'm a brand new client. This is my first experience with Trainerize, and its “meal plan” app. It’s not made a good first impression.

This isn't a meal plan.
It's a box of limp recipe spaghetti thrown up on a digital wall.

In my brief review of the first three days of the "menu plan" I've seen:
- 3 different nut milks
- 5 protein powders
- blue spirulina
- cans of coconut milk
- ground beef, ground chicken, canned salmon, shrimp, fish, shredded chicken
- yogurt, cream cheese, cottage cheese
- several types of fruit
- at least one unusual sugar substitute

I have a family and a job and it's not as an instagram lifestyle yoga instructor. I don't have time to go to the grocery store daily. Also, I am not buying 10 varieties of protein powder, full stop.

This menu does nothing to demystify nutrition or help build healthy habits.

It's useless if the user can't remove ingredients due to allergies, preferences, or even cost and availability. Menu plans should be PLANNED -- this week starts with chicken, ends with fish. Recipes should be simple, easy to follow and focus on readily available ingredients and routines. Many clients, like me, use trainers because they are trying to simplify something. That’s the pain point. Trainerize, you’re literally making their jobs harder with your software.

I can't imagine that any actual human person tested this or gave any user experience feedback. 

I don’t want to have to ask my trainer to use a different way to manage meals, but I’m going to have to, because this product needs serious improvement.

But I also see that there are requests for the past few years and no changes, which doesn’t give me a great feeling about Trainerize as a product in general.