How To Customize Your Schedule in Calendar Meal Planning (Mobile)

Once you’ve customized your dietary restrictions, you are now ready to customize your weekly schedule and craft your perfect meal plan using our calendar meal planning.

• Click onDiet and Schedule
• Select the toggle forCalendar meal planning, if it is not already selected
• If you would like your meal plans to be automatically generated, set the toggle toOnfor
  • If you prefer to select your own recipes, selectOfffor this option and the meal plan will be left blank
• If you would like touse macro-driven meal plans, set the toggle toOn
  • A subscription to our Macro Tracker tool is required in order to access the macro-driven meal plan option
  • Macro Tracker functions, including macro-driven meal plans, are not available with the Whole30 Settings.
  • Note:When macro-driven meal plans are toggled on, the options on the Diet and Schedule page will change as a recipe or leftover will be scheduled for every meal during the week
  • For more information on how to set up macro-driven meal plans, clickhere

• Set yourstart date for your Whole30
  • This option is only visible if your diet type is Whole30 and are using calendar meal planning
• Set thelength of your Whole30(30 days is default)
  • This option is only visible if your diet type is Whole30 and are using calendar meal planning

Set up your basic schedule

• 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

• Select thetypes of mealsthat you want scheduled forlunches and breakfasts
• Selecthow manylunchesandbreakfastswill be needed each week
• ClickUpdateif you are done making changes.

A new meal plan will be created for you using these basic scheduling settings. However, sometimes you may decide you want a little more control over your schedule. If so, you can create a customized schedule to fit your needs.

Customize your schedule

If you want to customize your schedule further:

• Click on Customized scheduling
  • Note:Customizing a schedule will override all of the basic scheduling settings explained above

• Select the days you want a meal scheduled
  • Toggle the meals you want scheduled to green
  • Toggle the meals you don’t want scheduled to white
• Customize the schedule using filters
  • Visit theAdvanced Filters support articlefor detailed information on how to set up filters to refine your meal planner
• Add notes
  • Add any notes that you want repeated on a specific meal each week

Save changes

• Click Save and continueto save your changes

Confirm your changes

• Update my plan
  • Applies your changes to the current week and future weeks
  • This removes all of the recipes on your meal plan, including the current week, and schedules all new recipes using your new settings
• Update my future plans
  • Applies your changes on the following week’s meal plan
  • The current week will not change

If you need assistance, please send us an email at support(at)realplans.com.