Before
Food becomes inconsistent, last-minute, or decided when you are already tired.
For people living with type 1 or type 2 diabetes.
Diabetes takes enough thinking. Food shouldn’t add more.
Bolus is a weekly food system for people managing diabetes. It is designed to help you choose realistic meals before the week starts, shop for what you need, and keep quick swaps ready for the days that go sideways. Meals are designed around UK healthy-eating guidance. The system is designed around real life.
How it works
Fewer days where food becomes another decision
Bolus is designed to help set up the week’s food before it starts, so you are not rebuilding the plan on the day. When you are tired or running late, an easier option is already planned.
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Before the week starts
The week’s meals are set up before the week starts. You confirm them, shop from the list, and keep the main ingredients in the house.
2
During the week
You cook or assemble what is there. The plan is designed to reduce re-planning, extra shops and last-minute decisions.
3
When things go wrong
If a day runs late or you are too tired, Bolus is designed to help you switch to something faster without rebuilding the rest of the week.
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Next week
The next week uses feedback from the last one. Meals you ate and would repeat are easier to bring back. Others can be swapped for options that fit your week better.
Before and after
Food set up before the week starts.
After
You have realistic meals planned, ingredients in the house, and quick swaps ready when the day changes.
The food
Real food, designed around UK healthy-eating guidance.
Bolus is not a special diabetic diet. Meals are designed around the principles behind UK healthy-eating guidance: vegetables, beans and pulses, wholegrains or higher-fibre carbohydrates where they fit, fish, eggs, meat, yoghurt, olive oil and ordinary supermarket ingredients. No shakes. No bars. No whole food groups cut out by default. You set how you like to eat, how much time you have, and who you are cooking for. Bolus turns that into a week you can actually shop for, cook from, and adjust when plans change.
- Quick Pesto Tortelloni with Spinach & Chickpeas: fresh tortelloni, pesto, wilted spinach, chickpeas, 5 minutes, when you've got nothing left in the tank.
- Quick Weeknight Chicken Masala: chicken in a spiced tomato sauce, rice on the side, 18 minutes, delicious weeknight dinner.
- Creamy Mushroom Stroganoff: mushrooms, shallots, a creamy sauce with butter beans, 35 minutes, something for the weekend.
When life gets in the way
Running late? Too tired? You still have options.
Bolus is designed for the days that go sideways. If the planned meal is not going to happen, you can switch to a faster option using ingredients you already have.
- Swap in seconds. Tap to replace tonight's meal with something faster.
- Uses what you have. Swap options work with the ingredients already in your kitchen.
- No full rebuild. One swap updates the day without rewriting the rest of the week.
Designed to learn what works for your week
Each week teaches Bolus what you ate, skipped and would choose again.
Bolus is designed to learn from what happened in practice: what you ate, skipped, swapped and would make again. That feedback shapes the next week. If you connect a compatible CGM, Bolus can display glucose data around logged meals for your own review. CGM data is display-only and is not used to score meals, choose meals or make treatment recommendations.
- See your history. Logged meals build a record of what happened week by week.
- Built from your feedback. Meals you ate, liked and would repeat are easier to bring back. Meals you mark as not for you are easier to leave out.
- One check-in a week. The weekly review is where you confirm what happened and set up the next week.
Built for real life
Built to set up the week’s food before life gets in the way
Most food apps stop at the plan. Bolus is designed for the week after that: shopping, swaps, follow-through and next week. It is built from lived experience with CGMs and the weekly friction around food.
Minimal input, no faff
No macro logging, no photographing plates, no diary to fill in. Once a week you tell Bolus how meals went and what you'd cook again. That's it.
Separate from your diabetes care
Bolus is a food system. It is not designed to provide insulin dosing guidance, diagnosis, treatment recommendations or replace your care team. If connected, CGM data is displayed around logged meals for personal review only and is not sold to advertisers or used for advertising targeting.
Designed from lived experience
Bolus is built from lived experience with diabetes and CGMs. The pilot is designed to test the product against real weekly use, not just assumptions.
Join the pilot
Set up the week so better food actually happens.
Bolus is in private pilot now. Free to join. We are testing whether a weekly food setup helps people managing diabetes eat more planned meals built around UK healthy-eating guidance.