Create Your Custom Meal Plan and Grocery Shopping List!

Hello! I’m so excited to announce that you can now create a custom meal plan and generate a grocery shopping list from my recipes!

Let’s get to meal planning!

To build your personalized menu, you can:

Click the calendar icon at the top of any individual recipe, and the recipe will be added to your meal plan -OR-
Click “Meal Planning” in the top menu of my website. You can then choose recipes from the dropdown menu right above the meal planner.

Once you’ve picked out everything you want to make, it’s easy to build your grocery list! You can add extra things you need at the store like milk, toilet paper, wine, you name it! Then, you can print your list or view it on your mobile phone. The video above walks you through this. If you have questions or problems, always feel free to email me!

Step 1: Suggested Dishes for The Week

Step 2: Build Your Meal Plan and Generate Your List

Group by: alphabet, Category, Tag

Add as leftovers (not in shopping list)

Drag recipe to your menu:

Ingredient	Quantity

Step 3: Customize Your List – Then Print or Click “Save” to Email It!

Share your thoughts!

24 Comments on "Create Your Custom Meal Plan and Grocery Shopping List!"

canne

what makes these meals any healthier than other versions?

canne

Where do you find the nutrient information on these recipes?

Tho

Hi I’m so happy to be on this site and I can’t wait to try your recipe they all looks yammy

thanks again Andi

Andi Gleeson

I’m so happy to have you! Thank you!

Julia R

Andi, I got a little overzealous selecting recipes I wanted to try and saved for this week’s dinners. I’m pretty confident I won’t be able to try all 27 of them this week, but am having trouble dragging them to the next-week’s calendar. Is there a trick? Also, would pinning recipes that interest me to Pinterest be the only way to generate my own personal list of favorites without necessarily adding them to this week’s dinner? If you had a “favorites” feature that would add recipes to my own personal recipes-I’d-like-to-try-at-some-point-list, in addition to the “add to dinner” and “print… Read more »

Andi Gleeson

I love this comment so much. It makes my whole week to know you found 27 recipes that you want to try! I’m sorry to say that I don’t think there actually is a way to drag the recipes to another week. I’m sorry! I know that’s a pain. I think you will have to delete it from your meal plan, and then when you add it again, add it to a future week. Because this software wasn’t written specifically for my site, I’m a bit limited on what options I can offer, or I would work on this! I… Read more »

Julia R

This is ingenious! Thank you for designing this to make meal-planning and shopping so easy. I am new to your site and just happened upon it from a FB post. I am pleased and excited – thinking this may help make my busy life as a night-shift nurse with three teenage boys at home so much easier! With heartfelt thanks to you (and a bit of awe!) 🙂

Andi Gleeson

Hi, Julia! I’m so, so happy to hear that this feature is useful for you! I hope you’ll come back to say hello again soon if you can find time in your busy schedule! 🙂

Ansel

Love the idea of creating a meal plan, but I’ve tried this now in a few different browsers and I can’t seem to get it to save a plan, nor generate a shopping list. The SAVE button produces a blank popup. In Chrome, it originally allowed me to move a recipe to the plan, but now it does nothing when I try to drag a recipe to the Dinner category on any date. I did get a message asking me to remove my popup blocker, which I did do, but it doesn’t help. Do you have a recommended browser, and… Read more »

Andi Gleeson

Hi, Ansel. I’m sorry to hear about the problems you are having with this feature. It’s supposed to make your life easier not cause frustration! I just tried using the meal planner in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari on my Mac and in IE on a virtual Windows computer. Unfortunately, I am not able to replicate the problem, which makes it difficult to help fix it. I did see the request to open pop ups a couple times (the list opens in a new tab is why), but once I approved the request, it worked fine. I’m going to check with… Read more »

Grace

Can you set up a menu and shopping list for a month in advance?

Andi Gleeson

Hi, Grace! Yes, you can use the arrows at the top corners to go between weeks, and when you click “Generate Shopping List” just enter the dates you want to use. Thanks for asking!

Celeste Stroblas

Can you import recipes from other web-sites?

Andi Gleeson

Hi, Celeste. Sorry, but this only works with recipes from my site for now. Thanks for asking!

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