You sit down for a while on Sunday and plan the week's meals together. With the recipe book in the app you quickly pick out the dishes and place them in the meal planner. In a few minutes the week is done, and the shopping list wrote itself while you chose: just open it and shop. And whoever forgets what is for dinner opens the app and checks, instead of asking "What's for dinner today?"
Below are the week's six steps, in the order they actually happen. Sunday first, because that is where the week is decided.
Meal planning sounds like a feature. For us it was a question asked too often: what's for dinner? It came at half past five, when someone was already hungry and nobody had shopped, and then it was pizza again.
What makes the difference is not being able to write dinners down. It is that you make the decision once a week, in peace, together. After that the week is a fact everyone can see, instead of something you bat back and forth and improvise every afternoon.
Then we took it one step further. Why should the menu stop at a list of dishes? The quantities are already in the recipes, so the week's menu can write the shopping list for you. You pick the food, the app adds up the groceries.
You sit with the week open in front of you and fill the days with dishes from the recipe book. Monday is spaghetti bolognese, and since there is always too much you put Monday's leftovers in as Tuesday's lunch. Sunday is dinner at Kate's, so nobody cooks that day.
It takes ten minutes, and then it is done. Nobody has to decide anything again until next Sunday, and whoever cooks on Thursday already knows what to cook.
You fill in the week's dinners together. One decision, not seven.
The menu becomes a shopping list with the week's groceries, grouped by category.
Nobody has to ask what's for dinner. It is in the app, and the ingredients are at home.
Your partner is on the way home and wonders what tonight looks like. Instead of texting to ask, they just open the app: today's lunch and dinner sit at the top of the overview, along with the rest of the day.
And if nothing is planned for tomorrow, that shows there too, while there is still time to do something about it.
The recipes you actually cook are not in a binder on the shelf and not screenshots in the camera roll. They are in the app, with a photo, cook time and servings, and everyone in the household sees the same book: it is the one you pick from on Sunday.
A recipe you already have can move in: paste a link, type it from a cookbook or photograph a page, and the ingredients and instructions land in place. Grandma's meatballs never have to be copied out by hand again.
You are standing in the kitchen with no idea. Write what you are in the mood for, something with chicken that is ready in half an hour, and you get back a full recipe: ingredients with amounts, step by step instructions and nutrition per serving.
Want something changed? Just write it, that it should be vegetarian or take less time to cook. The recipe comes back changed, and the previous version is still there if you change your mind. When it looks right you save it to the recipe book like any other recipe.
When the week is set, you open the shopping list and pick the days you are shopping for. The app merges ingredients that repeat across recipes and groups the items by category, so the list is sorted like a shopping list, not like a menu. Meals already on a list are marked, and you untick what you already have at home before the rest goes on the list.
Then it is an ordinary shared list: the whole household has it, and whoever shops ticks things off while the others see it, without anyone updating anything.
The weeks you plan stay put. In statistics, Dinners adds up the month: how many evenings had a planned dinner, how they split between kinds such as beef, chicken, fish and vegetarian, and which dishes came back most often.
It is a good starting point when you plan the next week: was there as little fish as it felt like, or has the same dish been on a bit too often? Statistics is included in Premium, just like meal planning.
What makes a weekly menu hold up in real life, and not only on Sunday.
Monday's dinner can be marked as Tuesday's lunch. It then counts as leftovers and adds no new items to the shopping list.
A meal can be plain text instead of a recipe: dinner at Kate's. The day is still filled in.
A week that worked can be copied straight onto another week instead of being typed in again.
Every ingredient carries its nutrition values, so recipes show kcal and macros per serving, and the whole week adds up.
Government-validated nutrition data is built in from the start. If something is missing you add it once.
A favorite product that is missing gets added once, with its own nutrition values. After that it is there to pick in every recipe.
No. 500+ ingredients from the Swedish Food Agency are built in with nutrition. If something is missing you add it once, and then it stays.
Yes. Paste a link, type the recipe out or photograph a page from a cookbook, and the ingredients and instructions land in place.
Yes. The nutrition is calculated from the ingredients, so your own recipes and your own ingredients get a full nutrition overview too.
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