The week plan and Fill my week
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You don't have to plan ahead: Tonight always has a dinner idea. When you'd like to, the Plan tab holds the week.
The week
Plan shows this week, one row per night, with how many nights are open. Use the arrows for next week or an earlier one.
Owners and Editors plan. Viewers can see the plan.
- Tap Pick a dinner on a night to choose a recipe. The best ones for that night come first.
- Not cooking? Pick Eating out, Leftovers, Takeout or Pizza night, or write a note. That night asks no Check-in question.
- Tap the ⋯ on a planned night to open the recipe, mark We made it (tonight or an earlier night), move it to another night, swap it, or take it off the plan.
On iPad held sideways, the week shows as seven columns. Tap a planned dinner to open the same options.
Who's eating
Each night shows who's eating: Everyone, or just some people. Tap it to change that night. Amounts and the shopping list follow who's home.
Away for a few days? Tap Someone away this week? (on iPad held sideways, Someone away?). The app scales those dinners down, buys less, and plans those nights around only the people at home.
Fill my week
Tap Fill on the week: it says how many nights, like Fill 4 nights. The app plans today and the next six days, open nights only.
For each night you get one idea at a time:
- Keep it, or swipe right.
- Next idea, or swipe left.
- Tap the thumbs-down, then Not for us to stop it being suggested. You can undo that in Recipes. Not this week just shows the next idea.
- Or tap Eating out, Leftovers or Takeout for that night.
Then Here's your week shows every new night. Tap Change on one to see another idea, and tap Plan (like Plan 4 nights) to save it.
Shop for the week
When the week is planned, the app counts what you still need. Tap Add to put those things on your shopping list. Nothing goes on the list until you do.
In a web browser on a wide screen
In a browser window 768 pixels wide or more, Plan is still an older screen with other labels. There's no Eating out, Leftovers or Takeout choice; write a note instead. A planned night's menu has Made it, Swap dinner, Move to another day and Remove from plan, and the week has Add missing to list. Fill My Week works the same way with different buttons: Keep this dinner, Next best, Skip night (eating out) and I don't like it, then Plan these.
Plan from a recipe
On a recipe, tap the calendar button to pick a day. Cook tonight plans it for tonight in one tap, when nothing else is waiting to be cooked.
The ideas plan around the allergies of everyone eating that night, the same as Tonight, and the app can miss things, so see Reload and allergies for more and always check labels.
For the nights you can't face planning, see What to make for dinner when you're tired.