Meals

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1. Day, Week and Month Switching Views
2. Week navigation Weekly View
3. button From the Meal Planner
4. Meal type Changing a Meal's Date or Type
5. Actions menu Meal Planner Actions

Paprika comes with a built-in meal planner that can be used to create daily, weekly, and monthly meal plans.

Viewing the Meal Planner

Switching Views

Use the Day / Week / Month control at the top to switch between the daily, weekly, and monthly views. Use whichever view you prefer most. The current day is highlighted in the calendar, and you can press the Today button to jump back to the current date.

Daily View

The daily view shows the meals scheduled for the current day, sorted according to meal type. To jump to another day, tap the date at the top and pick a day from the calendar.

Weekly View

The weekly view displays a week's worth of meals at a time. To change the displayed week, press the and buttons to move forward or back a week.

Monthly View

The monthly view shows an entire month's worth of meals at once. Select a day to see all of the meals you have scheduled for that day. Use the and buttons to switch between months.

Adding a Meal

Adding meals can be done from the meal planner, or directly from the recipe screen.

From the Meal Planner

To add a meal from the planner, press the button. The Add Meal wizard will walk you through the steps of adding a meal:

1. Choose between adding a Recipe, a Note, an Ingredient, or an entire Menu.
2. Depending on your selection:
   1. Choose Recipe - Choose a recipe.
   2. Add Note - Type in a note.
   3. Add Ingredient - Type in a plain ingredient (e.g. leftover soup or fruit salad) without needing a full recipe.
   4. Choose Menu - Select a menu.
3. Choose a date for your meal. Note The calendar will show your currently planned meals.
4. Choose the meal type (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snack, etc.).
5. Press Save.

From the Recipe Screen

Open a recipe, and then press the button in the toolbar to add that recipe as a new meal.

Select the date for this meal, and then the meal type (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snack, etc.), and then press Save.

Drag and Drop

(iPad only)

On iPad, you can also add meals by dragging and dropping recipes onto the calendar. Press the button in the toolbar to slide in the recipes panel. Browse or search for a recipe you like, then tap and hold on that recipe and drag it onto the desired day.

If you have the Daily View selected, you'll be able to directly drag the meal into the desired meal type (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snack, etc.).

Editing Meals

Changing a Meal's Date or Type

Tap the button in the toolbar, then tap the info button next to a meal in order to edit it. Use the Edit Meal popup which appears to change the meal's Date or Type, the Scale of a recipe meal, or the text of a note or ingredient. Press when you are done.

Deleting Meals

Swipe left across a meal and tap Delete to delete the meal. To delete several meals at once, tap , select the meals, and press the button in the toolbar.

Moving or Copying Meals

To move or copy meals to another date, tap and select the meals, then press and choose Copy or Move. Pick the new date on the Choose Date screen and press .

While editing, you can also drag a meal by its handle: in the weekly view, drag it onto another day of the week; in the daily view, drag it into a different meal type.

Scaling Meals

Each meal can have its own scale. When you add or edit a meal, choose a scale to adjust the recipe's ingredients for that meal — for example, doubling a recipe for guests. When you add scaled meals to the grocery list, the ingredient quantities will reflect the meal's scale.

When adding a recipe meal, enter the scale in the Scale field below the meal types (for example 2, 1/2, or 50%). To change it later, use the Scale field in the Edit Meal popup.

Meal Planner Actions

These actions are accessed by pressing the button in the toolbar.

The actions apply to the meals in the currently visible day, week, or month. While you are selecting meals, they apply to the selected meals instead, and the menu's title shows how many are selected.

Calendar Feed Premium

A calendar feed shows your meal plan in Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, Outlook, or any other calendar app that can subscribe to a calendar by its link. Export to Calendar copies the meals once, but a feed keeps the calendar up to date as you plan, change, and delete meals in Paprika.

To set up a calendar feed:

1. Open the Settings panel and tap Calendar Feed under Meal Planner.
2. Tap Create Link.
3. Tap Subscribe in Calendar to add the feed to the Calendar app. To use another calendar app, tap Copy and paste the link into that app's option for subscribing to a calendar by URL, such as From URL in Google Calendar on the web.

The feed appears as a calendar named Paprika. Each meal appears at the time set for its meal type under Meal Types in Settings, or as an all-day event. The feed includes the meals from the past year and everything you've planned ahead. Your link is the same on all of your devices.

Anyone with the link can see your meal plan. To stop a calendar from updating, return to Calendar Feed and tap Remove. Calendars subscribed to the link stop updating, and you can create a new link at any time.