Book kit

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Today, shared with you

How to use this app

Welcome. If you are here, it is likely because you — or someone you love — is looking for a gentler way through treatment. I see you. This app was built to make one hard thing easier: deciding what to eat on the days when eating is hard.

1. Check in each day

On the Today screen, tap whatever fits — exhausted, nauseous, a sore mouth, that metallic taste, no appetite. You can pick more than one. And on the days you feel well, tap "I'm having a good day" — those days count too.

2. Watch the recipes adapt

The shelf re-sorts so the recipes engineered for how you feel rise to the top. Open any recipe and it has already changed itself: swaps are shown with the original crossed out, extra steps are highlighted in green, and a small note explains why. Toggle "Show original" any time.

3. Stock the pantry once

The Pantry page is the book's Healing Pantry as a simple checklist. Stock it once, and most recipes here are within reach on even the most tired evening.

4. Let the list do the thinking

Tap "Add to shopping list" on any recipe. The Shopping list respects today's adaptations automatically.

Cooking for someone else?

Tap "I'm cooking for someone I love" at the top of the Today screen. The app will ask how they are feeling, and every note is written for the person at the stove as much as the person at the table.

5. Tell it the rhythm (My plan)

Treatment usually follows a schedule — and so do the hard days. On My plan, enter the infusion day and how often the cycle repeats. From then on the kitchen anticipates: gentle, settled recipes rise ahead of the rough days, brighter flavors appear when taste often changes, and rebuilding meals come forward as energy returns. The night before infusion, it will nudge you to batch-cook. This shapes meal suggestions only — always follow your care team's calendar.

6. Bank the good days (the freezer)

Recipes marked "freezes beautifully" have a button: "I made a batch — add to freezer." The app keeps the inventory, and on a hard day the very first card on the shelf is what you already made: no cooking tonight — just warm it. Karen calls this clinical insurance.

7. Let it learn what helps

When something goes down well, tap "This went down well today." The kitchen remembers what worked and on which kind of day — and the next time a day feels the same, that recipe is badged 🌟 and lifted to the top.

8. Link a caregiver

Tap 💌 Share today — a private link is created and sent to whoever is helping. The caregiver opens it on their phone (no install needed), sees how today feels, tonight's suggestion, the shopping list, and the freezer, and their page refreshes on its own as the day changes. The caregiver saves the link once, and it stays live. Full step-by-step instructions are on the About page.

9. Keep it one tap away (Add to Home Screen)

You can install the Healing Kitchen like an app, so it opens straight from your Home Screen and works even without a signal.

iPhone & iPad (Safari): tap the Share icon, then Add to Home Screen.
Android (Chrome): tap Add to Home Screen when the app offers it, or use the browser menu.

Add to Home Screen

10. Follow a guided fortnight (Rotations)

The Rotations page holds the book's two 14-day protocols — a soothing week and a rebuilding week. Tap any meal to open it (it still adapts to your symptoms), or add a whole day to your shopping list at once.

About the book

This app is the companion to The Simple Healing Kitchen by Karen Khan, RN, RD. The book carries the full clinical reasoning, the complete recipe collection, and the science behind each rotation. Find it on Amazon →

A note from Karen, RN, RD

Food is a powerful partner to medical treatment — never a replacement for it. Nothing here diagnoses, treats, or cures any condition. Always consult your oncology or primary care team before making significant changes to your nutrition, and never delay seeking medical advice because of something you read here. Healing rarely happens all at once. It happens through small choices, made gently, one meal at a time.

About this app & book

Meet Karen Khan, RN, RD

Karen Khan is a dually licensed Registered Nurse and Registered Dietitian whose career has been built at the intersection of clinical medicine and functional nutrition. Her approach begins with a simple belief: the body possesses an extraordinary capacity for resilience when given the right biological building blocks.

Karen's perspective is shaped by both professional training and a life lived in the heart of the Deep South in Louisiana — a place where food is inseparable from care, comfort, and community. That regional soul runs through every recipe in this app.

Her commitment to cancer recovery is deeply personal. Married to a prominent cancer surgeon, Karen lives daily at the crossroads of medical treatment and nutritional healing. She has seen the labyrinth of a cancer diagnosis from every angle — as a nurse, as a dietitian, and as a spouse. That dual vision is what makes her approach different.

Beyond her credentials, Karen is a mother of nine and a grandmother to many more. She has spent decades proving that plant-based, whole-food eating can be approachable, nourishing, and joyful for every generation — even on the hardest days.

About the book

The Simple Healing Kitchen bridges the gap between complex nutritional science and the reality of daily life during illness. It was written for the person holding this phone — or for the person cooking for them — who needs food that works as a partner to medical treatment, not a burden added on top of it.

Inside the book you will find the full clinical matrix, the food-synergy science (why turmeric needs black pepper, why iron needs vitamin C), the complete recipe collection, and the 14-day healing rotations in depth. This app brings the most immediately useful parts of that book alive in your pocket.

Get the book on Amazon →

Why this app exists

The category of cancer-nutrition apps has a problem: most of them are either supplement catalogs dressed up as wellness tools, or general diet trackers that don't understand what it feels like to stand at the stove at 6pm feeling nauseous, exhausted, or unable to taste anything properly.

This app was built to fill that gap — not with a points system or a macro tracker, but with one simple idea: tell it how you feel today, and every recipe gently adapts itself. The sore-mouth version of butternut squash soup is already blended smooth, cooled to room temperature, and has had the nut toppings swapped out before you even open the recipe.

The treatment-cycle engine, the freezer bank, the "what worked" memory, and the caregiver sharing feature all grow from the same root: the kitchen should anticipate the rhythm of treatment and meet you exactly where you are — not where a generic app assumes you might be.

It is designed to feel like a nurse who knows you. Because it was built by one.

Linking a caregiver

The app does not require accounts or sign-ups to share with a caregiver. The way it works:

1. The patient opens the Today screen and taps 💌 Share today.
2. A private 6-character pairing code is generated and the day's snapshot — feelings, tonight's suggestion, the shopping list, and the freezer — is sent to a secure link.
3. The patient copies or sends that link to the caregiver (by text, WhatsApp, email — any way).
4. The caregiver opens the link on their phone. No app install needed — it works in any browser. They see a warm summary of today, already adapted.
5. The caregiver should save or bookmark that link. It stays live — and it refreshes automatically every minute — as long as the patient taps "Share today" regularly. The patient device also re-pushes silently whenever anything changes.

The pairing code is shown on the My plan page under "Caregiver link" once sharing has been set up. The caregiver never needs to enter a code — they just use the link.

Medical disclaimer

This app provides educational nutrition information drawn from The Simple Healing Kitchen by Karen Khan, RN, RD. It is designed to support and comfort — it does not diagnose, treat, or cure any condition, and it is not a substitute for the guidance of your medical team. Always consult your oncology or primary care team before making significant changes to your nutrition, especially during active treatment.