Meals

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1. Day, Week and Month Switching Views
2. Previous and next month Monthly View
3. button From the Meal Planner
4. Recipes sidebar Drag and Drop from the Recipes Sidebar
5. A planned meal Viewing Recipes from the Meal Planner
6. Actions menu Meal Planner Actions

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

Viewing the Meal Planner

Switching Views

Use the Day / Week / Month toggle at the top to switch between the daily, weekly and monthly views. Use whichever view you prefer most.

Monthly View

The monthly view shows an entire month's worth of meals at once. Use the and buttons to switch between months.

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.

Daily View

The daily view shows the meals scheduled for the current day, sorted according to meal type.

Adding a Meal

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

From the Meal Planner

To add a meal from the planner, press the button in the Meals toolbar.

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

Drag and Drop from the Recipes Sidebar

You can also directly drag-and-drop recipes onto the meal planner using the recipes sidebar on the right side of the meal planner. The sidebar is always shown; drag the divider beside it to make it wider or narrower.

Simply find a recipe you like, and drag-and-drop it onto the desired day. Use the search box at the top of the sidebar to find a recipe, or the All Recipes button above it to browse by category.

From the Recipe Screen

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

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

Editing Meals

Changing a Meal's Date or Type

Right-click on a meal in order to edit an existing meal. Click Edit. Use the window which appears to change the meal's date or type. Press Save when you are done.

Deleting Meals

Select one (or more) meals, and right-click on them. Press Delete from the popup menu to delete those meals.

Moving or Copying Meals

Meals can be moved from one day to another via drag-and-drop.

You can also select one (or more) meals, and then right-click and press Copy to copy them to the clipboard, and the right-click on the desired date in the calendar and press Paste.

Viewing Recipes from the Meal Planner

To navigate to a recipe from within the meal planner, double-click on the meal.

Meal Planner Actions

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

For each action, you can choose whether you want to perform the action on the entire month or week, or only on the meals you have currently selected.

Calendar Feed Premium

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

To set up a calendar feed:

1. Open the Settings window, click the Meals tab, and find Calendar Feed.
2. Click Create Link.
3. Click Subscribe in Calendar to add the feed to your default calendar app, such as Outlook. To use another calendar app, click 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, 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 click Remove. Calendars subscribed to the link stop updating, and you can create a new link at any time.