Access your Settings
- Click the gear icon in the upper right corner of the website (this is where you access your Settings)
- Select My Meal Plan or Whole30 Meal Plan
- This opens the Diet and Schedule page where you can specify dietary restrictions as well as make adjustments to your schedule.
- To make changes to your diet or schedule, click on the Detail page
Make changes to your diet
- Toggle Use macro-driven meal plans to On or Off
- When macro-driven meal plans are toggled on, the options on the Diet and Schedule page will change as a recipe or leftover will be scheduled for every meal during the week
- Note: Macro-driven meal plans are not available when Whole30 functions are active
- Note: Macro-driven meal plans require the Macro Tracker add-on subscription
- For the Whole30 diet type, you will select:
- Start date for your Whole30
- Length of your Whole30
- Note: A Whole30 subscription is required to access the Whole30 functions
- Change your diet type by selecting an option from the dropdown menu
- Set Advanced dietary restrictions to exclude entire food groups and/or individual ingredients
Make changes to the schedule: Dinner
- Change the default number of servings for each meal
- Select how many dinners you will cook each week
- Use the slider to select the number of recipes that will be cooked for dinner during the week
- Check the box next to Do you want enough for leftovers? if you would like the meal plan to use leftovers for some of the meals
- Note: Leftovers will be scheduled during lunches and/or dinners based on the number of dinner recipes selected
- Select the appropriate number for How many extra leftover portions would you like to make?
- This is the number of extra portions of each recipe that you want to make
- For example, if you normally cook for 4 and would like to have 2 extra portions of a meal leftover so you can have this for lunch the next day, you would select 2 here.
- Select the appropriate number for Over how many meals do you want to spread these leftovers
- This is how many meals each recipe will be used for a leftover
- For example, if you select 1, each dinner will be used as a leftover one time. But if you select 2, each dinner will be used as a leftover two times during the week.
Make changes to the schedule: Lunch
- Select the types of meals that you want scheduled for lunches
- I want leftovers from dinner - the meal planner will use any leftovers from the dinner recipes and schedule them for lunches
- I want to make lunchbox meals to take out of the house - the meal planner will schedule grab and go recipes that you can make ahead
- I prefer something that is quick to make - the meal planner will schedule quick and easy recipes
- I don’t want to schedule anything at all- the meal planner will not schedule any lunch recipes during the week
- Select how many lunches will be needed each week
- This is the number of lunch meals that you want to cook each week
- For example, if you select 5 meals, then recipes will be provided for 5 meals. If leftovers are also available, they will fill in empty lunch slots
Make changes to the schedule: Breakfast
- Select the types of meals that you want scheduled for breakfasts
- I don’t need to plan for breakfast - the meal planner will not schedule any breakfast recipes during the week
- I make a different breakfast a few times a week - the meal planner will schedule several different recipes, based on the number of recipes you have selected that you want to make for breakfast
- I make a big batch of breakfast items that are used all week - the meal planner will schedule the number of recipes you have selected to make and will automatically plan for leftovers of those recipes
- I enjoy smoothies in the morning - the meal planner will schedule smoothies for all breakfasts, based on the number of breakfasts selected that you want to make each week
- Select how many breakfasts will be needed each week
- This is the number of breakfast meals that you want to cook each week
- For example, if you select 5 meals, then recipes will be provided for 5 meals.
Make changes to the schedule: Customized scheduling
- To completely customize your schedule, click on Customized scheduling
- Note: Customizing a schedule will override all of the basic scheduling settings explained above
Save your changes
- Once you are done making any changes, click Save
Confirm your changes
- Update my plan
- Applies your changes to the current week and future weeks
- This removes all of the recipes on your meal plan, including the current week, and schedules all new recipes using your new settings
- Update my future plan
- Applies your changes on the following week's meal plan
- The current week will not change
If you need assistance, please send us an email at support(at)realplans.com.