Click on what you want to do.
Plan for leftovers and cook less often |
Schedule slow cooker or pressure cooker recipes |
Plan for a quick make ahead breakfast and/or lunch |
Schedule a few hours for batch cooking |
Plan for leftovers and cook less often
To do this, you will need to customize yourSchedule:
- Click thegear iconin the upper right corner of the website (this is where you access your Settings)
- SelectMy Meal Plan or Whole30 Meal Plan
- This opens the Diet and Schedule page where you can specify dietary restrictions as well as make adjustments to your schedule
- On theDetailpage, select how manydinnersyou 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 toDo 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 forHow 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 forOver how many meals do you want to spread these leftovers
- This is how many meals each dinner recipe will be used for a leftover
- ClickSaveif you are done making changes
Schedule slow cooker or pressure cooker recipes
To do this, you will need to customize yourSchedule:
- Click thegear iconin the upper right corner of the website (this is where you access your Settings)
- SelectMy Meal Plan or Whole30 Meal Plan
- This opens the Diet and Schedule page where you can specify dietary restrictions as well as make adjustments to your schedule
- ClickCustomized Scheduling
- Click onFilternext to the meal for which you want to customize
- Click on Tags in the window that pops up
- Select the Slow Cooker/Crock Pot or Pressure Cooker tag
- Click Add
- Once you are done making changes to your filters, click Save
Pro tip: Other options in the Tagsfilter that may be helpful include:
- Simple, which includes recipes that use fewer ingredients and take less time to make
- Make-Ahead Breakfast for grab and go breakfasts
- Freezable to help with batch cooking
- Kids, which might have more familiar ingredients
- You can alsocreate your own tagsto use for scheduling in the Filters
Plan for a quick make ahead breakfast and/or lunch
To do this, you will need to customize yourSchedule:
- Click thegear iconin the upper right corner of the website (this is where you access your Settings)
- SelectMy Meal Plan or Whole30 Meal Plan
- This opens the Diet and Schedule page where you can specify dietary restrictions as well as make adjustments to your schedule
- Click Customized Scheduling
- Click onFilternext to the breakfast you want to customize
- Click on Tags in the window that pops up
- Some suggested options to consider:
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Select the Active Time filter
- Select the appropriate timeframe
- Usually <= 15 min works for fast options
- Select the Make Ahead Breakfast tag
- A good option for heat and eat breakfasts
- Schedule a specific recipe
- Begin typing the name of the recipe in the Enter Recipe box
- When the recipe you want pops up, select it
- Click the +
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Select the Active Time filter
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Click on the Filter next to the lunch you want to customize
- Schedule a specific recipe
- Begin typing the name of the recipe in the Enter Recipe box
- When the recipe you want pops up, select it
- Click the +
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Create your own packable lunch tagto apply to recipes
- Schedule those recipes by adding the tag you created in the filter for that meal
- Schedule a specific recipe
- Click Add
- Once you are done making changes to your filters, click Save
Schedule a few hours for batch cooking
The most common way to set up batch cooking:
- Open the Planner
- Manually drag all of the recipes that you want to cook on your big cooking day to that day
- Add a note on the day that you plan to eat each recipe
- Click the…in the meal time for which you want the note to be scheduled
- SelectAdd notefrom the drop down box
- Type in your note
- ClickAdd
An alternative way to set up batch cooking is to use one main recipe that you can eat for several meals during the week:
- Click thegear iconin the upper right corner of the website (this is where you access your Settings)
- SelectMy Meal Plan or Whole30 Meal Plan
- Click Customized Scheduling
- Click onFilternext to the meal you want to customize
- Schedule a specific recipe
- Begin typing the name of the recipe in the Enter Recipe box
- When the recipe you want pops up, select it
- Click the +
- Schedule a specific recipe
Pro tip:Some options in the Tagsfilter that may also be helpful include:
- Simple, which includes recipes that use fewer ingredients and take less time to make
- Make-Ahead Breakfast for grab and go breakfasts
- Freezable to help with batch cooking
- Kids, which might have more familiar ingredients
- You can alsocreate your own tagsto use for scheduling in the Filters
Here is an example of how a bulk cooking plan could be set up:
That might translate into something like this in your Meal Planner:
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