How To Customize Your Schedule in Calendar Meal Planning (Mobile)

• Click on Diet and Schedule
• Select the toggle for Calendar meal planning, if it is not already selected
• If you would like your meal plans to be automatically generated, set the toggle to On for
  • If you prefer to select your own recipes, select Off for this option and the meal plan will be left blank
• If you would like to use macro-driven meal plans, set the toggle to On
  • A subscription to our Macro Tracker tool is required in order to access the macro-driven meal plan option
  • Macro Tracker functions, including macro-driven meal plans, are not available with the Whole30 Settings.
  • Note: 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
  • For more information on how to set up macro-driven meal plans, click here

• Set your start date for your Whole30
  • This option is only visible if your diet type is Whole30 and are using calendar meal planning
• Set the length of your Whole30 (30 days is default)
  • This option is only visible if your diet type is Whole30 and are using calendar meal planning

Set up your basic schedule

• 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 dinner recipe that you want to make
• Select the appropriate number for Over how many meals do you want to spread these leftovers
  • This is how many meals each dinner recipe will be used for a leftover

• Select the types of meals that you want scheduled for lunches and breakfasts
• Select how many lunches and breakfasts will be needed each week
• Click Update if you are done making changes.

A new meal plan will be created for you using these basic scheduling settings. However, sometimes you may decide you want a little more control over your schedule. If so, you can create a customized schedule to fit your needs.

Customize your schedule

If you want to customize your schedule further: 

• Click on Customized scheduling
  • Note: Customizing a schedule will override all of the basic scheduling settings explained above

• Select the days you want a meal scheduled
  • Toggle the meals you want scheduled to green
  • Toggle the meals you don't want scheduled to white
• Customize the schedule using filters
  • Visit the Advanced Filters support article for detailed information on how to set up filters to refine your meal planner
• Add notes
  • Add any notes that you want repeated on a specific meal each week

Save changes

• Click Save and continue to save your changes

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 plans
  • 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.