Additional options for meal plans

[Demon-Angelz]

Hi all,

Absolutely loving the app and amazing work from all involved! Me and my partner came over to here after some searching and after feeling confident enough to self shop entirely after using Hello Fresh.

One thing that would be amazing is the ability to have a more broad meal plan option. What we personally normally do is pick meals for the week, do a shop and then pick and choose what we're feeling that day out of the recipes we'd bought.

One thing I have found with the current configuration is that if we say on a Monday - Friday, on Monday chose to have thee meal on Thursday on Monday, we've got to then mess around dragging the other recipes around to ensure we don't miss them later down the line.

I think a nice solution for this would be a overall week menu or even menu overall, where you can add them to the meal plan as normal but no specific datee is assigned, after the recipe has been used you can then go into the meal plan and check it off as used, so in essence you're left with just a list of reecipes you have the ingredients "in stock" for. Not sure on specifics for implementation but hopefully my explination is understandable?

[vabene1111]

interesting ideas, thanks for posting. We have some ideas of our own ragarding meal plans and i think yours can be integrated there. will be some time but maybe we can improve your experience here :)

[FHantke]

Are there any concrete plans yet? When we plan our shopping, we always write a list of meals down, but usually don't plan them for specific days, but decide spontaneously which one to cook for the day. I would love to have the option to add recipes to such a list of planned meals (mby with a small plus symbol on the recipe or search view) and cross them when cooked.

[vabene1111]

issues are being worked on when someone feels like they are important enough. Since most of what you want can be achieved by e.g. adding all recipes to a single day and still cook them whenever you like and maybe even the crossing off by removing from the meal plan this issue has no high priority.

that said its certainly possible that we will implement this along with something else when we work on the meal plan anyway but i dont know, i wouldn't expect this to be implemented soon as many more important things are lined up already.

[smilerz]

With the next release you can achieve something similar by managing the foods that you have “on hand” and filtering the recipes that you can “makenow”.

[tomtjes]

I too would appreciate a meal plan queue, but I agree that there are ways to achieve something like that e.g. using pinned recipes or tags.

[vabene1111]

i personally want a queue too so it will definitely come at some point, just not very soon as other features are more important.

[FHantke]

Ok, thanks for the answer. I understand that there are more important features right now :)