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 periods. Be default, the meal planner uses the following four meal periods:

• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Diner
• Snack

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

Managing Meals in the Meal Planning Grid

Managing Meal Periods

Manage meal periods with the filter menu:

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

Use the pencil icon to edit the meal periods:

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

Adding a Recipe to a Meal

Add a meal 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 period.
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 period 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

1. In the Add meal panel, tap New Entry.
2. Give your new recipe a name with the What Are We Eating? Textbox.
3. Tap Date to change when you want to use the recipe for a meal.
4. Tap the meal period to change it.
5. 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.
6. Add notes for this recipe to the Instructions or ingredients textbox.
7. Tap the Save to Recipes toggle if you would like to save this recipe for future use.
8. Tap Add.

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.