HelpJoin the waitlist
  1. Help Center
  2. Plan & shop
  3. How to plan your meals for the week
Plan & shop

How to plan your meals for the week

Put saved recipes on the days you'll cook them, choose servings and options, drag meals between days and clear the plan when you start over.

2 min readUpdated iPhoneAndroidBrowser
On this page
  1. Add a meal
  2. Change, move or remove a meal
  3. Look back
  4. Good to know

The Plan tab shows what you're cooking and when. Put any saved recipe on a day, pick how many it's for, and move things around as the week changes.

  1. Import
  2. Plan
  3. Shop
  4. Cook

Add a meal

  1. Open the Plan tab

    You'll see today and the next six days, then any later day that has meals.

  2. Choose a recipe

    Tap + next to a day, or tap the ⋮ menu at the top and choose Add from recipes. Type in Search your recipes to find one quickly, then tap it.

  3. Pick the day and servings

    In Add to plan, pick a Day (the calendar box opens any later date) and set Servings. For a recipe with options, tick the ones you'll make.

  4. Tap Add to plan

    The meal shows on its day.

Change, move or remove a meal

  • Change it: tap the ⋮ next to the meal, choose Edit, change the day, servings or options, and tap Save. If the meal's ingredients are on your shopping list, they update to match.
  • Move it within the week: press and hold the meal until it lifts, then drag it to another day or up and down within a day. For a day further out, use Edit.
  • Remove it: tap ⋮, then Remove. If it has items on your shopping list, you can choose Remove meal only (the items stay) or Remove meal and items.
  • Start over: tap the ⋮ menu at the top and choose Clear plan. Every meal from today on goes; meals you've cooked stay in their recipe's history.

Look back

Tap the ⋮ menu at the top and choose Past plans to see earlier days, newest first. You can still mark those meals as cooked from there.

Good to know

  • You can plan up to the end of the month three months from now.
  • There are no separate breakfast, lunch and dinner slots. Put a day's meals in the order you'll eat them by dragging.
  • Tap a planned meal to open its recipe at the planned servings and options. Cooking it from there ticks the meal off on your plan.
  • Plan changes made in the browser show up on your phone too, and the other way round.
Plan & shopHow to make a shopping list from your meal planTurn your planned meals or any recipe into one shopping list, with the same ingredient added up across recipes and sorted by supermarket aisle. CookingHow to mark a recipe as cooked and rate itLog each time you cook a recipe with 1 to 5 stars, up to 5 photos and a note for next time, then find it all in the recipe's History.

Still hungry for answers?

Tell us what's going on and a real person from the Phork It! team will get back to you.