Meal Planning

Creating a Meal Plan with Sidekick

With Sidekick, you can plan meals for the upcoming week and automatically add them to your calendar. You can choose which days you need help with, and then Sidekick can use your preferences to pick and plan meals from your recipe box, or use your suggestions to generate new recipes from scratch. 

This feature is only available with Calendar Plus subscription. If you wish to upgrade to Skylight Plus, please see https://myskylight.com/products/calendar-skylight-plus/

To create a meal plan: 

1. Select a calendar in the Mobile App.
2. Tap Sidekick.
3. Tap Plan Meals.
4. Select the kind of meal you would like to plan.
   Select one of Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, or Snack.

Adding Notes

Start the meal plan by adding to the Notes textbox. You can provide as little or as much information as you want. Your notes will help shape the meal; you can:

• Make notes on dietary needs to include or exclude recipes (“vegan”, or “no dairy”, or “not too spicy, please!”)
• Include ingredients you have on hand that you want to use
• Explore cuisines (“Montana BBQ”, or “Nepalese”)

…or list any other conditions or hints about the meal.

Some full examples:

• “No dairy, we need to use up the peppers, Mexican?”
• “Steak and potatoes”
• “Let's try some Thai food. Make it spicy!”

Scheduling the Meal

You can automatically schedule the meal on one or more days of the coming week. The meal can be scheduled for the same day, specific upcoming days, or every day of the week.

Schedule the meal by tapping one or more buttons under Which days this week?

Scaling the Recipe

Under How many mouths to feed?, select how many people the recipe should feed.

Selecting a Recipe

Under Which recipes? You can choose select where Sidekick should look for recipes that match your notes:

• Only my existing recipes - Find recipes in your recipe box that match your requirements
• Generate new recipes - Use your requirements to generate a new recipe using AI
• Both new and existing recipes - Search both existing and generated recipes

Adding Ingredients to the Grocery List

Select Add Ingredients to Grocery List to automatically add all of the ingredients to the selected recipe to the Grocery List in your lists.

If you need assistance, please contact us:

• Submit a Help Request
• Email [e-mail]