Allergy-Friendly Meal Planner: Plan Around the Foods You Avoid

Tell Mealiv which allergens and foods you need to avoid. Mealiv uses those preferences when creating your weekly meals, recipes and shopping list — so you plan around what you avoid, then check the details before you eat.

Plan Around My Allergies See How It Works

Your selections can be reviewed and changed from your Mealiv account.

Important allergen information: Mealiv is a meal-planning aid and cannot guarantee that a meal or product is free from an allergen. Always review recipes, ingredient labels and cross-contamination warnings, particularly for diagnosed or severe allergies. Read how Mealiv handles allergen information.

How It Works

Tell Mealiv what you avoid. Select one or more allergens, dietary requirements or individual foods.
Review your saved preferences. Mealiv saves your selections to your account so you can reuse and change them later.
Generate a personalised meal plan. Mealiv uses your saved requirements when selecting or generating recipes.
Review and shop. Check each recipe and product label, then turn the plan into a weekly shopping list.

Set your allergens once — every plan is built around them
Meals are designed around the allergens you select, not just flagged
Checks for related ingredients like butter, whey, breadcrumbs and soy sauce
Get an allergy-friendly grocery list for the week

Planning Meals With Allergies Is Hard. Mealiv Makes It Automatic.

When you or someone in your household has a food allergy, every meal is a label-reading exercise. It is easy to remember the obvious — no milk, no bread — and miss the hidden sources, like the whey in a seasoning or the breadcrumbs in a coating.

Mealiv takes that mental load off your week. Add your allergens to your account and the planner builds your meals around them from the start, so you are choosing between meals that already exclude what you avoid — then confirming the recipe and labels before you cook.

Allergens Mealiv Can Plan Around

Choose from the major food allergens, or add your own foods to avoid:

Gluten
Dairy
Eggs
Tree nuts
Peanuts
Soy
Fish
Shellfish
Sesame
Celery

What Mealiv Checks For Beyond the Obvious

The hardest part of allergy planning is the ingredient you do not think of. Mealiv associates each allergen with common related ingredients, so meals are checked on their real contents, not just the category word:

Dairy also covers butter, cheese, cream, yoghurt, ghee and whey
Gluten also covers bread, pasta, breadcrumbs, couscous and standard soy sauce
Nuts also cover almond, cashew, hazelnut, marzipan and praline
Eggs also cover mayonnaise, aioli and meringue
Soy also covers tofu, tempeh, edamame and miso

This runs across both the meals Mealiv picks from your recipe library and any new meals it generates. It is designed to support your own label checking — not replace it — so always confirm ingredients before you eat.

An Allergy-Friendly Grocery List, Built In

Once your plan is ready, Mealiv turns it into a shopping list from the same free-from meals — so you are not translating a meal plan into a shopping list by hand.

That means fewer surprises at the supermarket, less time reading labels for foods you have already ruled out, and a week of meals planned around what you avoid. Check product labels as you shop, since formulations can change.

How Mealiv Handles Allergen Information

Mealiv uses the allergens and foods saved to your account when selecting and generating meals. It can identify many common ingredients and related terms, but no automated meal planner can guarantee that a recipe or packaged product is suitable for every allergy.

Always review the full recipe, check labels on packaged ingredients and look for cross-contamination or “may contain” warnings. Product recipes can change without notice. For diagnosed, severe or anaphylactic allergies, follow the advice of your doctor, dietitian or allergy specialist.

For the wider routine — the 14 major UK allergens, preventing cross-contamination at home, batch cooking, the nutrients worth watching when a food group comes out, and a sample week — read our complete guide to meal planning for food allergies.

Plan Around Your Allergies

Set your allergens, plan your week and generate a free-from grocery list — all in a few minutes with Mealiv.

Plan Around My Allergies

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. When you add your allergens to your account, Mealiv builds meal plans that avoid them rather than just warning you. Both the meals chosen from your library and any meals it generates are filtered to leave out your allergens.

Yes. Each allergy is expanded to its common derivatives — for example dairy also excludes butter, cheese, cream, yoghurt and whey, and gluten also excludes bread, pasta, breadcrumbs and soy sauce — so meals are filtered on the actual ingredients, not just the category word.

Mealiv supports the major food allergens including gluten, dairy, eggs, nuts, peanuts, soy, fish, shellfish, sesame and celery, and you can also add your own foods to avoid.

Mealiv is a planning aid, not a medical or food-safety guarantee. It helps you build meals that avoid your allergens, but you should always read product labels and check with the manufacturer or your doctor for a severe or anaphylactic allergy.

Yes. Mealiv turns your allergy-friendly meal plan into a shopping list built from the same avoided-ingredient rules, so your list reflects the free-from meals you planned.

Plan Around a Specific Allergen

Gluten-Free Meal Planner — Weekly plans that skip the gluten, including hidden sources.
Dairy-Free Meal Planner — Meals without milk, cheese, butter or whey.
Nut-Free Meal Planner — Meals planned around peanut and tree-nut avoidance.

Explore More Mealiv Meal Planners

Vegan Meal Planner — Plan plant-based meals with an automatic grocery list.
AI Meal Planner — Smart weekly plans for any diet style or restriction.
Family Meal Planner — Plan meals the whole household can enjoy.

Plan around the foods you avoid

Mealiv helps you build allergy-friendly meal plans around common allergen sources and generate a free-from shopping list in minutes — while you stay in control of the final label check.

Plan Around My Allergies