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How Simple Food Memory works
You talk, it remembers. Here is what that looks like day to day, and what happens to everything you tell it.
What it is
A memory for your gut, living inside the chat you already use. Tell ChatGPT or Claude what you ate and how you felt, in your own words, and Simple Food Memory keeps it so you don't have to. Over time it can show you which foods tend to turn up before a rough day. Nothing to install, nothing to learn.
Getting connected
Create an account here, then add Simple Food Memory to ChatGPT or Claude using your server URL:
https://simplefoodmemory.com/mcp/simplefoodmemory
You sign in once and approve access on a consent screen, the same kind of secure sign in you have used with other apps. The step by step connect guide shows exactly where to click in each app.
What you can keep track of
Just say it the way it comes out, or snap a photo of your plate and let it read the meal from the picture. You never have to sort, label, or measure anything yourself.
- Meals: what you ate, with the trigger properties worked out for you (FODMAP groups, fat, fiber, lactose, spicy, and more).
- Symptoms: what you felt, how strong, and roughly when.
- Bowel movements: routine stool tracking, useful if you are managing IBD.
- Daily checkins: how the day felt overall, including energy, stress, and flare state.
- Context: sleep, medication, supplements, alcohol, caffeine, and the other things that quietly shape how you feel.
It never tracks calories, macros, or grams. Those are not what your gut reacts to.
Asking what your gut reacts to
Ask in plain language, like “what shows up before my bad days?” You get the foods that came up most often before a symptom, with the two numbers that actually matter: how many times you saw it, and how many times that same food showed up on a day you felt fine. A faint hint is never dressed up as a sure thing, and nothing is ever called a cause. It is your own history, read back to you honestly.
Your data
Everything you log is tied to your account and seen only by you and the chat sessions you connect. Made a mistake? Just say so (“that was lunch, not dinner”) and your assistant fixes it. On your dashboard you can review recent activity, download a full copy of your data, or erase all of it for good while keeping your account. If you send a photo, what gets saved is the written description of the meal. The picture itself is not kept by default.
Common questions
Can I log meals from earlier, not just right now?
Yes. Just say when. “Yesterday’s dinner was rice and grilled chicken” or “this morning I had coffee and toast,” and each one is filed at the right time.
Can I just take a photo of my meal?
Yes, and it is often the fastest way. Snap a photo of your plate and it reads the meal straight from the picture. When the shot is clear it works great; when something looks ambiguous it asks rather than guessing.
What if I forget to log for a few days?
Nothing breaks. Log what you remember whenever you come back. Patterns get clearer with more days, but gaps are completely fine.
How long before it can spot a pattern?
You can ask any time, but a week or two of regular logging usually gives it enough to say something useful. The more honest days it has, the more confident the answer.
I have reflux or GERD, not IBS. Does it still fit?
Yes. Reflux is a symptom it knows, and every meal carries the properties reflux cares about: fat, spice, caffeine, alcohol, carbonation, mint, and acidic foods like tomato and citrus. Ask what shows up before your reflux episodes and it answers from your own history, counterexamples included.
Can I use it with no symptoms at all, just as a food diary?
Absolutely. Log meals and nothing else if that is all you need. Your history builds either way, and if your gut ever acts up you can ask what came before it, with months of honest data already in place.
What if it does not recognize a food I mention?
It tags what it can and marks the rest unknown rather than guessing. Add a detail like “the bread was sourdough” and it updates the entry.
Can I correct or delete something I logged?
Yes. Tell the chat (“that was lunch, not dinner” or “delete the coffee”) and it updates right away. A single deleted entry is recoverable on our side for a short while, not hard erased, so nothing is lost by accident. When you want a true clean slate, “Delete all my data” on your dashboard wipes everything for good.
Does it work with voice?
Yes, anywhere ChatGPT or Claude works, voice included. Speaking a meal out loud is often the quickest way to log it.
Can I get my data out, or remove it?
Anytime. From your dashboard you can download a full copy of everything you have logged as a single file, or erase all of it for good while keeping your account. To drop just one entry, tell the chat.
Is it free?
Yes, free while it finds its feet. If that ever changes, you will hear about it well before it does.
Not medical advice
Simple Food Memory helps you organize observations and notice patterns. It does not diagnose, prescribe, or change medication. For blood, severe or persistent symptoms, a worsening flare, or any medication change, talk to a clinician.