Meals
Food tracking fails because it is homework. Jirdhis works out what your day needs from your body and your goal, then hands you Somali dishes portioned to reach it. You tick off what you ate; you never type in a calorie.
Today
Breakfast, lunch, a snack and dinner, from over sixty Somali dishes: canjeero in the morning, rice with grilled fish or chicken at lunch, cambuulo at night. Each meal takes its share of the day — 25%, 30%, 15% and 30% — and portions are tuned a quarter-portion at a time until the day lands on your numbers.
Tap a meal for its ingredients, the method and how long it takes. Do not fancy it? Swap it for another dish for the same meal.
The arithmetic
Mifflin-St Jeor, the equation a dietitian would reach for: your weight, your height, your age from your year of birth, and your sex. Then a multiplier for how many days you train, then your goal — 18% under maintenance to lose fat, 6% over to get stronger, 12% over to build muscle, level to stay healthy. Rounded to the nearest 50 kcal.
Below that a person is not dieting, they are under-eating. Whatever the arithmetic says, the target stops there.
1.8 g of protein per kilo, rounded to the nearest 5 g. 0.9 g of fat per kilo. Carbohydrate fills whatever energy is left, so the three always add up to the target.
Sex is optional: leave it out and the equation uses the midpoint between the two. Leave out height or year of birth and the target is estimated from your weight, and the app says so, until you add them.
The rest of it
Twelve 250 ml glasses to tap, with the last seven days behind them. The target comes from your weight — 35 ml a kilo — and you can set your own. Reminders, if you want them, come every two hours from 09:00 to 21:00, from the phone itself.
Counted live by the phone’s own step sensor, and read from Health Connect for the hours the app was closed. Want to type a figure in yourself? That works too, and it is recorded as manual so you can always tell the difference.
Derived from the week’s meals and grouped by aisle — protein, staples, fruit and vegetables — so one shop covers the plan. Tick things off as you go; the ticks clear when you leave the list.
What this is not
| Not here | Why |
|---|---|
| A searchable food database | A multi-year data problem other apps have spent years on. The dishes here are the ones the plan is built from. |
| Typing in calories | The app works them out from the dishes it gave you. You mark a meal eaten; it does the counting. |
| Weighing your food | Weighing is the step that makes people quit in week two. Portions come in quarters instead. |
| Barcode scanning | It needs the database above. |
General nutrition guidance, not medical or dietetic advice. The dishes’ figures are close estimates from standard food tables, not laboratory values. If you are pregnant, managing a condition such as diabetes or kidney disease, or have been given a diet by a clinician, follow theirs and speak to them first.