Finding it
- Open the menu — the three stacked lines in the top-left corner, on the green bar.
- Press Meal Planner.
- You get the days laid out side by side, today first. The blue button at the top showing two dates is the stretch of time being shown; press it if you want to look further ahead.
Putting a meal on a day
- Press the Edit tab, just below that date button.
- Each day is its own column, or its own block if you’re on a phone. Find the day you want.
- At the bottom of that day there is a small row of buttons. The last one is a + for New. Press it.
- A box opens. Start typing a recipe name in Meal Recipe and pick it from the suggestions that appear.
- Above that, set which meal it is — Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and so on. Dinner is the usual answer.
- Press the green Create button.
There is a quicker way in from the other direction: open a recipe, press the three dots stacked on top of each other among the round blue buttons under its picture, and choose Add to Plan. Pick a date off the calendar and confirm.
Nights you’re not cooking
Out on Friday, or having a takeaway? In that same box, turn on the Note Only switch. The recipe box is replaced by a Meal Title and a note, so you can write Out at Sue’s and have the day accounted for. It won’t add anything to your shopping.
Can’t decide
Those other buttons at the bottom of each day pick something for you out of your own recipes. The dice is any meal at all, the saucepan is Random Dinner, and the bowl is Random Side. Press one and it drops a recipe onto that day. Don’t like it? Remove it with the bin button on the card and press again.
Changing your mind
- Wrong day — drag the card across to the right day. On a phone, hold your finger on it for a second first, then drag.
- Wrong meal — press the small coloured tag on the card and pick a different one.
- Not any more — press the bin button on the card. It goes without asking.
Turning the plan into a shop
This is the reason to bother with any of it.
- Go back to the Meal Planner tab.
- Press Add All to List, the blue button over on the right, level with the tabs.
- Choose which shopping list to add to.
- Everything from every recipe on show arrives as one tick list. Untick whatever you already have, then press Add to List.
For a single day instead of the lot, press the three dots beside that day’s date and choose Add Day to List.