With calendar meal planning, the Planner view allows you to see your entire meal plan and quickly schedule recipes all in one place. We've added a smaller version on the recipe box on the left side of the meal planner to make it easier to make changes to your plan.
Access your Calendar Meal Planner
- Click on Planner in the upper left corner
- If you are currently in simple meal planning, click here to learn how to change to calendar meal planning
- The left side of the Planner shows a smaller version of your Recipe Box
- The top row of the planner shows the days of the week
- The rows below the day of the week are for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, respectively
- If you are tracking macros, another row will appear at the bottom of each day that will show the macro counts for the day
View additional weeks
- Use the arrows next to the specified days to view other weeks
- Navigate forward to see the 3 future weeks
- Navigate backward to view past weeks
- Click the calendar to move to a specific week quickly
Navigating the Recipe Box
- Browse through the recipes in the Recipe Box that is located next to the scheduled recipes
- To view only the recipes that meet your specified dietary restrictions, be sure the Show recipes within my diet toggle is on (green)
- Recipes at the top of the Recipe Box are those that have been marked as favorites
- Navigate through all pages of the recipes using the menu at the bottom
- Leave the search box blank and search using only the available filters on the left side of the screen
- Click on any of the filters to expand the list of options
- Type the name of an ingredient or recipe in the search box
- Then add filters to narrow your search
- For additional information on using the filters in the Recipe Box, click here
- To add a recipe from the Recipe Box, click on the recipe and drag it to the meal you would like to schedule it for during the week
Minimize the Recipe Box
- Click on Minimize in the lower right corner of the Recipe Box area
- This collapses the Recipe Box area so that you will only see the meal plan for the week
- The new view will include the images for each of the scheduled recipe
Move a recipe on the plan
- Click and hold on a recipe while you move it to a different meal and/or day
- Select Move this recipe
Delete a recipe from the plan
- To remove a recipe from your week, click the X for that meal and it will remove it from that week's meal plan
Accessing other functions
- Click on the ... within a meal time to access additional features associated with planning, including:
- Add recipe - use the add recipe tool to browse through recipes
- Add note - add a note to your planner that will appear in the meal time that week
- Add ingredient - add an ingredient to your meal plan; will also add it to your shopping list
- Remove meal - removes the scheduled entree and any side dishes from the meal time
- Move meal - moves the scheduled entree and any side dishes to another meal time that you can select
- Copy meal - copies the scheduled entree and any side dishes to another selected day
- Add leftover - allows you to add a leftover to the selected meal time