My Name Is

Katie

I live with Hidradenitis Suppurativa — and when I couldn’t find tools that worked the way my brain does, I built my own.

This is the whole little empire: the apps I use every day to eat, track, research, and walk into appointments ready — plus the pieces I’m happy to share with anyone else living with HS.

The Apps

Two tools, one job each. Together they cover what I eat, how I’m doing, and what the research says — so none of it has to live in my head.

Private

Fare and Flare

My food + flare journal

The heart of the system. A daily journal that keeps what I eat and how my skin is doing in the same place, so patterns stop being guesswork.

  • Meal logging with personal trigger flags on every entry
  • Flare check-ins — pain, drainage, and better / same / worse, area by area
  • Trackable tags for confirmed triggers and watch-list foods
  • Trend views that line food up against flare activity over time

This one is mine alone. It’s described here — the journal itself and everything in it stay private, always.

Meal planning

Batch, Please

My two-week meal plan

Two weeks of eating, planned once. Built around batch cooking and my trigger list, so weeknight-me is never standing in the kitchen wondering what’s safe.

  • Day-by-day schedule plus a full calendar view of the two weeks
  • Cook-once batch preps that carry multiple meals
  • Freezer, fridge & pantry tracker with toss-by dates
  • One-tap calendar reminders for prep, thaw, and toss nights
  • “No Flare Fare” recipe library, plus trigger-checked restaurant & delivery picks

Try the Demos

Want to see how these actually work? Here are the two I’m happy to share — both interactive demos.

Interactive demo

Batch, Please

The real thing, open to look around

This demo is the real Batch, Please page. Browse my two-week meal plan, the “No Flare Fare” recipes, and the rest of the tabs — schedule, calendar, and freezer tracker included — exactly as I use them.

  • The full two-week plan, day by day
  • No Flare Fare recipes and trigger-checked picks
  • Calendar, storage tracker, and every other tab, live
Open the interactive demo →
Interactive demo — no data

Fare and Flare

An empty copy to explore

This is an empty copy of my food + flare journal — the same layout and check-in flow, with nothing in it. The real Fare and Flare and my journal stay private; this demo contains no entries and saves nothing, so feel free to click through and see how it’s built.

  • Same journal, check-in, and trends structure as the real app
  • Completely blank — no entries, no history, no personal data
  • Nothing you tap or type here is saved
Open the interactive demo →

Shared Tools

For anyone else living with HS: the parts of my system that work just as well with your name on them. Take what helps.

The Podcast

Under the Surface: Living with Hidradenitis Suppurativa

A weekly podcast about the real, everyday work of living with HS — the food math, the wound care, the appointments, the bad days and the funny ones. New episodes every week.

Listen on Spotify

My Hub

Quick links to the public versions — these tiles open the demos and shared pages. My real working apps stay private, in my Muse Library.

Fare and Flare Food + flare journal — interactive demo Open the interactive demo → Batch, Please Two-week meal plan Open → The Daily Kit Daily care & wound care Open → The HS Files HS research library Open →