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Real People. Real Kitchens. Real Food.

We're Tanya and the team, and we got tired of the same broken advice about meal prep and healthy eating.

We started Mealpreper Guide because we saw the gap between advice and reality. Healthy eating advice that didn't work in real life. Diet culture that made you feel guilty. Meal prep that meant eating the same thing for five days straight.

So we created something different. A system that gives you variety without repetition. Mental freedom without judgment. Time back without sacrificing quality.

Every meal prep in our app has been cooked multiple times in our actual kitchens. We track real prep times. We test every combination. We make sure it works before it reaches you.

This isn't AI-generated meal plans or recycled Pinterest recipes. This is a nutritionist, a designer, a developer, and a team who cook this food ourselves every week.

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What Makes Us Different (And Why It Matters)

We Test Everything. Obsessively.

Every meal prep goes through our kitchens first. We time it. We taste it. We adjust it. If the chicken takes 25 minutes to cook, we don't tell you 15 minutes like other apps do. We tell you 25 minutes.

If a vegetable combination doesn't taste good after 3 days, we don't include it. If the grocery list has weird leftover amounts, we redesign the recipes.

Ingredient Prep, Not Meal Prep

We're different on purpose. Traditional meal prep means eating the same bowl repeatedly. We prep versatile components that combine into different dishes.

It's the difference between "chicken and rice for 5 days" and "chicken that becomes a salad, a wrap, a bowl, and a pasta dish."

We're Not Diet Culture

No guilt. No extremes. No toxic positivity. No "just be consistent!" when life gets chaotic.

We don't position meal prep as moral virtue. We position it as practical skill. You're not a better person for meal prepping. You just have more time and less stress.

We Teach, Not Just Tell

You're learning a system, not just following recipes. After a few meal preps, you'll understand the logic. You'll start improvising. You'll know which ingredients work together and how to adapt for what you have.

Our goal isn't to make you dependent on the app. It's to teach you a skill so you can feed yourself well without needing us.

Meet the People Behind Your Meal Preps

Tania

CEO & Founder
Team role: Recipe Developer, Menu Creator, Chief Taste,
Certified nutritionist and food blogger (@dribka.soli — 70K followers). Tanya creates every meal prep menu, tests every recipe, and makes sure the nutrition is balanced without you having to count anything.
She started Mealpreper Guide after seeing the gap between "healthy eating advice" and "how people actually live." Every recipe reflects real-life constraints: limited time, normal kitchens, and the reality that nobody wants to eat the same thing five days straight.
Pavlo

CTO & Co-Founder
Team role: App Development, Technical Architecture

5+ years building Flutter apps. Pavlo built the entire Mealpreper Guide platform from scratch—iOS, Android, and backend. He makes sure the app is fast, reliable, and easy to use.

His philosophy: technology should disappear. You shouldn't think about the app. You should think about your meal prep.
Emily

Junior Taste Tester
Team role: Kid Approval Expert, Picky Eater Consultant, Family-Friendly Quality Control

With 5 years of life experience and extremely high standards for what qualifies as "edible," Emily is our toughest critic. She ensures every meal prep passes the most important test: will kids actually eat it?
She's the reason our meal preps include customization tips for picky eaters and why we never assume "healthy" automatically means "kids will eat it."
Dmytro

COO & Co-Founder

Team role: Operations, Partnerships, Customer Insight
15+ years in tech and operations. Dmytro runs the business side, conducts beta test run, and makes sure the app actually solves the problems people have (not the problems we think they have).

Every feature, every message, every meal prep reflects what real users told us they need.
Alla

UI/UX Designer
Team role: App Design, PDF Recipe Guides, Visual Identity

Professional product designer who makes the app beautiful and intuitive. Alla designs every screen, every icon, and every PDF recipe guide.

She believes good design isn't about making things pretty—it's about making them work. If you can't figure out how to use it in 10 seconds, the design failed.

What We Believe About Meal Prep

Tested by Humans, Not Generated by AI

Every meal prep is cooked multiple times by our team before it reaches you. We don't use AI to generate recipes. We use actual kitchens, actual ingredients, and actual timers.
Variety Over Repetition, Always

Component-based cooking means different meals, not the same bowl five days straight. If you're eating the same thing repeatedly, meal prep failed. Variety is the entire point.
Sustainable, Not Extreme

No diet culture. No guilt. No unrealistic standards. Meal prep should make your life easier, not turn into another thing you're "supposed to" do perfectly.
You're Learning a Skill, Not Following Orders

We're teaching you a system, not giving you recipes to blindly follow. After a few meal preps, you'll understand the logic. You'll start creating your own combinations. That's when you've mastered it.