Patent ID: 8924239

Claim:
A method for monitoring a user's diet with a dietary goal and providing a user with the cost information for purchasing a meal per a budget, the method implemented on a computer system with instructions stored thereon having an input device, the method comprising: the computer system accepting a user input from the user with the input device, the user input related to a food intake by the user; the computer system identifying a nutrient value associated with the food intake; the computer system summing the nutrient value of the food intake consumed during a determined period of time to calculate a consumed nutrient value; the computer system determining a dietary goal nutrient value; the computer system comparing the dietary goal nutrient value to the consumed nutrient value to identify a nutrient and a target nutrient value of a nutrient to be consumed to meet the dietary goal nutrient value of an identified nutrient; the computer system accepting input to select at least one identified nutrient to be consumed to meet the dietary goal; the computer system recommending a next meal wherein the next meal has at least one selected nutrient identified in the target nutrient value; the computer system calculating a cost per nutrient of the selected nutrient associated with the next meal; the computer system calculating the cost of purchasing the next meal; the computer system conveying the cost of purchasing the next meal to the user; and the computer system displaying the next meal that provides the target nutrient amount identified by the user and the cost per selected nutrient of the next meal.