Meal planning

Plan a week of meals

Put recipes (or anything, like “Pizza night”) on any day's breakfast, lunch, dinner or snack. The plan is shared with everyone in your kitchen.

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Steps

  1. On a recipe, tap Plan, pick a day on the two-week strip and a meal (Dinner unless you change it), and confirm.
  2. Or open Plan and tap + on a day: pick a suggestion, a quick idea like Leftovers or Eat out, type anything, or Pick from library….
  3. To move a meal, drag it to another day, or use its menu: Move to….
  4. When the week looks right, tap Shop for this week to add its ingredients to a shopping list.

On the web, iPhone and Android

On the web

Switch between Week and Month at the top. On a keyboard, J and K (or N and P) page through weeks and T goes to today.

iPhone and iPad

Plan is a tab along the bottom. Touch and hold a meal to drag it, or use its menu.

Android

Same as iPhone: Plan is in the bottom tabs.

What a meal's menu can do

Open recipe, Start cooking, Mark as cooked, Servings…, Add a note…, Who's cooking? (with two people), Move to…, Duplicate to…, Plan leftovers… and Remove from plan.

Reusing a week

The week's ⋯ menu has Copy last week here, Save this week as a menu… and Apply a menu…, plus Print this week and Clear this week.

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