Cooking and planning

Plan the week’s dinners

Put the family’s own recipes on the week’s dinner calendar, lock the ones to keep, fill the rest in one tap, and get one combined grocery list.

55 sec · no sound needed: every step is on screen

How it works

  • Plan dinners for the week from your own cookbook.
  • Lock the dinners you want to keep; Auto-Fill Week fills every other night from your recipes.
  • The grocery list combines the ingredients from every planned meal.

Step by step

  1. 1

    Meal Planner

    Open the menu and tap Meal Planner.

    Step 1: Meal Planner
  2. 2

    This week

    Each day of the week has a dinner slot.

    Step 2: This week
  3. 3

    Add Dinner

    Tap Add Dinner on an open night.

    Step 3: Add Dinner
  4. 4

    Pick a recipe

    Pick a recipe from the family cookbook.

    Step 4: Pick a recipe
  5. 5

    Lock the keepers

    Tap the lock on each dinner you want to keep.

    Step 5: Lock the keepers
  6. 6

    Auto-Fill Week

    Tap Auto-Fill Week to fill every unlocked night from your recipes.

    Step 6: Auto-Fill Week
  7. 7

    Week: done

    Scroll through the planned week.

    Step 7: Week: done
  8. 8

    Grocery list

    Tap the grocery list button at the top.

    Step 8: Grocery list
  9. 9

    One list

    Every ingredient for the week, combined and grouped.

    Step 9: One list

Every dinner this week is planned from the family cookbook, with one grocery list for all of them.

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