Meal Planner
The Meal Planner helps you plan your meals and generate shopping lists. Lay out your week, drop recipes from your cookbook into each day, adjust servings, and send everything you need to a shopping list. Like the rest of Famn, the plan is shared with everyone in your Space.
The Week View
The planner shows your week as a row of days, each with four meal slots:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Snack
Every slot is either empty or holds one recipe. A counter shows how many meals you've planned, and empty days show "No meals planned".
Adding a Meal
- Tap Add Meal (or an empty slot).
- Choose the date and meal type.
- Pick a recipe from your cookbook — the list shows each recipe's image, name, timings, and tags.
- Set the servings for this meal (defaults to the recipe's yield).
- Save.
You can also drag a recipe from the most-used recipes suggestions straight into a slot for quick planning.
If a slot is already taken, Famn lets you know ("Breakfast is already planned here") rather than overwriting it.
Rearranging & Removing
- Drag to swap — drag a meal between days or slots to move it. Two meals swap places automatically.
- Edit servings — open a planned meal to change how many people it's for; ingredient amounts follow.
- Remove — delete a meal from a slot with Remove Selected Recipe.
Generating a Shopping List
When you add a meal, you can send its ingredients to a shopping list:
- Choose which ingredients to include — pantry staples and any ingredients marked to ignore can be left out.
- Pick the shopping list to add them to.
- The amounts are scaled to that meal's servings before being added.
This means a full week of planning can become a complete shopping list with no manual copying. (See the Shopping List and Cookbook & Recipes articles for more.)
Assigning Meals (Premium)
Each meal can be assigned to a Space member, so it's clear who's cooking what. This is handy for sharing the load across the household during a busy week.
How the Meal Planner Connects to the Rest of Famn
- ← Cookbook & Recipes — every meal you plan is a recipe from one of your cookbooks, scaled to the servings you choose.
- → Shopping List — turn planned meals into things to buy in a couple of taps.
- → Calendar — planned meals appear on the day's agenda in the Calendar, alongside events and chores.
- → Your Space — the whole plan is shared with your household.
Tips
- Plan around your most-used recipes. The suggestions make building a familiar week almost instant.
- Set realistic servings per meal — it keeps your generated shopping list accurate.
- Assign cooks ahead of time (Premium) so nobody's wondering who's making dinner.
- Plan first, shop once. Lay out the week, then generate a single shopping list from it instead of shopping day by day.
