Ketogenic Mealplanner – Electronic Ketogenic Manager (EKM)
Bruce Carroll (MicroMan2000 Ltd) worked with Dr. Elizabeth Neal RD, at the Institute of Child Health in London to develop a ketogenic calculator back in the year 2000. This program allows dietitians and those parents that wish to have ability to fine tune or even create meal plans with accurately calculated ratios, fat, protein and carbohydrate intake. It must be stressed that this NOT a substitute for a medically supervised diet. This programme must be used with the close supervision of a ketogenic dietitian and medical supervision. It is available with all foods from “The Composition of Foods” data set (version 7), however any food can be entered directly into the programme thus EKM can be used with a personal selection of foods or a vast range from the data set provided.
The one condition that Bruce and Liz made when developing this programme was that it would be made available freely to any parent or patient that required it and was medically managed by a ketogenic team, that condition still applies today.
New phase of development for 2016 onwards in partnership with Matthew’s Friends Ketogenic Dietary Therapies charity
A major re-write of EKM this year has enabled the program to be used within the following operating systems and platforms:
- Mac desktop OS X
- PC, Windows version 7 and above (Vista will work but not recommended)
- Android; phone and tablets (recommend non-Intel platforms)
- iPad and iPhone; iOS
Therefore the majority of desktop and portable devices are now supported by this new release of EKM.
Matthew’s Friends are delighted to be supporting the EKM and sponsoring its continuing development so as to benefit not only families but also ketogenic dietitians.
For those wishing to download EKM then you will need to confirm that you are being supervised by a ketogenic team.
Please contact ekm@microman2000.co.uk for your EKM access code and registration.
For further information and support please visit the EKM website http://ekmketocalc.com/
EKM UPDATES – NOVEMBER 2025
- WINDOWS 2.23
- IPHONE 2.22
- MAC 2.17
- ANDROID 2.24
- Icons updated to have a clearer and more modern look.
When editing any numeric amount the entry is now done via the keyboard rather than the keypad.
- EKM-Desktop for Windows automatically checks for new updates when opened. The old mechanism has been removed.
- A What’s New button has been added to the drop-down menu.
- When using Print/Email the PDF file created is given the same name as the menu. Any illegal characters are replaced by an underscore.
- When searching for products entering two words, separated by a space, will now result in a list that contains either words.
- When generating a PDF of a menu it is now opened in an internal window rather than using the default PDF viewer. This is also used to view the help file. An email button has been added which will open your default email client with the PDF as an attachment. It cannot be guaranteed that this will work as you may not be using mapi and it can also be blocked by your IT department.
- Inc/Dec buttons will continue to increment/decrement the amount for the selected row while the buttons remain pressed.
Menu rebalance function completely rewritten. It adjusts each menu item amount scaling the whole menu and then swapping tiny amounts between items until the menu’s fat, protein, and carbs match the targets. The Fat, Prot and Cho difference boxes can now be clicked to only change that element of the menu. The left side decrements it by 1g and the right side increments it. The difference will continue to increment/decrement (rebalancing the whole menu) while either side remains pressed.
- A Help button has been implemented on most screens.
Updates are made possible by support from Matthew’s Friends charity and Vitaflo. EKM is provided freely to patients following a medically-supervised Ketogenic Dietary Therapy.
For EKM support email support@ekmketocalc.com