Using the Meals Tab

With the meals tab, you can plan your family’s meals for the next seven days.  Everyone will be able to check the meal plan, and meals will display in the calendar in the Schedule view.

The meal plan is displayed as a grid of meals. The grid has seven  columns, one for each day. The grid has up to 4 rows, one for each meal period you have enabled with the Filter menu. 

Meal planning can handle up to four meal categories. Be default, the meal planner uses the following four meal categories:

• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Diner
• Snack

Use the Filter menu to show or hide meal categories, or rename them to suit your household schedule.

Managing Meals in the Meal Planning Grid

Managing Meal Categories

Manage meal categories with the filter menu:

Use the toggle switches to show or hide specific meal categories. For example, you may not need the meal categories Snack; use the toggle to hide it from your meal plan.

Use the pencil icon to edit the meal categories:

1. Tap the pencil icon.
   
2. Tap the Title textbox to change the name of the meal category.
3. Tap a color to change the color associated with that meal category.

Adding a Recipe to a Meal

Add a recipe to the meal plan:

1. From the Meal Plan View, tap a meal bubble.
   Long press a configured meal bubble if you wish to add an additional recipe to the meal.
2. Choose if you want to:
   • add a meal from your existing recipes
   • Create a new meal from scratch.

Adding a Recipe to a Meal From Existing Recipes

1. In the Add meal panel, tap From Recipes.
2. Optional: Tap the filter buttons to show a specific meal category.
3. Tap a meal in the list.

After tapping the meal, the Add meal panel displays details for the meal.

If you need to move the meal to a different day, tap the date.

Tap the meal category to change it.

If you would like the meal to repeat automatically, tap the Repeats toggle switch and select how often you would like the meal to repeat, and when you would like the repeat to stop.

If you have any notes for this particular recipe, add them to the Instructions or ingredients textbox. 

If you would like your changes to apply to future meals, tap the Save to Recipes toggle.

6. Tap Add.

Adding a New Recipe to a Meal

In the Add meal panel, tap New Entry.

Across the top of the Add meal dialog box is a row of buttons. Use the buttons to choose how you want to add the meal:

• Type the recipe directly into your Calendar.
• Submit a Website with a recipe on it and add it with Sidekick.
• Take a Photo of a written recipe and add it with Sidekick.
• Talk about your recipe with Sidekick with the microphone on your phone.
• Take a photo of your Fridge and use Sidekick to build a recipe from it.

Type will be selected by default.

Tapping Website, Photo, Talk, or Fridge displays a QR code you can use to quickly activate Sidekick on the Skylight Mobile App.  You can also use Sidekick features from within the Skylight Mobile App at any time.

Sidekick requires a Skylight Plus subscription. If you wish to upgrade to Skylight Plus, please see https://www.myskylight.com/products/skylight-plus/

Type the Recipe Into Your Skylight Calendar

1. Tap a meal in the meal planning grid.
2. Tap New Entry.
   Type is the default option, and will already be selected.
3. Give your new recipe a name with the What Are We Eating? Textbox.
4. Tap Date to change when you want to use the recipe for a meal.
5. Tap the meal category to change it.
6. Optional: tap the Repeats toggle switch and select how often you would like the meal to repeat, and when you would like the repeat to stop.
7. Add notes for this recipe to the Instructions or ingredients textbox.
8. Tap the Save to Recipes toggle if you would like to save this recipe for future use.
9. Tap Add.

Submit the URL of a Recipe Website

1. Tap a meal in the meal planning grid.
2. Tap New Entry.
3. Tap Website.
4. Scan the QR code to Load the Skylight Mobile App.
   
5. Use Sidekick to create the recipe from the website: Import Recipes

Take a Photo of a Written Recipe

1. Tap a meal in the meal planning grid.
2. Tap New Entry.
3. Tap Photo.
4. Scan the QR code to Load the Skylight Mobile App.
   
5. Use Sidekick to create the recipe from the document: Import Recipes

Describe the Recipe WIth Your Voice

1. Tap a meal in the meal planning grid.
2. Tap New Entry.
3. Tap Talk.
4. Scan the QR code to Load the Skylight Mobile App.
   
5. Use Sidekick to create the recipe with your voice: Import Recipes

Take a Photo of your Fridge For Recipe Ideas

1. Tap a meal in the meal planning grid.
2. Tap New Entry.
3. Tap Fridge.
4. Scan the QR code to Load the Skylight Mobile App.
   
5. Use Sidekick to create the recipe from photos of your fridge: Import Recipes

Editing a Meal Recipe

If a recipe is already part of a meal, you can change it.

1. Tap the recipe in the meal planning grid.
2. Tap Edit.
3. Change the settings for the recipe.
   If you want the changes to be saved with the recipe, enable the Save to Recipes toggle.
4. Tap Save.

Removing a Recipe From a Meal

If a recipe is already part of a meal, you can remove it.

1. Tap the recipe in the meal planning grid.
2. Tap Delete.

Tap Delete.