Guides
Practical guides on planning meals as a household, handling food allergies, building shopping lists and reusing weeks you have already planned.
How to plan a week of meals with your whole household
A shared meal planning app for families: build one weekly plan together, assign meals to the right night, and keep everyone working from the same list.
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Meal planning when one person in the family has allergies
An allergen-friendly weekly meal plan for a family where one person has food allergies, so every meal is checked against their allergens first.
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Turn a meal plan into a shopping list without double-buying
Generate a grocery list straight from your weekly meal plan: duplicate ingredients merge automatically, so you buy what the week actually needs, once.
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Leftovers, takeaway and nights out: plan the whole week
A realistic weekly meal plan makes room for leftovers and nights out, not just recipes. Here is how to plan them in without breaking the shopping list.
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Match the meal to the night: plan by effort, not just recipe
Quick weeknight dinner planning starts with effort, not the recipe box. Sort your library by prep time so a busy Tuesday never lands a project-length meal.
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Getting recipes out of screenshots, cookbooks and bookmarks
How to digitise handwritten recipes and import a recipe from a photo or a saved link, so a scattered collection becomes one searchable, plannable list.
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Planning kids' snacks so they stop being an afterthought
A weekly snack plan for kids: decide how many snacks a day you have, build a short after-school rotation, and let the shopping list buy for it.
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The two-week rotation: reuse a week you already planned
Most households eat the same fourteen dinners. Build a two week meal plan rotation from what you actually cook, then plan by selecting, not inventing.
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