Questions about planning dinner?

It fills empty dinner spots in the selected week, from today onward. It picks from saved dinner recipes marked Published (ready to plan). Meals and notes you already added stay put.

Each recipe is used only once in that week. If you have too few recipes, some spots stay empty. You can change any meal afterward or undo the fill.

It avoids recipes already planned during the week. When your collection has enough choices, it also favors dinners that were not planned in the prior two weeks. With a smaller collection, it uses the available dinners rather than leaving the week empty.

Yes. Choose a day and pick a saved recipe. For one meal, you can also use Pick a random recipe. Narrow the choices by meal type or protein, then check the choice before saving.

No. Check the recipe and save it if you like it. You decide when to add it to your meal plan.

Yes. Type a recipe yourself. You can also bring one in from a recipe website, a recipe photo, pasted recipe text, depending on your subscription. Check the ingredients and steps before saving. Some websites block recipe reading. If a link does not work, try copying the recipe text instead.

Yes, from supported export files. The person who started your household account (the Owner) can choose From another recipe app when adding recipes. Use the other app’s Export option, then upload the file. You see how many recipes were found and how many fit your subscription before adding them. Photos are included only if your subscription has room for them.

No. Single imports open as drafts so you can review and edit the ingredients and instructions before saving them to your collection.

No. Marking a favorite helps you find a recipe again. It stays with your other saved recipes and can be added to your meal plan.

Yes. Choose Help me decide what to make and tell us what sounds good. The free plan includes a few uses to try it. The paid subscription includes help each month, shared by everyone on the account. Check each recipe and save it if you like it. You can always use saved recipes or add your own.

Recipe help can read a recipe from a photo or copied text, read a website that needs help, suggest a new recipe, or fix a recipe. Everyone on the account shares the count.

• Free: Each request for help counts as one use. Making one new recipe can take more than one use.
• Paid: Each new recipe made for you counts as one use.

The screen shows how many uses you need before you start.

Typing recipes, Fill dinners, and making a grocery list do not use recipe help. Neither does reading a website that provides its own recipe details.

Yes. Recipes on a shared meal plan add their ingredients to the list for your shopping trip. The list groups items by type and can combine matching ingredients.

The ingredients on your grocery list update. Things you added yourself and items you checked off stay on the list.

Yes. Choose Change day on your grocery list for one trip. To change your usual shopping day, go to Account → Household. Your list can cover meals across two weeks.

No. A plan saved as private is visible only to you, so its meals stay off the household list. Add anything for a private plan yourself.

Yes. Add other items directly to the list and check them off while you shop.

Yes, with the paid subscription. Invite each person to use their own sign-in. The Owner and Admins can invite people. Editors can change recipes and meal plans. Viewers can see what you share. Your recipes stay private to the people on your account.

The free plan is for one person. Annual plan: Up to 10 household members.

No. It is an ongoing free plan, with limits on saved recipes, household members, and recipe help. You can save up to 10 recipes. It includes 5 one-time recipe-help uses for photo and text imports and recipe ideas; they do not reset.

$39.99 per year. No free trial It includes 300 recipe-help uses a month, shared by the household.

Yes. Go to Account → Plan & usage. The subscription renews automatically until you cancel. You keep paid features until the paid year ends. We do not refund the unused part of that year.

Afterward, your account moves to the free plan. Nothing is deleted. If you have more people or recipes than the free plan allows, you can still see and download everything. You cannot add or change recipes or plan meals until you are within the free limits or subscribe again.

No. Only people in your household account can see your recipes.

Yes. The household Owner can download recipes and other household data from Account → Household. You can still download them if your subscription ends.

Yes. Open the list on your phone and check things off as you shop. You need an internet connection.