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title: "Meal plan overview"
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# Meal plan overview

A meal plan can help you meet your goals by enabling you to plan your meals and shop for ingredients in advance. If you are a [Premium member](/docs/en/subscribe-to-carb-manager-premium), you can choose from three types of meal plans in Carb Manager. You can also print shopping lists and calendars to help you prepare.

## Types of meal plans

- [Generate a meal plan](/docs/en/generate-meal-plans) — Carb Manager can generate a plan based on your dietary preferences, food intolerances or aversions, and other options. Carb Manager automatically selects Premium recipes for you, or you can choose from lists of recommended recipes.
- [Create a custom meal plan](/docs/en/create-custom-meal-plans-1) — Build your own plan with recipes from your personal food history (including My Foods, Favorites, and Frequently Eaten) as well as other recipes from our database. Create a meal plan for each meal, snack, or supplement in advance for up to 30 different days.
- [Choose a curated meal plan](/docs/en/find-foods-recipes-and-meals#view-premium-curated-meal-plans) — Choose from a large selection of 7-day plans that are designed by our in-house chefs.

## Prepare for your planned meals

Once you choose and start a meal plan, the planned meals appear in your daily log. To help you prepare:

- [Generate and print a shopping list](/docs/en/generate-and-print-shopping-lists).
- [Print a calendar of all planned meals](/docs/en/print-a-calendar-of-planned-meals-and-recurring-foods).

## More information

See our [video tutorials](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFyerNxZYby93kWs8b5mkjIiDtFGlXqGt) for more information about meal plans, finding food in Carb Manager, and other topics.