Plan the week's meals and add ingredients to the list

Shopping & meals3 min read · updated October 2026

Plan a meal

  1. Open Meals › Planner. Use the arrows to move between weeks.
  2. Tap Plan a meal on a day.
  3. Choose the Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner or Snacks.
  4. Choose Recipe and search for one, or Free text for “Leftovers” or “Dinner at Grandma's”.
  5. For a recipe, set the servings under For, in half steps.

Tap an entry to change it. Swipe left to remove it, with undo.

Ingredients to the grocery list

  1. Below the week plan, tap Add ingredients to grocery list; on the web, Ingredients.
  2. Choose the Days. Today and the coming days of the week are selected.
  3. Untick what you already have: “Uncheck what you have”.
  4. Choose the store and tap Add to grocery list.

What Beeside works out

  • Each recipe is scaled to the planned servings.
  • Identical ingredients are combined, even across units: grams and kilos, millilitres and litres.
  • If an item is already on the list, the amount is added instead of it appearing twice.
Screen in Beeside: Plan the week's meals and add ingredients to the list

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