Adding Meals to Your Plan
Add recipes to your meal planner to organize your nutrition for the week ahead.
How to Add a Meal
Section titled “How to Add a Meal”From Search Results
Section titled “From Search Results”- Search for recipes using the discovery page
- Find a recipe with a high ranking score (7-10 is excellent)
- Tap “Add to Plan” on the recipe card
- Choose the details:
- Date (today, tomorrow, or any future date)
- Meal (breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack)
- Servings (Platebreaker suggests an optimal amount)
- Confirm to add to your planner
From Your Saved Recipes
Section titled “From Your Saved Recipes”- Go to “My Recipes” in your profile
- Select a recipe you’ve created or customized
- Tap “Add to Plan”
- Choose date, meal, and servings
From Recipe Details
Section titled “From Recipe Details”- Open any recipe to view full details
- Tap “Add to Plan” at the bottom
- Choose date, meal, and servings
Optimal Portion Sizes
Section titled “Optimal Portion Sizes”When you add a meal, Platebreaker suggests an optimal serving size based on:
- Your current nutritional gaps
- The nutrients in this recipe
- Your energy requirements for the day
- How this meal fits with others you’ve planned
You can adjust the portion:
- Increase if you’re still hungry or need more nutrients
- Decrease if it’s too much or you’re planning multiple dishes
- The nutrition and rankings recalculate instantly
How Adding Meals Affects Rankings
Section titled “How Adding Meals Affects Rankings”Once you add a meal to your planner, all recipe rankings update immediately:
Example Walkthrough
Section titled “Example Walkthrough”Before adding salmon to lunch:
- Salmon recipe: Score 9 (high in Omega 3)
- Other Omega 3-rich recipes: Score 7-8
After adding salmon:
- Salmon recipe: Score drops to 3-4 (you’ve already planned it)
- Other Omega 3-rich recipes: Score drops to 2-4 (you’ve met that need)
- Iron-rich recipes: Score increases to 8-9 (still a gap)
This ensures your meal plan stays balanced across all nutrients.
Logging Missed Meals
Section titled “Logging Missed Meals”If you ate a meal but forgot to log it in Platebreaker:
What happens:
- Platebreaker assumes you didn’t get those nutrients
- Search rankings will suggest nutrients you’ve already consumed
- Your nutritional tracking won’t reflect what you actually ate
How to fix it:
- Search for a similar recipe in Platebreaker
- Add it to the correct date and meal slot
- Adjust the portion to match what you actually ate
- Add it before your next search so rankings account for those nutrients
Timing: It doesn’t matter when you log missed meals—just add them before searching for new recipes. For meals from more than 7 days ago (the default storage cycle), the impact on current rankings will be minimal since those nutrients would have already been accounted for in previous days’ targets.
Shopping Lists
Section titled “Shopping Lists”Generate shopping lists from your planned meals:
- Go to Meal Planner
- Select a date range (e.g., Monday-Sunday)
- Tap “Generate Shopping List”
- Review and edit:
- Ingredients are grouped by category (produce, protein, pantry, etc.)
- Check off items you already have
- Add non-recipe items (snacks, beverages, etc.)
- Share or print:
- Send to your phone for grocery shopping
- Share with family members
- Print for offline use
Managing Your Plan
Section titled “Managing Your Plan”Edit Planned Meals
Section titled “Edit Planned Meals”- Change serving sizes: Tap the meal and adjust portions
- Swap meals: Remove and add a different recipe
- Move to a different day: Drag and drop (desktop) or long-press (mobile)
Delete Planned Meals
Section titled “Delete Planned Meals”- Tap the meal and select “Remove from plan”
- Rankings will update to reflect the removed nutrients
Copy Previous Week
Section titled “Copy Previous Week”(Coming soon) Duplicate last week’s plan to save time on meal planning