Meal Planning

Overview

The Meal Plan is a calendar for scheduling which recipes you'll cook each day. You choose how much of it to look at — a single day, three days, five days, or a full week — and the rest of the page follows your choice. Once planned, you can add the ingredients directly to your Shopping List with one click.

Viewing the Meal Plan

Click Meal Plan in the sidebar. You'll see a 7-day calendar showing the current week. Each day can hold multiple meals.

Choosing How Many Days to See

Above the calendar is a row of options: 1 day, 3 days, 5 days, and 7 days. Pick whichever suits what you're doing — a single day when you're cooking tonight, three or five when you're planning ahead, seven for the whole week. On a phone the narrower views are much easier to work with.

The whole page follows your choice:

• Dates and navigation — the arrows move by however many days you're looking at. In the 3-day view they jump three days; in the 7-day view they jump a week. Jump to Today always brings you back to a range containing today.
• Shopping lists — the button at the top adds ingredients for exactly the days on screen, and its label tells you which ("Add 3 Days to List"). If nothing is planned in those days, it says so rather than opening an empty list.
• Printing — you get exactly the days you can see, laid out to suit them. Narrow views print portrait, wider ones landscape.

The 1-, 3-, and 5-day views start from whichever day you've navigated to and run forward from there, so weekends are included like any other day. The 7-day view always shows a full Sunday-to-Saturday week.

Your choice is remembered on that device, so the Meal Plan opens the way you left it. The address bar also reflects what you're looking at, so you can bookmark a particular view or send someone a link that opens on the same days.

Adding a Recipe to the Meal Plan

1. Find the day you want to cook
2. Click + Add Meal on that day
3. Search for a recipe from your collection
4. Click Add to place it on the calendar

Adding a Recipe or Note from the Slot

The + button at the bottom of any meal slot lets you add either a recipe or a freeform note from the same inline input.

1. Find the day you want to fill and click the + button at the bottom of that meal slot
2. Start typing — matching recipes from your collection appear as you type
3. To add a recipe, highlight a suggestion with the arrow keys and press Enter, or click it; the recipe is added to that slot
4. To add a short note instead — like "cereal", "dinner leftovers", or "eating out" — type the text and press Enter or click Add without choosing a suggestion

Notes appear as compact cards in the slot alongside any recipe entries. Click Remove on a note card to delete it.

Moving Meals

Drag and drop any meal to a different day to reschedule it. This makes it easy to adjust your plan as the week changes.

Removing a Meal

Click the × button on any meal card to remove it from the plan.

Generating a Shopping List

Once your meals are planned:

1. Click the Add … to List button at the top of the Meal Plan page — its label names the days currently on screen
2. All ingredients from the recipes planned in those days are added to your Shopping List
3. Duplicate ingredients are combined automatically

This is the fastest way to build a shopping list, and because it follows the view you can shop for just the next three days rather than a whole week you haven't finished planning.

Tips for Meal Planning

• Plan 4–5 dinners and leave gaps for leftovers or eating out
• Add recipes you already have ingredients for first
• Use Collections to quickly find recipes that fit your theme for the week