The twelve calorie-level checklists on the printables hub got a print redesign: one page now tracks a whole week. The same daily tick boxes — one per cup or ounce-equivalent, straight from the food-pattern tables — repeat in seven day columns under a week-of date line, so the sheet goes up on the fridge once a week instead of into the printer every morning. The 2,000-calorie sheet shows the layout.

The MyPlate Worksheets hub now holds seven free printable food-group worksheets. New this week: a MyPlate coloring page for K–2 (color each section its MyPlate color, draw a food in each), a 13×13 food-group word search with the word list grouped by food group, a Which food group? circle-the-answer sheet that deliberately includes the foods classes argue about (potato, popcorn, tofu, fortified soy milk), and a Food group odd one out sheet — circle the intruder, then name the group the other three share.

Every sheet keeps the classroom chrome — name and date lines, one activity per page, black-and-white print — and its answer key is on the hub, one QR scan from the printed page. Every food on every sheet is classified by the same USDA food-group data the rest of the site runs on. They sit in the classroom section of the printables library and pair with the quizzes, which also print as worksheets.

The water intake calculator now shows a by-weight chart under the result: each body weight at three activity levels, computed by the same arithmetic the calculator runs — so the number you'd get by typing your weight is the number printed in the row. It's on the page in all five languages.

The same chart prints as the Daily Water Intake Chart by Weight, a one-page printable for the fridge or a clinic wall. The official Dietary Reference Intake values for total water sit on the sheet separately, labelled as what they are: a federal reference, not the rule of thumb.

The printables hub is now five sections instead of one long wall of identical cards — for the classroom, health conditions, charts and checklists, everyday healthy eating, and plant-based — with a jump bar that shows how many sheets each section holds. Unique handouts stay as cards, the 10-Tips series is a compact list, and the calorie-level checklists are one row of levels to pick from.

Two things were hiding before. The six MyPlate quizzes print as classroom worksheets with the answer key on its own page, so they're now listed in the classroom section; and the flagship MyPlate Plan one-sheet sits first, directly under the title.

Every calorie level from 1,000 to 3,200 now has a printable daily checklist: the day's five food-group amounts with a box to tick for each, taken from the same food-pattern tables the calculator uses for that level, and a QR code back to the calculator to find your level. Pick yours from the checklists row on the printables hub — the 2,000-calorie sheet, for example.

Each calorie-level meal plan links to its matching checklist and back, so the plan for the week and the sheet for the day come from the same numbers.

What one serving actually looks like, and how to size it with your hand: the new Serving Size & Hand Portion Guide puts the serving-size equivalents for all five food groups on one page, with the hand measure beside each. It has a Spanish edition, the Guía de porciones y medidas con la mano.

The flagship MyPlate Plan one-sheet now has a Spanish edition: El Plan MiPlato en una hoja — the whole method on one printable page, plate, drinks and moving more, as a PDF with a QR code to the Spanish site. It leads the Spanish printables hub, and miplato.food, the address printed on it, now lands you on the Spanish edition of the site.

The eight single-purpose calculators — waist-to-height and waist-to-hip ratio, lean body mass, FFMI, water intake, weight-loss percentage, one-rep max and GLP-1 protein — now have a Save button on the result. Signed in, the value lands in a measurements card on your MyPlan dashboard with its label and date, a re-run link and a delete; signed out, the save waits for you to sign in and then completes.

Each result page also points the way to the full MyPlate Plan — the daily food-group plan the single-number tools sit alongside. All of them are on the calculators hub.

How many calories in an egg? A teaspoon of sugar? Half a cup of baked beans? The new food lookup shows you, by the portion you actually use: search 5,740 USDA foods from your dashboard, pick a portion like "1 egg" or "1 slice," set how many, and the calories are right there with protein, carbs, and fat beside them, every food naming its USDA FoodData Central source.

One tap logs what you found to any day and meal in the MyPlate Tracker — or read the number and get back to your spreadsheet. It has its own screen in your dashboard, a search card right on the overview, and a spot in the Tracker & Foods menu.

The NASEM 2023 edition of our calculators now uses NASEM's own pregnancy and lactation equations (Tables 5-17 through 5-19) instead of applying the older IOM adjustments to the newer baseline. Pregnancy targets shift by up to ~200 calories depending on activity; lactation adjustments become +400 (first six months) and +380 (months 7–12). The IOM 2005 edition is unchanged — the editions stay true to their own sources.

We also closed two age-boundary gaps: people between their 8th and 9th, or 18th and 19th birthdays were computed with the wrong equation. Every equation and constant is documented on the methodology page, and our editorial policy now re-runs 43 published-value checks on every release — including the exact boundary ages that were wrong.

If you open the MyPlate Tracker without a saved plan, the prompt under the ring now opens the plan editor right there — add your height, weight, and activity, save, and the ring flips to your calorie and food-group targets in place. The full MyPlate calculator is still one tap away if you want the guided version.

Saving your plan used to end with a "Saved" confirmation — and nothing else. Now, on every calculator — the MyPlate Plan, protein, BMR, TDEE, macros, BMI, body fat and the rest — saving hands you straight to the tracker with the log sheet open and your numbers already set. Log one meal and today's plate starts filling in.

The recipe library now has a Low carb toggle — 15 g of carbohydrates or less per serving — right beside High protein. Both filters read the same per-serving nutrition every recipe already carries, so what you see is the published number, not an estimate.

The High-Protein Foods Chart lists 46 USDA foods by MyPlate group with protein per serving — built from the same USDA data the tracker searches. Alongside it, two heart-focused sheets join the printables library: the DASH eating plan's servings chart, transcribed cell-for-cell from the NIH publication, and a heart-healthy plate method handout.

