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MyMealGrid is a family meal planning app built around four pillars: Recipes, Meals, a Monthly Calendar Planner, and a Shopping List. You build a library of recipes, bundle them into Meals, place those Meals on a calendar, and MyMealGrid generates your shopping list automatically. The idea is simple: decide dinner once and stop thinking about it every single day.

Start with your Recipes — add your family's favourite dishes, including ingredients and steps. Then head to Meals and bundle recipes together (e.g. your roast beef, potatoes, and carrots become one "Roast Dinner" Meal). Finally, use the Calendar to place Meals on specific days, or run Auto-fill to let MyMealGrid plan the month for you.

Only if you want to edit it. Admins and Editors log in to manage everything. MyMealGrid has a Public Family Calendar view that household members can access without an account — just share the link. The public view is read-only.

Yes. MyMealGrid is mobile-first and fully responsive. The public Shopping List is specifically designed for in-store use — you can check off items as you shop right from your phone. The admin area works well on mobile too.

Absolutely — that's the whole point of the recipe library. Your "Roasted Garlic Potatoes" recipe can appear in a Sunday Roast Meal, a Steak Night Meal, and a Holiday Dinner Meal. Update the recipe once and all meals that use it are updated automatically.

Recipe Credit is an optional field where you can record the source of a recipe — a URL, a cookbook title, or a person's name. Great for keeping track of where your recipes came from.

Tags let you categorise recipes and meals with freeform keywords like "chicken", "quick", "slow-cooker", or "kid-friendly". They help you filter your own library faster and will power the future community recipe search.

It's a flag you can set on recipes and meals today to opt them in to the future MyMealGrid community platform. Nothing is shared publicly yet — the setting just captures your preference so when the community launches, your content is ready to go.

Yes. The recipe import tool can parse a recipe from a URL — it pulls the title, ingredients, and steps automatically, and fills the Recipe Credit field with the source URL so you always know where it came from.

There are five: Planned Meal (links to a Meal in your library), Take-out (order-in night), Try Something New (a placeholder when you want to experiment), Leftovers (auto-references the source meal name), and Dining Out. Each type has its own colour chip that you can customise in Settings.

Auto-fill reads your saved Auto-fill Lists and places meals on the calendar automatically for the whole month. You can configure which days each list applies to, whether to follow a meal's own repeat rules, and whether to automatically schedule a Leftovers day after certain meals. Run it once and the month is planned in seconds.

Repeat Rules let you pin a meal to specific days of the week (e.g. "Tacos always on Tuesdays") and control how many times per month it should appear. When Auto-fill runs, it honours these rules before cycling through the rest of the meal pool.

Yes. Every calendar entry can be dragged and dropped to a different day. You can also click any entry to edit it, or clear the whole month and start again.

Yes. Go to Settings → General and change the Week Starts On setting to Monday. It applies to both the admin calendar and the public calendar.

MyMealGrid reads every Meal on your calendar for the selected period (this week or this month), collects all the ingredients from all the linked recipes, consolidates duplicates, totals the quantities, and groups everything by ingredient category. The result is one clean, accurate shopping list.

If you track your pantry stock in MyMealGrid, the shopping list checks whether you already have enough of each ingredient. Items you have in sufficient quantity show "Have enough" in green and are pre-checked. Items where your stock only covers part of what you need show the remaining quantity instead.

Yes — if the admin has enabled the Public Shopping List in Settings, it's available at your MyMealGrid URL with no login required. Perfect for sharing with a partner or family member who doesn't have an account.

Yes. There is a manual items input on both the admin and public shopping list pages where you can add anything not covered by the meal plan.

Yes. Click the Export CSV button on the admin shopping list to download a spreadsheet-ready file of all items, quantities, and categories.

The Pantry is a live inventory of ingredients you track at home. You choose which ingredients to track, set quantities and units, and mark them in or out of stock. MyMealGrid uses this information to automatically adjust your shopping list — if you already have three cans of tomatoes, you won't see them on the list.

Staple Items are always-in-stock ingredients — things like olive oil, salt, or butter that you always keep on hand. Mark an ingredient as a Staple and it will be treated as in stock by default. If you ever run out, you can temporarily toggle it out of stock and it will appear on your next shopping list.

The Confirm Dinner card on the Dashboard shows meals from the last five days. When you confirm a meal, MyMealGrid shows a preview of the pantry deductions it will make (how much of each tracked ingredient will be used), then applies them once you approve. You can also confirm without deducting if you prefer to manage pantry stock manually.

There are three: Admin (full access to everything including settings, users, and deploy tools), Editor (can manage recipes, meals, and the calendar), and Viewer (read-only access to the admin area). The public family calendar and shopping list are accessible to anyone without an account when enabled.

Go to Admin → Users and click Add User. Set their username, email, password, and role. They can log in immediately. If you only want them to see the plan without editing anything, the public calendar is the simpler option.

Yes. Multiple admin users can be logged in and working simultaneously. Changes made by one user are visible to others on the next page load.

Yes. Settings → Theme Colours gives you full control over the sidebar background and text, the topbar background and text, and the colour of each calendar chip type. Changes apply instantly across the entire app.

Yes. The Custom MyMealGrid Name setting (Settings → General) controls the name shown in the sidebar's public link and on public-facing page titles. Call it "The Montney Kitchen" or whatever fits your household.

Yes. Settings → Theme includes a Background Image option for the public calendar, shopping list, day view, and meal pages, with options for fixed background, scroll effects, and overlay opacity.