Plan Your Week

A few steps on your phone that take you from an empty week to a plan and a grocery list.

Updated November 12, 2026

Plan Your Week walks you through planning a week on your phone. Pick your recipes, take on an optional challenge, and build your grocery list from what you picked.

  1. In the Planner tab, go to the week you're planning.
  2. Tap +, then Plan Your Week, then Start planning.
  3. Add recipes for the week. Tap Add a Recipe to pick them. Anything already in the week shows here too. Tap Next.
  4. Want to challenge yourself this week? Tap Add the challenge to add a reminder to cook one meal from leftovers, without a recipe, or tap Not this week. Tap Next.
  5. Would you like to build a grocery list? Tap Build my list to go recipe by recipe and pick what you need, or Skip for now.
  6. Check your list, tap Select List and pick which list it goes on.

You'll see your week and your list together. Tap Go to my week to finish.

Recipes are added to your week as you go, so if you stop partway, what you've added stays.

On the web

Plan Your Week is on the phone only. On the web, add recipes with Add a recipe in Planner, then choose Add groceries. See Add a recipe's ingredients.

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