Help & FAQ
Eating well is easy to say, hard to do. Here’s how the Bolus programme makes it happen, and what to expect.
What Bolus is
A healthy eating programme for people with type 2, pre-diabetes or type 1 diabetes. Most people don’t fail at healthy eating because they lack advice. They fail because the healthier option isn’t ready, bought or obvious when real life hits. Bolus does that part for you: it sets up a week of real meals, keeps the right food in the house, and keeps an easier option ready for the nights that fall apart. There’s no calorie counting and no food logging.
It’s closer in spirit to a coached programme than to a meal-planner or tracker app: a healthy eating coach is built in, so you get real support any hour, no appointment and no waiting list, without a food diary.
What you get
- A healthy eating coach you can message any hour, with no appointment and no judgement
- A full week planned out, breakfasts, lunches and dinners, so you’re not deciding meal by meal
- Support to buy the right food for the week from your usual UK supermarket, grouped by aisle so it’s quick
- Quick swaps for busy or tired nights, using what you already have, without unravelling the week
- A short weekly review that shapes the next week around the meals you cooked and would repeat
How the programme works
Bolus runs as a simple weekly loop. The longer you use it, the more it fits your life.
1. You get a week
Breakfasts, lunches and dinners, already decided around how you like to eat. Skim it, mark anything you already know (eating out Thursday, swap Tuesday for something faster), and the week is set up. Takes about a minute.
2. You shop and eat
Bolus supports you to buy the right food for the week from your usual UK supermarket, grouped by aisle, so it’s all in the house. During the week you cook what’s there and mark each meal as you go: cooked, swapped, ate out.
3. When a night falls apart
Running late, too tired, or eating out? Swap tonight’s meal for something faster from what you already have, or skip it. The rest of the week still holds. No replanning, no guilt.
4. The next week fits you better
A short weekly review asks how the meals went. From it, Bolus builds your next week, favouring the meals you actually cooked and would repeat, and quietly dropping the ones that didn’t fit. Week by week, the plan gets more yours.
Your coach, any hour
Bolus has a healthy eating coach built in that you can message any time, with no appointment and no judgement. Ask what to make when you’re shattered and haven’t shopped, how to get back on track after a weekend off, or whether a swap still works, and you get a straight, kind answer in seconds. The coach stays on food and lifestyle; it doesn’t give medical advice or insulin dosing guidance, and steers clinical questions back to your care team.
The food
“Eat healthier” is not a plan. Bolus gives you concrete, filling meals built around vegetables, beans and pulses, higher-fibre carbs where they fit, fish, eggs, meat, yoghurt and olive oil. This isn’t “diabetic food”, a low-fat diet or shakes and bars; it’s everyday healthy cooking. You tell Bolus how you like to eat (more vegetarian, more fish, more meat, or a mix) and the week is built around that. Dinner portions can scale for other adults in the house, so you’re cooking one meal, not two, with ingredients from your supermarket and methods that fit the time you have.
How it learns
Once a week, a short review asks what you cooked, what you swapped and what you’d make again. That’s the only check-in. From it, the next week reshapes itself around the food that fits your life: meals you love come back more often, the ones that weren’t for you fade out. Small changes that stick, so a good week becomes a habit instead of a one-off.
Built for real life
Bolus isn’t a meal planner and it isn’t a tracker. It’s a programme for getting food handled. Minimal input: no calorie counting, no macro logging, no photographing plates, no diary; once a week you tell Bolus how meals went and what you’d cook again. Alongside your care team: Bolus is a healthy eating programme. It doesn’t dose insulin, count carbs for dosing, or replace your diabetes team, and your data is never sold to advertisers.
How to get Bolus
Bolus is on iPhone now, with Android on the way. There’s no application or approval step, you can download it straight away.
On iPhone
- Go to the download page on your iPhone.
- Install Apple TestFlight from the App Store. It’s free.
- Tap Download Bolus on iPhone, accept the invite in TestFlight, and install Bolus.
- Open Bolus, set your food preferences, and get your first week.
- If a link expires or install fails, email [email protected] and we’ll resend access.
On Android
Bolus isn’t on Android yet. Join the waitlist on the download page and we’ll email you the moment Android access opens.
Frequently asked questions
Still have questions?
If you want to ask something before you start, message Bolus directly on WhatsApp.
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