My Meals, My Way proves what’s possible when accessibility is the product.
Everyone deserves the tools to make healthy choices. Yet millions of people with disabilities and older adults are often left behind by mainstream health tech.
Good Nutrition Ideas (GNI), a women- and disability-owned social benefit business founded by experts in health equity, identified this critical gap in the marketplace. Most existing meal-planning apps failed to provide the deep personalization and accessibility features necessary to support independence and personalized nutrition for these populations.
Building upon their award-winning MENU-AIDDs research, GNI envisioned My Meals, My Way as a personal nutritionist that would be empowering, inclusive, and intuitive for all users regardless of ability.
Translating complex nutritional science and diverse user needs into an accessibility-first experience meant embracing the POUR principles (Perceivable, Operable, Understandable, Robust) and conducting regular audits with Apple’s tools.
My Meals, My Way gives users the tools to build meal plans tailored to their unique dietary needs, health goals, food preferences, and cultural values — with an interface that adapts to them.
Key features include personalized nutrition profiles, multi-format animated tutorials with voiceovers and captions, dynamic text sizing, high contrast options, full keyboard navigation, and plain-language guidance that makes complex nutrition science genuinely understandable.
InspiringApps worked alongside GNI through weekly check-ins from concept through launch and beyond — keeping nutritional expertise and technical implementation in sync across every iteration. What started as app development has grown into an enduring technology partnership.
That partnership has extended beyond the product itself: InspiringApps has supported GNI in collaborative grant proposals, helping secure research and development funding to advance their health equity mission.
”The InspiringApps team has been amazing to work with. They did an excellent job creating our first app and have remained supportive partners and collaborators as our small business moves forward. [The team] has recently supported us through collaborating on grant proposals, further demonstrating their commitment to supporting our work to improve the health of vulnerable populations through technology.”
—Bethany Rigles, Good Nutrition Ideas
My Meals, My Way is creating measurable change across communities nationwide.
The Dayle McIntosh Center in California (a nonprofit dedicated to empowering people with disabilities across Orange County) calls it "a critical step forward" and "a transformative approach" to nutrition for their populations. The Eugene Family YMCA has integrated the app into its Diabetes Prevention Program, citing its individualized meal planning as a key differentiator for older adults, and plans to present it to the Centers for Disease Control as a companion tool to the National DPP. In Maryland and Virginia, Makom uses the app to support healthful independence for 250 individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
The app has also earned a partnership with Special Olympics North America and received grant support through the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research via the Shepherd Center's App Factory.
When accessibility is a core design value — not a compliance checkbox — technology becomes genuinely empowering. My Meals, My Way demonstrates that building for underserved populations doesn't limit a product's reach. It expands it.
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