SOMOS Blog: food, wellbeing and thoughtful tracking

Food Journal by SOMOS is a calm, flexible food journal app designed to help you log meals, understand useful nutrition estimates, and notice patterns across hunger, fullness, energy, activity and recovery — without pressure or perfection.

It includes calorie and macro breakdowns, but the goal is not to judge every meal. The goal is to help you understand what supports you over time.

It’s designed for awareness, not obsession.

🤓 Learn more → How Food Journal Works 

The biggest difference is the approach.

MyFitnessPal is often used for:

• precision calorie tracking
• daily targets
• barcode scanning
• streaks, compliance and “staying on track”

Food Journal also includes calorie and macro breakdowns but it is designed for:

• reflection and awareness around food
• weekly patterns (not daily perfection)
• flexibility around real life, travel and social eating

There are no red warnings and no pressure to “stay on track”.

The goal isn’t restriction — it’s understanding what actually works for you.

If you'd like a more in depth discussion around the differences in approach, check out our article on Food Journal as a MyFitnessPal alternative.

SOMOS is a UK-based social enterprise creating practical tools, recipes and learning resources for a more thoughtful relationship with food and wellbeing.

We want to help people understand their eating patterns, make informed choices and enjoy food—without pressure or perfection.

How we build matters too. Through our co-ownership model and Impact Fund, we share value with our community and support grassroots organisations.
 

You can learn more on our Mission and Impact Fund pages. 

There are several ways to get started:

• Recipes offers free, practical recipes designed to make eating well feel enjoyable and achievable.
• Food Journal combines calorie and macro estimates with hunger signals, enjoyment, activity and daily context—helping you understand the patterns behind the numbers.
• Our blog and wellbeing guides explore food, nutrition, tracking and sustainable habits in more depth.

Our recipes and learning resources are free to explore.

Food Journal is available through a paid monthly or annual subscription.

For annual plans, £10 from your subscription goes directly to grassroots work.

£5 goes to a project of your choice, and £5 goes to our Impact Fund — supporting a wider network of organisations.