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Meal planning

Meal planning

Plan meals for the week, attach recipes, and see tonight's dinner on the wall display without opening the app.

Paid plan required

Meal planning requires the paid plan. See Plans & billing.

Meal slots

The meal planner shows a 7-day week grid with four meal slots per day:

Breakfast

Morning meal.

Lunch

Midday meal.

Dinner

Evening meal. Shown on the wall display.

Snack

Any snack or extra serving.

Each slot can hold free text (e.g., "Pasta bake") or a link to a saved recipe. You can fill as many or as few slots as you like — there is no requirement to plan every meal.

Adding a meal

  1. 1

    Open the meal planner

    Go to Meals in the app navigation. The weekly grid is shown.

  2. 2

    Tap a slot

    Tap any empty slot to open the meal editor for that day and time.

  3. 3

    Enter free text or choose a recipe

    Type a meal name directly, or tap 'Choose recipe' to pick from your recipe box.

  4. 4

    Save

    The meal appears in the grid and on the wall display.

Recipe box

The recipe box stores your household's recipes so you can re-use them each week without retyping. Recipes are shared across all household members.

What a recipe contains

  • ✓Title (required)
  • ✓Source URL (optional — link to a website, cookbook or video)
  • ✓Ingredients (one per line)
  • ✓Method / steps (free text)

Adding a recipe

  1. 1.Go to Meals → Recipes.
  2. 2.Tap 'Add recipe'.
  3. 3.Enter the title, ingredients and method.
  4. 4.Optionally add a source URL if the recipe comes from a website.
  5. 5.Save. The recipe is now available to all household members.

Meals on the wall display

The wall display shows today's and tomorrow's dinner in the today rail. This means everyone in the house can see what is for dinner without asking.

The today rail must be enabled in the display's layout settings to see meal information. It shows by default on new displays.