Start Simple with MyPlate

USDA Food & Nutrition Service

About this app

PICK YOUR GOALS
 
- Set goals within food groups (Fruits, Vegetables, Grains, Protein Foods, Dairy)
- Choose from a variety of food goals or use the ”Pick for me!” feature if you want ready-made goals and tips
- Sync up to your smartwatch (or do it all on your mobile device)
 
SEE PROGRESS AND GET SUPPORT
 
- See daily progress in each food group as you meet your goals
- Get simple how-to tips to help you meet your goals
- Select options for notifications and reminders
- Visit the MyPlate 101 section for more information about healthy eating

EARN BADGES THAT CELEBRATE YOUR SUCCESS
 
- Earn badges as food group goals are completed
- Collect a variety of badges such as first goal complete, daily-streaks, food group badges, and the ultimate MyPlate badge
- Post your badges on social media to share your success and encourage others

Pick goals, see progress, and celebrate success starting today. Download Start Simple with MyPlate!
 
TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL
 
- Join challenges to stay motivated and try new goals
- Visit the challenges section to see upcoming challenges and view your progress
- Be on the lookout for periodic “popup” challenges
- Earn unique badges that are only available from completing challenges
 
Pick goals, see progress, and celebrate success starting today. Download Start Simple with MyPlate!
 

Ratings and reviews

A good start, but I'd like to see more features, like creating your own goals/stepping up to more advanced goals; allowing more than 3 goals per food group daily; connecting your MyPlate 101 results so you can account for your daily calorie and food group needs; the ability to track your total daily intake per food group; and accounting for exercise, even if it's a simple feature. Also, adding new goals hurts your past stats, and a weekly seafood goal is treated as a daily goal.

Not at all what I thought it would be. I expected to have my "plan" in the app so I could track if I was meeting it, like track that I got my 2 servings of fruit, etc. This just gives you little tasks like "start the day with... Have with lunch/dinner... With another food group". I didn't need it to tell me when to eat something I just wanted an easy way to keep track I was meeting my daily amounts.

Honestly not a useful app. I love the method of tracking servings of each food group, but why can't I do exactly that in the app? And I can't take the quiz in the app? Or enter in my specific amounts? Yes, you can get ideas for little habits to build which can be helpful. But you can't do any personalization in the app which is just a bummer. Still searching for an easy way to track servings/portions. Disappointed in this app.

What’s new

Build healthy eating habits one goal at a time! Use the Start Simple with MyPlate mobile app to pick daily food goals, see real-time progress, and earn fun badges along the way.

- New Tips design - get ideas on simple tasty ways to meet your goals and share them with friends!
- Improvements to keep the app running smoothly