every adaptation flows from it consistently.

Reliable Diets, Empowered Teams

When a resident’s dietary requirements change, there is no need to rework every menu for the month. The update is applied in real time across production sheets, orders, labels, and tray cards. Care staff can immediately see which options are available for the next meal.

This level of automation significantly reduces the risk of error. No more dishes prepared for the wrong diet, no more missing labels, no more recipes copied out twice with conflicting quantities. A single shared database ensures that the kitchen, service staff, and care teams are always working from the same information.

Built-In Nutrition and Traceability

Every diet variant inherits the nutritional calculations and allergen data from the base dish. If an ingredient is substituted or modified, all related variants update automatically. Nutritional reports, cost analyses, and regulatory labels always reflect the current, approved version.

Quality managers and dietitians gain a consolidated view of the entire food offering — regardless of how wide a range of diets is served on any given day.

A Dignified Experience for Every Patient

Beyond safety, diet management has a direct impact on quality of life. Being served a dish that looks and feels like everyone else’s — even when adapted — makes a real difference to residents’ wellbeing. CalcMenu allows kitchens to preserve the appearance, flavour, and presentation of each dish while fully meeting medical requirements. A special diet no longer means a lesser meal; it simply means the right version of the same one.

For which sectors

From acute care wards to long-term care facilities, school catering and central production kitchens, teams using CalcMenu remove the manual re-entry step that most texture errors trace back to: every menu change regenerates the variants instead of having them redone by hand.

Care Homes & Nursing Homes

Resident menus, diets, tray cards. For institutions that want zero errors.

Psychiatry

Multiple wards, sites, complex diets. No phone calls, no paper.

Rehabilitation

Clinical diets, HACCP, multi-site. Prescriptions connected directly to the kitchen.

Home meals & home care

From prescription to the patient's plate, without a break.

Airline catering

SPML, manifests and trays right, flight after flight.

Hospital

Clinical dietetics, IDDSI, full traceability. For hospital kitchens where errors are not an option.

Private clinic

Culinary excellence, clinical diets, full traceability. Hotel-grade quality with zero compromise on safety.

CalcMenu for Cruise Ship Galleys

From provisioning port to passenger plate — every diet, every nationality, every sailing.

Camps & bases

Large-scale meals for mobile workforces, with varied diets and full traceability.

Correctional facilities

Secure, diet-compliant and traceable meals, served at scale every day.

Caterers & contract catering

Custom menus per client, with different allergen and cost requirements for every contract.

Medical thermal cure

Prescribed diets, multi-week stays, insurance-covered care. Clinical rigour applied to thermal spa hospitality.

School catering

Safe, balanced menus that stay consistent across every school.

Corporate restaurant

Forecast footfall, control food cost, display everything at self-service.

Food manufacturer

The recipe becomes a product: compliant labels and exact declarations, at scale.

Nutrition brand

Substantiated claims, nutrition to the gram, across your whole portfolio.

Staff Canteens & Corporate Restaurants

Hundreds of covers a day, zero guesswork: menus, allergens and costs fully under control.

Military & Defence

Thousands of meals, zero margin for error. Military food logistics under control.

Cruises & ferries

Kitchens at sea that supply multiple ports, with limited stock and menus adapted to each itinerary.

Public Administration & Police

Staff canteens for government offices and law-enforcement agencies, run to full public-sector accountability.

University dining

Thousands of students, multiple campuses, one safety standard.

Spa & wellness resort

Fine-dining restaurant, spa bar, room service — several outlets, one recipe base.

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