Patent ID: 8706525

Claim:
A computerized method for providing meal suggestions to a user consistent with said user's dietary preferences, comprising: (a) receiving at a computer from a user; (1) personal identifying data; (2) contact information for a portable device; (3) food preferences; and (4) time of day preferences comprising for at least one meal a preferred time for eating said meal; (b) accessing at said computer a computer-accessible database comprising dietary and nutritional data for a plurality of foods to identify foods for a meal consistent with said user's food preferences; (c) generating at said computer a primary personalized message comprising a meal suggestion for said user, said meal suggestion identifying foods for a meal consistent with said user's food preferences; (d) determining at said computer a transmit time for sending said computer-generated primary personalized message consistent with said user's time of day preference for eating said meal; (e) automatically sending from said computer to said user's portable device at said transmit time said computer-generated primary personalized message; (f) receiving at said computer from said user's portable device a user response to said primary personalized message; (g) generating at said computer a secondary personalized message responsive to said user response; and (h) automatically sending from said computer to said user's portable device said computer-generated secondary personalized message.