Adding Meals to Your Plan

The Plan tab is a diary view where you organize meals by day. Days scroll horizontally, with each day showing your planned meals as cards. Jump to a specific date with the calendar picker or tap Today to snap back. The diary loads about a week in each direction and extends as you scroll further.

Adding a Meal

Tap Add at the bottom of the screen. This takes you to search, where you find a recipe. Select one and a sheet opens where you configure dates, servings, and profiles before adding.

Quick options cover the common date cases: Today, Tomorrow, or This Week (fills remaining days of the current week). The calendar lets you tap specific dates to build a custom selection, as many as you want. These work together. Tap Today and Tomorrow, then pick a few specific dates next week from the calendar.

Servings are adjustable from 0.25 to 10.0 in quarter-serving steps. Type a number directly or step up and down.

Scheduling Recurring Meals

If you eat something regularly, the recurrence option generates a repeating schedule instead of picking dates one at a time. Set a frequency: every N days (1 to 30) or every N weeks (1 to 12). Weekly recurrence also lets you choose which days of the week.

Every recurrence needs a start date and an end condition. End it on a specific date, or after a set number of occurrences (up to 366 for daily, 53 for weekly). Before you apply, you see exactly how many dates will be generated. The generated dates replace whatever calendar selection you had.

Planning for Your Household

All your profiles are selected by default when adding a meal. Deselect any you don’t want this meal assigned to. The system creates an entry for each combination of date and profile, so adding a recipe to 3 dates for 2 profiles means 6 meal entries. More than 30 dates triggers a confirmation dialog.

After a meal is in the diary, you can change who it’s assigned to. Tap the profile indicators on a meal card to add or remove profiles for that specific meal. At least one has to remain. This is how you share a meal with another household member after the fact, or pull someone off a meal without deleting the whole thing.

Adjusting Portions

From a meal card’s menu, you can change the serving count from 0.5 to 10.0 in half-serving steps. The change applies to all profiles on that meal.

Tagging Meals

Each meal card has inline tags for organizing your plan. Use them to label meal times (breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack), describe the meal (meal prep, high protein, quick, leftovers), or add anything else you want.

Existing tags appear as chips on the card. Tap the X on a chip to remove it. Tap the + button to add a new tag — it expands into a text input with autocomplete. Start typing and suggestions appear: common meal-time labels like breakfast, lunch, and dinner are always available, plus any tags you’ve used before across your plan. Press Enter or tap a suggestion to add it.

Tags are free-text, so you’re not limited to the suggestions. Type whatever you want and press Enter to create a custom tag. Tags persist across sessions and sync across devices.

Moving and Copying Meals

Move picks a new date from the calendar. If the meal belongs to multiple profiles, you choose which ones to move. The rest stay on the original date.

Copy works the same way but keeps the original where it is. A duplicate gets created on the new date. Handy for repeating something you had earlier in the week.

You can also drag meals to reorder within a day. On desktop, drag between day columns to move a meal to a different date directly.

Removing Meals

Deleting a meal shows which profiles have it, and you pick which ones to remove it from. If a meal belongs to three profiles and you only delete it from one, the other two keep it. Can’t undo this.

Clearing Your Plan

Bulk clearing lets you wipe out meals across a range. Quick actions: Today, All Future, All Past, or All. Or select a custom date range with the calendar.

Profile filtering narrows the operation to specific household members. You see a preview of how many meals will be affected and which dates, so you can check before confirming.

How Meals Affect Rankings

Adding or removing a meal causes Platebreaker to recalculate your nutritional status for that day and adjust every recipe score. Covered in detail in Understanding Search Rankings. Short version: meals that cover certain nutrients push those nutrients’ scores down, and recipes filling your remaining gaps rise.

Logging Missed Meals

If you ate something but forgot to log it, your rankings assume you didn’t get those nutrients. Search for a similar recipe and add it to the correct date before your next search so Platebreaker can account for them.

Meals more than 7 days old (the default storage cycle) have less impact since those nutrients would have already been used in previous days’ calculations.

Grocery Lists

Coming soon. The Plan tab has a Grocery List sub-tab that’s currently a placeholder.