Menus

Note

This guide is for Paprika 4. Switch to the Paprika 3 guide.

A menu open on Android: its description, then Day 1 with three dinner items, the add button at the top, and the edit, sort and actions buttons at the bottom. — A menu in Paprika for Android.

The menus section allows you to group your favorite recipes into reusable menus. Menus are flexible and can be used for different purposes.

Planning a Specific Meal

If you want to plan a specific meal, such as a big dinner, you can create a menu for that dinner. Give it a name and description, then add the recipes you want to make. You can also add extra notes to the menu to record preparation tasks or other information.

Making a Weekly Meal Plan

You can add multiple days to each menu, allowing you to create reusable weekly meal plans. To do this, edit the menu and set the Number of Days to 7. The menu will contain 7 headings, Day 1 through Day 7, one for each day. You can then add a recipe for Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, etc. on each day.

Later, you can add this menu to the meal planner. You will be asked to choose the start day, and the rest of the days will be filled in with all of the recipes you previously added to the menu.

Adding a Menu

To add a new menu, press the button over the menus list and enter a name. You can also enter an optional description. If you would like the menu to include more than one day, you can increase the number of days here.

Adding Menu Items

Select the menu you would like to view. Press the button in the toolbar at the top to add a new item to the menu. Like the meal planner, you can choose between adding a recipe, a note, or a plain ingredient.

If this menu has been configured with multiple days, then after you have chosen the recipe or typed in the note or ingredient, you will also be prompted to choose which day to add this menu item to.

Note

Menu items can be scaled, just like meals. When adding a recipe, tap the Scale field below the meal types. To change it later, tap and hold the item to enter selection mode, press the button beside it, and tap the Scale field. The scale is preserved when the menu is added to the meal planner or to the grocery list.

Adding a Menu to the Meal Planner

Once a menu is created, it can be added to the meal planner. This is done from the meal planner section. Press the button in the meal planner, then select Add Menu. Choose the menu you would like to add, then choose the start day.

When you add a menu to the meal planner, all of the recipes, notes, and ingredients in that menu are added to the meal planner. If the menu contains multiple days, each day in the meal planner will be filled in with the contents of the corresponding day in the menu.

Menu Actions

These actions are accessed by pressing the button at the end of the floating toolbar while viewing a menu.

Action	Description
Edit Menu	Opens the menu's edit screen, where you can change its name, description, and number of days.
Print	Prints the current menu.
Email	Emails the current menu.
Duplicate	Makes a copy of the current menu. Useful for creating a variation of an existing meal plan.
Add to Grocery List	Adds the ingredients for all of the recipes in this menu to the grocery list.

Adding a Menu

Adding Menu Items

Adding a Menu to the Meal Planner

Menu Actions

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