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 view switcher 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.

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.

You can also choose a specific week by clicking on the header for the current week, and using the calendar control to highlight a different 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.

1. Choose Add Recipe, Add Note, Add Menu (to add an entire menu), or Add Ingredient.
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, etc.).
5. Press Save.

Drag and Drop from the Recipes Sidebar

You can also add meals by dragging and dropping them from the recipes panel on the right side of the meal planner.

Press the button to reveal the recipes panel if it is hidden.

Use the scope selector at the top of the panel (All Recipes by default) to browse a specific category, or type into its search field. Then simply find a recipe you like, 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.).

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, Snacks, etc.), and then press Save.

Editing Meals

Changing a Meal's Date or Type

Double-click on a meal in order to edit an existing meal. Use the popup which appears to change the meal's date or type. You can also change the text of a note or ingredient, or the scale of a recipe. Press Save when you are done.

A meal's kind (recipe, note, or ingredient) and its recipe can't be changed once it has been added. To use a different recipe, delete the meal and add a new one.

Deleting Meals

Select one (or more) meals, and right-click on them. Press Delete from the popup menu to delete those meals. You can also press the Delete key on your keyboard.

Moving or Copying Meals

Meals can be moved around via drag-and-drop. If you would like to copy them instead of moving them, hold down Alt while you are dragging a meal.

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.

Scaling Meals

Each meal can have its own scale. When you add or edit a recipe meal, choose or type a value in the Scale field of the popup (for example 2, 1/2, or 50%) 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.

Viewing Recipes from the Meal Planner

To navigate to a recipe from within the meal planner, double-click on the meal and then click the recipe name (blue link).

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 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 window, click the Meals tab, and find Calendar Feed.
2. Click Create Link.
3. Click Subscribe in Calendar to add the feed to the Calendar app. 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 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 click Remove…. Calendars subscribed to the link stop updating, and you can create a new link at any time.