Plan a week with AI

Choose a few settings and RecipeClip picks meals for the week from your saved recipes, with a short reason for each. It adds them to your plan.

Generate a week#

1. 1

   Open Generate week

   On the Plan page, click Generate week in the top right. On a phone, tap the ⋯ button at the top right of the Plan page (not More in the bottom bar), then Generate week.

   

   You'll see: The Generate the week window opens.

2. 2

   Set Starting and Days

   Choose the first day, then 3, 5, 7 or 14 days. It starts tomorrow unless you change it.

   

   You'll see: A line under them shows the first and last day.

3. 3

   Choose Which meals and Feeding

   Tap Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner to switch each on or off. At least one stays on. Use the minus and plus beside Feeding to say how many people you are cooking for.

   

   You'll see: Chosen meals turn orange.

4. 4

   Pick what the week should be about

   Choose one of Make this week easy, Use up what I have, Eat a bit better, Try something new or Spend less at the shop. Tap it again to clear it and get a balanced week.

   

   You'll see: A short hint appears under your choice.

5. 5

   Decide on Use what I actually cook

   On, RecipeClip looks at your ratings, how often you cook something and meals you planned but never made. Turn it off for a fresh start.

   

   You'll see: The switch is orange when it is on.

Time, diet and cuisines#

1. 1

   Open Time, diet and cuisines

   Tap the row to open it. It stays open next time if you set anything in it.

   

   You'll see: Four more settings appear.

2. 2

   Set what matters

   Under Weeknights should take about choose 20, 30 or 45 minutes, or No rush. Under Anything you don’t eat tap diets like Vegetarian or Nut-free. Nut-free, Gluten-free and Dairy-free also work as an allergy check: recipes that list the allergen are dropped, just like allergens set in Settings. Nut-free means tree nuts and peanuts, and Gluten-free means gluten and wheat. The other chips only steer the AI. Allergies you set once belong in Settings, under Diet & allergens. For cuisines, tap once to lean in and twice to steer away. A third tap clears it. Anything else takes a short note like “no fish on Fridays”.

   

   You'll see: Your choices show in the line under the title.

3. 3

   Tap Generate week

   It can take up to half a minute. Your settings are saved, so next time the form starts where you left it.

   

   You'll see: The button reads Generating… while it works.

Read your week, explained#

A window called Your week, explained lists every pick with its day, meal and a one-line reason, such as how fast it is to cook or that you rated it highly.

1. 1

   Read the picks

   Scroll the list to see all seven. The week is saved the moment it is made.

   

   You'll see: Each card has a day, a meal and a reason.

2. 2

   Tap Done

   Done only closes the window.

   

   You'll see: The window closes and the meals show on the calendar.

Allergies and diets#

Generate week reads your diet profile from Settings (diet, allergies and dislikes) and tries to leave out recipes that list one of your allergens. The check matches your allergens against each recipe’s ingredient lines, and an AI check that also reads the steps. It can miss things, so always read labels. On Mine it uses your own profile. On Family it uses everyone in the household. Set yours first. See Diet and allergies.

• Allergens get a second check. After the week is made, every pick is checked against your allergens and those three chips, using its ingredient lines and an AI check that also reads the steps. A pick that matches is dropped and replaced from your own recipes on Mine, or from the household’s shared recipes on Family.
• Diets and dislikes are guidance. The planner leans away from them but does not guarantee it.
• If every recipe you could use has an allergen flagged, that slot stays empty and a note at the top of Your week, explained names the meals that were left out.
• A recipe whose ingredient is labelled free of your allergen is kept, not dropped, when the allergen comes from Settings. For example, with a gluten (coeliac) allergy and no wheat allergy, gluten-free flour blend stays. The Gluten-free chip is stricter, because it also means wheat: it drops that recipe. A second note, Labelled free, not checked: check the packaging on …, names the line and the meal. See Ingredients labelled free.

When an allergen or a diet is on file, the explanations change. Dislikes alone don’t do it. The summary and the reason on each pick become short, fixed wording, such as 3 meals planned for your week. Allergen flags are from ingredient names and AI tags — always check labels., instead of the usual sentences about why each meal was chosen.

This is a real run with a milk allergy and seven dinners to fill. Three were planned and four were left out, as the ringed note says. The note reads left out because of an allergen (Settings or your chips), whether the allergen came from Settings or from a chip. Two of the picks read Picked automatically — the model’s first choice for this slot named a household allergen. That marks a meal chosen as a replacement for one the check removed. Fill the empty slots by hand. See Add a meal.

Keep it or change it#

Generated meals are ordinary plan entries. Drag one to another day, remove it with the cross, or add your own next to it. See Move or remove a meal.

On the Free plan#

Generate week shows a small PRO tag. You can open the form and fill it in. Pressing Generate week then shows what Pro includes and offers a free 14-day trial. Nothing is planned.

1. 1

   Spot the PRO tag

   The tag sits on the button on a computer. On a phone it sits beside Generate week in the ⋯ menu at the top right of the Plan page.

   

   You'll see: The form still opens.

2. 2

   See what Pro includes

   Tap Try Pro free for 14 days to start the trial, or Maybe later to go back.

   

   You'll see: A window offers Try Pro free for 14 days.

Details are in Free, Pro and Family.

Common questions#

It picked meals I already ate this week. It only uses recipes you saved, so a small library repeats. The window warns you when you have fewer recipes than days.

Can it plan for my household? Yes, on Family, but it picks only from recipes shared with the household. With none shared yet it says No recipes shared with family. Share some recipes first! Share a few, then try again. See Share a recipe with the household.

It says Couldn’t verify this week against your household’s allergens — nothing was planned. Try again. It shows as a message that disappears after a few seconds. The allergen check could not run, so the app planned nothing rather than give you an unchecked week. Press Generate week again. If it keeps happening, plan the week by hand.

Is there a limit? Pro and Family can use each AI feature up to 100 times a day. Generating a week counts as one use of this feature.

Where is my shopping list? Make a grocery list turns the week into one list.