Weekly Plan

Learn how to plan your household's dinners for the week using Dinnerbord's weekly calendar.

The week plan is the heart of Dinnerbord. It gives you a clear view of what your household will have for dinner each day and feeds into your grocery list.

Navigating the week

Open Week Plan from the sidebar. It shows the current week, Monday to Sunday. Use the previous and next week buttons to plan ahead or look back at what you ate.

Suggesting a dinner

Any household member can suggest a dinner for a day:

Press Suggest dinner on the day.
Pick one of the Ideas, or search your recipes by name or tag.
Your suggestion appears on that day as a dashed card, waiting for +1s.

To fill every open day at once, press Suggest the rest. It suggests Ideas for each open day from today, mixing up proteins.

Supporting a suggestion

Press +1 on someone else's suggestion to back it. When everyone in the household has backed the same suggestion, the day locks automatically. You can take back your +1, or your own suggestion, with the × button.

Verifying a dinner (organizers)

Organizers can lock a day straight away by pressing the ✓ Verify button on a suggestion, however many +1s it has. Unverify opens the day up again.

Leftovers

If a locked recipe is marked Makes leftovers, the next day is locked as leftovers automatically, as long as nobody has suggested anything for it yet. Organizers can remove it with Remove.

Protein warnings

When the same protein is planned on consecutive days, those days show a warning. It's only advice: nothing stops you from having chicken twice.

Shifting the schedule (organizers)

Plans change. Press Shift on a locked day to push that dinner, and every dinner after it, one day later.

Tips

Create a recipe called "Takeout" or "Pizza night" with no ingredients for nights when you're not cooking. Those days show up in the plan without adding anything to the grocery list.
Plan the whole week on Sunday so the grocery list covers everything before you shop.