Every recipe now has Cook Mode: your screen stays awake while you cook, directions show one big-type step at a time with previous/next, and the ingredient list becomes a check-off panel. Open any of the 1,072 recipes and start cooking — no more tapping your phone awake with flour on your hands.

A new MyPlate Worksheets hub for teachers, starting with three print-ready worksheets — food-group sorting, food-to-group matching, and plate labeling — each with its answer key on the same page. They pair with the printables and quizzes for a full lesson, free, no signup.

Eating plant-based on the MyPlate pattern got a full kit: a vegan 7-day meal plan at 1,700 calories, a vegetarian week at 2,000, a Vegan Recipes collection drawn from the USDA corpus, vegetarian protein subgroups surfaced on the food-group pages, and four plant-based sheets in the printables library.

A reader asked for it, so we built it: 25 kid-friendly snack ideas organized by MyPlate food group, print-ready in English and Spanish, in the printables library. It came straight from the "missing a printable?" box on that page — that's exactly what it's for.

The MyPlate Tracker now searches 5,740 USDA foods with calories built in. Type a food, pick a household portion like "1 medium" or "2 slices," and one tap logs it with the calories already filled in. Every entry comes from USDA FoodData Central, so the number you log is the published one.

And you no longer need the number to start: Quick add now logs a food by name alone, so a blank calorie field never stops you. Fill it in later, or let the Foods tab do it for you.

When your BMI falls outside the healthy range, the MyPlate Calculator now shows a second calorie figure beside the one that maintains your weight today: the daily target for a weight in the middle of the healthy BMI range. The original USDA MyPlate Plan offered this second number too, and we rebuilt it with the same USDA equations we use everywhere else.

It is framed to support, not to diet. Small, steady changes if the goal is to move down, gentle guidance if it is to move up, and a plain note on exactly how the number is worked out. It prints with the rest of your plan, and a clinician can drop it from a patient handout in Print options. MyPlate.food is independent and not affiliated with USDA.

Teachers were already using the quizzes, printables, and recipes in class — now one page collects the whole kit: the Build-a-Day class activity with a printable assignment sheet and grading rubric, six food-group quizzes, the tip sheets, and the food diary template. Everything free, print-clean, and with no login for students.

Quizzes, tip sheets, and Build a Day now carry Share-to-Classroom and Share-to-Teams buttons — one click posts them to a class stream. The Spanish side is real, not translated filler: native Plato del Bien Comer printables and quizzes for Spanish class and ESL, at /es/para-maestros.

This one started as a real class assignment: a student was sent to our recipes to find themselves a breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, and dessert. Build a Day makes that assignment work the way it should — five slots, 1,072 real USDA recipes, and a live check of whether the day covers all five MyPlate food groups.

It needs no account (nothing is stored on our servers — the day lives in the browser and in the link you copy), it prints as one clean page, and the share link pastes straight into Google Classroom or Teams. In every language we speak: English, Spanish, French, Korean, and German.

On a GLP-1, appetite collapses and the job flips: the hard part isn't eating less, it's getting enough protein to hold onto muscle across a few small meals. The new MyPlan GLP-1 Companion tracks a protein floor you clear — not a ceiling you stay under — frames your dose week, and keeps gentle backup meals ready for the rough days.

It's free, prescriber-neutral, and has no drug to sell — with a maintenance mode for when you stop, so the pattern can outlast the medication. Every target shows its source; the deeper nutrition write-up lives in the GLP-1 guide.

Official dietary guidance changed a lot lately: the US retired MyPlate as its federal icon in January, and Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Mexico, and South Korea all revised their guidance within the last two years. Most of those changes got almost no plain-language coverage.

Guideline Watch is our answer: a dated log of what changed in the guidelines and food rules we document — one entry per real change, a flag so you can see at a glance which country it applies to, a plain "what it means" line, and a link to every primary source. It launches with 17 entries across eight jurisdictions, plus the EAT-Lancet Commission and the ADA.

Entries with real depth get their own full-analysis page — starting with the ADA's 2026 Standards of Care and South Korea's 2025 nutrient reference values. And it has an RSS feed, if you like your updates the old way.

Eight new pages document the BZfE Ernährungspyramide, the DGE-Ernährungskreis and its 2024 recommendations, and the Austrian and Swiss models — all four renewed in 2024.

It includes an interactive Portionsrechner (a tap-to-fill day tracker across the 22 portion blocks) and a D-A-CH energy-requirements lookup built on the published DGE/ÖGE tables. In all five languages.

The full site — calculators, food groups, portions, and all 1,072 recipes — now ships in German, alongside English, Spanish, Korean, and French.

New German-first pages include the BMI-Rechner and the Kalorienrechner.

Every calculator result can now be shared as a link that reopens the exact same numbers forever, even as we add new options — the snapshot travels in the link itself and never touches our servers.

Dietary guidelines moved into the Learn menu as a directory, the main calculator is now simply the “MyPlate Calculator”, and the language menu shows full native names (Deutsch, Español, …).

The tracker is now a full dashboard section — a calorie ring, a USDA-faithful plate that fills by food group, a navigable week strip, and bottom-sheet logging.

Install it to your home screen and it works as an app. See the calorie tracker overview.

The USDA “10 Tips” series returns as 12 print-ready tip sheets — plus 14 Spanish ones, including two recovered originals — and the food-group quizzes are back with the original questions.

Seven new tools joined — 1RM, water, FFMI, waist ratios, lean mass, and weight-loss percentage among them.

Every calculator now carries a “Formula & sources” section with the actual equations, rendered from the same code that computes your numbers.

Free 7-day meal plans built entirely from the USDA recipe corpus, at every calorie level, with a weekly planner and print layouts.