Meal Planner Calendar — Plan Your Week of Meals
A week of meals laid out in front of you, with the nutrition totals and the shopping list that follow from it.
Meal planning fails for a boring reason: the plan and the shopping and the cooking live in three different places, so keeping them in sync is manual work that nobody sustains. The calendar is the middle piece that connects them — you build a week, the nutrition adds up automatically, and the ingredients become a list you can shop from.
The week at a glance
Breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks across seven days in a single view. Seeing the whole week at once is what surfaces the problems worth fixing — four chicken dinners in a row, a Thursday with nothing planned, a weekend that quietly has no vegetables in it.
Nutrition that adds itself up
Each planned meal contributes to that day's calorie and macro totals, so you can see whether a day works before you cook it rather than discovering at 9pm that you are 60g of protein short. Adjust the plan, and the totals move with it.
From plan to shopping list
Ingredients from planned meals roll into your grocery list, which is where meal planning stops being an aspirational exercise. Combined with the pantry, the list can reflect what you actually need rather than everything a recipe mentions.
Fill it however suits you
Add recipes from the library, save something the AI generator produced, import a recipe from a URL, or type in a meal you are not going to cook from a recipe at all. The plan is not required to be made of formal recipes — most real weeks are not.
How it works
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Drop meals into days
Add recipes or free-text meals to breakfast, lunch, dinner or snack slots across the week.
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Watch the totals
Daily calorie and macro figures update as you plan, so problems show up before you shop.
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Turn it into a shop
Send the week's ingredients to your grocery list and check them against what is already in your pantry.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need an account to plan meals?
Yes — the plan has to persist across sessions and devices to be worth anything, and that requires an account. Signing up is free.
Can I plan more than a week ahead?
Yes. The calendar is not limited to the current week; you can plan forward and revisit past weeks as a record of what you actually ate.
Can I add meals that are not recipes?
Yes. A planned meal can just be a name — 'leftovers' or 'dinner at my parents' is a perfectly valid entry and keeps the week honest.
Does it track calories automatically?
Meals added from recipes carry their nutrition with them, so daily totals build up as you plan. Free-text entries will not have nutrition attached unless you add it.
Does the plan sync with the mobile app?
Your plan is stored against your account rather than a device, so signing in elsewhere shows the same week.
Start using it — free
Create a free account to keep your plans, lists and history across devices.
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