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I went into this program not expecting much honestly. A year later - and much to my surprise - this has been the absolute best meal plan I have ever done! Word of caution we tried the recopies with protein powders we found at GMC or Target and they were clumpy and not as good, but when we switched to the CSE protein the experience was night and day. Their product is so smooth and while I was against the flavored protein powders at first, much to my surprise I love them! The nut butters are really good although I still prefer organic peanut butter or almond butter with certain recopies and to save on cost but overall they are good and worth the cost as well. My recommendation would be to get a food scale (a must!!), at least one physical book, and one bag of protein (brownie / chocolate works well) for your first challenge. In order to track your macros use the app! It’s the best way to set your macros and figure out your daily meals and snacks. Once you get in the groove this program rocks! One more tip - I know they say to do the meal prep on Sunday but I found it worked better to focus on three days at a time for us since I consider myself a beginner in the kitchen and we wasted some groceries in the beginning buying too much. Overall, I have to admit my wife was right on this one and I absolutely LOVE the CSE program. Good luck!!

I waited a long time to get this app and subscription because I was stubborn and have all the digital books. Having the app has changed everything for me! Before, I was using 3 different apps (books, tracking macros, grocery list) plus using paper to meal plan and then calculating macros while figuring out recipes. I rarely planned for lunch because breakfast and dinner were exhausting enough. I was going back and forth between books trying to remember which books recipes were in. Meal planning was such a chore and my life is too busy for that, so some weeks meal planning just wasn’t happening and then meal times were chaos. Since getting the app subscription 3 weeks ago, I have been able to do all I was previously doing in a fraction of the time and I have lost 5 pounds. I plan my meals out at least two weeks in advance, I have easy access to them, my husband can easily find recipes, my macros are calculated for me, and my grocery list is auto generated each week. Searching on the app is a breeze, I am loving the extra recipes the app provides and I am loving the free shipping on products. Everything is well thought out and I will be a life-long subscriber. I am SO happy with the CSE app!

Even if you are eating other food besides CSE, you can easily scan the food bar from the package or search for it and add it to your day. You can easily copy from one day to another. Each recipe gives you an option to add it to your plan, track it or add it to a favorite group. You can search for recipes based on the CSE products you already own. The rings that calculate your macros are really cool and i learned quickly that there was more fat in my diet than i realized. I thought i ate pretty healthy, but i had noticed weight gain, but it wasn’t making sense. I can’t wait to adjust my eating and see how things change. The app is just amazing. They’ve thought of everything.

The recipes are delicious. The program makes it easy to keep track of macros. I love the shopping list feature. I love the wide variety of foods and “treats” that feel like I’m indulging and yet still staying in my macro count.

However, this program is not long-term sustainable if you're cooking for a busy family life. Often you have to find out your serving size of the main dish by weighing the final product and dividing it. With the coming and going of family, and often tripling recipes so you have enough to fill hungry teenage boys, this makes it difficult. It would be helpful if they added a serving size by grams or cups, then if there’s anything left after everyone else is full you would still know how much to put away for the next day. It would also be helpful to add prep time and cook time required to the recipes. Also, to make recipes searchable by slow cooker, cook-time, etc. That way menu prep would not take as long as you try to find things that will fit into your busy evenings. It would also be awesome if they could work on more plant-based recipes. The plant based recipes available are mostly mediocre.

The developers of the app did a fantastic job. Super easy to use and convenient. I really haven’t been in love with the recipes (cooking techniques are really amateur). And I can’t eat dairy and can only tolerate small amounts of meat, which means almost every recipe is not appropriate for me. And recipes labeled “plant based” almost always include dairy and often seafood. Seems like the recipe writers need to educate themselves on the definition of plant based. I’ve been following for a week now on the cse challenge and remembered why my urologist told me to avoid meat/dairy because I’ve already had 4 kidney stones. Haven’t had those in a long time, which is always aggravated by high animal protein in my diet. High protein diets really aren’t great for cardiovascular health or kidney health so this program isn’t one that I’ll stick with. Also have noticed this diet has decreased the fiber I typically consume.

If you’re new to health and fitness and don’t have dietary restrictions, this is probably appropriate for you. If you’re not a novice and you have dietary restrictions, probably look elsewhere.

I am in love with this app! I’ve been using CSE physical recipe books for a couple years so to have all the recipes plus a tracker in one place is heaven! I love that I can search by recipe book, ingredient, CSE protein or offbeat butter. I try so many new recipes this way! Like another reviewer mentioned, I wish you could save recently added foods to the tracker and I wish that the meal planner and tracker were two different things. In other words, if I planned to eat oatmeal on Tuesday, I want to have to actually move it over to the tracker once I’ve eaten it. I don’t like that it counts my macros as eaten before I’ve had the meal because it makes it hard to change my mind! Other than that, it’s super amazing.

I REALLY like the app, the recipes are delicious and this app makes counting calories SOOO easy. The only suggestion (and the reason I didn’t give 5 stars) would be to make it possible to sync the weekly planning with a significant other. It does get a little annoying when we both have to make two separate plans but they are identical. Also, that way if she, or I, see a meal that we wanna try, we could throw it up on the weekly plan and it would update their week too. This would also be great because we also base our grocery shopping off of what our weekly plan is. So for the two plans to be able to update each other would also let myself, or my wife, know what we need to be buying at the store.

I LOVE the CSE recipes and products and workouts and that it’s all in an app now! I love everything about it - except that I need a separate app to track everything I ate for the day and make sure I’m staying within my calories and macros. If you added a tracker where it would let you add the meal from the plans portion of the app and automatically populate the calories and macros and your tally for the day, that would be amazing and make it a one stop shop. I currently use fitness pal to track my meals and exercises but it’s time consuming to add all the meals from CSE and it doesn’t calculate the calories the same based on the ingredients so I usually just add the calorie total but then I can’t track the macros too.

Anyway - love you guys and your products - just some thought for maybe a next step for people who have made CSE a way of life and an easier way to stick to it!!

I bought the app subscription when it was on sale for $7.50 a month, which was cheaper in a year than buying a few of their cook books. I’ve made their recipes before and knew and I liked them, so it felt like no risk. This has been the most easy and convenient way to meal track, build my grocery list, have my macros tracked, and I even occasionally use their workouts when I can’t make it to the gym.

And I really feel like they have found the perfect balance between delicious, nutritious and convenient meals and cooking that is sustainable for life and never leaves me feeling deprived. Highly recommend.

I LOVE CSE, I tell everyone I know how awesome it is and it truly has changed my life for the better! I love the app and have been okay with lots of the updates but now they just updated it and it’s pretty annoying that the instructions are in steps and you have to slide through to each step. One thing I liked with the last app interface was flipping my phone sideways and seeing all the instructions without ever having to touch my phone to see what I needed to do next. It made cooking the recipes SO MUCH EASIER!!! Now when my hands are dirty from cooking I have to tap my phone and slide on to the next step. It’s annoying and makes cooking the recipes inconvenient. Don’t get me wrong I do love the recipes and CSE but hope to see this resolved, if it is I will totally change my rating of the app. Please please please change this step feature and I will love CSE even more!