About
Real food, on a real schedule.
Plate Notes is a weekly meal plan published every Sunday. No app to download, no subscription, no calorie obsession — just a thoughtful menu and a shopping list that respects your time.
From the Plate Notes kitchen — a typical mid-week mise en place.
I'm Iris Halverson, a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist based in the Pacific Northwest. I spent eight years in clinical practice — three at a hospital outpatient clinic, five in private practice — before starting Plate Notes in 2024.
The pattern I kept seeing: people didn't need another app. They needed someone to take Sunday's blank-page anxiety off their plate. So I started writing weekly plans for my clients, with proper grocery lists and macros that actually added up. Plate Notes is that same notebook, made public.
Every plan goes through a few rules. Each recipe is something I cook myself. Ingredients overlap across the week so nothing wilts in the back of the fridge. Sunday is always a flex day — leftovers, a long walk, a real meal out if you want one. And the macros listed are honest: weighed, calculated, double-checked.
If something here helps you sit down to a meal you're glad you cooked, I've done my job.
Credentials & training
- RDN, Commission on Dietetic Registration (2016)
- MS, Nutrition Science — Bastyr University
- Member, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
Have a question or a recipe request?
I read every email. If a meal doesn't fit your diet or budget, tell me — I'll either swap it in a future week or write a substitution note.
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