# How to make a shopping list from your meal plan

Turn your planned meals or any recipe into one shopping list, with the same ingredient added up across recipes and sorted by supermarket aisle.

Phork It! turns the recipes on your plan into one shopping list. The same ingredient across recipes becomes one line (two recipes needing garlic means one garlic line), scaled to your planned servings and grouped by aisle.

## Add your planned meals

**1. Open Add from plan**

On the **Shop** tab, tap the ⋮ menu at the top and choose **Add from plan**. From the **Plan** tab, the ⋮ menu's **Add to shopping list** opens the same thing.

**2. Tick the meals you're shopping for**

Meals already on the list are marked **On the list**. Tap the button at the bottom to go on.

**3. Untick what you already have**

Each meal's ingredients are listed and ticked. Untick anything in your cupboard.

**4. Add them to the list**

Tap **Add to the list** (it shows how many items, like "Add 3 items to the list").

## Add one recipe without planning it

Cooking something tonight? Open the recipe, tap its menu and choose **Add to shopping list**. Set the **Servings** and options, untick what you have, and add the rest.

> **Only need one or two things?**

Tap **Select none** and tick just what you need. Or press and hold one ingredient: it becomes the only one ticked.

Open **Add to shopping list** on the same recipe again to change its servings or options on the list. Phork It! updates the amounts instead of adding the recipe twice.

## Two ways to see the list

Tap the sort button (two arrows) at the top of **Shop**:

- **By aisle** groups everything by supermarket aisle, for walking the shop.
- **By recipe** shows what each meal still needs, with anything you typed yourself under **Other items**.

Choose **Show details** in the same menu to see what each line is made of, recipe by recipe.

## Plan changes follow through

- Change a planned meal's servings or options, and its items on the list update.
- Remove a meal or clear the plan, and Phork It! asks whether to take its items off the list too.
- Items you've already ticked off always stay as they are.

- [How to add, edit and tick off shopping list items](https://phorkit.com/help/en/planning-shopping/shopping-list-items)
- [How to plan your meals for the week](https://phorkit.com/help/en/planning-shopping/plan-your-meals)

Source: https://phorkit.com/help/en/planning-shopping/make-a-shopping-list (updated 2026-11-03)